ShanPeyton
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When you guys set up a reverb track to send your drum kit to? Is it better to set that send track up as a stereo track or a mono track?
A stereo reverb is just that - a stereo reverb. It works in stereo on an empty track. Reaper doesn't have "stereo" tracks. You make them stereo by how you use it. Put a stereo effect on a track and it will be heard in stereo. The track itself doesn't know or care what it is.
Having said all that, use stereo reverb for drums. Some retard beatles wannabe will probably come in here and scream for mono. They are dumb.
Glaceverb is cool for free. Lots of people like Ambience, but it's a paid plug. Best is probably to get some decent IRs (lots free online) and use them in ReaVerb, but that takes a little bit of fucking around to get true stereo.
Yeah most of those are good sounding reverbs....I use 'em all the time, matter of fact, about 90% of the time if you hear reverb on anything of mine, I'm using these IR's...Yes, all that. Glaceverb is pretty decent, but IRs with Reaverb are the shit.
I've got a bunch of reverb files you can use with Reaverb. I'll package them up and send them to you.
Yes, all that. Glaceverb is pretty decent, but IRs with Reaverb are the shit.
I've got a bunch of reverb files you can use with Reaverb. I'll package them up and send them to you.
Yeah most of those are good sounding reverbs....I use 'em all the time, matter of fact, about 90% of the time if you hear reverb on anything of mine, I'm using these IR's...
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You can probably leave most of the knobs/settings alone for the start.
IOW....say you want a nice warm plate reverb for a vocal. Find a plate preset, there's almost always a vocal plate or two with most verbbs...and then focus on the lenght of the reverb...the time...and adjust that to taste, and the other setting that's worth messing with is the pre-delay....which is the amount of time between the start of your dry signal and when the reverb kicks in...so if you have a long pre-delay, you first hear the start of the signal dry, and then the reverb comes in, as opposed to a short pre-delay where the dry and reverb are almost simultaneous.
Your pre-delay is usually in milliseconds, and your reverb times are from milliseconds to seconds, as needed, but I find for most things you want to set up like 3-4 of your own presets, off the original preset...for now, leave everything the same except for the reverb time, then do like 0.05 seconds, 1.0. 1.25 or whatever you want for your presets. IOW...have like 3-4 presets of the same thing but different times to fit a given situation.
Same thing with the pre-delay, though it's more subtle, or you can just keep the same thing.
The other options...the EQ, the diffusion, etc....just leave them alone however they are with the original preset...then when you are comfortable setting pre-delay and reverb time...pick one, like the HF EQ, and mess with it. Same with the others.
IOW...you don't have to mess with every setting, every time you pull up a reverb. Usually the provided presets are pretty good, but pre-delay and reverb time will be the most key for finding the right combination for a given song.
Like...you don't want a long pre-delay and a long reverb time for a song that is very up-tempo....it will screw up the whole feel since the reverb will always be "catching up" to the signal...the song will be too fast for the slow/long reverb reaction...so you would want something shorter in time, and quicker in starting.
I like the sound of Glaceverb, but I stopped using it because of the fact that every pre-set has the DRY turned up. Not that I use pre-sets most of the time, but when I want to A/B 2 sounds, I want to be able to go from one to the other without having to adjust anything.
99% of the time, I now use IR's, Lexicon's PCM ones are my favorites. I have a shit ton of rooms, plates, and halls. I've actually never used ReaVerb. I've always used the SIR whatever it's called.