Abbey Road Reverb Plates from Waves is a plug-in modeling four legendary EMT 140 reverb plates housed at Abbey Road Studios. Introduced in the 1950’s, these historic plates were used by the Beatles and Pink Floyd, and on countless seminal pop, rock, classical, and film recordings over the years, and continue to be used to this day. In addition to the plate modeling, the harmonic distortion of both the drive and output amps have been modeled, as well as the individual plate/damper behaviors.

Installed to complement the fixed reverberation times of the studios’ echo chambers, the four EMT 140 units, with their variable reverb time of up to six seconds, were tweaked to perfection by Abbey Road’s technical engineers. To keep noise to a minimum, EMI’s Central Research Laboratories designed unique hybrid solid-state drive amps for Plates A, B, and C. Plate D was fully valve-powered on both drive and output stages, allowing for a versatile array of sonic characteristics, from warm and dark, to lush and smooth.