Catalinbread Talisman Ghost

Catalinbread are big on creating devices that serve as exacting models of vintage equipment, but part of reimagining old technology is stepping outside the boundaries of possibility. In the plate reverb realm, Catalinbread's Talisman already pushed the boundaries of what a real EMT 140 could sound, a giant sheet of metal suspended in a frame with springs and clamps, by adding a handful of tasteful appointments designed to create controls where once were none.

The Talisman Ghost takes a step further by simulating two EMT 140 plate units working in modulated tandem. The result is a luscious chorus-like effect, applied only to the reverb trail. This ground-up reimagining took a careful look at the diffusion characteristics of a real EMT 140, bolstered by the luxury of having a second 600-pound behemoth running in parallel, which most studios did not.

The Talisman Ghost can be powered by any center-negative 9 to 18V DC power supply.

Controls
• Tone: Post-process doubling effect that lends a sense of dynamics to a normally static reverb decay.
• Mix: Amount of affected signal, from 0% to 100%.
• Pre Delay: Time between your dry signal and the onset of reverb reflection, up to about 100ms.
• Vol: Overall output volume.
• Time: Length of the reverb tail, from a short "small room" decay to an almost infinite pad.