Reverb collection
Townhouse RMX Suite
The RMX16 from Townhouse Studios as one reverb collection: NonLin, Hall, Plate, Room, and more modeled on captures of the actual unit. Coming soon.
- Inhalt × Wild Jag
- Coming soon
Availability
Coming soon
About Townhouse RMX Suite
In the early '80s, the RMX16 was the sound of all the big records. The unit behind this collection lived at Townhouse Studios in London, the studio Richard Branson built for Virgin Records, and this exact unit was used on records by Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Phil Collins and Duran Duran. The famous NonLin program exists because of Townhouse: AMS designed it to recreate the gated drum sound engineers found there on Phil Collins' “In the Air Tonight.”
Matia Simovich (Inhalt) captured that same unit, program by program.
Townhouse RMX Suite turns those captures into reverbs you play, not files you manage. The algorithmic reverbs are modeled on captures of the real unit, so Time, Low and High move smoothly between the captured settings while keeping each program's character. An additional convolution reverb runs the real impulse responses: choose a program, a decay time and an EQ setting, like punching the big square buttons on the front panel. All of this comes in one package.
What's in the package
Algorithmic reverbs
Seven programs modeled on the captures: Ambience, Hall B, Hall C, NonLin, Plate A, Reverse and Room A. Continuous Time, Low and High, with the hardware's own decay behavior measured from almost 200 actual captures of the real unit.
Convolution reverb
All 192 Townhouse impulse responses bundled in their own high quality convolution reverb plugin. Includes captures from seven programs: Ambience, Chorus, Hall B, Hall C1, NonLin, Plate and Room A1. Each decay time comes at several Low and High settings, reflecting how the hardware was set. The convolution verb was built to accurately reflect the IR's, but with enough tweakability for you to push it further.
Features
- The AMS RMX16 that Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush and Phil Collins records ran through at Townhouse Studios, in your DAW.
- Algorithmic Ambience, Hall B, Hall C, NonLin, Plate A, Reverse and Room A, modeled on almost 200 captures of the real unit.
- Low and High work like the hardware's: they reshape the decay, not just the tone.
- NonLin, the gated reverb built to recreate the classic 80's Townhouse drum sound.
- 192 real impulse responses of the Townhouse unit, organized by program, decay time and EQ, with no files to browse.
- Available for AU/VST3/AAX/Standalone, on macOS 11+ running Apple Silicon.
What producers say about the captures
Before it was a plugin, the Townhouse RMX library was a set of impulse responses. A few producers who know the real box had this to say about it:
“Transport yourself to that glorious era of patching the AMS up on the SSL. This impulse library is as close to the real thing you can get.”
Rhys FulberProducer: Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium “These impulse responses of the AMS are the sound of my DNA!”
John FryerProducer and engineer: Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Cocteau Twins “This library not only captures the classic sound of a legendary studio device, but is also a fantastic sound design tool for transforming different sounds, whether it's drum machine samples or any other acoustic or electronic source.”
Xavier ParadisSongwriter and producer: Automelodi, Wierd Records, Holodeck Records
Inhalt
Matia Simovich (Inhalt, Infinite Power Studios) is a Los Angeles-based producer and songwriter. His releases have appeared on labels including Dark Entries, Mechatronica and Cleopatra Records. As a producer, he's worked with Nitzer Ebb, Boy Harsher, The Soft Moon, KMFDM, and many others.
Formats and requirements
Formats: AU, VST3, AAX, Standalone.
- macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
- Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). Intel Macs are not supported
- A host that supports AU, VST3 or AAX (or use the standalone app)
- PC formats coming soon!
AMS and RMX16 are trademarks of their respective owners. They are named only to describe the hardware Townhouse RMX Suite captures and models, and their use does not imply endorsement or affiliation.