You might need to travel a few thousand miles and good luck trying to move the beast even if you find it!

Those guys look like the pall bearers for the Dionne quintuplets.

Would be worth it!

They were just following instructions.

Limited with 8 effects send -- with our Roland DAW --- racks are all I/O digital ...

Would be lost without them .....

thats the kind of face you and your helping friends will automatically have when carrying an EMT 140! cuz you know its only minutes away from hearing the smoothest analogue reverb on the planet.

finally got mine tuned and set up last week. not 100% yet but theres nothing so natural and wide sounding like this one.

Coming to a movie theatre near you, Arnold Schwarzenegger in 'The Reverberator'!

EMT 140 is small compared to live chamber. A good live chamber is king, imo.

Yes.
Eventide H3500
Eventide H9 Max
Lexicon PCM 70
Yamaha Rev 5
Yahama Pro R3
Yahama SPX 900
Yahama SPX 990
Yahama SPX 2000

I just added a Boss RV-70 to my pool.
It has a very basic set of adjustable parameters, but many of the presets are very useable as they are, or as starting points.
I can totally see myself recording stuff through it, simulating plates or chambers in mono.

In case you had not thought of it, send the plate feed signal through a pristine digital delay on the way in, 100% wet, no repeats, short delay, and you now have a pre-delay for the plate.

Or go the Doors/Botnick route and delay the return with a tape.

Yeah we do that.
We also often run the mix several times and print say a short wet only plate (on its own stereo track) for drums and then run the mix again using a longer plate decay and print that as a wet only verb track for vocals/solo instruments etc.

You can end up with three of four different EMT verb tracks in the mix.

The printed EMT verb tracks can then be shifted forward a little on the timeline to create what ever pre delay is required.

Or if you want some 'pre'verb you can shift the verb track slightly in front of the dry track.

Running some plugin effects on the EMT verb tracks such as some EQ, delays, modulation effects such as chorus, flanging/phasing etc. can really create some other worldly sounds especially on the longer EMT plate settings.

Yep, I still use hardware verbs . . .

Eventide H3000
Ensoniq DP-Pro x 2
Ensoniq DP-4 x2
Sony MU-R201
Korg A1
Lexicon PCM80 - I have a PCM70 but it needs repair!
Lexicon Alex
Boss SE70

lots of delays as well . . .

Using the Pluto Plate Reverb this afternoon

I hate rhetorical questions.

I don't find anything rhetorical about the OP's question. It's perfectly valid.

I‘ve found the „more posts by X“ feature very useful in preventing my getting caught up in argument-for-argument‘s-sake exchanges.

There's no reason to use hardware anything ever again. Trust me.

How does that taste?

Sorry for my brash jadedness.

I'm confused. Do you mean that the question "Is anyone still using hardware reverbs?" is the same as "Does a bear s**t in the woods?"

Because then you follow up with

Sorry if I already answered this - cannot recall - age! I still love my Lexicon PCM-70. I use it for certain things. Of course for mixing I use plugs so I can have multiple instances but the creme de la creme track or bus get the PCM-70.

I generally do not print with reverb so when I have talent or when I am recording myself I use it for the can mix.

Wow.... "thar be trolls in this thread"

Oh yes indeed. Here:
Bricasti m7
Eventide H3000
Lex pcm70
Lex pcm91
Lex 200
Yamaha rev7
Yamaha spx90
Yamaha spx900
Yamaha spx2000

Sry. Just got back from runnin the chainsaw all day! Awesome!

"Broadly speaking, a rhetorical question is asked when the questioner himself knows the answer already, or an answer is not actually demanded. So, an answer is not expected from the audience. Such a question is used to emphasize a point or draw the audience’s attention."

If i trusted you my studio would be empty.

Holy cow, nobody in this thread has mentioned the Zerotronics CoolSprings?!?! When I kicked the box and set up an analog studio, I used to lay awake at night trying to figure how to afford an EMT (and where to put it in my house). My CoolSprings is now an essential piece of gear that I will never part with. It gets constant compliments from nearly everyone who hears my records, especially engineers ("is that a plate?").

I use four different hardware units. My favorite is my old Roland SRV330 Dimensional Space Reverb, next is my Eventide H9, then a Strymon Bigsky, and finally a little TC Electronics Hall of Fame. My most used reverb though is software .. but this ain't the right thread to discuss that

I use a mix of UAD reverb plugins, lexicon pcm70, and physical spring reverb units, myself.

Plenty of good itb reverb. Hell even dverb is on some pretty high profile records. Eventide stereo room is fantastic, Oxford reverb, lex pcm is very good, exponential is excellent, uad lex224 is terrific, ocean way is fantastic, uad emt 140 is very good and waves abbey road plate are even better. It’s a good time to be making music.

Many of those mentioned get used around here, but that said bricasti m7, spx90 and pcm 60 all see daily use as well.