Good reverb VSTs?

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Howdy

I have got a few of these recently (only a relatively recent DAW user...) and I'm struggling with them... I'm sort of used to having a bunch of controls that I can manipulate, instead of a bunch of presets and hard to manouevre knobs in the GUI.

What are people's chosen reverb plug-ins and why?

Free is good, but no problems in paying for quality.

Cheers
 
I tell ya Dave, if you've got the big fancy computer, you should be using UAD plugs. I use their EMT140 almost exclusively anymore.
 
Chili said:
I tell ya Dave, if you've got the big fancy computer, you should be using UAD plugs. I use their EMT140 almost exclusively anymore.
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Now that's a good plugin.


Don't ya need to buy the card as well? I would hate to buy it just to get one plugin.
 
CrowsofFritz said:
Now that's a good plugin.


Don't ya need to buy the card as well? I would hate to buy it just to get one plugin.
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Yeah, you need a card. It can be expensive to enter their game, but I think it's worth it. I have been sloooowly building my library over the years. When you get a card, you get some free plugs that sound very nice.

I will be putting two UAD-1 cards up on eBay in the next few weeks. UAD-1's are a legacy product, but they still run the same plugs.
 
I use the Sonitus plugins in Sonar and they sound pretty good. They're pretty easy to use. I think the end result is pretty much going to come down to personal taste anyway so go with what you can use most efficiently. :)
 
Valhalla Room. Try some other ones first, just so you realize how stunning it is.

UAD Plate 140 was my go-to reverb, until this came along.

And...it's only $50. A steal for something this good.

ValhallaRoom: $50 – ValhallaDSP
 
OK Mr Chili dude... you've peeled open the worm can... I have questions!:)

If my PC has the following expansion slots (I'm guessing, I'm not there at the moment, and I'm reading this from what I think is the spec for the beast from the HP site):

1 low-profile PCI
1 low-profile PCIe x1
2 low-profile PCIe x16

by my reading of the UAD page that has the specs, these things are PCIe cards, so the PCI is no good, and it limits me to the SOLO, which is the only one which is low profile... but what does "short PCIe card" mean?

Now I know that x16 is the longest and x1 is the shortest, but there are other variants I thought.. at least there's a x4 according to Wikipedia. Is UAD's "short" = x1, do you think? In which case it would fit in... I'm afraid the guts of computers, at a detailed level, are totally not my area of expertise! :wtf:

Next question... it says that the SOLO would run 6 "instances" of the EMT 140 - what's an "instance"? ie. I could put reverb onto 6 individual tracks max, I'm guessing. Howsabout if I set up a reverb bus though and sent all my tracks that needed reverb to it.... is that just one instance? Or would I be limited to 6 tracks that way too? :confused:

Cheers mate...
 
Oh, that is too bad about the low profile. I'm kind of surprised to see that being such a heavy hitter of a computer. The short card means the physical connector going into the slot is short in length. You can put a short card into a long slot, but obviously not the other way around. So, yes, a X1 can fit into a X4, x8 or x16.

Yes, the 6 instances means you can run the EMT 6 times with different settings just as if you had 6 physical units. I only ever run one and Send to it. I think you use Reaper, I'm not familiar with it, but sounds like the same thing, a separate buss with all desired tracks Sending to that one bus and thusly, one instance. Saves the dsp resources for other plugs; like the 1176SE (which is free). Reverbs use a lot of processing power. For my stuff, I only need one instance and I think you would be similar.

If you are indeed limited to the solo, you can buy multiple cards and the driver will figure out how to assign processing requirements to all the cards.

As an FYI, I bought the Apollo interface which has a UAD-2 Duo inside and sends everything over the firewire port. They also have a satellite box which can house UAD cards and connects via firewire. You might look at that option. The one caveat is they are extremely picky about which firewire card you use.
 
I use ReaVerb (which is bundled with Reaper) with Bricasti impulses, which are available for free from here: -

Samplicity's Bricasti M7 Impulse Response Library v1.1 - Samplicity

Then, I followed a tutorial on how to setup a four channel reverb into two channel output using two instances of ReaVerb and a mixer plugin. I have this saved as an FX chain and load it up on a track as a send bus. Using this, you just change the L & R impulse loaded into the L & R ReaVerb instance, respectively, to find the reverb sound you're after. So, for example, I load this chain onto one track and load a plate reverb L & R impulse for vocals; and I load the same chain into another track and load a room reverb L & R impulse for instruments. Simples!

This thread here talks about the true stereo reverb (as it's called). Not sure if this is what I followed to achieve it: -

True Stereo Reverb using ReaVerb (Revisited).. - Cockos Confederated Forums
 
Reaverb and whatever impulse files I find on the web. Convolution reverb is the way to go IMO.
 
leddy said:
Valhalla Room. Try some other ones first, just so you realize how stunning it is.

UAD Plate 140 was my go-to reverb, until this came along.

And...it's only $50. A steal for something this good.

ValhallaRoom: $50 – ValhallaDSP
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Just recently got into Valhalla -one demo' on my ac guitar track was enough! Very nice, and sort of different kind of quality to the sound.

Re UAD- Although the Plate140 is real popular -for a reason no doubt, doesn't fit all that well for me. I'll be the odd man out on that one and go for a few others for general verb. That and their 224 and 250 add up to a very nice set but I'd venture maybe not UAD if it's just for verbs. I wouldn't say the 250 is as universal as the 140, I actually use it more often. :)

So Leddy, I'm new to Valhalla' but it's interesting, you're using it in place of the 140' ?
 
I've been pretty happy with Glaceverb. Don't remember where I got it, but it's free and sounds pretty darn good. But I'm really only using it now in early stages just to give a hint of verb while laying out the mix. When I get closer to finished I usually pull it out and replace it with ReaVerb and some custom impulses that I made with Voxengo Impulse Modeler.
 
Chili said:
Oh, that is too bad about the low profile. I'm kind of surprised to see that being such a heavy hitter of a computer. The short card means the physical connector going into the slot is short in length. You can put a short card into a long slot, but obviously not the other way around. So, yes, a X1 can fit into a X4, x8 or x16.

Yes, the 6 instances means you can run the EMT 6 times with different settings just as if you had 6 physical units. I only ever run one and Send to it. I think you use Reaper, I'm not familiar with it, but sounds like the same thing, a separate buss with all desired tracks Sending to that one bus and thusly, one instance. Saves the dsp resources for other plugs; like the 1176SE (which is free). Reverbs use a lot of processing power. For my stuff, I only need one instance and I think you would be similar.

If you are indeed limited to the solo, you can buy multiple cards and the driver will figure out how to assign processing requirements to all the cards.

As an FYI, I bought the Apollo interface which has a UAD-2 Duo inside and sends everything over the firewire port. They also have a satellite box which can house UAD cards and connects via firewire. You might look at that option. The one caveat is they are extremely picky about which firewire card you use.
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I could be wrong... I got it from my cousin who works for HP and so I asked him what it had and he sent a list that was completely different, and was all normal profile slots... I guess I can pull the lid off and have a look - but I'm not sure if I'd recognise a low profile v. normal visually. I'm going to assume therefore, in the absence of the actual spec from the company, that I can work it out via Ctrl Panel / System somehow.... so I'll have a look there.

It's just a standard business machine in a smallish box - didn't think about PCI cards when I bought it - so I really don't know. I'm stilll assuming I'm right however, I don't normally miss detail like that... so we'll see!
 
jonny deep said:
I use ReaVerb (which is bundled with Reaper) with Bricasti impulses, which are available for free from here: -

Samplicity's Bricasti M7 Impulse Response Library v1.1 - Samplicity

Then, I followed a tutorial on how to setup a four channel reverb into two channel output using two instances of ReaVerb and a mixer plugin. I have this saved as an FX chain and load it up on a track as a send bus. Using this, you just change the L & R impulse loaded into the L & R ReaVerb instance, respectively, to find the reverb sound you're after. So, for example, I load this chain onto one track and load a plate reverb L & R impulse for vocals; and I load the same chain into another track and load a room reverb L & R impulse for instruments. Simples!

This thread here talks about the true stereo reverb (as it's called). Not sure if this is what I followed to achieve it: -

True Stereo Reverb using ReaVerb (Revisited).. - Cockos Confederated Forums
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Cool, thanks JD... I've got Reaper but never figured out where to get impulses from so the two you get bundled aren't much good... I'll have a play around with the Briscati link and see what I can work out. Cheers...
 
ashcat_lt said:
I've been pretty happy with Glaceverb. Don't remember where I got it, but it's free and sounds pretty darn good. But I'm really only using it now in early stages just to give a hint of verb while laying out the mix. When I get closer to finished I usually pull it out and replace it with ReaVerb and some custom impulses that I made with Voxengo Impulse Modeler.
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I've got the Glaceverb plug... still working it out - it's not bad, but I still can't get quite what I want! Cheers...
 
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