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Sucks that so many of the best ones are so poorly maintained. Hopefully with Flux now handling Lexicon’s plugin line the Apple Silicon update is closer. I can’t really vibe with IR based reverbs except for very rare occasions so these mostly focus on algo based reverbs.
Here are my favourites:
Lexicon PCM Native Bundle. It still just sounds magic to me, it has this expensive and musical quality to it. A good mix of classic Lexicon style sounds (Random Hall, Vintage Plate, Concert Hall) as well as some newer more natural sounding algos. Still Lexicon’s flagship reverb, despite people saying it sounds too clean compared to older Lexicons IMO it compares well against anything out there. I’m not sure anything sounds better than this, but some are as good.
Exponential Audio Symphony and Stratus. Basically the only other reverbs I can find that do something similar. It’s not quite the same, but you can hear the lineage. GUI is horrible, and compared to the older plugins there’s a lot more bloat now. You can do fun effecty stuff with them as well as very natural reverbs. Just a shame Izotope aren’t really doing much with these, I’d love to have working versions of R2/R4/Phoenix/Nimbus with refreshed GUI’s and preset browsers etc.
Liquidsonics HD Cart. I kind of overlooked this because I assumed it uses their FIR tech (which I have in Seventh Heaven and Reverberate). The FIR stuff sounds fine to me but for whatever reason, a bit lacking compared to algo based stuff. This one is awesome, almost somewhere between a 480L and Bricasti. It can do nice short realistic sounds, as well as long dreamy stuff. More dense than the above. Underrated, great on guitars.
Relab 480/QuantX/REV6000. All 3 are awesome recreations of classic reverbs. There’s a few presets in the 480 that I like. Rev6000 is really clean and distinctly un-lexicon. QuantX is cool too, I like it for room sounds.
Good but a tier or 2 below:
UAD/Arturia Lexicon 224. Awesome for characterful reverbs, a bit lofi and very modulated. Really fun but can’t really do what the above do.
UAD RMX16. Really cool to have in a plugin, but with so much other stuff out there I don’t use it as much as I thought it would. Ambience and Non Lin are its most famous algos but there’s a fair amount of useful stuff. and some weird/stylized stuff too.
Avid Revibe II. Some good stuff in here still, GUI is so dated.
Eventide SP2016. some fun sounds, if a bit limited. Plate’s are OK but I prefer the room algos.
Valhalla Vintage + Room. I love both but they can’t really compete with the really top end stuff. Great for FX sounds, and older reverbs. Does a reasonable take on PCM60 and 70 type sounds and fills some gaps for 224XL that other plugins might not quite get. Best thing about them is the UX is so fast to use.
Softube TSAR. really underrated but I also forget about it.
PSP EMT 2445. Underrated, good workhorse. I like it as much as UAD EMT250. Softube Wasted Space is a similar vibe too.
PSP Chamber. It’s free and better than I expected.
IK CSR surprisingly holds up quite well. It’s essentially a PCM91 but without the presets. You get a good Rich Plate algo, the Halls are good too although I don’t seem to use Halls that often. Room can get weird easily and Inverse is a one trick pony. Wish it had more and better presets.
MECHANICAL PLATES
Waves Abbey Road Plates, UAD EMT140, Arturia Rev-140, Soundtoys SuperPlate. All solid and one of them will work.
Here are my favourites:
Lexicon PCM Native Bundle. It still just sounds magic to me, it has this expensive and musical quality to it. A good mix of classic Lexicon style sounds (Random Hall, Vintage Plate, Concert Hall) as well as some newer more natural sounding algos. Still Lexicon’s flagship reverb, despite people saying it sounds too clean compared to older Lexicons IMO it compares well against anything out there. I’m not sure anything sounds better than this, but some are as good.
Exponential Audio Symphony and Stratus. Basically the only other reverbs I can find that do something similar. It’s not quite the same, but you can hear the lineage. GUI is horrible, and compared to the older plugins there’s a lot more bloat now. You can do fun effecty stuff with them as well as very natural reverbs. Just a shame Izotope aren’t really doing much with these, I’d love to have working versions of R2/R4/Phoenix/Nimbus with refreshed GUI’s and preset browsers etc.
Liquidsonics HD Cart. I kind of overlooked this because I assumed it uses their FIR tech (which I have in Seventh Heaven and Reverberate). The FIR stuff sounds fine to me but for whatever reason, a bit lacking compared to algo based stuff. This one is awesome, almost somewhere between a 480L and Bricasti. It can do nice short realistic sounds, as well as long dreamy stuff. More dense than the above. Underrated, great on guitars.
Relab 480/QuantX/REV6000. All 3 are awesome recreations of classic reverbs. There’s a few presets in the 480 that I like. Rev6000 is really clean and distinctly un-lexicon. QuantX is cool too, I like it for room sounds.
Good but a tier or 2 below:
UAD/Arturia Lexicon 224. Awesome for characterful reverbs, a bit lofi and very modulated. Really fun but can’t really do what the above do.
UAD RMX16. Really cool to have in a plugin, but with so much other stuff out there I don’t use it as much as I thought it would. Ambience and Non Lin are its most famous algos but there’s a fair amount of useful stuff. and some weird/stylized stuff too.
Avid Revibe II. Some good stuff in here still, GUI is so dated.
Eventide SP2016. some fun sounds, if a bit limited. Plate’s are OK but I prefer the room algos.
Valhalla Vintage + Room. I love both but they can’t really compete with the really top end stuff. Great for FX sounds, and older reverbs. Does a reasonable take on PCM60 and 70 type sounds and fills some gaps for 224XL that other plugins might not quite get. Best thing about them is the UX is so fast to use.
Softube TSAR. really underrated but I also forget about it.
PSP EMT 2445. Underrated, good workhorse. I like it as much as UAD EMT250. Softube Wasted Space is a similar vibe too.
PSP Chamber. It’s free and better than I expected.
IK CSR surprisingly holds up quite well. It’s essentially a PCM91 but without the presets. You get a good Rich Plate algo, the Halls are good too although I don’t seem to use Halls that often. Room can get weird easily and Inverse is a one trick pony. Wish it had more and better presets.
MECHANICAL PLATES
Waves Abbey Road Plates, UAD EMT140, Arturia Rev-140, Soundtoys SuperPlate. All solid and one of them will work.
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