Chrisulrich
Member
Dear Everyone.
Firstly - thanks for all the great advice I've had here, you're wonderful.
Secondly - I thought I understood reverb till I read three different descriptions of it that seemed to contradict eachother. Here goes.
First. "Reverb is used to push sounds back in a mix." Fair enough. BUT....
Second. "Reverb is used to put all the instruments in the same room. You put the same reverb on all the instruments otherwise they won't sound like they're in the same room." Which logically would mean they're all pushed back equally far in the mix, as per the First definition, so they'd all still be in a straight line - no depth. But it gets worse. If you add more reverb to some instruments to push 'em farther back, you've no longer got the same reverb on all the instruments so haven't you put some in a different room?
Third, on a YouTube vid. "Most mixers over-use reverb. You're better off not using reverb on everything....." But if you're NOT using reverb on everything, you're not putting them in the same room (as above) so the reverbless ones (presumably the lead/front instruments) would surely sound like they're in a different room to the others WITH reverb. And how do you tell what not to add reverb to? How else do you keep all the instruments 'in the same room'?
What aren't I seeing here? Again!?! (And there's prob. an even dumber question coming up after you lot have answered this, so brace yourselves for Dumbassedness Unleashed, but I'll try the answers here first!)
Yours respectfully
Chris.
Firstly - thanks for all the great advice I've had here, you're wonderful.
Secondly - I thought I understood reverb till I read three different descriptions of it that seemed to contradict eachother. Here goes.
First. "Reverb is used to push sounds back in a mix." Fair enough. BUT....
Second. "Reverb is used to put all the instruments in the same room. You put the same reverb on all the instruments otherwise they won't sound like they're in the same room." Which logically would mean they're all pushed back equally far in the mix, as per the First definition, so they'd all still be in a straight line - no depth. But it gets worse. If you add more reverb to some instruments to push 'em farther back, you've no longer got the same reverb on all the instruments so haven't you put some in a different room?
Third, on a YouTube vid. "Most mixers over-use reverb. You're better off not using reverb on everything....." But if you're NOT using reverb on everything, you're not putting them in the same room (as above) so the reverbless ones (presumably the lead/front instruments) would surely sound like they're in a different room to the others WITH reverb. And how do you tell what not to add reverb to? How else do you keep all the instruments 'in the same room'?
What aren't I seeing here? Again!?! (And there's prob. an even dumber question coming up after you lot have answered this, so brace yourselves for Dumbassedness Unleashed, but I'll try the answers here first!)
Yours respectfully
Chris.