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Greg_L
Banned
I use my kcearlverb for everything.
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
My Gregoisverb seems to work really nice lately. Used to create havoc in the past. Must be the season. JK... 
kcearl
I see deaf people
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Now that is a relaxing verb........
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Where is the glass of red wine?
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Greg_L
Banned
I don't know who that is, but he looks british.
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Where is the tea then?
kcearl
I see deaf people
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Greg_L
Banned
its George fucking Washington!
Wasn't he that black dude that owned a chain of dry cleaners in Manhattan?
kcearl
I see deaf people
reported....
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Greg_L
Banned
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
Movin on up to a deluxe reverb!
kcearl
I see deaf people
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Greg_L
Banned
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
The devil made me do it - Flip Wilson.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Shut up you big dummie - Fred Sanford.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Nope.
I'm curious about this. If you can't notice it, how does one know it's there ?
I used to be a right reverb prostitute. Now I'm tasteful, refined, almost invisible and very polite. A reformed reverber, no less.
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Greg_L
Banned
You ever heard a mix that's clean and everything has it's own space without a stupid, dated sounding reverb tail behind anything? That's tasteful reverb.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Not saying that there haven't been any good songs that had extra syrup on them....
...but the general view has been that if you can *obviously* hear the reverb, there's probably too much, so just back it off a few clicks.
When the reverb sorta melts away into the tracks, that's when it's best, IMO. It's still there, and it is making a difference (try muting it and un-muting it)...that's when it's doing its job without getting in the way, but again, there can be a certain song or track that just calls for that cavernous, long-tail reverb. What really makes reverb NOT work is when it's on every track in huge quantities..IMO.
If it's on one or two, but the other elements are dry or varying degrees...you get the contrast, and the tracks with reverb still stand out, and whole song sounds more articulate.
One of my favorite go-to digital reverbs is a Plate sim. I have a preset on one of my OTB verbs that I dialed in to taste, and made it available as two user presets, one with a short and the other a longer setting....the short gets used the most for my vocal tracks.
Then on my two other OTB reverb boxes I have a small Hall setting, one box is set short the other long, and I also dialed those back from the original preset to where they were similar in flavor to my Plate verb...but with a slightly different vibe. I use those mostly on guitars and occasionally some other things if called for.
These days I find myself pulling the reverb back much more than I use to in years past, and I've gotten into the whole dry/delay/reverb combination of tracks when mixing by only using one of those FX on a given track so I can get the contrast between them. Most are dry, a couple with delays and a couple with reverb...of course, each song is different.
...but the general view has been that if you can *obviously* hear the reverb, there's probably too much, so just back it off a few clicks.
When the reverb sorta melts away into the tracks, that's when it's best, IMO. It's still there, and it is making a difference (try muting it and un-muting it)...that's when it's doing its job without getting in the way, but again, there can be a certain song or track that just calls for that cavernous, long-tail reverb. What really makes reverb NOT work is when it's on every track in huge quantities..IMO.
If it's on one or two, but the other elements are dry or varying degrees...you get the contrast, and the tracks with reverb still stand out, and whole song sounds more articulate.
One of my favorite go-to digital reverbs is a Plate sim. I have a preset on one of my OTB verbs that I dialed in to taste, and made it available as two user presets, one with a short and the other a longer setting....the short gets used the most for my vocal tracks.
Then on my two other OTB reverb boxes I have a small Hall setting, one box is set short the other long, and I also dialed those back from the original preset to where they were similar in flavor to my Plate verb...but with a slightly different vibe. I use those mostly on guitars and occasionally some other things if called for.
These days I find myself pulling the reverb back much more than I use to in years past, and I've gotten into the whole dry/delay/reverb combination of tracks when mixing by only using one of those FX on a given track so I can get the contrast between them. Most are dry, a couple with delays and a couple with reverb...of course, each song is different.
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
I find myself using much less reverb after buying 'Transient Monster'. Snares just got buried when using verb, trying to get that natural room sound.