Processing power?

[ecktronic]

Sure, and no one suggesting 1 verb for everything, though that is a viable approach for the 1 band / one room philosophy. But I don't think I've ever used more than 6 verbs in a mix, and more often than not it's 4. As always, it's whatever works for the song, but I agree with xstatic that too much of a good thing often isn't, and the listener will probably lose any kind of sense of a coheisive acoustic space with all those verbs going on.

Aye good point.
Thanks.

 

[ecktronic]

The reverb in an aux send bus is the answer, having seperate instances of the same reverb in each track isn't sensible and will waste cpu power.

If you want it to sound like the band are all playing in the same place, then one reverb in an auxilary bus is all that's needed to simulate that one room (use the track aux send pans to place the track in the reverbs soundfield).

It's not unusual to have some tracks such as a snare with a different reverb type for a particlar effect, also you may find you can use a more basic lower powered reverb plug-in where you only want some thickening of an individual track and the aux send reverb you're using for everthing else isn't right for it.

Good stuff again.
I am going to be automating the reverb on at least the vocal and snare tracks as this is a pretty normal thing to do, so that the reverb tails can take up space if need be and also be cut short if something else needs space.

Thanks everyone.
Eck

I am going to try and cut right back on my reverbs and try out less cpu hungry reverbs for certain things.