Topic: Best reverb ever?
What do the reverb aficionados think of this reverb? Worth the money? Would it make a good pairing with pianoteq? I'm not sure how to test it... I have Reaper but not really sure how to route the output of Pianoteq to this
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- Key Fumbler
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I had a play with it some months ago, when it was on introductory price. I thought it was very nice. Ultimately however I felt I had enough algorithmic reverbs and I was happy enough with the convolution reverbs I already have.
The GUI interface was in a different League to the old Reverberate 2 however the upgrade to Reverberate 3 solved that. Owners of reverberate and reverberate 2 can get an upgrade price to version 3.
So the liquidsonics reverb I'm happy with is his very latest one Reverberate 3. Almost no fanfare on that one, probably because it's more of a budget option than his premium reverbs. Stereo only though.
If you want a surround sound reverb you could do a lot worse than the one in your video link without having to fiddle about with templates to use your stereo reverbs for surround sound recordings within your chosen DAW.
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Irmin wrote:
.. I have Reaper but not really sure how to route the output of Pianoteq to this
Typically people use FX 100% wet within VST FX and use volume fader on an aux track instead.
You can use this method for applying FX to one or multiple or all tracks:
https://youtu.be/KhK8UGYRXXc
Otherwise you can just add fx to single tracks and adjust the dry/wet balance in the plug-in itself.
Reaper has a good forum for any further help.
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Key Fumbler wrote:
Irmin wrote:.. I have Reaper but not really sure how to route the output of Pianoteq to this
Typically people use FX 100% wet within VST FX and use volume fader on an aux track instead.
You can use this method for applying FX to one or multiple or all tracks:
https://youtu.be/KhK8UGYRXXcOtherwise you can just add fx to single tracks and adjust the dry/wet balance in the plug-in itself.
Reaper has a good forum for any further help.
Thank you for this information.
- florian.rachor
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I'm on a Mac, I use Mainstage to load VST instances and then send busses to route the reverbs. Works really good. Personally I settled for Valhalla Room & Supermassive (Supermassive is free, Room is pretty reasonable) but the reverbs that come with Mainstage are also really good. If you have a Mac, consider getting Mainstage.
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Florian,
The Valhalla reverbs and delays are some of my favourites. Vintage is great.
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Yea I was totally torn between Room & Vintage. I found Room better for my style of playing, but Vintage was a hard contender.
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- Vagporto
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florian.rachor wrote:
Yea I was totally torn between Room & Vintage. I found Room better for my style of playing, but Vintage was a hard contender.
Just to compare settings (and sorry if this hijacks the thread...), what presets do you use in ValhallaRoom?
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florian.rachor wrote:
Yea I was totally torn between Room & Vintage. I found Room better for my style of playing, but Vintage was a hard contender.
I also believe Room is best suited between those two, but FabFilter Pro-R is pretty perfect. Also check PSP’s PianoVerb2.
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Fleer wrote:
florian.rachor wrote:Yea I was totally torn between Room & Vintage. I found Room better for my style of playing, but Vintage was a hard contender.
I also believe Room is best suited between those two..
If it was to be your only extra reverb then I might suggest Room instead.
That said Vintage has so many modes including modern sound modes. If you create your own presets Vintage does it all.
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Not sure why Room doesn't offer these as presets, but I find the Boston Symphony Hall described in the link below is a good bit more realistic than any of the concert hall presets:
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Not sure why Room doesn't offer these as presets, but I find the Boston Symphony Hall described in the link below is a good bit more realistic than any of the concert hall presets:
I suggest Sean Costello wanted to keep some presets for simple tutorials. A reverb like this or any reverb isn't really for the presets, those are just a launch point for your own presets.
I think it was KVR where he gave a description of how to get closest to recreating the Lexicon 224 sound from Vintage.
Alternatively you can make presets with short reverb times using some of the colourless settings for Vintage and it will sound modern. Settings such as "smooth plate" used with "Now" or "Concert Hall" used with "Now"
Room is better at putting the instruments in a space with defined dimensions.For that I would turn to the Reverberate 3 at the moment but Room is great too.
A couple of days ago Mr Costello came up with this for SUPERMASSIVE on his Twitter feed:
"Start with the default settings, set Warp to 60%, feedback to 100%, density to 100%. Instant infinite reverb."
"It turns out that ValhallaSupermassive works just great for infinite/"freeze" reverbs.
Not sure why I am only figuring this out now. I mean, I wrote the darned thing."
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NathanShirley wrote:
Not sure why Room doesn't offer these as presets, but I find the Boston Symphony Hall described in the link below is a good bit more realistic than any of the concert hall presets:
That is also my favorite , @Vagporto try setting that one up in Room, it's really great. I'll have to check what other presets I use, I put the all on send busses so I don't know anymore. For Supermassive it's 80ies Space Opera or how that's called, that one is amazing if you want an "unnatural" space.
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