DIY "IKEA Hack" Plate Reverb Part 2 (Sounds amazing now!)

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• JO

  @joonasfi · 7 years ago

  I really liked the fact that you talked about failure and encouraged people to drive past through mistakes and hardships!

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• WI

  @willborden6431 · 7 years ago

  "Hardware is not easy - it's hard" - LeoMakes 2018

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• SI

  @sign543 · 6 years ago

  This is a video I never, ever would have watched BUT FOR my curiosity of what in the world you were doing. I have no idea how this was recommended to me, I have no recording studio background or engineering background, I’ve never been interested in anything remotely related to this project, and the only reason I stuck it out was because it occurred to me that I had no idea how reverb was achieved in recordings before things went digital. I’m glad I did. I stuck through the entire thing, and while I still have no idea what would make someone interested in the intricate process of making something like this, I have much respect for the fact that there are people like this in the world, else we wouldn’t have things that most of us take for granted. I never gave it a second thought about who made my portable keyboard, how it was designed, what went into the design, etc, etc. But somebody right now is studying design and engineering just so they can work to make new things that most of us never even take the time to think about how it’s made. I still don’t know how all of this was made, even though I have watched you do it, the engineering, design factors, etc, etc.

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• DM

  @DMLand · 1 year ago (edited)

  In the early 80s, I worked in a radio station that had an absolutely MASSIVE reverb plate (an EMT 140, I think?) from the 60s, which had been used to give DJs that giant room reverb that was the style at the time. Like your update, it was suspended vertically in a wooden crate about 4' x 8' x 18",  stuffed behind some racks in a workshop. I played around with it during night shifts, and it sounded amazing. Because it was entirely disused and was gigantic, it probably ended up being scrapped, which is sad. It probably cost a fortune when it was purchased by the ABC network for our station. It was possible to move the transducer and pickups for different reverb effects. What a beast.

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• GA

  @garyt3hsna1l82 · 6 years ago

  that reverb sounded huge would love to hear that with a live guitar.

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• MI

  @Mikesch11 · 7 years ago

  Not all heroes wear capes.

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• VA

  @ValdrVideo · 7 years ago

  Being a musician that came up and about in the digital age, it's very cool to see a hands-on homemade analogue representation of one of my favorite effects. I used plate reverb effects on everything I could when I was into recording and writing, so seeing that actually come from the titular plate is very cool.

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• TI

  @tims001 · 2 months ago

  I dont think there would be any reverb plugin that recreates an overdriven transducer, thats cool man, great work.

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• SD

  @sdotlyre · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OcRMA2FNUE&amp;t=990">16:30</a> wow those lil percussive synth sounds pair beautifully with it!!

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• RO

  @Roderick_Legato · 7 years ago

  ... also, try mixing a little of the return with the send - should give you longer decay times than that small plate can produce by itself.

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• BE

  @beef_YT2 · 7 years ago

  Amazing stuff! Just a thought: I was watching a guy who made amplifiers in a similar way and he was saying that you should not input the audio from the transducer into the middle of the plate. Instead, you should off-set it (lower and to the right for example) so that the vibrations travel different distances to each of the edges. I guess this adds more harmonic character.

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• MA

  @MakeSomething · 7 years ago

  I&apos;m so impressed! One of the coolest DIY music projects I&apos;ve seen.

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