Abbey Chamber Verb
Soft Vintage Reverb – Keeley’s Recreation of the Famous Studio’s Echo Chamber
An echo room chamber is a space where program material is played and
the reverberations are captured on a microphone. You know the classic
sounds of a good church or music hall. Studios needed to capture these
effects without always going to a church or hall to record. So, they
built their own echo chambers. The famous EMI/Abbey studio had 3 echo
chambers. They also used electronic filters to carefully refine the
sound in order to make it easier to record, which made the end
results sound impeccable.
We have incorporated the RS106 filter which had points at 600Hz high
pass filter and a 10K low pass filter. In the studio, music (or your
guitar) was filtered through at these points before being sent to the
speaker in the echo chamber. This made for a tighter, more defined sound
to be present in the chamber.
Next there is the Brilliance Control, either the RS127 or RS135. This
was what the engineers used to refine the reverb sound that they
captured on the microphone. Engineers could select one of 3 frequency
points to boost or cut by +/-10 dB. The key frequencies they targeted
were 2.7 kHz, 3.5 kHz, or 10 kHz, now offered on the Abbey Chamber Verb.
The Pre-Delay of the room is a naturally occurring 30ms, and the
delay of the tape machine added another 150ms, so that’s the range that
we give you.
With the Abbey Chamber Verb, you can have these classic tools to add
reverb to your guitar, vocals, or to any element of your recordings or
live sound.
What You’ll Hear
…Soft and Warm Vintage Reverb. That’s what we were after here. We
want people to recreate some of those classic sounds in a live setting
without a DAW or other expensive packages. Guitar players need a
plug-and-play chamber reverb that gives them the classic sounds they
are used to and want to emulate.
You can easily set the Decay to determine the length of the reverb.
The Pre-Delay is used to match the classic sounds of vintage
recordings, going from extremely fast doubling in the reverb to a
slapback type of sound.
The Brilliance Control allows you to have the same types of tools to
filter and fine tune the reverb, which allows for soft reverbs, deep and
sublime reflections, bright and reflective ambience–whatever you chose.
You are now the studio engineer to your own sound!