Platinum and Valhalla DSP Plate - slight boominess

I love Valhalla Plate and the other reverbs he has released. 
 
The reason for the 100% mix is because they are often inserted in to buses and then sends added to any tracks that you want to pass through the reverb. I find it really easy to change the controls on the plugin and pull the mix down. There are also EQ controls on the plugin so you can fine tune.

Put it on a bus and place a send on the track you want to 'verb. Then you can EQ the reverb separately from the track.
 
Dan

I know ValhallaPlate has EQ built in, but is it really the same thing to EQ the signal going in as it is to EQ the signal going out? I had presumed they were a fundamentally different concept, although to be fair I've never sat down and A/B'd the two. My default template has reverb buses already set up with a HPF at 500Hz and a LPF at 10KHz, before the reverb, that's just how I've always done it, although I will sometimes add an EQ after the verb to take out some frequencies with a bell curve (300-500Hz is where I find most frequency masking/muddiness occurs so I usually take out something around there).

You're right, sharke: which end you put the EQ on does make a difference. One way changes the spectrum of what the reverb sees and the other changes the spectrum of what the reverb produces.
 
When you filter its input, you're limiting which frequencies get emphasized/blurred while not affecting how the reverb works. HPF at the output simulates what happens in an acoustical space, where high frequencies tend to be attenuated through absorption, by both air and the materials the sound is bouncing off of. HPF at the input is more useful for de-emphasizing plosives and transients. You can usually make more drastic changes on the input side and still be transparent.
 
So whether you put your EQ at the front, at the back, or both depends on what you're trying to accomplish. VPlate's filters, as with all reverbs I'm familiar with, are on the back end. So yeh, the OP might need to also insert an EQ in front of it - if the problem is that the source material is boomy. But given that his complaint is about the sound of the reverb itself, the internal filters should do the job.

No he means HPF. A high pass filter, meaning the low frequencies (plosives etc) are cut.

EDIT: Although the first time he mentions HPF I do think he means LPF.