Soundtoys SuperPlate Styles

video uploads by soundtoys

The 5 styles of the new SuperPlate by Soundtoys.

Available now at www.soundtoys.com

See the announcement post here

"Take a look at all five plate reverb styles included in SuperPlate – each was inspired by an iconic plate. In the development of SuperPlate, Soundtoys added nine plates to their gear collection and spent seven years immersed in reverb, dreaming up the modern features that would reinvent this classic effect.

The reverb you hear in each video is entirely one of SuperPlate's styles. Explore the unique sonic character of each individual plate style."

Playlist:

1. Soundtoys SuperPlate: E. Plate III Style

The EcoPlate III (c. 1982) was the third and smallest version of the EcoPlate series of reverbs designed by Jim Cunningham. All three plates in the EcoPlate series use a stainless steel alloy to create its reverberation and all three versions have an exceptionally bright and spacious sound. Soundtoys studied and added an EcoPlate III to our gear collection for the development of SuperPlate. E. Plate III is just one of the five plate styles and many features included in Soundtoys' SuperPlate reverb plug-in.

Sound design by Laura Wolf – @laurawolfmusic • www.laurawolfmusic.com

2. Soundtoys SuperPlate: Classic 140 Style

SuperPlate's Classic 140 plate style is based on the EMT 140 (1957), the most well-known and the first commercially successful plate reverb. It was made by hanging a plate of cold-rolled steel in a metal frame, and as legend has it, the steel came from one specific Welsh ore mine. The EMT 140 was a studio standard for decades, and is what most people reference when they talk about plate reverb. Soundtoys studied and added five EMT 140 units to our gear collection for the development of SuperPlate. Classic 140 is just one of the five plate styles and many features included in Soundtoys' SuperPlate reverb plug-in.

Sound design by Hannah Tobias – www.hannah-tobias.com

3. Soundtoys SuperPlate: Audicon Style

“The Plate” (c. 1971) also known as the “Lawson Plate” was designed by Gene Lawson (Lawson Microphones) in Nashville to be a more economical plate reverb for those who couldn’t afford an original EMT 140. It was manufactured by console manufacturer Auditronics out of Memphis, Tennessee. Soundtoys studied and added "The Plate" to our gear collection for the development of SuperPlate. Audicon is just one of the five plate styles and many features included in Soundtoys' SuperPlate reverb plug-in.

Sound design by Hannah Tobias – www.hannah-tobias.com

4. Soundtoys SuperPlate: Stocktronics Style

The Stocktronics RX4000 (1978) is the only Swedish plate we know of, and it uses a steel alloy plate with low internal crystallic damping characteristics, which gives it a very distinctive extended high-frequency response. In other words, this plate has zing! While Soundtoys was unable to add the Stocktronics RX4000 to our gear collection, our study of the RX4000 was made possible by proud Stocktronics owners spanning two continents (if anyone is keen to sell, please call us!). Stocktronics is just one of the five plate styles and many features included in Soundtoys' SuperPlate reverb plug-in.

Sound design by Bryn Bliska – @brynbliska • www.brynbliska.com
Special thanks to Mattias Olsson at Roth Händle Studio for letting us access this impeccable Stocktronics RX4000 – @RothHandle

5. Soundtoys SuperPlate: Goldfoil 240 Style

SuperPlate's Goldfoil 240 plate style is based on the EMT 240 (1970). While technically not a plate at all, it was designed to create a more compact and portable reverb. Instead of a steel plate, the EMT 240 used a thin foil of 24-karat gold to create its distinctive darker and tighter sound. Soundtoys studied and added two EMT 240 units to our gear collection for the development of SuperPlate. Goldfoil 240 is just one of the five plate styles and many features included in Soundtoys' SuperPlate reverb plug-in.

Sound design by Meg Toohey – www.megtoohey.com

Available now at www.soundtoys.com

David recording the Yamaha SY-1 for Necromonkey

Published on Apr 4, 2015 RothHandle

This video gives you an idea of the size of the SY-1.

"Things are really falling into place at Roth Händle V in Sollentuna.

This last Saturday we had our sort of opening party with three live bands playing...Pentapolar birds, Gösta Berlings saga and Switch opens. It was truly an amazing night.

Today we continued working on the new Necromonkey album. The song we are working has the working title Plane. We are very well aware that this is a pretty crappy name but its what we are working on. Today we started off by recording and double tracking a Mini Moog bass line. The Mini Moog sounded great of course but we wanted to add a different texture so we overdubbed a Yamaha DX-100 with an almost Seinfeld sounding bass."

Mattias messing with the VCS3 for possible noisy Necromonkey ending

Published on Apr 1, 2015 RothHandle

Cuts out at :46.

"Today was supposed to be the last big session day but due to feverish children we had to cut the session short but we got a lot of stuff done.

These are sessionvideos with the Swedish progressive rockband Necromonkey. So far we have released three albums and we are hoping to release two more this year. These sessions are for a Synthbased album called "show me where it hertz, again and again". If you are curious to find out more about the band, please get in touch with us at Necromonkeyness@gmail.com and we will try to help you as best as we can, ok?

Thanks for watching."

Recording random voices thru the VP 330+

Published on Mar 31, 2015 RothHandle

"A short session video from last nights Necromonkey session for our new album, Show me where it Hertz, again and again."

Mattias experimenting with heavily distorted Orchestron String Ensemble

Published on Mar 9, 2015 RothHandle

"Today was supposed to be the last big session day but due to feverish children we had to cut the session short but we got a lot of stuff done.

These are sessionvideos with the Swedish progressive rockband Necromonkey. So far we have released three albums and we are hoping to release two more this year. These sessions are for a Synthbased album called "show me where it hertz, again and again". If you are curious to find out more about the band, please get in touch with us at Necromonkeyness@gmail.com and we will try to help you as best as we can, ok?

Thanks for watching."

Controlling the Arp Omni 2 volume with the Q960

Published on Mar 1, 2015 RothHandle

"A short session video from last nights Necromonkey session for our new album, Show me where it Hertz, again and again."

Anima Morte recording Vako Orchestron String Ensemble

Published on Apr 7, 2014 RothHandle·1,698 videos

"A little video from yesterdays Anima Morte session."

Fredrik recording chamberlin solo female voice

Published on Feb 26, 2014 RothHandle·1,696 videos

Some excellent synth spotting in the background including a Moog format 5U modular system and an EMS VC3S Putney. See RothHandle's channel for more.

Recording Persephone for Necromonkeys Dodo

Published on Jun 15, 2013 RothHandle·1,611 videos

"Hey hey,

Here is a couple of videos from yesterdays Necromonkey session. We stated trying to figure out the arangement on the fourth track on the next EP Glimpse but gave up due to "technical" difficulties.

So...we started working on a new track called "the mystery of Dodo". Its based on an inside and very private joke. With a bit of luck it wont be called that for long. The track is based around a piano part David wrote and then we worked on embellishing it with Electribe rhythms, Cembalo, Persephone, Chamberlin solo female voice and some orchestral percussion.

Right now we are not sure where it will end up on the eps but it will probably be the first as it has an almost intro like feel.

Necromonkey is a band consisting of David Lundberg and Mattias Olsson (that would be me). So far we have recorded one album called Necroplex. We are selling and distributing it ourselves in a very private way. If you want a copy please drop us a line at Necromonkeyness@gmail.com

This video was shot at Roth Händle studios. If you have questions about booking or recording dont hesitate to ask.

Thanks for watching,

Mattias"

NECROMONKEY - KNOCK KNOCK HORNETS NEST - MUSIC VIDEO

Published on May 24, 2013 RothHandle·1,606 videos

Some great synth spotting in this one including I believe the eowave Persephone and a mixed synthesisers.com based modular. Those of you that have been coming to MATRIXSYNTH for a while will recognize Mattias of RothHandle Studio from his numerous gear videos here on MATRIXSYNTH. On a synth trivia note ABBA's white Minimoog resided at RothHandle (see these posts). I'm not sure if it is still there.


"ARTIST: Necromonkey
SONG: Knock knock hornets nest
ALBUM: Necroplex

Music video by Martin Gustafsson (www.vimeo.com/gusse)

This is the first video from Necromonkeys debut album, Necroplex.

Necromonkey consists of David Lundberg (Gösta Berlings saga) and Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, Pineforest Crunch, Roth Händle studios).

In this video you can also see two of musicians that are heavily featured on the album Einar Baldursson (Guitar) and Michele Benincaso (Bass and Moog Taurus pedals).

The band is currently working on a series of four eps that will later on be compiled to an album. There are also plans for more videos and live concerts.

If you are interested in getting a copy of the album please drop the band a line at Necromonkeyness@gmail.com."

David Lundberg recording Pro1 on Necromonkeys Glimpse

Published on May 2, 2013 RothHandle·1,582 videos

"Its been a couple of hectic days in the studio.

I have been working with several different projects.

These films are from sessions with Necromonkey and Akaba.

If you are curious about the studio for booking etc please drop me a line at Rothhandlestudios@gmail.com"

Overdubbing VCS3 to Necromonkeys Glimpse

Published on Apr 30, 2013 RothHandle·1,575 videos

"A work in progress film from todays Necromonkey session"

Korg Mono:Poly in Musical Context

Published on Apr 28, 2013 RothHandle·1,574 videos

Necromonkey David trying out the Roland SH3a

Published on Apr 28, 2013 RothHandle·1,574 videos

The Roland SH3a in Musical Context

Published on Apr 28, 2013

VCS3 on Kinky Panda

Published on Apr 10, 2013 RothHandle·1,525 videos

"It seems like Im getting stuck on the Necromonkey song Kinky panda...either that or we are getting close to being finished.

This song will end up on a ep sometime this yea. So far we have released one album called Necroplex."

VCS3 Morse code on Kinky Panda intro
Published on Apr 10, 2013
Work in progress video from todays session

"Just got back from a trip to europe, and stayed with my friend Julius, one of my friends who records for Compost. He has done some pretty cool projects [building a VST interface to Kraftwerk pioneer Florian Schneider's most recent vocoder purchase] as well as creating his own VST plugins for Mac / PC called Kammerl Kaske [http://www.kammerl.de/audio] The details of the Florian Schneider project -- About 2 years ago, Florian put the original Kraftwerk vocoder for sale on eBay [quite possibly one of the rarest eBay sales ever, at least for music equipment]. It wasn't that Kraftwerk was getting out of 'vocoding' but rather, he found one of the earliest vocoder projects out there. A professor at a German university in the speech department was building a rather large rack of about 32 drawers of band-pass filters that were aimed to create at one point, a vocoder. As the professor passed away some time ago, the speech department was looking to part ways with the project and Florian had come into contact with the university. He made an offer, and they sold him the remnants. Now there's another friend of Julius' that creates some rather crafty devices known as SND, aka Sebastian Niessen. He's most known for his SAM-16 sequencer, fixed filter banks and other fun stuff. Sebastian engineered the hardware, and Julius designed the software, and the result is this So as some "parting gifts" / compensation, Sebastian received one of the first Kraftwerk speech synths, and Julius received ONE of the FOUR MIDI Robovox units."

Published on Mar 16, 2013 RothHandle·1,500 videos

Recording bass on the Yamaha CS-60 with Necromonkey

Published on Mar 16, 2013 RothHandle·1,500 videos

"A short little work in progress video from the yesterdays Necromonkey session. We worked mostly on a track called Mod Midi (The first track I recorded using the Midi to Clock module in the system)

We are currently working on four eps that will be released over the next year.

If you are curious about the band or interested in getting a copy of our first album please drop a line to Necromonkeyness@gmail.com"


More CS-60 bass on Mod Midi ?

David recording Necromonkey Moog Taurus on earbrow

Published on Jan 26, 2013 RothHandle·1,471 videos

"Hey hey....

We are back working on a new album that will be released hopefully later in 2013. One song is mixed and finished, plane. Now we are working on a rack called Earbrow.

If you are interested in getting a copy of our first album Necroplex (that will be released officially in february) Please send us an email to Necromonkeyness(at)gmail.com"

Thought this video was pretty cool. I wasn't sure what to expect the Taurus to sound like in the mix. It's an interesting timbre that sounds familiar but not exactly synthetic. Although thought it was interesting seeing him play the Taurus with his hands which I think many of us would be better at than using our feat.

First video of 2013. Making a small boat sound with the VCS3

Published on Jan 8, 2013 RothHandle·1,462 videos

"A weird and slow day in the studio. Did some backups and tried to clean my desk for 2013..IN the meanwhile I messed a bit with Kinski Tonys VCS3 and made it sound like a small boat."

ÄNGLAGÅRD - CHAPTER 8 - MELLOTRON AND SYNTHESIZERS

Published on Dec 13, 2012 by anglagardrecords

You might recognize Mr. Mattias Olsson from these previous RothHandle posts.

"ÄNGLAGÅRD recording Viljans Öga.
CHAPTER VIII : Mellotron & Synthesizers


ÄNGLAGÅRD ARE:
Jonas Engdegård -- Guitars
Anna Holmgren -- Flutes & Saxophone
Johan Brand -- Bassguitars & Taurus
Thomas Johnson -- Pianos, Mellotron & Synthesizers
Mattias Olsson -- Drums, Percussion & Noise

All music written and performed by Änglagård.

Documentary by Martin Gustafsson
www.vimeo.com/gusse"