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Description

Step into a world of lush, enveloping reverb with the Valhalla Plate, a reverb plugin that brings the classic sound of plate reverb units to your digital audio workstation. Beloved by producers and musicians alike, this plugin captures the essence of vintage hardware with modern flexibility, offering you the capability to transform any audio track into a spacious, reverberant masterpiece. Designed to emulate the sound of steel plate reverbs, Valhalla Plate provides a wide range of reverb styles, from subtle ambience to cavernous echoes, all with pristine clarity and depth.

This intuitive plugin features a user-friendly interface that is accessible to both beginners and seasoned audio engineers. It allows you to precisely control the tone and decay characteristics of the reverb, ensuring that it fits perfectly within the mix. With its extremely low CPU usage, you can apply it on multiple tracks without compromising your system's performance. Whether you're looking to add a touch of warmth to vocals or create an expansive soundscape for instruments, Valhalla Plate delivers a versatile and high-quality solution.

Key Features:

  • Emulates the classic sound of plate reverb units
  • Wide range of reverb styles from subtle to cavernous
  • User-friendly interface for easy control and customization
  • Extremely low CPU usage for efficient performance
  • High-quality sound with pristine clarity and depth
  • Compatible with most DAWs and plugin formats
ValhallaDSP

ValhallaDSP

ValhallaPlate Demo

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ValhallaPlate Demo

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ValhallaDSP

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Plate Reverb: You're Doing It Wrong

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Geoff Manchester

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valhalla PLATE | Обзор плагина VST

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JRP -Нешкола Музыки-

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Tutorial - How To Use Valhalla Plate Reverb

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Recording Studio Tutorials & Guides With Steve

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Recording Studio Tutorials & Guides With Steve

Reviews

Owner Insights

We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Valhalla Plate.

Comparisons

  • Valhalla Plate offers a wider variety of plate reverb algorithms than Vintage Verb, specifically tailored to plate sounds.

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  • Valhalla Plate is perceived to have more warmth and a magical sound compared to Soundtoys Little Plate.

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Features and functionality

  • While Vintage Verb includes three plate reverb algorithms, Valhalla Plate focuses exclusively on diverse plate reverb flavors, offering more specialized options.

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  • The Valhalla Delay offers a preset called Hi-fi Modulated Plate, praised for its surprising reverb quality.

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Use cases and applications

  • Valhalla Delay's diffusion setting can transform delays into beautiful plate reverbs, adding unique texture and depth to mixes.

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  • The Vger preset on Valhalla Delay creates a sci-fi soundscape, described as resembling a cavern on Mars or a scene from Cybertron.

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User experience

  • One owner uses multiple instances of Valhalla Delay for Chorus/Flanger, Delay, and Reverb on tracks, highlighting its versatility.

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Critic Reviews

Valhalla DSP Valhalla Plate review | MusicRadar

musicradar.com

Valhalla Plate is a standout reverb plugin that delivers exceptional sonic versatility and simplicity at an unbeatable price point. With 12 distinct modes, it offers a wide range of plate 'flavours,' from the bright and resonant to the dark and dense. The interface is user-friendly, featuring minimal but effective controls that include decay, predelay, EQs, and modulation options. The ability to adjust the plate size adds a unique dimension not possible with traditional plate reverbs. The review highlights the lack of cons, making it clear that the product is highly recommended for producers seeking quality and creative flexibility.

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Valhalla Plate Review - Not Your Average Reverb - AudioNewsRoom (ANR)

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Valhalla Plate is a standout reverb plugin, praised for its rich, dynamic sound that mimics hardware plate reverbs with seven distinct algorithms. It's flexible, with parameters like pre-delay, decay, and width that offer creative control, making it ideal for ambient textures and vocal depth. While it excels at plate sounds, it doesn't cover rooms or halls, which might limit some users. At $50, it's a compelling, cost-effective choice for specialized reverb needs in live recordings and electronic production.

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Favorite reverb

Great sounding reverb. Very simple to use!

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See how FINNEAS uses Valhalla Plate

FINNEAS

Singer, Guitarist

The Favors

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Verified via Mixonline

"On vocals: Valhalla Room, Plate and Silver for its endless wash reverb style, and for delay, plus Logic’s Stereo Delay using a lot of Sample Delay by splitting the channel and creating latency in one of the pathways so it sounds like it’s in both ears."

See how Charlie Puth uses Valhalla Plate

Charlie Puth

Singer, Keyboardist

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Verified via YouTube

In his 30-Day Songwriting & Production Class on YouTube, Charlie Puth demonstrates using the Valhalla Plate reverb plugin at the 3:36 mark.

See how Mike Shinoda uses Valhalla Plate

Mike Shinoda

Singer, Guitarist

Linkin Park

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Verified via YouTube

At 2:30:43 he shows this plugin.

See how Kendrick Lamar uses Valhalla Plate

Kendrick Lamar

Rapper

Black Hippy

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Verified via Soundonsound

Used on Lamar's vocals for "All the Stars" as stated by producer Matt Schaeffer in this May 2018 Sound on Sound interview.

Kendrick Lamar’s vocal audio tracks, named after his teenage stage name K.Dot, consist of his first verse rap track, ‘VS 1 LD’, and 10 tracks for three moments in the track where he sings the pre-hook in a robotic voice. The verse rap track only has the AIR Flanger on it, and is sent to the ‘Dot VS LD’ aux track, which has eight inserts and five sends. Nine of the 10 pre-hook tracks have Auto?Tune, while the top four have a number of plug-ins on the inserts, including the EQ3 seven-band, Waves RVox, UAD Galaxy Tape Echo, SoundToys Little AlterBoy, SoundToys MicroShift and Valhalla Vintage Verb. These four are sent to a ‘Hook Ref’ aux track higher up in the session with another four plug-ins on the inserts and five sends. The other six are backing vocals to the four other pre-hook tracks and have no other plug-ins, other than a Trim, and are sent to a ‘Hook Background’ aux, just below them, which itself also is sent to the ‘Hoof Ref’ track. It’s a pretty complicated vocal signal chain, as Schaeffer admits.

“The ‘Dot VS LD’ aux indeed has a lot of stuff on it! I did most of the processing on that bus. On the inserts there are the SSL E-Channel, Waves RComp, Waves Q10 EQ, Waves DeEsser, UAD LA2A, UAD Pultec EQP1A, SoundToys Decapitator and Pro?Q2. The SSL channel strip, Q10 and RCompressor remain from the tracking, and maybe the DeEsser as well, but I most likely messed with the settings more during mixing. The Q10 has a high-pass at 50Hz and I notched out a frequency that was bothering me around 8.5kHz with the Q2. I added the other plug-ins during mixing, and they all add something a bit different. I’m boosting 100Hz and 16kHz with the EQP1A. As I said, I like using several EQs on one thing.

“The sends go to a ‘FlangeVerb’ track, on which I put the RVerb and the UAD MXR Flanger, then the ‘Huge Verb’ with the [Audio Ease] Altiverb and EQ3, ‘Hook Valhalla’ with the Vintage Verb, and the SoundToys EchoBoy, the ‘EMT250’ aux with the UAD EMT250, Valhalla Plate and MicroShift, and then finally a send to the ‘Dot VS Delay’ track, with the EchoBoy, set to quarter note, the Reel Tape Flanger and the RCompressor. The EchoBoy is the main delay you can hear in the verse. The EMT250 is not set to a reverb, but to a phaser effect, which gives a cool stereo effect. The Valhalla adds a bit of reverb here, though it’s set to -12, so it only gives a tiny bit of ambience, and the MicroShift makes the whole thing a little wider. It probably still sounded a bit dry, which is why I sent the track to the ‘Huge Verb’ aux with the Altiverb, again taking out low end with the EQ3.

“In the pre-hook, Kendrick wanted that robotic sound with tons of effects. The main robotic effect comes from the iZotope VocalSynth, which gives it a vocoder-like sound. There also are some instances of the Little AlterBoy on the lead vocals in the pre-hook, with some formant adjusting and pitch-shifting. I think one of them is set to +12, so that’s an octave up, and another has a lower formant so it sounds pitched down, even though it remains in the same key. All that adds up to make the vocals sound robotic.”

Adding all inserts on audio and aux tracks together, Lamar’s verse rap is treated with a whopping 22 plug-ins! The ‘Hook Background’ aux, meanwhile, has the EQ3 seven-band, RCompressor, SoundToys Panman, a chorus, the MicroShift, the UAD MXR Flanger and the Valhalla Plate on the inserts and has sends to an aux track with the Waves Kramer Tape plug-in as well as the aforementioned ‘Hook Valhalla’ aux with the Vintage Verb, and Echoboy, and it then is routed to the ‘Hook Ref’ track, which has another four inserts and five sends. Phew.

See how Ichika uses Valhalla Plate

Ichika

Guitarist, Bassist

Dios

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Verified via YouTube

In this latest video, Ichika Nito told us in 4:56 that he used the Vahalla reverb for his sound, he said that if you use his signature guitar and Vahalla reverb you will get his signature tone

See how Jack Antonoff uses Valhalla Plate

Jack Antonoff

Singer, Guitarist

Bleachers

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Verified via Soundonsound

"Antonoff’s favourite outboard reverb is the spring in his Roland Chorus Echo. Plug-in-wise, he tends to use the Waves Renaissance Reverb and Valhalla’s Plate, SoundToys’ EchoBoy for delay and, for more extreme effects, SoundToys’ FilterFreak, PanMan and Crystallizer granular delay."

See how Fred again.. uses Valhalla Plate

Fred again..

Singer, Keyboardist

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Verified via Twitch

During a Twitch stream titled "63/365: in the studio with Fred again.." hosted by plaqueboymax, Fred is seen using the plugin and/or has it in his library.

See how Dan Reynolds uses Valhalla Plate

Dan Reynolds

Singer, Guitarist

Imagine Dragons

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Verified via Spotify

In this Tape Notes podcast at 1:41:25, Wayne Sermon mentions Dan Reynolds using the Valhalla Reverb plugin for the song "Wrecked".

See how Lenno uses Valhalla Plate

Lenno

Music Producer

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Verified via Photo

This Snapshot was taken from 13/02/2021 Twitch Stream (https://www.twitch.tv/helloimlenno), proving that Lenno is using this Plugin.

See how Shapov uses Valhalla Plate

Shapov

Music Producer, DJ

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Verified via YouTube

In this video at 1:12:51 minutes see ValhallaPlate Reverb Plugin

See how Taska Black uses Valhalla Plate

Taska Black

Music Producer, DJ

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Verified via YouTube

In a studio livestream hosted by STMPD Recs on YouTube, Taska Black is seen using the ValhallaDSP Valhalla Plate Reverb Plugin at the 11:16 mark.

See how Adam K uses Valhalla Plate

Adam K

Music Producer, DJ

Adam K & Soha

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Verified via Facebook

This Plugin can be seen at 10:31 in this Facebook video, uploaded by the artist himself.

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