Manufacturer's description
Mesa is a high-fidelity reverb module from 4ms and Valley Audio built around the legendary Dattorro plate reverb algorithm (the same engine powering Valley's beloved VCV Rack module, Plateau). Mesa brings the Plateau sound into hardware with no compromises on quality. Running at 96 kHz with 64-bit double-precision processing, Mesa is among the finest-sounding reverbs available at any price point.
Whether you're breathing life into a dry, static patch or sculpting vast sonic landscapes, Mesa transforms sound with the lush, spacious multi-dimensional character that only a true plate reverb algorithm can deliver.
Much more than just a reverb, the four modulation LFOs, pre-delay buffer, dual filters, and vast reverb network open the door to subtle chorusing, plucked strings, pitched echoes, swirling textures, and deep ventures into genuinely alien sonic territory. Mesa is equally at home as a pristine studio reverb and a tool for deep sound design.
Features
- Stereo Inputs and Outputs
- Freeze: holds the reverberations forever. Button can be set to momentary or toggle/latch
- Clear: clears the buffer, canceling all existing reverb and letting new echoes build up. Useful for gated reverbs or purging chaos
- Size: Sets the overall delay time and apparent size of the reverb. Ranges from very short to extremely long.
- Tuned Size button: Shortens the delay times and tunes the all-pass filters to an exponential response so that the reverb can be played with 1V/oct sources
- Diffusion: Controls how diffused and smeared the reverb is. No diffusion results in audible echoes like in a delay effect
- Diffuse Input: Engages the input diffusion stage that pre-diffuses and smears the signal before reverberation. Bypassing the stage sharpens the input signal.
- Decay: Sets the speed at which the signal decays over time. The maximum setting results in a long reverb that evolves over time into a very slowly dying cloud of sound.
- Pre-Delay: Determines the delay for when the original signal is fed into the reverberator. Ranges from 0 to 500ms.
- Input Filter: Filters the incoming signal from low-pass to flat to high-pass
- Reverb Filter: Filters the reverberations from low-pass to flat to high-pass
- Dry/Wet: Control the mix of the original and reverberant signals. Reverb clipping light flashes when clipping at this stage.
- Input Level: Boost/cut the input from -∞ to +3 dB. Input clipping light flashes red when clipping at this stage.
- Mod Depth: Amount of modulation to apply to the left and right delay sections via the four modulation LFOs
- Mod Rate: Speed of the modulation. Each of the four LFO's speed is offset from the others
- Mod Shape: Shape of the modulation LFOs. From rising sawtooth, to triangle, to falling ramp.
Audio
- Maximum amplitude: +/-9.6V
CV Inputs
- Voltage range -5V to +5V
DSP
- 96kHz sample rate, 24-bit codec with 64-bit double-precision floating point internal processing
- 1GHz Cortex-A7 processor
How much is my shipping?
Shipping is automatically calculated before you submit your payment information. Simply add items to your cart and proceed to the checkout page, where you'll be offered shipping options and their prices. In the UK, 'next working day' shipping is free if the order value is over £150, and £5 otherwise. We can also ship on a 'next working day before 12pm' service, which costs £6 for orders over £150 and £7.50 for orders under £150.
Shipping to mainland EU typically costs between £7 and £20, depending on the shipping method and the size and weight of the order.
Do you ship to my country?
Almost certainly - the site will give you an estimate of shipping costs if you add an item to the cart and then enter your country and postcode. If you have specific requirements (such as if you prefer UPS over FedEx, for example) then let us know in advance and we'll try to work something out for you.
Shipping methods
We use a combination of DPD, Royal Mail and Parcelforce for the UK, and for international orders it's either DHL, FedEx, UPS, Royal Mail or Parcelforce depending on where you are in the world. If you have a particular preference then try to let us know BEFORE you order so we can look into it for you. Please note that there may occasionally be additional shipping charges if you live in a remote area, depending on what surcharges are applied by the shipper. We'll get in touch to discuss this with you in such cases.
Dispatch times
For UK orders, we aim to dispatch the same working day if we get the order before 16:00. If you have a really urgent situation then of course drop us an email before ordering and we'll always do our absolute best to accommodate you.
For international orders, we normally dispatch the same day if we get the order before 13:00 but again, occasionally it might be the next day before we can send it out, and sometimes the couriers may come to collect a little earlier than scheduled which would also push an order into the next day.
Saturday/Sunday shipping
If you're in the UK and you order before 16:00 on a Friday then we can send something for a Saturday or Sunday delivery with DPD. This is FREE for order values over £350, £5 for order values between £75 and £250, and £7 for order values under £75. (NB: this applies to UK mainland addresses only). Please note that any orders placed after 16:00 on a Friday will ship on the Monday.
International shipping times
Since April 2020, the couriers we use have suspended guarantees for shipping times, so even though we're paying them for priority services - 24-48 hours for most of the world - in practice it's often an extra day on top and sometimes it can be longer. There is absolutely nothing we can do about this, unfortunately. If you are outside the UK and it's a life-or-death situation where you absolutely MUST have that passive mult for the next day then... it may be better to find a local supplier.
Pre-orders
If a product is listed as a pre-order, it means we've ordered it from the supplier but it's not physically in stock yet. The product listing will include an estimated shipping date based on the best information we have from the supplier, but do bear in mind this is subject to change and is not a guaranteed date.
If you place an order containing a mixture of in-stock and pre-order items, we'll normally hold off on shipping anything until the pre-order item(s) have arrived, rather than splitting it into multiple shipments. If you need the in-stock items sooner, we'd recommend placing separate orders. As always, please get in touch if you have questions.
Product Overview
Manufacturer's description
Mesa is a high-fidelity reverb module from 4ms and Valley Audio built around the legendary Dattorro plate reverb algorithm (the same engine powering Valley's beloved VCV Rack module, Plateau). Mesa brings the Plateau sound into hardware with no compromises on quality. Running at 96 kHz with 64-bit double-precision processing, Mesa is among the finest-sounding reverbs available at any price point.
Whether you're breathing life into a dry, static patch or sculpting vast sonic landscapes, Mesa transforms sound with the lush, spacious multi-dimensional character that only a true plate reverb algorithm can deliver.
Much more than just a reverb, the four modulation LFOs, pre-delay buffer, dual filters, and vast reverb network open the door to subtle chorusing, plucked strings, pitched echoes, swirling textures, and deep ventures into genuinely alien sonic territory. Mesa is equally at home as a pristine studio reverb and a tool for deep sound design.
Features
- Stereo Inputs and Outputs
- Freeze: holds the reverberations forever. Button can be set to momentary or toggle/latch
- Clear: clears the buffer, canceling all existing reverb and letting new echoes build up. Useful for gated reverbs or purging chaos
- Size: Sets the overall delay time and apparent size of the reverb. Ranges from very short to extremely long.
- Tuned Size button: Shortens the delay times and tunes the all-pass filters to an exponential response so that the reverb can be played with 1V/oct sources
- Diffusion: Controls how diffused and smeared the reverb is. No diffusion results in audible echoes like in a delay effect
- Diffuse Input: Engages the input diffusion stage that pre-diffuses and smears the signal before reverberation. Bypassing the stage sharpens the input signal.
- Decay: Sets the speed at which the signal decays over time. The maximum setting results in a long reverb that evolves over time into a very slowly dying cloud of sound.
- Pre-Delay: Determines the delay for when the original signal is fed into the reverberator. Ranges from 0 to 500ms.
- Input Filter: Filters the incoming signal from low-pass to flat to high-pass
- Reverb Filter: Filters the reverberations from low-pass to flat to high-pass
- Dry/Wet: Control the mix of the original and reverberant signals. Reverb clipping light flashes when clipping at this stage.
- Input Level: Boost/cut the input from -∞ to +3 dB. Input clipping light flashes red when clipping at this stage.
- Mod Depth: Amount of modulation to apply to the left and right delay sections via the four modulation LFOs
- Mod Rate: Speed of the modulation. Each of the four LFO's speed is offset from the others
- Mod Shape: Shape of the modulation LFOs. From rising sawtooth, to triangle, to falling ramp.
Audio
- Maximum amplitude: +/-9.6V
CV Inputs
- Voltage range -5V to +5V
DSP
- 96kHz sample rate, 24-bit codec with 64-bit double-precision floating point internal processing
- 1GHz Cortex-A7 processor
Technical Specs
Shipping Details
How much is my shipping?
Shipping is automatically calculated before you submit your payment information. Simply add items to your cart and proceed to the checkout page, where you'll be offered shipping options and their prices. In the UK, 'next working day' shipping is free if the order value is over £150, and £5 otherwise. We can also ship on a 'next working day before 12pm' service, which costs £6 for orders over £150 and £7.50 for orders under £150.
Shipping to mainland EU typically costs between £7 and £20, depending on the shipping method and the size and weight of the order.
Do you ship to my country?
Almost certainly - the site will give you an estimate of shipping costs if you add an item to the cart and then enter your country and postcode. If you have specific requirements (such as if you prefer UPS over FedEx, for example) then let us know in advance and we'll try to work something out for you.
Shipping methods
We use a combination of DPD, Royal Mail and Parcelforce for the UK, and for international orders it's either DHL, FedEx, UPS, Royal Mail or Parcelforce depending on where you are in the world. If you have a particular preference then try to let us know BEFORE you order so we can look into it for you. Please note that there may occasionally be additional shipping charges if you live in a remote area, depending on what surcharges are applied by the shipper. We'll get in touch to discuss this with you in such cases.
Dispatch times
For UK orders, we aim to dispatch the same working day if we get the order before 16:00. If you have a really urgent situation then of course drop us an email before ordering and we'll always do our absolute best to accommodate you.
For international orders, we normally dispatch the same day if we get the order before 13:00 but again, occasionally it might be the next day before we can send it out, and sometimes the couriers may come to collect a little earlier than scheduled which would also push an order into the next day.
Saturday/Sunday shipping
If you're in the UK and you order before 16:00 on a Friday then we can send something for a Saturday or Sunday delivery with DPD. This is FREE for order values over £350, £5 for order values between £75 and £250, and £7 for order values under £75. (NB: this applies to UK mainland addresses only). Please note that any orders placed after 16:00 on a Friday will ship on the Monday.
International shipping times
Since April 2020, the couriers we use have suspended guarantees for shipping times, so even though we're paying them for priority services - 24-48 hours for most of the world - in practice it's often an extra day on top and sometimes it can be longer. There is absolutely nothing we can do about this, unfortunately. If you are outside the UK and it's a life-or-death situation where you absolutely MUST have that passive mult for the next day then... it may be better to find a local supplier.
Pre-orders
If a product is listed as a pre-order, it means we've ordered it from the supplier but it's not physically in stock yet. The product listing will include an estimated shipping date based on the best information we have from the supplier, but do bear in mind this is subject to change and is not a guaranteed date.
If you place an order containing a mixture of in-stock and pre-order items, we'll normally hold off on shipping anything until the pre-order item(s) have arrived, rather than splitting it into multiple shipments. If you need the in-stock items sooner, we'd recommend placing separate orders. As always, please get in touch if you have questions.
