They are great for adding character and getting separation for channels to stand out individually like vox or lead instruments.

It's important to have early reflections mixed before applying a plate, depending on the often limited possibilities within plate reverbs themselves.

Can be a great thing to have them directly on a snare for example.

A performance is lacking body or a special tone? Those a plate to beef it up again.

I often use a special plate characteristic as first instance on an EFX AUX, before I apply reverb or other effects like tape delay and many more. The RO140 is perfect for that kind of sound design.

Just experiment with it.

Tip of the day...apply parallel ER to an AUX, create an additional AUX to send the first one into. Get RO140 with very short settings on the second AUX for Color and a bit of space information, followed by an 1176 (pulsar 1178 maybe) to get groovy action and feed that into Audio thing Wires on the same AUX...all channels routed back into one same stem. Killer on leads or short notes staccato or synth ARP.

Would not. It’s not a “realistic” reverb. Think of sound waves bouncing off a sheet of metal.

For small rooms for not a ton of $$, check out D16 Spacerek. But there’s many alternatives if you want a more general reverb that can emulate all sorts of things, from plates to rooms to halls and chambers (eg the old but excellent Exponential Audio reverbs are on sale).

Many thanks! Can you name a few other alternatives that would help me a lot facing the variety of reverb plugins out there and obviously I missed the EA reverb sale

Give IK's Sunset Sound a demo... has a fairly small but great selection of ISO booths, live rooms, chambers, plates (one of which is also a 140 I think) and a spring, modelled from Sunset Sound Studio in LA. Some nice, natural-sounding options in there.

"T-RackS Sunset Sound Studio Reverb gives you a total of 12 spaces, with 3 echo chambers, 3 live rooms and 3 vocal booths, plus vintage EMT and Echoplate plate reverbs and an AKG spring reverb still in use at the facility today."

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/trsunsetsound/

For a multipurpose reverb I can recommend Waves H-reverb. Uber easy and even has drive, compressor and other stuff. You can't go wrong with Valhalla VintageVerb too, one of the best all terrain and easy.

About the BRA 140, can't think of another one for a snare, love it!

Recently I added it to a main Vox (send), followed by the Kh-comp1 (a must-have compressor) on SC with the main Vox, to duck the reverb leaving that beautiful tail flowing between fast release (The track is a pop ballad, with some 50's vibe)

And then did another send (main Vox again, not the reverb one) to a Valhalla delay, just for fun and guess what, it worked like charm xD

H-Reverb can be a bit cpu intensive though, and while VVV is the best for cpu, it isn't geared so much towards realism if that's what you're going for... Valhalla Rooms would be better for that. Valhalla has a nice demo policy, you can demo their plugins as long as you like but the audio fades out every 45 seconds and you can't save presets.

I was hoping RO-140 would make it easy to sound like the vocalist (dry vocal sample in this case) was trapped in a metal container, but found it surprisingly hard to convey that....

Any news on Big Sur (not M1, just the OS)?

Anyone compared this directly to Liquidsonics Lustrous Plates?

I have both, dont remember last time I used RO-140, it always gets replaced by something else. Sounds flat to me.
Used lustrous plates today and it always stays. When I want plate vibe I go with lustrous plates.

Thanks for your insight! Lustrous is the "be-all, end-all" for me - so good to know it hasn't been bettered.

I prefer the TA plate. *shrug*

I had a hard time finding a good use for this at first. Definitely responds better to some material than others, but once it clicks it's very nice.

Do these still show up in Pro Tools under a •Wrapped Plugins• category?

Yes, like an actual plate. I'm really impressed with this. Also just like in the real world, you have to be thinking about what you are sending to it and how to shape it.

I've found that part of it's behavior to be really consistent with my experiences with plates. That's also why I am absolutely loving the process of using it and what I'm getting out of it with just a little effort.

It's not like Lustrous whereby anything you send to it gets wrapped in a glorious, glossy, sheen. (Not what all plates do btw) That type of easy success with a plugin sometimes keeps you from discovering the good stuff you have to work for. Plates and Spring reverbs were sometimes a lot of pain and effort, but worth it.

I wouldn't trade this particular plugin for anything, nothing sounds like it. Great job Black Rooster for creating a true asset.