This unit was at Sound City in Van Nuys, California, the studio that was the topic of Dave Grohl’s documentary Sound City. Photo credit: Building a Recording Studio. This thing is mammoth – about 600 lbs!Īn original EMT 140 Unit, which is about 4ft x 8 ft. In the video below, recording engineer Dan Dietrich shows an original EMT-140 Plate Reverb and demonstrates how it works. It was the first to bring both smooth and dense reverb to recordings, In some circles, it’s referred to as “The King of the Mechanical Reverb” 3. It was the first plate reverberation unit, designed in 1957 by Wilhelm Franz, founder of Elektro-Mess-Technik (EMT) 2. The iconic EMT-140 was groundbreaking technology and historically important for audio recording. Originally, there was only one mic in the EMT 140, but they added a second which gave a stereo signal. A transducer microphone on the edge of the case picks up those sounds. When sound is pushed through that plate reverb, it vibrates. What is Plate Reverb? To put it simply, a metal plate, suspended by springs, sits in inside a case. The History: The EMT-140 Plate Reverb Effect The article was by Alex Westner and is no longer online. What is this giant EMT-140 Plate Reverb Unit and why is he using a stethoscope? iZotope Product Manager iZotope’s former Brett Bunding. The article, called Treat Your Voice to AAX Power with iZotope’s Nectar 2 by Alex Westner, an audio technologist, was published March 17, 2014, and no longer on Avid Blogs. It featured iZotope’s former Product Manager Brett Bunding with a stethoscope up to an original EMT-140 Plate Reverb Unit.
Several years ago, an intriguing image on Avid Blogs caught my eye. Plus, we’ll talk about how you can incorporate the warm reverb sounds of this legendary unit into your own sounds with modern plugins. We’ll talk about the history of the unit, and give you some fun facts. Today we are featuring the EMT-140 Plate Reverb Unit, aka “the first plate reverb” 1. Welcome to the second installment of the Sound Spotlight Series.
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