KAUSTHUB RAVI & SIVANESH NATARAJAN
NEW YEAR,
Liquidsonics Seventh Heaven
Plug-in
Simulation Simplified
The Bricasti M7 is held by many as the holy grail of reverbs. As
someone who has one at the studio, I can vouch for this with
absolute intent. It’s ability to stay clean and give the effect of
absolutely being one with the signal never fails to impress.
There have been many attempts to emulate this legendary box
and we’ve been disappointed most of the time. The Seventh
Heaven by Liquidsonics certainly changes that. We were first
introduced to Liquidsonics through the Slate Bundle which
had the Lustrous Plates which we were quite happy with.
It comes in two versions - Professional and ‘standard’. We
were quite happy with the limited controls of the standard
as it allowed us to get to a place quicker. But the professional
version offers a lot more versatility very similar to the real
M7. The $69 regular Seventh Heaven offers 30 of “the best”
preset from the M7 v1, with a hard drive footprint of just
under 500MB. The controls are simple and have Mix and Gain
along with the Preset knob notches the 30 presets within their
six categories, Decay time. There's a little extra under with
the ‘advanced panel’ which offers Early/Late balance and
VLF level controls along with high cut and low cut filters.
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The professional comes with a whole lot more. 10GB of IR
samples, all of the controls and parameters that the M7 v1 and
v2 have and every single preset included. It includes a five-
band Master EQ with Low and High cut filters, switchable High
and Low shelving/ parametric peak filters, and a parametric
Mid band. It's also a whole lot more expensive - 300$.
The plugin is built on something called Fusion IR which in
their own words, is a unique modulated convolution-based
capture and reproduction technology developed specifically
around the needs of M7. Whatever the tech is, it seems to have
worked. The seventh heaven sounds fantastic! It's impossible
to have it sound bad. You can just run an instance on a set of
busses with a very low mix value and it just glues the entire
mix together, very much like the real deal. It's incredibly
responsive and smooth. The UI is wonderfully simple and good
looking while keeping the nostalgia of the M7 in the whole
look and feel of it with the red on black. The M7, while being
insane, is sometimes quite hard to dial in with its myriad of
controls and parameters. The standard version of the Seventh
Heaven allows you to get the closest ever to the M7 without
all the fuss. While the professional version is an absolute
beast and is worth every bit of what you are paying for it, the
standard version is a more fun-sized and easy user experience.
In most cases honestly, it seems more than adequate.