This Plug-In Lets You Make Music Inside A Cold War Spy Tower

Give your music a fun surveillance state edge.

Ever been in the process of laying down a track and thought: “Damn, this would be a lot better if it sounded like it was recorded in a Cold War spy tower?” Well, today is your lucky day. Balance Mastering has just released a free plugin called “Teufelsberg Reverb” that lets you do exactly that. It recreates the sonic conditions inside one of Berlin’s most iconic surveillance facilities with incredible fidelity.

The Teufelsberg spy tower remains an iconic landmark of the Cold War-era that saw the city split into East and West Berlin. It was built by the NSA as an intelligence gathering facility. As to be expected from a building designed to pick up and amplify hidden and distant sounds, it is one of the most remarkable reverb environments you’re likely to hear anywhere. So if you ever need to add a little more historical weight to those synth and drum lines, you know where to turn.

Listen to a demo of it in action below.

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(Via Synthtopia)