Bringing the Plateau sound into hardware with no compromises on quality, the 4ms Mesa is a high-fidelity reverb module that was deveoloped with Valley Audio and includes the legendary Dattorro plate reverb algorithm (the same engine powering Valley's beloved VCV Rack module, Plateau). Mesa runs at 96 kHz with 64-bit double-precision processing and is among the finest-sounding reverbs available at any price point.
Breathe life into a dry, static patch or sculpting vast sonic landscapes with Mesa. The unit transforms sound with the lush, spacious multidimensional character that only a true plate reverb algorithm can deliver. The four modulation LFOs, pre-delay buffer, dual filters, and vast reverb network open the door to subtle chorusing, plucked strings, pitched echoes, swirling textures, and deep ventures into genuinely alien sonic territory. Mesa is equally at home as a pristine studio reverb and a tool for deep sound design. The Mesa ships with a ribbon power cable and mounting screws.
- Stereo Inputs and Outputs
- Freeze: holds the reverberations forever. Button can be set to momentary or toggle/latch
- Clear: clears the buffer, canceling all existing reverb and letting new echoes build up. Useful for gated reverbs or purging chaos
- Size: Sets the overall delay time and apparent size of the reverb. Ranges from very short to extremely long
- Tuned Size button: Shortens the delay times and tunes the all-pass filters to an exponential response so that the reverb can be played with 1V/oct sources
- Diffusion: Controls how diffused and smeared the reverb is. No diffusion results in audible echoes like in a delay effect
- Diffuse Input: Engages the input diffusion stage that pre-diffuses and smears the signal before reverberation. Bypassing the stage sharpens the input signal
- Decay: Sets the speed at which the signal decays over time. The maximum setting results in a long reverb that evolves over time into a very slowly dying cloud of sound
- Pre-Delay: Determines the delay for when the original signal is fed into the reverberator. Ranges from 0 to 500ms.
- Input Filter: Filters the incoming signal from low-pass to flat to high-pass
- Reverb Filter: Filters the reverberations from low-pass to flat to high-pass
- Dry/Wet: Control the mix of the original and reverberant signals. Reverb clipping light flashes when clipping at this stage
- Input Level: Boost/cut the input from -∞ to +3 dB. Input clipping light flashes red when clipping at this stage
- Mod Depth: Amount of modulation to apply to the left and right delay sections via the four modulation LFOs
- Mod Rate: Speed of the modulation. Each of the four LFO's speed is offset from the others
- Mod Shape: Shape of the modulation LFOs. From rising sawtooth, to triangle, to falling ramp
- 20 HP Eurorack format module
- Maximum Depth: 0.98" (25mm)
- Includes power ribbon cable with Eurorack power headers