Looking for advice on reverb for acoustic guitar

[Scooterj]

Brand new here. Greetings. I am recording acoustic guitar to my Reaper DAW. It looks like there are so many choices for reverb and I do want some on the guitar. Are there any "go to" plugins that are recognized as superior for this application? I definitely would be using presets in that I do not want to fiddle a lot with individual settings.How would you advise me? (I know there might be an avalanche of opinions, but perhaps there is a really great widely recognized tool for this purpose). Valhalla Vintage Verb seems to get mentioned a lot. Thanks!

 

[rob aylestone]

What don't you like in the Reaper ones? I have spent tons on instrument VSTi packages but never effects or processing - the ones Cubase gives me are great. Reverbs wise - despite having loads, 50% I have never even tried, and I use just two - which offer me ones that work for my kind of music. I am a fan of Spitfire Audio and decided to buy a reverb package sampled from a very famous studio and I hate it. Not one works for me at all.

My favourite might be useless to you - so take all those reviews as just personal preferences. You need to find a few hours - knock up a track with your favourite reverb destinations - mine would be sax, acoustic guitar, synth pads and snare drum. Voices and other stuff I rarely spend any time on. So I have a little track with a few snippets of different sources, and I can then compare new reverbs I discover with what I currently always use. I often discover the reverbs in sample packages can be accessed by other routing - so a piano sample's dark reverb might be good for something else.

I don't anticipate spending anything on reverbs - what I have is totally fine. I think maybe 4 different reverbs, and within them a small handful of presets.

 

[Papanate]

Brand new here. Greetings. I am recording acoustic guitar to my Reaper DAW. It looks like there are so many choices for reverb and I do want some on the guitar. Are there any "go to" plugins that are recognized as superior for this application? I definitely would be using presets in that I do not want to fiddle a lot with individual settings.How would you advise me? (I know there might be an avalanche of opinions, but perhaps there is a really great widely recognized tool for this purpose). Valhalla Vintage Verb seems to get mentioned a lot. Thanks!

Reaper has ReaVerb - Despite being a stock plugin, ReaVerb’s depth and quality rivals any third party Reverbs IMO.

 

[TalismanRich]

Years ago I downloaded the free Bricasti M7 samples from Samplicity. I use those with the ReaVerb plugin. https://samplicity.com/bricasti-m7-impulse-response-files/

About the only thing it doesnt have is a spring reverb! It's got halls, plates, rooms, etc. I always find something that works.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

The Bricasti impulses were great, way back in the day I used those as well, too, but I thought Bricasti had fought to have samplicity take those down so I'm surprised they're up? I guess it's also Samplicity who's now selling a $300 plugin using those impulses, so it's doubly surprising. I've been meaning to check them out again. I think I still ahve them saved somewhere.

I've tried ReaVerb, I remember it taking rather a lot of work to get a sound I liked out of it. This was at least 10 years ago though so it may be better today.

I've mostly been using the Valhalla reverbs lately - room and plate. I don't know if there's any universal approach here but I have found I've liked the Plate models more on my acoustic (Martin, here being used for rhythm parts) than the rooms/halls.

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

ReaVerb is not bad - but as I recall - it does require 3rd party IR's. I'm pretty sure you can find free ones.

This Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb plugin is on sale for $49 right now at Sweetwater.



https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...-audio-uad-lexicon-224-digital-reverb-plug-in

 

[TalismanRich]

The Bricasti impulses were great, way back in the day I used those as well, too, but I thought Bricasti had fought to have samplicity take those down so I'm surprised they're up? I guess it's also Samplicity who's now selling a $300 plugin using those impulses, so it's doubly surprising. I've been meaning to check them out again. I think I still ahve them saved somewhere.

I've tried ReaVerb, I remember it taking rather a lot of work to get a sound I liked out of it. This was at least 10 years ago though so it may be better today.

ReaVerb will use the Bricasti IRs. Just select ADD, Choose File and navigate to the IR file you want to use.

I set up a reverb channel, then put a send on any channels that I want the effect on. Then I can just bring the fader up or down as I need. Most times, I'm using one of the plate reverbs, although I used a few halls.

 

[TalismanRich]

Besides the Bricasti M7s, you can use these Lexicon 480 files, just load the AIF files into ReaVerb.

Download GN’s Personal Lexicon 480L IR’s | Housecall FM

www.housecallfm.com

 

[DrewPeterson7]

ReaVerb will use the Bricasti IRs. Just select ADD, Choose File and navigate to the IR file you want to use.

Oh, was ReaVerb the one that can load impulses? That one wasn't bad, though I mostly used to while demoing to load cab impulses. ReaVerberate, then, was the one I found underwhelming.

 

[Scooterj]

Besides the Bricasti M7s, you can use these Lexicon 480 files, just load the AIF files into ReaVerb.

Download GN’s Personal Lexicon 480L IR’s | Housecall FM

www.housecallfm.com

Ooo that sounds really interesting. Thank you for your generosity and all the answers in my last few posts. I am making fast headway getting up and started!

 

[TalismanRich]

Great! Have fun with them. They work for me!