do u guys add reverb to the whole mix?

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well do people add reverb to a mix track??(once its in one file) is that not normal cause i was playing with it this morning and it sounded ok. what are some things u would do to a track before mastering(or attempt to master) cause i usually put it through wave maxiumazier at the end
 
Adding reverb to a whole is mix is done fairly infrequently... part of mixing is to give the tracks a common ambient space to work within. The only time it makes sense is if the whole mix is too dry-sounding, but even then, you'd only apply it very sparingly since things could get muddied-up quite quickly!

The idea is to get your mix sounding EXACTLY the way you want it to sound BEFORE mastering takes place.
 
I don't. I add effects surgicly to individual tracks and only where I feel it needs it. Reverb over an entire track can turn it into a wash of mush.
 
Myriad_Rocker said:
I add it to every final mix. 100% wet.

:p :D ;)
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would you suggest something TIGHT or a little more spread out???? :p
 
GlaceVerb on the Mix - Final Master setting does a good job of "jelling" everything, but it is a VST only......
 
The L1 is a compressor/limiter. If used over zealously it can squash the life out of a recording.
 
sometimes I use waves trueverb on an entire mix with the "tight ny room" preset tweaked in various ways so that the reverb is damn near imperceptible but adds just a tiny bit of "gel" to the mix. It's probably better to do this in the mix but sometimes I AM A LAZY FUCKER AND DON'T CARE TO GO BACK TO A MIX THAT I'VE LISTENED TO 1,000,000 TIMES.

If this doesn't immediately sound good I'll go back to the mix I've listened to 1,000,000 times :D .
 
Sometimes I'll wash a final mix in a tiny but of reverb, usually a "Studio", with a very dry ratio. Just enough to smooth some errant transients, not enough to sound artificial. I use the L1 as a final tweak a lot too, and you do have to be careful with it. Sometimes, you end up with a little over-boosted upper midrange, and have to tweak the EQ. Don't be aggressive with that. I usually use the 16-bit final mastering setting but pull the threshold back from -4 to -2.5dB...
 
send reverb through the mixing bus and then you can choose what percent of dry and wet you want. w00t!! but choose different reverbs for the ambience of different instruments. as I heard once somewhere around here, "reverb is the glue that holds all the instruments together", NOT the final mix together. but hey, maybe you got a bad ass reverb that does a good job to the final mixdown ... maybe.
 
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