Your favorite Reverb plug-in's for EDM?

[artech909]

This is a special thread about your favorite reverb plug-in's & favorite reverb settings in EDM production.
My long term interest atually is the right settings (or tried and tested settings) for BIG spacy reverb sounds like in some commercial EDM like Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto and lately trendy house production like Avicii/Tim Berg and so on...
Even with my 13 years studio production experience (as mixing engineer, sound designer and producer) i still sometimes have some brainstorming about creating very big spaces without being too thick, cloudy, too dark when i need bright but still realistic.

Here is my list (what i use):

ArtAcoustic Reverb (quite good for BIG and SUPER BIG spaces not too cloudy or thick fills in space in your mix nicely)

TC Powercore VSS3, Classic Verb, Fabric R, Megareverb (All very good clean (mostly too clean and digital) reverbs VSS3 have many parameters you can tweak)

Lexicon PCM (Classic verbs but too dark and too thick sometimes but you can tweak it)

Valhalla DSP Shimmer & Room (again classic tone but can be SUPER thick and fat, this can be a problem if you have a project with too many tracks and layers)

Waves IR-1 (with my favorite impulses i like it but without tail modulation can be too static and boring)

[djdstar]

You try Aether yet? Love it here...

[bensaddiction]

Audio Damage Eos (Coded by Valhalla), super hall algo & freeze button for progressive builds & overall background gel.

Nebula VNXT Emt140 for house-y percussion verb Talking Heads style

[offki]

Aether and Redline Reverb, all you need

The one in Live is not too shabby either.

Lexicon are high charging £1100, please share your drugs Lexicon!

[findletron]

+1 for Aether here too.. great verb, but its really proc hungry.. a bit too heavy for my aging laptop sadly, I cant even run one instance on most mixes, and thats with freezing many tracks. So thats worth considering if your running an older machine. I've had to scrap it for the most part untill I get a new lappy. Until then I've been using Breeze mostly - a less processor hungry sibling by the same company. (2c Audio) Not as awesome as Aether but it works.

I also use Audio Damage's Eos quite a bit as well.. great verb and light on processor overhead.

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[largeduckpond]

I use bootsie's epicVerb a lot, it hogs CPU insanely but usually does the job.
And it's free!

[Nig]

Really big fan of Aether and Breeze,

U-he's Uhbik-A does a great job too

[evosilica]

Originally Posted by largeduckpond

I use bootsie's epicVerb a lot, it hogs CPU insanely but usually does the job.
And it's free!

yeah, i like and use epicverb a lot, too. Never found it to be a CPU hog though

[teknosmoker]

Audioease - Altiverb
UAD - EMT Plate 150
Sony Oxford Reverb

...but I can't live without my Eventide DSP7000. Its reverbs almost seem to be made for synth sources.





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[laboso]

Too bad theres still no RTAS version of this one... I adore this plugin!

[laboso]

[offki]

Checked this out earlier, not as flexible as redline or aether but it sounded amazing

Flux:: sound and picture development

[Dudley]

Altiverb

UAD EMT 250
UAD EMT 140

SSL X Verb

used to love PoCo classicverb too.

[cryophonik]

Originally Posted by Nig

Really big fan of Aether and Breeze,

Same here. I rarely use anything else, although I've been seriously contemplating the Valhalla reverbs for some different flavors.

[artech909]

Originally Posted by djdstar

You try Aether yet? Love it here...

I was but i don't like something about this verb it was something wrong with the tail too diffused/ cloudy or something like this maybe i need to check it more and tweak it a little more hmm...

[T.R.]

Lexicon all the way. Sounds most natural to me and its tweakability is stunning. Perhaps try the Plate instead and make it sound more Hall-ish. Your description of the sound you're after makes me think that you may have started at the wrong point. The characteristics of a Hall reverb are not quite suited for your needs if I understand what you are describing correctly.
But hey, were talking about perception of sound, so your mileage will vary definitely.

Subscribed now and all the best!

[Simonator]

Yep, I agree that Aether seems to fit what you are after.

Lexicons are nice.

I don't know what DAW you are in, but I still adore Logic's Space Designer convolution reverb.


On the rougher end of the spectrum, Vacuumsound's Poor Plate can often be just the ticket.
The good news is, it's freeware. Bad news (for PC users!) is that it's Mac only.
It's intended to model the 80's digital hardware plate reverb units. I've had good results on house percussion.

[tsutek]

+1 for UAD EMT250.. just love it on electronic stuff! The UAD Lexi is wonderful as well, I'll get it as soon as my budget allows it.

One underdog in the native world IMHO is Mverb, a very nice freebie.

[kai handberg]

Apart from the ones mentioned here:

Am I the only one who enjoys deploying the Kjaerhus classic verb? I really get some neat dirty spaces from it sometimes.

edit: C'est free!

[artech909]

Nice suggestions so far.
Are you tweak your reverb from scratch? (not all producers do it actually)
If so whats your favorite diffuse settings because this is one of the most critical setting in any reverb? (for example too low and you will have more direct/separated echo feel too much and it will be big omnidirectional reverb cloud) Please don't to tell me about theory behind the reverberation effect cause i know all the math already just your experience please.

[Sleazebag]

My favourite is QuikQuak Fusion Field

Also use the free Magnus Ambience plug

[mattyc]

Valhalla stuff, Echoboy

[Whalez]

Originally Posted by tsutek

+1 for UAD EMT250.. just love it on electronic stuff! The UAD Lexi is wonderful as well, I'll get it as soon as my budget allows it.

One underdog in the native world IMHO is Mverb, a very nice freebie.

Hey thanks man I checked out the mverb and its very cool great for people with no cash so I don't have to always use the one in ableton

[minibof]

Got the Softube TSAR recently and absolutely love it.

Prior to that I always used the Sonnox reverb or Logic's Space Designer.

All three serve me very well for my productions and all have very different characteristics so give me a fairly broad palette.

I used to use Space Designer with its impulse in reverse for some nice effect splashes used with a flanger.

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[Gunark]

Call me a fool but I'm getting plenty of mileage from Live's reverb. Reminds me of a dense 80s digital reverberations, and makes my hardware (even my tx81z) sound big and full at about 80% mix. I know its not as lush as others but nor was my Studio Quad but it sounded great. I once did the all the vsts under the sun thing, now I tend to just plonk Live ones in and get on with it.

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[offki]

The ableton one is ok too, the thing is comparing the sonic possibilities to Aether is like comparing an Eagle to a Stealth Bomber, they both fly around and kill things but not quite in the same way or scale.

[Andrew Souter]

Originally Posted by offki

The ableton one is ok too, the thing is comparing the sonic possibilities to Aether is like comparing an Eagle to a Stealth Bomber, they both fly around and kill things but not quite in the same way or scale.

LOL!

That's great! Can I quote that for marketing?

[CoolColJ]

rendering your own impulses with that virtual room simulator from Voxengo can be interesting if you want to get creative

[T.R.]

Originally Posted by CoolColJ

rendering your own impulses with that virtual room simulator from Voxengo can be interesting if you want to get creative

What? Explain yourself, evildoer!

[offki]

Originally Posted by Andrew Souter

LOL!

That's great! Can I quote that for marketing?

If you like, I'm not sure Ableton will be happy tho