Anybody heard BReverb?

[dick swifter]

Hey, Has anybody heard BReverb? Thoughts? Thanks.

[Animus]

I demoed it. Just another digital reverb imo. I actually think I preferred CSR.

[dokushoka]

Yeah that was my feeling, too. Its very clean sounding, like a worse version of the new TC reverbs. The reverbs do "stick out" pretty well even in dense mixes, but I just thought the sound was extremely bland. Didn't do it for me.

[stagefright13]

How much does the plugin cost? Just buy a Lexicon or a Roland. Then you own it for real and it will sound better!! No plugins sound like hardware yet. I have tons of plugins. But use them as little as possible... Many times not at all. Waste of money that can be spent on classic hardware.

If ya want a cool reverb you won't find one as a plugin. If ya want a good compressor... Long story short.

[dokushoka]

Its $400. When I demo'ed it, my immediate thought was that it was fine as a kind of vanilla filler reverb but then I saw the price... For that price I could pick up yet another nice hardware unit and be much happier...

[planet red]

Totally agree with everyone.. Pretty boring and lacking 'size' (for lack of a better word).

The GUI looks pretty cool though.

[ghetto3jon]

one thing i noticed with the Breverb demo is minimal it's CPU requirements were. i was trying the CSR and Breverb next to each other...and although i thought the CSR sounded a little better, i was very impressed by Breverbs CPU performance. i could use it on every track without a problem on a G4.

[dick swifter]

Originally Posted by stagefright13

How much does the plugin cost? Just buy a Lexicon or a Roland. Then you own it for real and it will sound better!! No plugins sound like hardware yet. I have tons of plugins. But use them as little as possible... Many times not at all. Waste of money that can be spent on classic hardware.

If ya want a cool reverb you won't find one as a plugin. If ya want a good compressor... Long story short.

Thanks for the replies! I've been waiting to buy Altiverb until I get an Intel Mac, and was hoping BReverb was all it claimed to be with a low CPU drain.
I must say, I respectfully disagree with the above post. I have a PCM42 ,PCM70, and had a PCM80. And although they're not Lexicons top of the line like the 300/480/960, they're considered pretty good. And I have to say that EchoBoy smokes my PCM42 on most things, and while I have a few sounds in my PCM70 that I like alot(mostly for guitar), I have to say that the UA Plate 140 sounds nicer to my ears for drums and vocals etc., and although I don't own Alti-Verb (yet), I have heard it and was very impressed. It's just too demanding for my poor little Dual 2G G5. Bummer.

[ghetto3jon]

well, i'm not that experienced with reverb...outboard or plugin. i'ved used the waves stuff, and some TC outboard stuff. and i thought the Breverb sounded nice. and when you factor in the extremely low CPU demand, it's a real winner in my opinion. i would purchase it myself, but the demo crashed DP when i tried to apply a "mono to stereo" Breverb to a mono track. i'm going to do an OSX re-install pretty soon, i'll try the demo again and see how it goes. if i can get it to run on DP without any problems, i'm going to buy it.

[preben]

I also demoed the Breverb and I thought it was very, very good for what it is. I find that my powercore VSS3 is better (for what I want to hear).

If I was going for a native reverb I'd pick Breverb in a heartbeat. I have also tried the Sonnox one and whilst I love the EQ/Dyn stuff the verb didn't do it for me and I REALLY don't like the static tails of convolution reverbs.

To each his own and all that but I wouldn't dismiss the Breverb without hearing it first. You might possibly even want to do a search - it's been talked quite a lot about around here.

[Andraes]

Hello Dick,
You have a dual G5? Altiverb was already doing well on a G4.

[Tony Shepperd]

Breverb!