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joe monroe
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could use a little help. I've been really struggling with reveb lately. Does anyone have any recommended settings ie. snare, vocals, guitars? Rock/ industrial
Buck62
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The Green Hornet
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Yo Joe:
I've found that you really need VERY LITTLE REVERB FOR DRUMS.
The drums kind of create their own reverb. A tad of EQ for drums? Maybe. It depends.
The most important use of reverb would be on the vocal. Even with good gear, reverb enhances the vocal. I don't think too many people who record would ever leave home without reverb.
A horn solo can use some reverb; things like flutes and tenor saxes sound brilliant when reverb is used correctly. As to "settings," you need to experiement and closely check out your recording/mix in the monitors.
If you put all instruments in "heavy" reverb, you will never hear the singer articulate much. A good reverb box will help but experimentation and elimination and inclusion which help make your decisions. [nice phrase there, huh?]
Green Hornet
I've found that you really need VERY LITTLE REVERB FOR DRUMS.
The drums kind of create their own reverb. A tad of EQ for drums? Maybe. It depends.
The most important use of reverb would be on the vocal. Even with good gear, reverb enhances the vocal. I don't think too many people who record would ever leave home without reverb.
A horn solo can use some reverb; things like flutes and tenor saxes sound brilliant when reverb is used correctly. As to "settings," you need to experiement and closely check out your recording/mix in the monitors.
If you put all instruments in "heavy" reverb, you will never hear the singer articulate much. A good reverb box will help but experimentation and elimination and inclusion which help make your decisions. [nice phrase there, huh?]
Green Hornet
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mikeh
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Useing the right amount of reverb for any given instument on any given tune is as much art as science.
I suspect everyone on this site has struggled with reverb from time to time - and I'm sure all of us (at least at the start of our recording days) tended to use way too much reverb.
With any effect or processing the key is to use the least amount possible to place the sound in the mix.
I suspect everyone on this site has struggled with reverb from time to time - and I'm sure all of us (at least at the start of our recording days) tended to use way too much reverb.
With any effect or processing the key is to use the least amount possible to place the sound in the mix.
Chris Shaeffer
Peavey ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmph!
I never used too much reverb! I meant to mush all my carefully recorded tracks together in a reverb smoothie. Nothing quite like taking a nice stereo mix and pastuerizing it with a thick slurry of the ol' verb. My favorite trick was to take a track with a small room reverb on it and then run it through a large hall mixed in lower. Perfection!
While I'm glad those days are over and my recordings at least sound somewhat natural, finding the right settings on the reverbs is quite a chore. I do a lot of track soloing and listening to the sound of the verb tails as I tweak, tweak, tweak.
Then I either start a fresh pot of coffee and load up a different project or go to sleep and work on it all later. If I work on it too long the reverb almost invariably ends up getting louder, longer, wetter, and...bad. I take notes on what sounded good so that I can find it once I've messed it up.
I tend to record my guits stereo and apply a light small room verb if at all. They generally sound natural enough without. Boy, is it easy to go overboard with the snare! Again I have a very light touch if I need it at all. I try to remember that its all going to mush together in the end so less ends up being better. My goal with the verb is usually to have everything sit well together without it being noticed.
With vocals I tend to try a light delay before reaching for the reverb- especially on the lead. It doesn't always work right and I sometimes put a bit of verb on it too, but it keeps me from whipping out the mega-long Enya reverb.
I also check my mixes through the regular stereo and not just the monitors and headphones. Sometimes when you get that reverb playing in a real room, all those room sounds add up to mush that wasn't there in the "control room." (or bed room in my case.)
Take care,
Chris
I never used too much reverb! I meant to mush all my carefully recorded tracks together in a reverb smoothie. Nothing quite like taking a nice stereo mix and pastuerizing it with a thick slurry of the ol' verb. My favorite trick was to take a track with a small room reverb on it and then run it through a large hall mixed in lower. Perfection!
While I'm glad those days are over and my recordings at least sound somewhat natural, finding the right settings on the reverbs is quite a chore. I do a lot of track soloing and listening to the sound of the verb tails as I tweak, tweak, tweak.
Then I either start a fresh pot of coffee and load up a different project or go to sleep and work on it all later. If I work on it too long the reverb almost invariably ends up getting louder, longer, wetter, and...bad. I take notes on what sounded good so that I can find it once I've messed it up.
I tend to record my guits stereo and apply a light small room verb if at all. They generally sound natural enough without. Boy, is it easy to go overboard with the snare! Again I have a very light touch if I need it at all. I try to remember that its all going to mush together in the end so less ends up being better. My goal with the verb is usually to have everything sit well together without it being noticed.
With vocals I tend to try a light delay before reaching for the reverb- especially on the lead. It doesn't always work right and I sometimes put a bit of verb on it too, but it keeps me from whipping out the mega-long Enya reverb.
I also check my mixes through the regular stereo and not just the monitors and headphones. Sometimes when you get that reverb playing in a real room, all those room sounds add up to mush that wasn't there in the "control room." (or bed room in my case.)
Take care,
Chris
Blue Bear Sound
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That shit is just too funny, Chris!!! "reverb-smoothie"... Hilarious - love it!!!Chris Shaeffer said:I never used too much reverb! I meant to mush all my carefully recorded tracks together in a reverb smoothie. Nothing quite like taking a nice stereo mix and pastuerizing it with a thick slurry of the ol' verb. My favorite trick was to take a track with a small room reverb on it and then run it through a large hall mixed in lower. Perfection!
Bruce