HI Can't say I've had a lot to do with Synth reverbs, I come from a ' live' sound engineering background so tended to use reverbs very sparingly. As a recording engineer and moving to digital this is a different ball game. I think it really depends on the type of music you are aiming for. In the UK if your making a commercial single then anything goes and it must be as loud as possible!! As in ' Frankie goes to Hollywood ' I think these songs drip Synth reverb. I must admit to struggling with reverb settings as they sound ok one minute and then not the next as the track moves on. Cheers Bob On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 00:31 +0000, tim hall wrote: > Last Thursday 03 February 2005 22:11, davidrclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx was like: > > Bob, > > > > You recently posted: > > > I use the ' less is more ' when it comes to reverb! > > > Also using just one reverb as an Aux send and sending all tracks to it > > > with varying amounts really helps. > > > > This is what many hardware synths do for a "performance" or "program." All > > of the instruments go through the same reverb (and chorus). The amount of > > reverb can be varied for each channel. > > > > I agree that we could do with better reverbs. > > None of this is to be taken as a diss on Freeverb or Gverb. They still sound > better than my old quadraverb! > Here I'm just going to pay attention and take notes. There is a certain school > of engineering which goes for naturalistic reproduction and I'm not worthy to > even patch your outboard effects. So, as a humble student I would say that it > doesn't have to be 'realistic'. Over-the-top reverbs have their uses, > however, they do have to be pleasing to ear. I guess I'm not going to be > surprised if you tell me that's best achieved by following naturalistic > principles too, but surely we don't _have_ to try to reproduce the room? > > I want a virtual forest please ;-) > > cheers, > > tim hall > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
