Awesome Title: Plate Verb
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: 250.858.3228
Your Location: Victoria
Company or Affiliation: Breakwater Media
Website: http://www.breakwatermedia.com
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Your Awesome Shit:
Built a prototype plate reverb (pseudo echo chamber) by stretching sheet metal on a cage, driving sound into it with a magnetic driver and picking up the reflections with a contact mic. Need to build ver2.0 using thinner plate and I’m attempting to make a new contact mic with medical piezo transducers (theoretically should work).
Your Bio:
Graphic design and brewery owner by day, recording engineer and musician by night. Â Fascinated with sound and always looking for new ways to play with it. Â Revisiting this late 50s German technology in an attempt to find different sounds by using new or different technology now available (medical/test equipment piezos, different sheet metal thicknesses, cheaply available transducer drivers)
Anything else you think we should know: Â I have 5 sheets of 1/64″ plate, 4 piezo transducers, 1 driver and 1 cage ready to go. Â I would invest in more drivers ($25ea), square tube steel (for cages) and time from a friendly metal worker to get 5 complete units built. Â I would gladly sell off 2 of them and pitch the money back into the awesome fund. Â I’m pretty sure that they would fetch in the range of $500 ea from a recording engineer with a similar interest. Â One notable benefit of my prototype is that it has no box and weighs ~ 40lbs, rather than the 400lbs of the original EMT 140. Â Here’s a link to the original EMT 140 plate reverb for background info:
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