Spring Reverb vs Plate Reverb: What's The Difference? 

For your A/B'ing pleasure: 2:45 muted chugs into spring reverb 4:46 muted chugs into plate reverb

Let's not forget the time honoured practice of taking your spring reverb amp and giving it a swift kick to jangle the springs and make a noise like thunder. Riders On The Storm, anyone?

I do love these “what’s the difference” videos Colin. Very often guitarists just spout whatever terminology they’ve heard elsewhere without giving much thought to what it actually means. So it’s nice to get some real clarity when it comes to these topics.

I didn't expect plate reverb to sound so pretty, was really striking

Like my papa used to say" If it cant surf it aint spring son"

Title is wrong. should be "Spring Reverb vs. Plate Reverb: What's the Defference?"

This is a very informative video. See RU-vid? Colin deserves so many more subscribers and views, HE ACTUALLY EDUCATES US in even greater detail than even some of the bigger RU-vid channel stars. And Colin doesn't need to make 20-30 minute videos to do it either. He needs to be pumped up! Great channel, great content, great RU-vidr. Thank you Colin for all that you do man! Buy this man a shot!

This guy deserves 500k subs. Seems to feed some badass info, with great explanation.

Oh, I did wonder why my old Laney would go "CLANG" if I put it down too hard. :)

I'd say the primary difference is about 30 cubic feet of studio space.

You deserve 1 million subscribers. You explain things for my finite and stupid mind and I love it so much.

Big fan of a shitload of plate reverb and 3 fuzz pedals all maxed out.

I like the spring reverb’s delay-like effect. It also adds a great thickness to your sound without much else when turned on subtly (on my amp 9:00 is where it starts becoming obvious reverb).

Have you ever built or restored an amp in the same way like the will it shred guitar? I would love to see that, just sayin'...

Been following since before "will it shred" Thanks for your informative work. I appreciate the value of your knowledge.

Stumbled on to this site while looking for comparisons of combo amps. I ended up watching for hours. Thanks Colin. I've learned a lot from you .

nice and informative video as always colin

Colin - thank you so much for your videos. Your descriptions, examples, and even personality and playstyle appeal to me in a way that helps the information stick, and I always come away from your videos feeling like I've learned something. Thank you so much, man!

They both sound very nice.. Just need more gain... N less mids...

Fantastically informative as always Colin. Keep it loud

Colin. Your videos are always very informative. You explain things very well and make it easy to understand. Keep up the great work. More videos please.

its great that youre popular and still make these helpful informative videos

Keep these technical videos coming. They're great!

Can you do delays next? e.g. Tape and Slap

Your videos are always very helpful. Thank you!

These are just such awesome videos, I nerd out and learn so much every time. Thanks!

Excellent Colin.Keep 'em coming.

Thank you for making these 🎉🎉🎉

great explanaition as always, thank you.

Wow! That is a fantastically written and produced explanation!

Excellent explanation dude. Bonus Props for the bottle of Cloven Hoof Spiced Rum in the background too.

Such a good breakdown of information. Many thanks!

Brilliant channel! Keep these coming!

Love the more physicsy videos you do, far more interesting than the stuff on my bsc, would be interesting to hear how moving the contact microphones on the plate or changing the boundaries of it would change the phase of the reflected waves compared to the first waves. Would be awesome to see some videos on other old analogue effects with a bit of the physics behind it too

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks!

Great info and demos. I really like the spring reverb in my old Marshall Valvestate VS15R.

Man you been on youtube a long time, good to see your channel still going.

Great content and great video with examples! Thanks for sharing it! Keep it up!

Thanks as always!

i like the explanations of the mechanics of it all. thanks for posting.

Whenever he says sounds I melt a little 🥰

I recently purchased the keeley omni reverb, a very simple yet incredible sounding pedal. Room reverb, spring reverb, and plate reverb. Simple, elegant, and very very musical in all settings. Look into it if you're tired of fiddling with knobs and just want studio quality in a simple format

Thanks for the information Colin! I knew about spring but not about plate.

I always wondered and it was so well explained. Great graphics too.

Great video, thank you sir!

This video is very good and your playing fits the demonstration tastefully :)

So informative and well presented. Subbed.

Great video as usual, I really like this explanation videos and learn something more about gear and electronics, Thank you!

Well done explanation.

This is the best Scottish poem I have ever heard. More of this beautiful iambic pentameter please.

I can't believe that you haven't hit 100k subs. You are extremely underrated

I appreciate both for specific applications. But my typical go to is plate reverb. This was a very well put together video and I liked the graphics.

Thanks. Great video. Greetings from Buenos Aires.

Awesome video and my two favorite reverbs no doubt!

thank you for this video with lot of good information!

You have got yourself a new sub, sweet video and well presented mate

Great video, and love your shirt!!!

Perfect explanation, thank you! Transduction is so cool ahh

Thanks for this video, greetings from Argentina!

Well done...nice explanations !

Man. You my favourite of all guitar comments . You explain it perfect . Good job

Good explanations..Well done. Subbed. I've been watching you since Gitcon. Some really cool stuff. keep up the good work.

I love these videos, they're very informative and interesting! Can you do a video on the difference between Natural Valve drive-distortion, and pedal overdrive-distortion?

Really helpful video! I'd love to see you do something similar with the types of delay too

My Carvin has a dual. Goes into one spring comes out into a plate runs back then into another spring ,then out. Sounds SOOOO NICE !!!

cleared that up, thanks.

Why would anyone have any reason to dislike this video? People complain about everything these days smh

Ha ha, love it. Liking your vidios man. Thanks for taking the time to put them all together.

That's really handy, Colin. I always use a room reverb impulse on my mixes, but I have to hi-pass them quite savagely to stop them getting dark and muddy.

Great info bro

Pedantically informative! I dig it.

Agree with DeclanG comment... very interesting and informative! Ciao

great explanation, i've always used them but didn't know how they worked :D

well researched thank you

this was great! thanks so much!! i was literally thinking about plate reverb today.. metadata all over the place lol

Thank u gor teaching ur students

Informative, thx. I am plucking up the courage to try taking my git n amp to work on a Saturday and trying to compare the natural reverb of the large, reflective & 2 floors high foyer. I have a Fender Blues Jnr amp with spring reverb all ready to go :-)

Great video

Thanks!

Very educational 👏👏 And fun!

You are genious, Thanks! greetings from the mysterious land of Argentina!

Amazing video.

Mindblown, thanks :)

Woah, very enlightening. Do types of delay next!

thank you very much

Cool stuff, thanks

Interesting. Thank you

You rocks ! Thank u so much 🥰💕

Kick-ass tutorial, friend!

I just took the decision to nominate this video for OSCARS 2021. Please get ready to come on stage, shall you be called upon.

Great vid😁👍

nice one mate!

Great video:)

Great video, keep up the technical explanation vids! Really sets you apart from your competition (especially little facts and detail you provide) 👍🏼👍🏼

Perfect explanation. Just what i came for.

I have the HOF Mini that I run through the effects loop of my Micro Dark. The "plate" setting is my go to!

Spring reverb is great.

Spring Reverb was the compact low budget version of plate reverb. Hammond invented this for the speaker systems, but it became the standard reverb for live music a long time. The initial version was more a room reverb, later it changed to a sound, more like a hall. I had a transistor organ with a spring reverb, that was like the one, you demonstrated in the video.

Very good

I object at 6:30. The speed of a wave is frequency INDEPENDENT. Blue light and red light both travel at the speed of light (3*10^6 m/s in air), and high pitch sounds do not travel faster than low frequency sounds when traveling through the same medium. Velocity = Frequency * Wavelength. This is a physical principle, but it does not mean that the brightening effect of plate reverb isn't real. My guess is that the brighter reverb sound is due to lower frequencies being scrambled and dissipated in the plate, where high frequencies can bounce and interact with other vibrations in the plate without being degraded. Phase cancellation and deconstructive interference are more likely with long wavelength signals than short.