barefoot
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I'm composing and mixing electronic music in Acid. It seems whether I add a little 'blending' reverb to all the tracks or to the final mix down the results are pretty much the same. It's as if the reverb assigned to each track is not really running separately, but running as a single unit with multiple inputs.
To get around this I tried mixing groups of tracks with reverb added down into say eight individual 24 bit tracks - sort of like having a separate reverb unit on each of eight buses. Then I mix those eight tracks down. The result is noticeably different. The reverb is more lush, the mix sounds more open, plus I still get the cohesiveness I'm looking for.
This is all true for Vegas too, so I don't think it's peculiar to Acid. But, it could be a Sonic Foundry thing.
Do plugins generally work the way I've described? Is this multi reverb mixdown method a common technique?
barefoot
To get around this I tried mixing groups of tracks with reverb added down into say eight individual 24 bit tracks - sort of like having a separate reverb unit on each of eight buses. Then I mix those eight tracks down. The result is noticeably different. The reverb is more lush, the mix sounds more open, plus I still get the cohesiveness I'm looking for.
This is all true for Vegas too, so I don't think it's peculiar to Acid. But, it could be a Sonic Foundry thing.
Do plugins generally work the way I've described? Is this multi reverb mixdown method a common technique?
barefoot