Slate Digital Verbsuite Classics £199 (full bundle)

Designed in conjunction with LiquidSonics, and using their Fusion IR technology, Verbsuite Classics offers eight legendary digital reverbs (plus the Lexicon 224 and 224 XL if you buy the expansion pack.) The plugin itself is elegantly laid out with a simple but highly effective set of controls. To the left the EQ section is a simple fixed three-band giving plenty of tonal variety. Centrally, you find controls for Decay, Pre Delay, Width, Chorus and Attack, and while these all do exactly what you’d expect, it’s the last two that command special attention. Thanks to that Fusion IR system, the modulation characteristics of these hardware units have also been modelled, and with some, like the FG-480, that essential character it gives sounds like the original hardware unit is here in all its glory. The attack control adds an extra dimension to all the reverbs, allowing you to just take the explosive edge off the most transient of sources through to some wild backwards-ish effects. Compared to the original ten units, this plug sounds so damn close that it really is an essential buy.