Plate reverb
A reverb produced by driving a large suspended metal sheet with a transducer and picking up its vibrations, giving a smooth, dense, bright tail.
The plate produces no discrete early reflections because there is no room involved, only the complex vibration of a metal sheet, so the reverb is dense from the first moment and decays smoothly. That makes it ideal for adding size to a vocal or a guitar without the spiky character of a real room, and it is a staple of sixties and seventies production. Original plates were large cabinets kept in echo chambers, and today the sound is almost always reproduced digitally.
Example: A guitar part with a long, smooth, bright reverb that has no audible room shape behind it is likely to be using a plate reverb.
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