A reverb/delay trick

Pr.tiouz · 7th March 2007, 01:08 PM

I from a long time use the trick to send the reverb delay from a not compressed copied track of my lead vocal, but yesterday i had an alredy compressed track so i decided to go for an expander right before the reverb on the reverb bus (same with delay).
Wow, this was the same effect, a dramatic inprovement in the expression of the performance but even better...

i think there is two reason for that, i used renaissance compressor (with the ratio pulled all way up in the blue area) with a 50ms attack so the "push" on the send was lowering the attack of the sound going to the reverb (it's the contrary with compression wich usualy makes the attack louder) and the second reason was i plugged on the delay send a second expander after the first one and tweaked the threshold to kick in on the loudiest parts.

i imagine it has been used before so i'm interested if somebody can report back some refinements of this technique.

Zeppelin · 7th March 2007, 01:13 PM

Will try. Have never found a use expanders.
Nigel Godrich got some amazing reverbs/delay effects on Beck's Sea Change, maybe this is the ticket..

andychamp · 7th March 2007, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeppelin

Have never found a use expanders.

Feed them some drumloops you used to find boring and play around with the controls

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7th March 2007, 01:08 PM	#1
Pr.tiouz Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 162	A reverb/delay trick I from a long time use the trick to send the reverb delay from a not compressed copied track of my lead vocal, but yesterday i had an alredy compressed track so i decided to go for an expander right before the reverb on the reverb bus (same with delay). Wow, this was the same effect, a dramatic inprovement in the expression of the performance but even better... i think there is two reason for that, i used renaissance compressor (with the ratio pulled all way up in the blue area) with a 50ms attack so the "push" on the send was lowering the attack of the sound going to the reverb (it's the contrary with compression wich usualy makes the attack louder) and the second reason was i plugged on the delay send a second expander after the first one and tweaked the threshold to kick in on the loudiest parts. i imagine it has been used before so i'm interested if somebody can report back some refinements of this technique. __________________ www.studio-sirenes.com

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7th March 2007, 01:13 PM	#2
Zeppelin Gear maniac Join Date: May 2006 Location: Bondalen, Norway Posts: 166	Will try. Have never found a use expanders. Nigel Godrich got some amazing reverbs/delay effects on Beck's Sea Change, maybe this is the ticket..