I hate reverb.

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Do you often avoid using reverb?

  • Yes

    Votes: 120 24.8%

  • No

    Votes: 363 75.2%
  • Total voters
    483
Just remember that a clean pig is still a pig....

Robo 5-0 said:
I agree that reverb (and fx in general) are like cooking spices. A little goes a long way, and too much will ruin a perfectly good dish.

I personally like reverb tho... I think it can really give tracks a nice, polished feel. Just remember that a clean pig is still a pig....
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exactly. I was just kidding. I'm not any more terrible than anyone else really.
I use reverb judiciously and try try try to find an overdrive sound that isn't cheez whiz.

that's it. no effects for me thanks. I hate all that stuff. even delay. that's
for the producer to put in and hopefully the alleged producer has some talent.
 
I love reverb. I also have a thing about flange. I just hope they don't find out about each other...

Dr. V
 
Don't use much 'highly featured or big doses much in the music I'm involved with, but... will say, when it comes down to it, it's a tough one to find really good fits.
 
Just as a side note, I think the right amount can be very different for certain songs. Pop songs aren't going to use too much, but sometimes music needs to be drenched in my opinion. Gregorian chants wouldn't be the same without it, or the singer Julianna Barwick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foRY6rBQM9I).
David Byrne did an interesting Ted talk which kind touched on it a bit. Its a fascinating look at how our environment effects our music. Anyway, heres the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve.html
-nocarsgo
 
Well, its all about what kind of reverb. If I had an old vintage high quality analog reverb box, I would love reverb like nothing else! But if all we have to work with is simulated software virtual wannabe reverb...

Maybe if you have the top of the line Lexicon software or whatever, but that is super expensive, and it supposedly eats up a lot of processing power. With the money from that you could probably get at least one really good REAL reverb.
 
Hmph,

Never heard of analog verb. I ve used, plate, spring, real (speaker in chamber with mic at other end), digital, tape echo, software plugins. Who makes/made analog reverb and who/when/where was it used?
 
PDP said:
Hmph,

Never heard of analog verb. I ve used, plate, spring, real (speaker in chamber with mic at other end), digital, tape echo, software plugins. Who makes/made analog reverb and who/when/where was it used?
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by analog, I just meant non-digital.
 
nddhc said:
I kinda feel like im the only person that feels this way - most people I know love adding reverb to stuff. I think it really makes the recording muddy and cluttered sounding. However - when I listen to nice studio recordings, I can tell theres a nice amount of reverb in there that sounds great.

I admit good mixing, experience, and equipment can do wonders - But could it just be that im using really bad reverbs in the first place?
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that is entirely up to the style of reverb and sensitivity of placement - yeah u can get really awful muddy/woolly/claustrophobic reverb but when it's well done it can really open up a sound.

obvsly natural room sound is preferable. but on a HR forum where most people need reverb just because of room quality limitations u probably are quite unusual yeah :P
 
iLogical said:
that is entirely up to the style of reverb and sensitivity of placement - yeah u can get really awful muddy/woolly/claustrophobic reverb but when it's well done it can really open up a sound.

obvsly natural room sound is preferable. but on a HR forum where most people need reverb just because of room quality limitations u probably are quite unusual yeah :P
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I Love it!

I remember getting a CD back when I was in high school calle "Vision", it was a CD containing arrangements based on the music of the Hildegard Von Bingen, who was nun back in Medival time who wrote chants.

The parts I liked best were when the lead vocalist sang by themselves with no instrumentation, and the reverb was meant to give the impression of being within a huge cavernous cathedral. I have been a fan chant ever since.

Also, when I was in England back in 96 I visited Canterberry Cathedral, and I remember loving the sounds of the chants of the nuns as the wafted reverberated. through the vast corridors. So needless to say I do love reverb.

I realize that it can be used too much, but I have never been one to tolerate dry sound. I think reverb if its used properly gives wonderful dimension and character...ie. the soundtrack to Titanic!

Just my opinion. God Bless peoples

D.R. Storm
 
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I love Reverb - but only because I use it sparingly and when I do, I try to apply it creatively.

There are SO many reverberator VSTs out there now. My favourite is the Antress Modern Flashverb - but it can sound slightly tinny - great for snare drums and certain vocal effects. Next is the KarmaFX Verb which is a totally different animal. Great for suggesting atmosphere. However these add quite a bit of colouration to the mix. Possibly the most transparent-sounding verb I have is the Fruity Reverb from the FL Studio package but unfortunately, when I open it up in Reaper (which I use for mixing these days) it mutes the strip.

They all behave in different ways and each has it's own unique character. If you don't like your reverb you should try some different ones. Reverb for me sometimes isn't a complete effect until I have mixed, matched and sometimes chained a couple or three to get exactly the subtle sound I'm after.

I saw an old rack Reverberator sitting in Cash Converters for not much £ and I was sorely tempted - but since I'm committed to mixing digitally, and with the choice of effects available in my digital world, I can't justify the spend. :(

Dr. V
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
Just another way of saying what everybody else alreay said:

"If you notice the reverb, you have too much."

Reverb is like ginger in cooking. It's fantastic when used properly, but it's real easy to overdose it.

Now I will say that I hate spring reverb. I have yet to find a useful appliction for spring reverb unless I purposely need something to sound like it has a horrible spring reverb on it :rolleyes: .

G.
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One that quickly comes to mind is Reggae music, if you want it to sound authentic, old-school roots, ya need a spring reverb. Dat wat m' tink mon.
 
I recently found a very nice way to add reverb. I use a Korg D3200 and it has two separate effects buses.

Before I get into it I just want to say that I hate when reverb is applied and it sounds like the band is playing in a tin can. It's sounds amateur and stupid.
The point of reverb is to simulate a room that the instruments are in and when I realized that, it suddenly came to me.

When I record I usually record the instrumentation live as much as possible and then track vocals and any other accents or solos that are needed. I noticed after doing this for a while that if you pay attention you can tell what was recorded live and what was tracked. This presented a quite a quandary for me. One day I started playing around with the effects buses on the 3200 and my solution presented itself. What I do is send between 35 and 75 percent signal into the bus with some sort of big room reverb on it and then tweak to get the tin out of the sound. I found that this places all the instruments into one room very nicely and since they are all essentially reverbing the same there is no issues with something standing out or drowning anything else out.

With that said I've also learned that you cannot set all the elements of the song to the same amount of reverb. I tend to put the least amount of reverb on the drums and the most on the backup vocals. This changes, of course, depending on the goal of the song. It is barely noticeable and I have not had any of the bands I've recorded say "I like that reverb" or "I hate that reverb". The point is not to distract with it, but to exploit certain feels coming out of the music.
 
Since this post is still alive I'll throw in my 2 cents.

I like reverb on vocals. Like everyone says, use it lightly, but properly used it is truly an enhancement.

I don't like reverb at all spread across an entire mix. Just my personal tastes, I guess. If I see anything called "mastering reverb", I run in the opposite direction.

Spring reverb: For me, it's the hands-down best for (clean)guitar. I'm talking straight out of the amp. I can't imagine adding spring reverb as an after the fact effect.

I don't think an electric bass should ever have reverb. Same with a kick drum, a real piano, harp, kettle drum, congas, banjo, accordion...
you know.. stuff that already 'rings'. That said, I'm sure someone can come up with an example of any/all of those where reverb was tastefully employed
 
bunt said:
I don't like reverb at all spread across an entire mix. Just my personal tastes, I guess. If I see anything called "mastering reverb", I run in the opposite direction.

I don't think an electric bass should ever have reverb. Same with a kick drum, a real piano, harp, kettle drum, congas, banjo, accordion...
you know.. stuff that already 'rings'. That said, I'm sure someone can come up with an example of any/all of those where reverb was tastefully employed
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Even though it didn't sound like it I agree with "mastering reverb." I don't use it in that way at all. I do add it to some instruments with a natural reverb but just to fit it in with the rest of the instrumentation. Each instrument I put through the bus doesn't have the same amount of reverb.
 
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