![]() ![]() But these are just the defaults, and a handy Decay control provides flexibility: it allows the decay time of any of the reverbs, including the rooms, to be scaled to taste, with the 50 percent setting cutting decay times in half, 25 percent reducing them to a quarter, and so forth. The Echoplate's High setting provides a slightly longer decay time. The Echoplate and the Spring have three decay settings (Low, Mid and High), while the EMT 140 has nine, ranging from 300ms to six seconds. Each plate model has controls for 'phase' and decay times. There's also one spring type, an AKG BX-20E. There are two plate reverb models, Plate 1 being an Echoplate (an American device) and Plate 2 the German-made EMT 140. SSSR includes emulations not only of all three of Sunset Sound Studio's live rooms, but also their associated isolation booths, the echo chambers, and the studio's most desirable mechanical reverbs. The GUI can be continuously varied in size from 852 x 461 pixels to your full screen width. There's a low CPU overhead but for the first instance there's a moderately high RAM requirement, though using multiple instances doesn't seem to consume much memory. Available as a VST 2/3, Audio Units and AAX plug‑in, and as a module for IK's T‑RackS software, SSSR employs a combination of modelling and convolution techniques that IK claim is unique and which they call 'Volumetric Response Modeling'. Now IK Multimedia claim to offer some of the sound of that studio in their Sunset Sound Studio Reverb (let's call it SSSR from here on). Sadly, I never got the chance to visit, but like many of you I've enjoyed many recordings made there over the years, by the likes of the Rolling Stones, the Doors, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan. ![]() I grew up just eight miles from Sunset Sound Studio. Have IK managed to bottle the sound of the famous Hollywood studio? ![]()
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