I've really been seeking out a HQ reverb solution. For quite a while, I was using VOS epicVERB 1.5. Of course, starting out with it, I wasn't really good at producing great results. Over the course of time I got much more familiar with it and found it to be a fantastic quality plugin. It actually "ruined" me because Bootsy's plugins, to my ears, rival very expensive commercial products. I got introduced to VOS plugins very soon after my initial entry into the world of PC recording/production. Dear me! How was I to know that all FREE plugins weren't as stellar as Bootsy's?
Well, I too got caught up in the hype of always searching for an "even better" plugin for this, that, or the other. After reading many, many reviews about IK CSR, I bought it for $50 when it was on sale in the spring of 2012. I like CSR and I do consider it to certainly be quite a bit better than most freeware reverbs. However, listening to some of my older vocal tracks that were mixed with epicVERB, I gotta say - epicVERB is better (to my ears). I mean no disrespect or lack of gratitude toward IK Multimedia; they offered their excellent suite of reverbs for a very affordable price.
It is my opinion that epicVERB can "nail" very nice, believable room sounds. It can produce fine, lush reverberation with nice long decay (tails) without nasty ol' metallic ringing or artefacting. When using it in "Ambeince" mode, it can totally make highhats "breathe" and sit very, very well in a mix - all very subtly.
My DAW is 32 bit. My plugins are all 32 bit. I understand that lots of folks have moved over to 64bit, but I honestly haven't felt the need to just yet. I am a faithful Acoustica supporter. Mixcraft 5.x was good to me, and the latest build of Mixcraft 6 is vewwy, vewwy good, you wascally wabbit. Fast, extremely intuitive, unlimited tracks, superb vst support, vst multi-out support, etc . .
We all read/hear so much about Aether, Breeze, EOS, ValhallaRoom, etc. I was just wondering how others felt about Bootsy's stuff? In particular, epicVERB.
