So I've been thinking about reverb a lot lately and was curious about different techniques in general so I decided to run some experiments. It's common to advise producers and engineers to send tracks to one reverb instantiated on an aux tracks for the sake of CPU but I was curious if this technique actually sounds different. My experiments go as follows:
Experiment #1
Step 1) Two tracks (one vocal and one guitar) each with an identical instantiation of a reverb (set to 100%). Bounced.
Step 2) Those two tracks (100% send, pre fader, with tracks on mute ) sent to an aux with same reverb. Bounced.
Step 3) Conduct null test
FAILED
Experiment #2
Step 1) Two tracks (one vocal and one guitar) each with an identical instantiation of a reverb (set to 100%). Bounced.
Step 2) Those two tracks outputted to an aux with same reverb. Bounced.
Step 3) Conduct null test
FAILED
Conclusion
Reverb behaves differently when being sent audio in different ways (directly instantiated on a track, via sends, via output).
Is there something going on behind the scenes thats causing this?
Experiment #1
Step 1) Two tracks (one vocal and one guitar) each with an identical instantiation of a reverb (set to 100%). Bounced.
Step 2) Those two tracks (100% send, pre fader, with tracks on mute ) sent to an aux with same reverb. Bounced.
Step 3) Conduct null test
FAILED
Experiment #2
Step 1) Two tracks (one vocal and one guitar) each with an identical instantiation of a reverb (set to 100%). Bounced.
Step 2) Those two tracks outputted to an aux with same reverb. Bounced.
Step 3) Conduct null test
FAILED
Conclusion
Reverb behaves differently when being sent audio in different ways (directly instantiated on a track, via sends, via output).
Is there something going on behind the scenes thats causing this?