Adding Space Designer verb to tracks

[xTHEREMINx]

Ahoy,
I've been playing bass for 4-5 years now I've been recording bass and guitar for about a year and have just recently bought a FireStudio Project and have been running into that, then Ampeg SVX and T Racks 3.
I dig the tone, but I posted a thread on Talkbass as to what bass preamp I should get, if I were to get one; really just to have a studio tube pre.
Most of the feedback involved using reverb to add more life to the tone, or something paraphrasing that.

Naturally, I thought to use Space Designer as it appears to be the best of Logic's verb plugins. But to me, it sounds and feels like the spaces are just too huge. Like a 'small guitar room' sounds like a dark hall reverb. Naturally, I'll turn the verb amount down, but it still has that extremely spacious feeling to it.

My questions are;
Is it the right reverb unit to use?
Are there any other verb plugins I should consider?
Am I using it wrong?
Are these questions too retarded for the internet?
How would/should I use reverb for bass tracks (varying from jazz bass duets to mathcore time signature messing around)?

Any help, advice, suggestions, slander, criticism and/or musings would be appreciated.
Grazi

 

[moresound]

Hey first of all welcome to the board.

And have you considered an out of the box analog unit?

 

[circusfreak]

Well, I can't answer all of your questions, but I can answer some...

First of all - I have had the same problem with reverb plugins - way too big. Soooooo....

1) no idea. there are a bajillion of them out there, and I'm sure you could find people on both sides of the fence for most of them. I use Lexicon, but that's just because that's what I have...

2) see above

3) my only suggestion to this would be to use it as a send effect, rather than an insert. as a send, it can be much more subtle, therefore letting the original tone shine through, with a bit of verb more implied than heard, if that makes any sense.

4) absolutely not. this forum is wonderful for folks like you and I.

5) just to take those two examples... if i were recording a jazz bass duo, I would use considerably more reverb than I would on a mathcore project. For the jazz, you want air and breath so your phrases can resonate along with the sax (or piano). For the mathcore, I would be compressing the shit out of it so it is in your face the entire time.

I am but one man. I hope you get a million other responses here, and I look forward to hearing other people's opinions. peace.

 

[grimtraveller]

Personally, I find reverb on the bass makes it sound too muddy and indistinct in the mix. Unless I'm going for a very specific effect, I won't let my bass meet Dr Reverb and start to take on her spacey ways.....