Immersive Plate Reverb
Lustrous Plates Surround is a rich and luxurious contemporary plate reverb with ten distinctive models for use in surround and Atmos mixes up to 9.1.6.
Designed with the multi-channel music mixer in mind, Lustrous Plates Surround is the only plate reverb of its kind.
Nowhere else can you find a fully decorrelated multi-channel plate reverberation algorithm meeting the demands of the contemporary surround and Atmos music mixer.
The reverb excels at phase artefact free fold-down, essential when mixing or remixing for home and headphones-focused Atmos delivery formats. It is ideal whether you are bringing classic tracks featuring plate reverbs into Atmos or working on original surround pieces calling for the distinctive sound of plate reverberation.
The surround edition has all the features of the stereo edition including the even diffusion and beautiful spectral decay of ten real hardware plates, whilst bringing many new enhancements and new features specifically to meet the needs of today’s rapid surround production workflows.
“Lustrous Plates Surround has become an absolute go-to. Unreal depth, space and support for the source. It's outrageous and the interface is very conducive to a fast workflow.”
Emre RamazanogluNoel Gallagher, Paloma Faith, Kylie Minogue
Ten Rich and Beautiful Plates
Modelled on ten unique plates including a very rare gold foil unit, extensive measurements were taken from each giving a realistic and distinctive reverberant tone to each.
- Chrome: A rich, full bodied plate with a classic plate multi-band decay profile
- Silver: A light, airy plate with de-emphasised low-mids for enhanced clarity
- Steel: Similar in nature to the chrome plate with a reduced low band decay time
- Rhodium: Bright and rich, with a very neutral decay profile
- Beryllium: A very reflective, lustrous metal inspiring a plate with a bright tone
- Corbomite: A very dense and heavy plate
- Iridium: Very dense, with a highly emphasised low decay profile
- Osmium: A rich reverb capable of very clean, short ambiences
- Platinum: Very dense and bright, with rich lows on longer decays
- Gold: Simulation of the rare ‘gold foil’ 240 compact plate reverberator
“It sounds great, a spectacular choir reverb.”
Simon FranglenThe Bodyguard, Moulin Rouge, Avatar
Crossfeed Control
Lustrous Plates Surround provides a level of independent control over the direct and crossfeed signals crucial to achieving great results with surround reverbs.
Bloom, Level and Decay
A plate typically has an immediate onset, but the surround edition provides bloom and delay controls to allow the reverb to spread gently across the surround field. Level and delay allow you to control when and how much of a signal propagates into adjacent surround channels.
Equalisation
Plate reverbs typically have a very robust low end, especially when the decay times are towards the upper end of the range. High and low cut filters with selectable roll-off curves can be used (6, 12, 18 and 24 dB) to allow you to dial in as much low end weight and high end sizzle that your surround mix needs.
“This surround plate absolutely rocks my surround world!”
Andy BradfieldSnowden, The Great Gatsby, Kick-Ass
Creative Potential
Lustrous Plates Surround builds on the solid foundations of the original stereo edition, enhancing and extending its capabilities in many areas.
Rhythmic Reverberation
The pre-delay and surround channel delays of the reverb can be set in milliseconds, or click the metronome button to set it relative to the current project tempo to sync the reverb to the beat of the song.
Dispersion
In a real plate frequency dispersion is critical to its sound and occurs due to the choice of materials, tension, mounting factors and more. The amount of simulated dispersion for each plate in Lustrous Plates is all controllable via a single ‘frequency dispersion’ parameter for quick and powerful results. When combined with the new bloom controls interesting time and frequency delay effects are a cinch.
Stereo Pan And Delay
The delay and level tabs provide the ability to apply a traditional level-based pan as many plates often do not have a rock-solid central image. You can also create interesting pan-delay effects by delaying the left/right channels which can range from a subtle haas effect to dramatic stereo slap delays.
Dynamics
A dynamics module is provided for gate, ducking and compression effects.
Standard Edition
$199 - Perpetual License
Mono and stereo
10 plate models
Pre-delay with tempo sync
Dispersion modelling
Fusion-IR Modulation
Low and high cut EQ
Low and high shelf EQ
Dynamics module
Parameter locking
47 presets
VU Metering
Surround Edition
$249 - Perpetual License
Mono, stereo, LCR, quad, 5.0 – 5.1.4, 7.0 – 7.1.6, 9.0.4 – 9.1.6
10 plate models
Pre-delay with tempo sync
Dispersion modelling
Fusion-IR and enhanced modulation modes
Low and high cut EQ
Low and high shelf EQ
Dynamics module
Parameter locking
75 presets
Bar and VU Metering
Crossfeed level and delay
Bloom control (direct and crosfeed)
Crossfeed low/high cut EQ
Multi-channel delay (inc tempo sync)
Multi-channel level
Pan delay
Level delay
Optional VLF reverb
Available Free For 14 Days
The Lustrous Plates Surround trial is available for free on macOS and Windows. Just enter the iLok code below in iLok License Manager and install the plug-in:
8344-2293-5686-5987-0130-8697-5214-88
After 14 days a full license is required to continue using the plug-in.
Audio Examples
Each sample starts off untreated, the reverb is faded in and then back out of the audio example to help the listener get a sense of the reverb at different mix settings.
Purchasing and License Information
Available to buy from the LiquidSonics Store for $249 or click below to add to your basket. An iLok 2/3 dongle, iLok machine activation or iLok Cloud is required.
If you already own a perpetual license for Lustrous Plates you may upgrade for $50 from the LiquidSonics store. You can read more about the upgrade process here.
A surround edition license will also unlock the standard edition.
Documents and Installers
Version 1.3.3: Download
Lustrous Plates Surround is not available with Slate Digital All-Access Pass. If you are a Slate Digital user you may be looking for the stereo edition of Lustrous Plates.
Please note these installers are 64-bit only. Lustrous Plates Surround is not available for 32-bit DAWs.
Version 1.3.3: Download
Lustrous Plates Surround is not available with Slate Digital All-Access Pass. If you are a Slate Digital user you may be looking for the stereo edition of Lustrous Plates.
This macOS installer contains 64-bit Universal Binaries (Apple Silicon and Intel x64) for VST2, VST3, AU and AAX.
Lustrous Plates Surround is not available for 32-bit DAWs.
Version 1.3.3 (10 January 2025)
- Fix for AudioSuite -20038 error in Pro Tools Studio
- For for A/B preset container session recall bug
- Enhanced protection compatibility with Apple M4 processors
- macOS installer signature refresh
Version 1.3.2 (4 October 2024)
- Integration of a Pace supplied work-around for an incompatibility with AMD Zen 5 based Windows systems affecting products protected with iLok
Downloads: Windows
Version 1.3.1 (29 August 2024)
- Framework update
- Raised minimum system requirements to macOS 10.13
Version 1.3.0 (9 September 2024)
- Support for dynamics sidechain signal source in AU, VST3 and AAX
- New dry gate signal source triggering option
- New LCR + stereo planes propagation mode
- Fix for AAX asymmetric channel width upmix in new width configurations (e.g. 7.1 to 9.1.6)
Version 1.2.6 (15 September 2023)
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Sonoma compatibility update
Version 1.2.5 (9 August 2023)
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Additional propagation mode to exclude crossfeed between left/right channels
Version 1.2.4 (6 August 2023)
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Support for 5.1.2 and 5.1.4 channel widths in Logic Pro
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Support for 5.x.2, 5.x.4 and 9.x.4 channel widths support in AAX and VST3
- Workaround for AUs in Live instantiating in 9.1.6 channel mode
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Fix for plugins not loading in GarageBand on Intel Macs
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Adjustments for UI performance issues on macOS Sonoma
Version 1.2.3 (2 May 2023)
- Support for VST3 and AAX track widths of 7.x.4, 7.x.6 and 9.x.6
- Framework update
Version 1.2.2 (16 February 2023)
- Correction for high CPU usage during filter smoothing
Version 1.2.1 (26 January 2023)
- Correction for a bug affecting time signature detection
- Adjustment to pre-delay smoothing
Version 1.2.0 (12 July 2022)
- Introduction of new dynamics module featuring ducker, compressor and gate
- Fix for EQ toggle not locking when EQ parameter lock is selected
- Fix for a VST3-only plug-in scaling issue in Steinberg hosts when using supplementary application UI scaling settings (Windows only)
Downloads: Windows | macOS
Version 1.1.3 (11 May 2022)
- Fix for a VST3-only plug-in scaling issue in Steinberg hosts when using supplementary application UI scaling settings (Windows only)
Downloads: Windows
Version 1.1.2 (22 April 2022)
- Stability and security updates
Downloads: Windows | macOS
Version 1.1.1 (4 March 2022)
- Apple Silicon native support
Downloads: macOS
Version 1.1.0 (6 November 2021)
Initial release
Downloads: Windows | macOS
Additional Information
Lustrous Plates Surround supports DAWs meeting the following specification:
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- iLok 2, iLok 3, iLok Cloud or iLok machine activation
- Windows 7 and above
- OS X / macOS 10.13 and above
- VST 2.4, VST3, Audio Unit (AUv2) and AAX Native plug-in formats
- 64-bit DAWs are required (32-bit is not supported)
- 800 MB hard disk space is required
- At least 8 GB of main memory is recommended
- A dual core i5 or Apple Silicon processor or above is recommended
Lustrous Plates is an easy to use and flexible reverb featuring:
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- Ten unique plate models created with TASM
- Enhanced surround reverb algorithm
- Channel counts from mono up to 7.1.6
- Crossfeed filtering and level control
- Bloom control
- Faithfully reproduced frequency dispersion and damping
- Modulated and fully decorrelated true stereo reverb design
- Low and high roll-off (6-24 dB), low and high shelf/bell filters
- Width control (mono through to fully decorrelated true-stereo)
- Pre-delay (0 to 500 ms or sync to tempo)
- Light and dark colour themes
- Tool-tip help system
- Dynamics module (compressor, ducker, gate) with external trigger