I also used it on vocals, again with excellent results. Both for short snare sounds and longer ones I got some very usable reverb sounds. The first source that I tried it on was a snare drum on a drum kit. I was able to get a variety of different and very usable sounds from ValhallaPlate. Two more things about the GUI: On the positive side, the ValhallaPlate window is resizable, which is handy, especially for those working on small screens. You can, of course, store your own presets in the User Presets section.

These contain mostly vocal or snare presets. The presets offer a variety of choices for vocals, drums, guitars and more. The former offers a nice selection based around four different sizes: Huge, Large, Medium and Small. In practice, I found the differences to be small. Width makes it possible to change the output characteristics. The Size knob allows you to control the density of the virtual plate. I wish that there was a way to tempo sync the predelay. The aforementioned metal-types are found under the Mode pull down menu, and include Chrome, Steel, Cobalt, Brass, Aluminum, Copper and one called Unobtanium. ValhallaPlate is completely algorithmic, so it was presumably a DSP challenge to program it to realistically emulate the sound of a plate. The result is a somewhat metallic sounding reverberation that can be great for vocals, drums, guitars and more. The audio is passed through it by way of a transducer causing the plate to vibrate, and other transducers pick up the audio to return it back to the mixer. As a result, you can get a high-quality reverb, albeit of a single type, for a very low price. Most software reverbs offer a choice of halls, plates, rooms and other types of virtual spaces, but Valhalla DSP takes a different approach.

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