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Originally Posted by SWAN808  I really dislike most plugin reverbs. I wish I could afford it. |
I'm with you on this one.
At this studio i work i work with the lex 400 and high end tc-verbs, so my ears are quite spoiled, but also trained in recognizing good verbs.
In my home studio i have to rely solely on native reverbs, and i've tried them all (CSR, IK, Sonnox etc) and all of them seem to damage the overall esthetics of my mixes. (Metallic, thin, 2d, muddy, grainy etc etc)
I know all the tricks, gating, post pre eqing, stacking verbs etc etc etc but it just doesnt sound good enough to use 'm.
I even got to the point i don't even use them anymore since its so frustrating.
Now i use stacked delays with filters eq in stead for adding spatial dimensions. This doesnt sound great, but its at least not degrading to the audio as those reverb plugs are.
Maybe seancostello can jump in and explane why delay's sound better (or at least not degrading the source signal) than reverb.