Reverb

[Mysongs777@aol.]

whats up there.This is my first time on the site and i have a question.i am using a roland 1680 workstation in my home studio and i am wondering about using reverb on a finished song.Do you put slight reverb on a finished song and if so,what kind and how much?

[Slackmaster2K]

...moving to mixing/mastering forum...

[scottboyher]

Originally posted by Mysongs777@aol.
whats up there.This is my first time on the site and i have a question.i am using a roland 1680 workstation in my home studio and i am wondering about using reverb on a finished song.Do you put slight reverb on a finished song and if so,what kind and how much?

It depends on the type of music and your personal taste. I have done it before but only managed to mess everything up. It can get pretty muddy when you start adding reverb to a final mix.

[mbuster]

I could see doing it if it was some real simple acoustic/vocalist thing ,or maybe some choirtype stuff, other than that I'd say you might be better of on an instrument by instrument basis. What are you into?

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Bold:

Can't quite understand all the responses about reverb.

Most ALL vocals need reverb -- most all stars who record vocals use reverb. How much? Depends on what you're after or your voice quality or the room, etc.

Most all reverb is added when doing the mix.

However, most folks feed reverb to vocals to give the talent a sense of ambience while singing. [during actual recording]

POWER.

As far as other tracks if you overdub, well, you can choose how much reverb for your tracks by practice and listening and choosing and mixing.


Like, I find I don't need much, if any, reverb on drums; but, I use a drum box. Can't comment on live drums because I've not tried them.

CD background music is usually mixed and has reverb; thus, you don't need to add any more. However, I've remastered a few DRY tapes, done in a a professional house. The talent who gave me the tapes and heard the remake were stunned by the addition of a touch of reverb.

Enough said.

Green Hornet

[mbuster]

So is it a normal practice for you to reverb the entire mix? I was trying to say that if you have the capability, you have way more control if you reverb on a track by track basis.

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Buster:

If you were asking me about the dry tape, yeah, I did NOT have control of all of the tracks; but I did manage to manipulate some EQ and, YES, the reverb I added did go to the entire tape; however, it was so dry that the gal who did the concert and paid for the mastering and production was stunned by how a small amount of reverb I added made her sound "on stage."

And, they were on stage and that was the reverb room I used on my 2816 during the process.

As you said, control of ALL of the tracks is best. But, I like to experiment. I've done this for three friends who gave me professionally mastered cassettes. They all liked the added reverb.

Maybe I just got lucky?

Green Hornet

[mbuster]

I think I'm hijacking a thread here, but I heard a new (to me) reverb trick I'm wondering if anyone else around here has tried. You just mic the room while playing the mix, then mix a teeny bit of the "room" track back in. I read this can give a little more cohesion to a mix where maybe you've got synths or samples alongside "real" instruments. If nothing else, I'll find out what my room sounds like.

[Blue Bear Sound]

If it works for you, and sounds good... then do it!

But I can tell you it's not common or normal practice... OTOH, what's "normal"??

[chessrock]

I think it's a pretty common method to use on some individual tracks, but I haven't heard of it used very often on a final mix.

[Blue Bear Sound]

Yes... I did mean "on the whole mix"....!