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
I find I can't NOT use reverb. I feckin love it! I listen to a lot of 80's metal so I take a lot of influence from that, even when working on completely different styles. I love powerful music so I'm a demon for bassy and spacious/deep mixes.

It can work against me sometimes :rolleyes:
 
I LOVE Pere Ubu & they use reverb: " I think about you all the time... "
My 1st use of reverb was recording a sax solo in a shower recess - it ALMOST worked.
I used to use reverb a lot but copped so much flak (especially printing it to tape with the take as I did in my 4 track pporta studio days) that I use it quite rarely now.
I like listening to metal (mainly 70's) but can't write or play it & don't record it. I'm not into skipping & hopping either.
I very rarely use heavily distorted guitar for that matter.
I do like reverb on recordings & being a BIG fan of prog/psych I often like it to be obvious.
I'm just not very good at using it so have opted for the less is more approach which seems to work a bit better for me.
Listening? Well - I listen to at least 2 albums a day - I recently launched into a play every CD in the collection in alphabetical order binge but realised that at 1200+ CD albums & buying more each week I'd not get through it before cheating & playing something i wanted to hear (& that's the ppint of music after all). last night it was Joey M's latest CD & LPC's too. The night before was some Schoenberg (his S conducts S - Pierrot Lunaire) followed by Cohen's Songs of Love & Hate slightly tweaked when I restored it from vinyl then Queen Live in 1975 (the tour I saw). Cohen's producer used reverb well, it was hard to tell with Queen live, Joey's use was quite good & LPC are excellent self producers. As for Schoenberg - it was recorded "live" in a good room so I assume that any 'verb is room but could be wrong - it was recorded in '42 when capturing a performance still ruled and recording as performance was only beginning.
Now where was I - oh, spring reverb & surf guitar - WOW!
 
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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how else do you add depth and distance to instruments? that said... you also have to leave room for echo/verb.


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Reverb is supposed to simulate a nice sounding room.

So if somebody says they hate reverb, would they say they hate a nice sounding room? Probably not.

So my guess is that when most people say they hate reverb they mean that they hate the reverbs they've heard.

Most of the reverbs I've heard sound cheap. I have never heard any from the cheap companies that I liked. In this last few years I've used less and less, sometimes hardly any, but I still, oddly, like nice sounding rooms.
 
Not using reverb is like listening to audio in 2D instead of 3D. Reverb is a vital agent in controlling the perceived depth of one's recordings. I'm no reverb expert, but I find that plate reverbs are pretty impossible to tweak so they sound bad (that goes for most of the vst's of plate reverb as well).
 
Sloan said:
Reverb is the best thing to ever happen to anybody anywhere.
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amen, and spring reverb for that matter. I think people judge what sounds good based on a weird standard of whats accepted as the "best" sounding, even though most people have different tastes. People should just do what they like. I personally like to lourde on reverb, given the right occasion. There are some drawbacks at times, like clutter, but it can all be adjusted to fit any given situation. There's nothing more beautiful though, than a barren and atmospheric track, with not much more than an electric guitar, with so much spring reverb applied to it it's nearly drowned, plucking away gently and slowly. Spring reverb brings out so many of the undertones that your ear would miss, and makes them shimmer.

rene
 
rene-lemieux said:
There's nothing more beautiful though, than a barren and atmospheric track, with not much more than an electric guitar, with so much spring reverb applied to it it's nearly drowned, plucking away gently and slowly. Spring reverb brings out so many of the undertones that your ear would miss, and makes them shimmer.
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I REST MY CASE
 
I responded many moons ago to this thread, saying that I hated reverb. It sounded so fake or artifical or whatever.

I just bought the UAD Plate reverb.

I changed my mind.
 
I am saving money to buy the new UAD cards. I'll prolly go with the Duo. I have the original and love it.

Reverb... still nothing better than hardware. Although the UAD Plate is rather good, it's not something that could be used everywhere.
 
I think the last line in your post is disgusting. Shame on you. You are really sad!!!!
 
The first time I ever did drums was four mics on one track through a little mixer(snare, hi tom, low tom, bass). The cymbals were at an awesome level and the bass drum was in the back but still great. The only thing I had to complain about was the snare sound. I was so confused. Live it sounded like a deep snare (it's a 8.5" snare tuned pretty loose, so it sounds more like a 15" snare or something:p) but on the track it sounded like hitting a wooden desk with a leather belt basically! :confused:
I finally listened to some MyChildren MyBride for some inspiration and realized I needed reverb. I'm a newb who wants to be the last person to tell someone to do something, but you basically can't have a snare without reverb. I just turn the mix down, if you have that (protools noob ftw?).
 
I love natural room tone-type reverb. Artificial reverb is an effect to me, like flanging or a delay, and should be used accordingly.
 
I love reverb. I'm getting an EHX Cathedral soon because I love it so much :D
 
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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I have two Fender Hot Rod DeVilles both with spring reverbs in them and while they never go above 3 they don't sound too bad. Aren't most guitar amp reverbs "spring reverbs"?
 
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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What he said!

Altough i love spring reverb for a few things.
 
I like reverb real hard...everything has its place...you just gotta know where to put it...
 
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