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Old 15th August 2009   #22
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Originally Posted by buddy View Post
Interesting... when I was first starting out I always sent at 0dB and adjusted the return. I took a couple recording classes at a local community college, and my instructor told us to keep the returns at unity and adjust the sends. I asked him this very question, and argued that you would want a good loud signal hitting the reverb so as to utilize the full bit depth available (or, in his case, being an oldschool analog guy, to maximize your S/N ratio). His response was that you could use one reverb for the whole song and have independent wetness levels for each track using its respective send. That made sense to me, so ever since then I've done it that way.

Now this thread has me rethinking it... hmm...
No way! I went to the same community college! haha.

I've done it the same way as well, but I've mostly been relying on stereo room mics for ambience. Now that I have the PF2626 I can finally record more than one mic at a time compared to my Mbox Mini I used to have ha.
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