Our Reverbophone
Long Island's Only Reverbophone.
Some pieces of gear change everything. The Reverbophone is one of them and Oak Street Recording Studios is the only studio on Long Island that has one.
What is it?
It is two of the most powerful tools in recording - a stereo room microphone and a plate reverb - combined in one handcrafted instrument built in Sweden.
At its core, a large tensioned metal plate sits inside the unit. As a stereo microphone, the plate vibrates in response to the actual sound waves produced by your voice or instrument in the room. Two internal microphones mounted directly on the plate capture that complex, organic motion - the bloom, the swell, the natural decay - and feed it directly into your session. The blended dry and wet signal results in a living, breathing, phase-coherent room sound that no plugin can replicate.
As a plate reverb, a signal from your mix is fed directly into the plate via a built-in transducer, driving the plate mechanically and returning that classic, lush reverb character through the same two internal microphones.
Either way, the result is natural space and believable depth - from a tight room ambience to a soaring cathedral decay of up to six seconds. Deep lows. Smooth highs. Breathtaking realism.
What It Does to Your Music
Drums come alive with weight, bloom, and air that no room mic or plate reverb can match. Vocals gain a three-dimensional presence that sounds natural, not treated. Piano takes on an orchestral warmth - notes hang in the air with a richness that has to be heard. Guitar finds dimension and sustain that transforms a performance into a place.
Why It's Different
The Reverbophone places a resonating plate in the air around your instrument and microphones capture what actually happens. The result is phase-coherent, organic, and alive in ways that simply cannot be synthesized.
Producer Aaron Sterling (Taylor Swift, Post Malone, John Mayer) calls it "pure magic." Engineer Daniel Bergstrand says it "sounds just like room mics in the best studio you've ever heard — so real, it's unreal."
One of a Kind. Right Here.
The only Reverbophone on Long Island is at Oak Street Recording Studios in Patchogue, NY.
