Reverb....

I've had it with this fucking effect,

I can't get the sound I want, it either sounds like saucepans in the bathroom or there isn't enough of it. I've tried taking some of the high freq relections away but then it seems really lacking.

Listening to relesed tunes from quality producers, and their reverb sounds natural, like it was recorded live, not an effect put on the sound. How do you achive this???

Anyone got some good pointers or know of a tutorial maybe... have had a look but nothing has helped yet.

I'm using waves R Verb and TC Native reverb

Reverb is your friend or foe... All depends on how you apply it.

If it sounds unatrual then its probably too much... fiddle with the pre delay and filter cut-offs. Of the particular reverb isn't for you.

LExicon were famous for being natural and transparent as you though there was no reverb on the sound but soon noticed it gone when removed.

all you need to do is add a small amount of reverb for effect....also try adding a slight delay too and a little chorus to fatten the sound.

Rather than add the actual reverb to the sound as an insert...just send out to a group channel with it on. stick a little hi and lo pass filtering on so it doesn't swamp the mix.

Do you send it to the channel or just wack it right in?

Sending is alot easier to control.


Edit - Si beat me too it

try and get hold of waves ir1, it really does have a stunning ,lush sound.

it eats cpu though! so its deffo better used as a send effect.

i dont know how you set up your mixer,but i always have a long reverb ,short reverb

long delay and short delay on sends,with eq on the long reverb and long delay to cut

the low end.

as for the other guy...yep, i do the same and setup various effects on the group channel as seperate send effects....sometime adding a few different effects to build a super effect.

I bought waves IR-1 a while back and now i use Altiverb 6(or hardware), Waves sounds good but you can't automate it, convolution verbs are the shit though

Altiverb is much better imo

Daz - Yeah mate, I use as a send effect

Hadn't thought of that, makes sense though

Good tips there, thanks

if your using your reverb on a bus turn the send signal amount all the way up then bring it back down until the reverb becomes part of the sound

also depends what you are using the reverb for. if you want to use it to create space in the mix try using a short reverb 0.5 to 1.5 seconds

also if your trying to push things further back in the mix,stick an eq after the reverb,taking some of the top end away

from about 8k onwards.think of being outside a club,all you can hear is low end rumble,the nearer you get the higher freqs

become clearer! i think that makes sense anyway

^^actually you always want to put your efx after the eq in the chain. Well, not always I guess, depending on what you're trying to do, but for the most part. Because you don't want to send everything to the reverb and then cut. You only want to send specific freq to the reverb or any other effect.

I used to hate the sound of reverb until I found the convolution(sp) reverbs, things like Logic's Space designer etc, which are built on algorithms of real reverbs. Makes all the difference I think.

space designer is gold!!!