Reverb

A lush plate reverb that wraps any sound in space — from a tight, intimate ambience to a vast, slowly-blooming wash. Built on the classic Dattorro figure-8 topology, it suits drums, pads, plucks, and full mixes alike.

How it works

Your signal passes through a chain of diffusers that smear it into a dense cloud, then circulates around a cross-coupled tank of delays and damping filters. Gentle modulation keeps the tail shimmering and alive rather than ringing on a fixed pitch, so even long decays stay smooth and natural.

Controls

  • Decay — how long the tail rings out, from a short room to a sprawling cavern. Higher settings feed more energy back into the tank.
  • Damp — rolls off the highs as the sound decays. Low values keep the tail bright and glassy; high values give a warmer, darker space, like a room full of soft surfaces.
  • Mix — blends the dry input with the reverberated signal. Fully down is bone dry; fully up is pure wet, ideal when patching into an effects send.
  • Tone — shapes the brightness of the signal entering the tank. At 1 it's wide open, letting all the highs through for a glassy, present plate; turn it down to roll off the incoming top end for a warmer, darker space. Unlike Damp, which darkens the tail as it decays, Tone colors the sound once on the way in.
  • Mod — sets how much the tank delays wander, in samples (0-48). At 0 the tail freezes into a static, metallic ring; raise it for a lush, gently detuned shimmer that keeps the reverb breathing and alive.
  • Diffuse — controls how thoroughly transients are smeared into the wash (0-0.9). Low values leave discrete, grainy echoes you can almost count; high values blur everything into a smooth, seamless cloud.

Inputs & outputs

  • In L / In R — the audio to drench in reverb. Patch In L alone for a mono source; add In R for a stereo one. The two inputs are summed before they enter the tank, which is how plate reverbs have always worked — the stereo comes out of the tank, not into it.
  • Out L / Out R — the wet/dry mix, in true stereo. The tail is genuinely stereo even from a mono input: the reverb's figure-8 tank computes both sides, and the two outputs tap it at different points, so you get a wide, decorrelated space rather than the same signal twice. The dry signal stays on its own channel.
  • Decay / Damp / Mix / Tone / Mod / Diffuse CV — voltage control over each knob; patch an LFO, envelope, or sequencer to swell the tail, open the tone, or wobble the modulation in time with your patch.

If you only cable Out L, you get the full mono sum — nothing goes missing.

Tips

  • For a classic send-effect setup, run Mix at 100% wet and blend the return against your dry signal in a mixer.
  • Crank Decay and dial Damp up for huge, dark ambient beds; keep Damp low for bright, metallic plate shimmer.