Do you have any reverb tricks you use when mixing?

@thaggagangofficial4428

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this Video 📹 👍

@CrushingAxes

3 жыл бұрын

I like to use a reverb from the right channel on the left channel and add a delay.

@acommon

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Don't be afraid to compress your reverbs for some fun effects!

@hondbanjer

3 жыл бұрын

I feed a tap delay into a long reverb without sending it (delay) to the mix, works great on slow music.

@timhewitt32

3 жыл бұрын

I set up my most commonly used reverbs on aux tracks in a template I use for virtually all my mixes. These reverbs all have an EQ before and after the reverb - disabled to start - so I am always reminded that I may need to use this and don't forget. I also have a "little room aux reverb" that virtually all my digital instruments go into as part of almost every mix - but it's in my template so it's staring at me when I start the work and I don't have to remember to include it.

On automation: I always automate the sends, not the returns. That way you can have a word 'explode' and the trails will remain on their 'natural path'.

@zachary963

3 жыл бұрын

I figured this out about two months ago. Great tip!

@nikhillekhra

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Great tip 👍

Here's a reverb tip I use regularly: Using compression after the reverb to "extend" the tail loudness, so the decay becomes non-linear. It can help it to sustain longer without having to use an excessively long reverb decay setting. Once the compressor has fully relaxed, the reverb is now below the threshold of perception, ready for the next vocal/guitar/keyboard phrase.

@chrisibbetson

3 жыл бұрын

Do the same, it works well exactly as you descibe! :-)

@patkelly3966

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisibbetson Me too

@patkelly3966

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisibbetson By accident or ear anyway

@pdbeck65

3 жыл бұрын

try expander for the opposite effect!!

@briancase6180

3 жыл бұрын

In bitwig, you can use the audio-sidechain modulator with any reverb to control the mix or gain (or on any fx or any parameter like a filter cutoff in a synth) based on some other track's audio so the reverb tail lasts as long as needed. It's nothing special, it's like using another track as the automation, but you don't have to draw it (as with the compressor: it's like automation without specifying it explicitly).

Always appreciate the work! We sure do learn from our experiences!

As always, fantastic tutorial. THX Warren ! All best.

Exactly what I needed right now. Great video! Thanks Warren!

I always learn new tricks from your very valuable and classy tutorials, Warren. Keep on the great work!

Thank you so much Warren for all of your magical tricks, they work perfectly in the mixes :)

Thank you Warren, great reminders!!!

So so so much great tips in this video! Lots of note taking with this one. Thanks!

Another awesome video Warren. Thank you.

Thanks Warren, this series of vids has been really interesting and eye opening 😎

Always helpful. Thank you!

Thank you Warren, such great stuff!!

So much gratitude for this! Thank you

Thank you for sharing your knowlegde Warren, i deeply appreciate your videos. Very informative and instructive :)

The thumbnail images on the last few videos are on point! Love it

Thank you for your videos! I've become such a big fan of you channel, you offer some very useful bits of information

Really great tips

Another very usefull course !! Thanks alot. I spent a lot of time struggling with reverb settings before changing my converter. Now I really hear what I'm doing.

Thank you Warren - you are amazing!

Very helpful as always

More good stuff. Adds to my bag of tricks 40 years on. Pretty cool. Thank you Warren.

Love this video. Reverb has been more elusive to me than compression in many ways. Thx Warren!

Great video. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing I will watch more of your videos

"Employ Effects for a Reason" - great advice sir. I'm listening.

Being the naughty lad that I am, I often employ saturation and harmonizers on my reverb returns after the reverb. I also like using the Klanghelm MJUC compressor (in dual mono mode) on stereo verbs to control the attack and bloom of reverbs in some instances. A de-esser before the reverb plugin is another trick that helps reduce the "ping" and "boing" artifacts that you sometimes get with sources that have sibilance or bright percussive transients. My ITB mix template has a bus that I send reverbs and delays to. I use a U73b vari-mu style compressor (in limit mode) and then stereo widening set to 150% as a starting point on this bus, which them feeds into the mix bus. Great video, Warren. Thanks so much! - chaz

@greensleeves32

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, like Dave Pensado says, "clear out the middle!" I love super spreading my verb. Sounds huge yet defined still when the time isn't too long and washy sounding

@BrandonStonerAEP

3 жыл бұрын

Klanghelm stuff is stellar. I don't use many plug-in manuf. but they are by far the most underrated IMO.

@EversonBernardes

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, saturating and distressing the reverb signal is pretty underrated. Did a track with a bitcrushed reverb, the other day. Fun stuff.

@lisabethlawrence

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrandonStonerAEP love their stuff too!

This channel is fantastic. Lots of knowledge. TKS Warren!

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Stefan!

Superb as always. Can't wait to get recording again

Awesome. Thank you, Warren!

Good stuff, thanks for the wisdom..

Excellent tutorial! Greatly appreciated. Thanks

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much John!

Automating reverb! That helps so much! Thanks!

Fantastic info as always, Mr. Huart! This is a great review of the do's and don'ts of reverb.

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much!!

Very helpful, thank you!

Warren - great work and tips as always. Even though the audience is studio engineers, there's so much of this that's applicable for live engineers - especially when you consider the natural reverberation in a room.

Thank you so much for this!!!

So happy to have these reminders. I remember the days of putting reverb directly on the track and wondering what happened. Such a kid I was. Still learning. Always learning. Pretty soon, I hope to have enough of a deeper understanding of all this stuff to start helping more and more. I'm learning so much. Thank you Warren.

Wow, great tips on this video! I generally avoid reverb for fear of muddying my mix. I'll have to give some of these a try

Thanks so very much! Great video as always! Thanks also to the PLAP community! I learn so much by reading the comments. What a wonderful family!

Crazy helpful! Thanks, Warren.

Excellent video!

All these Mistakes videos are really educational in a useful way. Thanks Warren.

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much! I’m glad to be able tobhelp

Gracias por sus excelentes y expertos consejos. Aprendo mucho. Saludos y Thank you

I gotta say this. Every now and then I have to come back to this channel and learn new stuff. Not only you demonstrate that you are a great professional through the results of your work (your mixes), but also you know how to teach those things, how to communicate in the best way possible. Your videos are so didactic, the language is so intuitive, it's amazing. Thank you very much for putting the time to share your knowledge with us! We are privileged.

Learning tons from you sir.... Love from Nagaland,

Warren is a blessing and a national treasure

THANK YOU FOR THIS.

Very useful. Thanks.

You,re the man thanks so much!

Awesome stuff my friend...actually gave me a few new ideas to try :)

Good to see ya mate. Nice video.

Thank you for the tips 🔥

Hey Warren, thank you so much for your videos! They're both educational and inspiring and are helping me greatly on my road to become a great artist and producer. Not even mentioning the overwhelming positivity! Can I ask you whether you've done any video on rap vocal mixing? I've tried finding it but unsuccessfuly, it would be very helpful to see how you would approach mixing it. Have a wonderful day.

So... Much... Sense... Thank you for this invaluable info

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much

Thank you for putting the content in the description.

Such a great help. I’ve been getting better at so many things in mixing but reverb is my weakest link by far

I find myself using less and less reverb as time goes by but its really nice to see these tips as a reminder to not screw up the little bits of verb I do use

Thanks to your older videos, I only made 2/6 mistakes, you are amazing !, and I love the sound of your voice haha

Great suggestions. Go Warren

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Joe!!

great video warren

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much

Absolutely fantastic person!!! Thanks for your videos and kindness. Cheers from Russia!!!

amazing Helped a lot although i know most of them but it was like approval on my methods thanks a lot

I'm a Cubase user, and about the stock reverbs, they are interesting, but I love the Softube TSAR-1R! :) it sounds so perfect!

This is such a helpful video

Wooww, i learn so much, thank you very much!!!

Im guilty of all of these! This video just changed my reverb game, Warren you're the best!!

I am so happy i bumped in to your channel. So far my favorite studio channel was Glenn Fricker, but he dont teach us anything. He just yell at everyone.. You on the other hand are a diamond teacher. I dont even know how to thank you.

Great tips. Thanks

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Pete!!

SO helpful 👏🏻

TAL-Reverb does a great job of living up to that first point about EQ’ing your reverb. It’s a free plate reverb VST with a little 3 band EQ that affects the wet signal, it’s been my go-to reverb for quite some time now and I didn’t have to pay a dime

Thank you for this video

Great video! I noticed this in your tracks for the Valerie cover: your reverbs all lived in their separate channels. It makes that kind of "head-knocking" kind of sense to have the reverbs separated, once you've seen it. But I think that the wet/dry mix that comes with every reverb sort of implicitly leads you to the conclusion that they should live together. Thanks!

@chrisibbetson

3 жыл бұрын

i'll stick reverbs on certain things that are static with the mix setting just to create a constant space maybe a drum loop or a synth, for vocal reverbs and drums etc i'll go with a send always.

you are a good man thanks

+1 Thank you for the Reverb tips! Very under talked about thing, especially automating your verbs on chorus'! Great tips! Question though-I normally will use say 4 bus verbs on my whole song, say a nice room, a plate, a hall, and usually another longer room or a longer hall or shorter hall. Then I use sends for each track and send those out to those 4 verbs when needed. So a lot of the time I will only use 1 verb or maybe 2 verbs for 1 thing like snare drum, and for vocals use a little bit of the short room, and a little bit of the hall, and for bass just a pinch of the short room to make it feel like everything was played together, for guitars same thing, and on the solo toss in a pinch of the hall or maybe the plate, drums it's room and plate ...smidge of room on everything then mix in the plate on OH's, and Snare sometimes on the toms, but usually not on the kick, sometimes it works though. Point being I see you use a lot more reverbs than I usually do. I usually only use 4 different verbs on buses and 2 or 3 delay's and use sends for those. I see you use a lot more than that. What's your theory behind that, as I need to improve my reverb uses as what I'm doing doesn't seem to be cutting it!

Great advice! Thanks and cheers!

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome Oliver!!

Again, great tips, man. Subbed and belled...

@Producelikeapro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much

Absolutely brilliant what I learned from this, even just the amount this refreshed the basics of engineering for me, again brilliant

@Producelikeapro

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks Charlie

i like your performs thank you sir thanks a lot god bless

Awesome, exactly in the right moment ! I checked Jordans channel where he recommend to use reverb only on one or two elements and delay on the rest for spacing the elements - seems like this week is dedicated to learn new ways about using reverb ! Honestly, that's why I love mixing, everybody got his own way and style and shares it, thanks Warren ✌

@MixChecks

3 жыл бұрын

That's definitely the fun part of mixing. So many cool techniques to try :)

Great tips. I sometimes forget that I should be automating reverb. A tip I swear by is adding color/saturation to important reverb to compress & beef it up a bit to help it cut through. Also I like to be mindful of early & late reflections...my rule is if I want to coat the sound & get out the way, I try to get a subtle amount of the reverb to coat the dry sound & get out the way quickly. However, if I want a fancy tail to be heard & not just felt, I switch the way I think of reverb & I focus solely on getting the late reflections to time right with the pre-delay knobs & changing the length of the verb for longer. When I think like this, it helps me to not chase my tail trying to get both the early & late reflections to sound perfect using a single reverb which can be just as crippling as putting the reverb directly on the dry signal's bus as you recommended not to.

Thank you so much. I was fighting a particular NI reverb the other day. I was interested to see what verb you were using on that drum sound, because it sounded huge! D-Verb! Love it. Thank you for killing the GAS gremlins.

Having said all of that, ‘for the most part’ I think you’re second to none in your talent and approach. Over the past few years’ you’ve taught me more than anyone - and that is a fact.

Very much agree with the reverb fx bus or aux channel. I totally grew up digital and never really understood what these bus channels are for, until i had a reverb on a vocal track that got really messy because it heavily interacted with the compressor :D great "trick".

Great video thank you ! I would add : sidechaining the reverb. Especially with long decay. For example, I do it on lead vocals needing really wide effect when the musical context demands it : compressor on the reverb channel, sidechaining with lead vocal as sidechain input. Very efficient to not drown the vocals in order to turn down the reverb tails when the singer starts another phrase.

Using one send reverb for some tracks builts a great amtosphere

I talked about tip number two once. About crossfading the reverb decay. Having the decay dying off before the next beat, or phrase. I once mentioned it in the comments of another video. At the time, someone told me not to do that... Anywho...not a hard and fast rule. But for dense, or heavy mixes, it's pretty useful to keep the verb from cluttering up the final result. Makes for tighter, punchier mixes for certain. At least for me, on not just vocals, but everything. I can see leaving it hanging GOING TO CALIFORNIA or BATTLE OF EVERMORE style on other stuff, but not super dense mixes where ya want punch. Just my take. As Warren says, "There are no experts here..." I am certainly not one myself. Loved the Phil Allen video BTW. Thanks for bringing that to the channel.

Great tips, thanks so much for sharing your experience so generously as always. I completely agree that it’s generally better to have verbs on a send rather than on the track directly however, that’s not to say having a reverb on a track is a mistake as it may be inherent to the sound, much in the same way as a delay or tremolo might be an integral part of the sound of a guitar for example. I’m sure that was the intent of your message but just thought it worth pointing out.

Great timing! I was just going to do some mixing on a song I recorded a while a go. I'll use some of these tricks for sure! P.D: I just remembered about the Gullfoss giveaway, what happend with that?

Great advice Warren liked the explanation of advantages for using a send / aux bus rather than putting the reverb directly on the track.

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much Jeroen!

Thank you.

I agree about using stock reverbs, and stock plugins in general. It also makes your project much more compatible with other computers.

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Great! Yes, agreed!!

good stuff!

Very Help Full

@Producelikeapro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ever so much

thanks ..i get it... gonna try the automation , i had been doing some eq before and on the reverb channel, but hadnt done much automation as i had been loading it on the send part of track / pulling in a certain amount as i like...but, so yeah b thanks,,,

Tip 2 was something I hadn't really thought about before.

Thanks very much very helpful and interesting. Recently I used side chain compression with reverb and delay to come in at the end of vocal phrases. I find this quite useful for ballad type songs.I have question about the mic you were using the sm7b. Do you reckon its a good microphone for vocals ? I know its not a question about reverb i hope you don't mind. I saw your review on the Lewitt LCT 441 Flex. And you mentioned that it doesn't sound so sharp in the high end like some mikes in this price range. I noticed from the frequency responce graph that there's a boost in the high end which has sort of confused and left me thinking that maybe it would sound a bit on the bright side. I would be interested to hear your opinion about that please ? Thanks again for all your good work.

Thanks for explaining these mistakes. I'm sure I've been guilty through the years, even after real life courses and the shame when listening back to my 'work'. 🎶👍

Very nice, I needed this right now! Should you low cut frequencies dependent on the key of the song(using a frequency/note conversion chart?) Thanks!