Reverb tip

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Middleman

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This has been driving me nuts for months. I have tried numerous plug ins and still get metalic results with excessive sizzling, for lack of a better word. Looking for that rich plate sound, deep echoes.

Well, in Sonar, there is a little button under your effects slider that is either in the pre or post position. If you leave it in pre, the default, then no matter what EQ or compression you add to the track, it by-passes it sending your raw track directly to the effects on the aux bus.

Set the button to post (after fader and effects on the individual track) and voila! Rich reverb, that is taking the compressed and EQ'd data as its input.

I know its a small thing but some may have ignored this button as the default is pre fader. Makes a big difference.
 
good information. I bet there`s many like me out there that didnt know that.

:)
 
Actually, after checking the signal path in the manual, it turns out that the effects are always engaged but the post position sends the volume level from the fader vs the track volume. For some reason this sounds more natural with less metalic overtones.

Thought I should clear that one up before the vultures showed up.
 
MM,

> If you leave it in pre, the default <

Fortunately, they fixed that and now it's Post by default. As it should have always been.

While we're discussing reverb tricks, here's a great one to get a better and more dense sound from reverb plug-ins. Use two reverbs at the same time, with the various parameters set a little differently. This gives twice the echo density, making grainy sounding reverbs a little smoother, and good reverbs even better.

Related: If your reverb plug-ins do not generate a satisfying stereo image, pan the returns for each of the two reverbs (as described above) fully left and right. The slight difference in reverb character, when panned out, gives a nice widening effect.

--Ethan
 
Re: Re: Reverb tip

Ethan Winer said:
MM,

> If you leave it in pre, the default <

Fortunately, they fixed that and now it's Post by default. As it should have always been.

--Ethan
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When did they do that? Is that new in SONAR 2? I'm still using 1.31, and man am I tired of having to switch every stinkin' "pre" to "post" every stinkin' time I create a "new" stinkin' song. I've created a template with it already done on the included tracks, but still, every time you add a new track it still comes up pre-fader.
I haven't upgraded to 2.0 because I just didn't feel any of the new features were worth it to me, but if this nonsense is fixed, I'm sold!

Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com
 
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