Whats your standrat SHORT/LONG reverb tweaking? (tail,pre delay,scaling,).

[meymia]

HI!
I was just wondering when your making your reverb on fx channels how do u tweak them?

tail,pre delay,scaling, size.

For both short and long reverbs.

Thanks!

[meymia]

And a bump!

[meymia]

bump

[mixboy bob]

The answers is:

However and whatever it takes. It may be a preset, it may be something I tweak like crazy. Experimentation is the key. What works today won't wok tomorrow. Mixing is a CRAFT - a skill that is learned by DOING.

There is no way any of my settings will help you at all unless you are completely tapped into my brain, have my exact vision for the mix and completely agree with me.

Not trying to be harsh - this is truly meant to be helpful.

This is art. Be an artist. You won't regret it. Then learn how to use that art to satisfy a service based industry and you'll be good to go!

peace

Rob Burrell
aka mixboy

[joeq]

other than maybe setting predelay to the rhythm of the song, I too, can't think of much advice involving tweaks that would translate to someone else's mix.

While inevitably one reverb will be longer than another, I would say the idea that you must have a "long" and a "short" in your mix is just another starting point that people have somehow taken for a rule. How much less likely that specifics of decay and size and preday will work for your song. It's never twice the same.


My best advice would be to read up on what these terms mean. Once you understand what diffusion is, for example, turn it up and down and see you can 'hear' what is changing in light of what you 'understand' is happening. Both the listening and the understanding are necessary to be able to 'visualize' what can be done.

I can make the workflow suggestion to crank the effect when you first put it on to make subtle differences more obvious. For example, solo the snare, give it a huge amount of reverb, tweak tweak tweak or flip flip flip through presets to find the "right" sound and then turn it back down to a tasteful level.

I know I am glossing over the 'finding the right sound' part and I know that is really the hard part, but it is also the part you need to do for yourself.


I could make another workflow suggestion: I have a reverb template session with auxes and plug-ins all ready to go. Large, medium and small rooms, plates, delays and also returns from my hardware verbs. I use "import session data" to bring these channels into my mix - as needed, or all at once. But that is just for saving the hassle of making, labeling, and assigning auxes, not for using the presets.

[kyle barton]

this thread was a great read for me... might give you some ideas

[Musiclab]

Usually I put the verb in time or around in time. Different verbs get different tweaks, for instance with the KSP8 I tweak time and HF damping and predelay. With my PCM 90 it's usually time and room size and predelay. Generally I try to find a sound I think is right for what I'm trying to do and tweak from there.