ADverb2 is our love letter to the golden age of studio reverb: a handful of controls, a big friendly panel, and a sound that flatters everything you run through it. It began life as a faithful take on the lush early-80s digital plate, and version 2.3 grows it from one reverb into three. Plate is the original ADverb algorithm, untouched. Ambience is a slick modern air that blooms into a weightless wash at long settings. Hall is a large concert space, exceptionally smooth and very wide.
All three algorithms share the same simple control set: Pre-Delay, Reverb Time, Size, low and high Contour, Rolloff, and Diffusion, plus input level and output mix. The Input Mute and Reverb Stop kill switches let you perform with the reverb, choking the send or the tail on the beat. A hundred factory presets, a real preset browser with favorites, and a five-minute learning curve.
Same as the rest of our catalog: Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS. No DRM, no subscriptions, no dongles, perpetual license.
Platforms & Downloads
Fully functional demo. 20-minute session timer, save disabled.
Documentation
ADverb2 Owner's Manual
PDF · 340 KB · English
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The obvious move is drums: Plate with a short time and the low Contour up is the classic snare treatment, and it works exactly the way you remember. Vocals like Plate too, with a little Pre-Delay to keep the consonants clear. Ambience is the one we reach for most: a short setting adds air and dimension around an acoustic source without an audible tail, and a long one turns a synth pad into weather. Hall does strings, brass, and anything that needs to sound expensive. And the kill switches are a performance instrument on their own: choke the input on the downbeat and let the tail ring, or cut the tail dead for a dry drop.
Features
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Three reverb algorithms - Plate is the original ADverb engine, a classic digital plate with fast build-up and a silky decay, and it is bit-for-bit the reverb you already know. Ambience is a modern diffusion-first design with time-varying early energy, so it never sounds static. Hall is an eight-line design with slow internal motion, very smooth and very wide. One selector switches between them.
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Reverb Time - Decay from 0.1 to 9.9 seconds on all three algorithms. Ambience and Hall stay stable and musical even parked at the top.
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Pre-Delay - Up to 200 ms of gap between the dry signal and the reverb onset.
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Size - Scales the internal geometry of whichever algorithm is active, from closet to cathedral.
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Contour switches - Three-position low and high shelf switches shape the tail's tone without touching your channel EQ.
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Rolloff and Diffusion - Three-position switches for high-frequency damping and echo density. Low diffusion for vintage grain, high for modern smoothness.
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Input Mute and Reverb Stop - Performance kill switches. Input Mute chokes the feed while the tail rings out; Reverb Stop cuts the tail while the dry signal passes.
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Mix Lock - Pins the output mix while you audition presets, ideal when ADverb2 lives on a send.
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Preset browser - Our system-wide browser with folders and favorites, plus preset stepping arrows right on the main panel. Presets also appear in your host's own preset menu.
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One hundred factory presets - From tight drum plates to nine-second ambient washes, roughly a third per algorithm.
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Resizable interface - Vector UI scales cleanly at any size or display density.
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Cross-platform presets - XML preset files move between every desktop format and iOS.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between the Plate, Ambience, and Hall algorithms?
Plate is the original ADverb2 reverb, modeled on the character of early-80s digital plates: fast build-up, silky decay, unmistakably vintage. Ambience is a modern design that puts a dense cloud of early energy in front of a compact tail, so short settings read as air around the source rather than an effect. Hall is a large, slow, very wide concert space. Same controls on all three; the selector is the only new thing you have to learn.
What is new in version 2.3?
The Ambience and Hall algorithms, the algorithm selector, our system-wide preset browser with folders and favorites, preset stepping and a favorite star on the main panel, Mix Lock, a factory library expanded to one hundred presets, and presets in your host's own preset menu. Free update for existing owners, as always.
Will my old ADverb2 presets and sessions still load?
Yes. Sessions and presets saved with earlier versions load exactly as before, on the Plate algorithm, which is unchanged. Your mixes will not move.
Does ADverb2 work on Linux?
Yes. CLAP, VST3, and LV2 for Ubuntu 20 or newer. Every plugin we make ships with a Linux build, same day as Mac and Windows.
What plugin formats does ADverb2 support?
Windows 10 or newer: CLAP, VST3, AAX. macOS 10.13 or newer (Intel or Apple Silicon): CLAP, VST3, AAX, AudioUnit. Ubuntu 20 or newer: CLAP, VST3, LV2. iOS 16 or newer: AUv3, sold separately on the App Store. All desktop builds are 64-bit.
How does ADverb2 compare to Audio Damage Eos 2?
Eos 2 is our deep modern algorithmic reverb, with more algorithms and more parameters to shape them. ADverb2 is the vintage-character one: fewer controls, a strong opinion, and a sound that sits in a mix the way old hardware did. If you want to design a space, Eos 2. If you want to turn one knob and have it sound like a record, ADverb2. Plenty of people keep both on the shelf.
Does ADverb2 use copy protection, require a subscription, or need iLok?
No. Audio Damage does not use copy protection of any kind, and never will. Install it on every machine you own. Perpetual license, no subscription, no iLok, no online activation. You buy it, it's yours.
