reverb before or after bounce?

[gatholonobs]

is it better to apply reverb to individual guitar tracks during the track bounce(bouncing 10 tracks to 2 stereo) or bounce them dry and add reverb to the 2 track consolidation? does it even matter? i'm using a VS1880.

 

[bennychico11]

the ideal way is to add reverb to an aux track and mix to taste...and then bounce.
however, i'm not sure how your 1800 works. but you can do either way, whatever way sounds best to your ears. if you do a separate reverb for each track, it may be best to do the same reverb with the same reverb settings for each instrument. That way they all sound coherent. Putting a plate reverb on one guitar, a hall on another, a room on a third one...can sound kind of unnatural to some people. that's why using an aux track and bussing them all to the same aux track while keeping the dry track can give you more options. now you have TWO controls to work with...a dry and a wet.

 

[Richard Monroe]

Call me old fashioned. If I want reverb on guitar tracks, it'll be on the amp before it ever hits the mic. I might take a dry line out to another track just to cover my ass. If it's acoustic, I would apply reverb to the individual tracks first. But the big question is- Why are you bouncing tracks, especially with guitars? Don't you have enough tracks? I would do whatever I wanted to do with those two (or more) guitar tracks at mixdown, rather than committing myself up front to summing those tracks, which I can't undo later.-Richie

 

[ecktronic]

When i record guitars i bounce. I recorded a guitar with an SM57 an SM58 (both close mic) and a Rode NT2 (far mic). I then made sure that all the recorded tracks were in phase with each other and then mixed the 3 guitar tracks to get the sound i wanted. I used the 58 to get my high end my 57 for the meat and the NT2 for a bit of something extra and some depth. I bounced these which made it easier to mix with all the other 18 odd tracks. I had two guitars with 3 tracks ewach aswell and diferent EQ settings for different parts of the song, so bouncing was the quickest easiesty option.
I know once it was bounced i had less choice, but i got it sounding right first in the mix and then added EQ to it. I needed less EQ as i got the EQ i was looking naturally by using different mics.