Can anyone point me to a good article on the web covering basic reverb techniques to position sounds in a mix.
My google searches dont return anything worthwhile... either too basic or just new ideas rather than general technique. And the studiocover.som page is down...

Thanks in advance,
d.

Thanks!

But actually I was looking for something along the lines of mixing techniques with reverb.... e.i. short reverb pulls sound closer vs long reverb pushes it back... (just pulled that out of my as*)

well in that case you pretty much got what i know

if it helps,i tend to use 3 reverbs in total
one on the master channel set at a light ambient just to pull the track together
then 2 different ones on send fx
one as you say set short the other long
then depending on which instrument and where i want it in the mix i add more or less of the particular verb necassary
usually quite short on drums(except for some of my more experimental tracks)
a long one on pads and then work from there to make everything flow

probably confused issues here and i wouldnt call myself an expert but im sure someone will point us both in the right direction

ok... just found these two:

part1:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct01/articles/advancedreverb1.asp?ses sion=bf5e5890a44b01291ff49507740da52f

part2:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Nov01/articles/advancedreverb2.asp?ses sion=8f63d3f9a6f9125bc7ad6bc7d6d5ad92

havnt read all way thru yet...

I use 2 on send effects and that's all. I set just about every channel to around 4% to my lighter reverb, then use a combo of increasing it and adding some of the other one when i need more.

vurt, i really wouldn't reccomend putting a reverb on the master, but hey - do what sounds good to you

I stopped using send reverb almost completely except for classical pieces.
Electronic stuff - nah, there are better ways to add spacial definition to the music. But I've never had the luxury of trying really high end hardware reverbs.

chagzuki wrote:

I stopped using send reverb almost completely except for classical pieces. Electronic stuff - nah, there are better ways to add spacial definition to the music. But I've never had the luxury of trying really high end hardware reverbs.

I dont know of any except the kurzweil maybe that can do better than soft... in fact with SIR, DreamVerb, Ambience, Freeverb(too), Pantheon etc.. There is very little out there that cant be done software wise. Ever wonder why there isnt a large market for "high-end reverb" units? Because they already exist in the software world Now compressors and EQ's.... that's where the stuff is at.

-R bert

I've heard so many people here say the opposite, that expensive Lexicons are a world apart from any plugin.

It's my habit now to use almost exclusively mono reverbs, often panned off the dry sound.

chagzuki wrote:

I've heard so many people here say the opposite, that expensive Lexicons are a world apart from any plugin. It's my habit now to use almost exclusively mono reverbs, often panned off the dry sound.

Ahhh, but the new pantheon and a couple of emerging reverbs rival the lexicon/sony/eventide/kurzweil units very much so. I am a collector of plate and spring reverbs and very discerning about reverb... always disliked digital soft reverbs, but in the last few months I've seen some very very nice things happening.

-R bert

SIR is such a great tool. Phenominal.