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what do i call these?

I was doing some experiments this afternoon with an aluminium lid, probably from a wok or some other large pan. I’d noticed it made some quite nice noises when I found it the other day and I was wondering if it might be any use as a reverb plate. I’d always figured aluminium would be [...]

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more about plate reverbs

UPDATED: A few people have asked how this mixer operates and sounds so here’s a wee video: As you can see there’s a scratchy pot or two to clean and I still need to make some knobs, but so far so good. Since I posted here about my fancy new plate reverb I’ve made a [...]

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how to make a plate reverb

enlarge Today it stopped raining for long enough for me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while – build a stereo plate reverb unit. It took a couple of hours, was made mostly from stuff I found at the tip, cost about $10 and it sounds awesome. If you want to [...]

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