Get out your good headphones and prepare to experience the awesome sound of plate echo through this 1980 vintage Ecoplate II! Thanks for watching and enjoy!
Ecoplate II Manual: https://mpe.berklee.edu/documents/studio/manuals/effects/Studio%20Tech%20Ecoplate%202/Studio%20Tech%20Ecoplate%202.pdf
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16 thoughts on “Plate echo – the greatest studio effect of all time!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeff Webber says:

    Hi Fran! I'm new to your channel. I am quite impressed with your passion for the subjects of your videos. However, since A) I am a big music historian, and B) also a big PITA (LOL) I have to be that guy… You mentioned the Shirelles, and Ronettes… they were produced by Phil Spector, who along with engineer Larry Levine recorded a great deal of music at Gold Star Studios, who were renowned for their completely ANALOG echo chamber… David Gold designed it himself, it allegedly was complementary trapezoids, the walls of which were covered in plaster and mounted on heavy isolation forms. When the studio closed, legend has it that he destroyed the echo chamber so no one else could copy it and replicate the sound… I look forward to more of your content…

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lord Skeletro says:

    They can be made cheaply too, but expensive ones apparently sounded better

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Captain Kurk Nitram says:

    I've heard that the "Schaller KV-40 / KV-50 Amp (the german answer to the fender twin reverb) has an rare built in echo plate inside

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Amanita Beat says:

    One thing I can't understand, why are you making these suitcases? Purely for fun?

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Caris H says:

    I’m here via learning that Dan Lanois was always telling Eno and U2 to use plate echo sparingly or cut back to mono when they were after engaging Bono’s Joe Cocker mode —thus saving his lovely strain on tracks like Red Hill Mining Town.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars pstar7 says:

    Rob scallon video about reverb. What you have is reverb. Rob scallon talks all about reverb, and he sees the recording studio reverb you have. Thank you for sharing and showing reverb equipment.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars xx says:

    so cool , try finding one, there is 1 for sale in America

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars I like to move it move it says:

    Its plate reverb not an echo. I sounds great though

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Inner Imposter Music says:

    Yeah, but where’s the Frantone “Plecho” (plate echo) pedal? You’re welcome and 3% branding rights in perpetuity. The pedal art should feature turnbuckles in the corners.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Account Email says:

    I think I heard that Ace would use this during his solos

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ksharpe10 says:

    Wow that was Riders on the storm on STEROIDS, Yikes. Yeah the actual song does have quite the ambiance, Robbies guitar too, Kinda the bummer is Ray's keyboard kinda drowns out Robbies parts. I always wondered what PLATE reverb was, Thanks FRAN!!!! You Rock.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Keith Carlson says:

    It's amazing how far effects have come. That thing is a "Boat Anchor!"

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GS Texas Rider says:

    That song at the end is wonderful! Dig it!

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GS Texas Rider says:

    Cool Bees! Great video! That reverb sounds frantastic!

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan Dean says:

    Damn!! I was raised believing Art dangled Paul Simon by his ankles into a lift shaft to get that reverb..oh well

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fernando perdomo says:

    absolutely love your speaking voice

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