Message 17/25
Date: 23-Sep-04 @ 10:30 PM -
RE: reverb theory
tough one man cos it's so dependent on the material... I suggest using ONE reverb ...
perhaps try just doing excercises in depth - use the one verb and set it to a hall - more 'present' eq's (in the mid band 1-5k ish) bring thinsg forward, roll of the top and mid and things are less 'present' - add some verb to those to complete the illusion as a basic excercise.
if someone talks and backs away talking further and further as an experiment (try it with a mate in the park) the presense & top-end dissapears off their voice, the definition gets less and less
but delay is a very important tool cos it does delay to give depth and spacey-ness bbut can also create width... very very short delays panned one way and the instrument panned the other - create stereo spread, open up holes in the middle, add things into the hole etc
longer delays added very subtley and with 'some' reverb too creates alot of depth and spaceyness, but you gotta be subtle with the delay, not actualy really hear distinct repeats, the delay timing HAS to be right, and you can use less verb then... spaceyness doesn have to mean 'swamped in reverb
you can stop 'mushiness' by filtering the send signal to the effect unit, so the signal going to the reverb can have the bass-end shelved off subtley or dramaticaly... you could shelve off to remove deeper bass at around 110hz
do you ever solo the reverb bus in logic and listen to it alone? - anyways you can get glossy reverb with no bass or low-mid setup a signal to the reverb eq's in different ways and see the effect - like setup a send to Bus 1 in logic, add a 'FAT EQ' - THEN a reverb - setup a long verb and experiment with the eq
then add the delay on another bus and mix those two with the original, just like as a mess about I mean to see what you can see with those 3 items - one sound/VSTi, one eq/reverb bus and one delay bus, then just mess about
anyways, it's very dependent on the context, production decisions are so unique to each track, dont get obessed with depth.. which leads me to a question:
how's your mixes WITHOUT reverb at all?... or delay.. just raw and dry?
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