Its also more "dense" than natural reverb so it can sound like more of an effect in a mix. Plate reverb is more natural sounding but still has a bit of that metallic "splash".
As a studio effect you'd heard it a lot in the first generation of Jamaican dub music.
Spring reverb has that typical artificial "sproing" associated with surf rock and other mid-century guitar music. The most common mechanical reverbs are spring reverbs, typically associated with guitar amps, where sound is played through several metal springs, and then plate reverb where you have a large piece of sheet metal in a custom enclosure that you attach a speaker to. These try to recreate a sense of space by playing audio through something such as a piece of metal that will continue to ring out and extend the sound. A basically natural sounding reverb but often hyped or exaggerated. So if you see "chamber" in regards to reverb, its trying to emulate this. Think Abbey Roads studios and all the famous albums recorded there. Or you could put in baffles or other objects to control the overall time and tone of the reverb. You could use a tile lined room (sometimes just even re-purposing a bathroom!) if you wanted a really bright sound. It would just be a room with a speaker in one end and then one or more microphones on the other. One of the first techniques for creating artificial reverb in recording studios was to build an echo chamber. Natural sounding reverbs tend to have names like "hall", "room", "club", "cathedral" and try to sound like the acoustics of real performance spaces like concert halls, etc.
So digital reverbs are typically named after the types of spaces they try to emulate or to the various methods of artificial mechanical reverb they try to recreate. I’m not 100% sure about the difference in reverb types
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