For this critique, I will be looking at JCC & Associates’ Ecoplate Plate Reverb.
There are a lot of great things about this plate reverb. One of the ones that I liked the most was the fact that it is a close take on the legendary EMT140. One of the more intriguing parts of this is the fact that you can’t flat out buy one from their website or anywhere else. They only give you their schematics on their website, along with some of the parts that you can buy off of them.
And that comes to some of the things that I don’t like about it. There aren’t any instructions on how to put this one together. You are sort of on your own, though they have the most detailed schematics that I have found so far. Also, if you don’t know anything really about electronics and how to read and put together schematics, then you are at a major disadvantage on how to make their power amp and pre-amp.
This is what I eventually want to turn my reverb into after a few prototype versions, which will scale up to the quality that the Ecoplate brings to the table. I never heard of this plate reverb before this project, so I’m not really sure on the overall draw of this particular reverb, though people seem to really like this one as well.
Pros:
- Similar to the iconic EMT 140
- Very detailed blueprint
- Can buy the same voice coil and mics they use from them
Cons:
- No actual pictures of unit on website
- No directions on how to build them
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