How would your music sound in a perfect room? A supernatural reverb from denise

[Denise.Audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2dTaG9Rj4

How would your music sound in a perfect room?

Classic algorithmic reverb plugins use a combination of short feedbacking delays to create the Illusion of reverberation. These delays cause unwanted metallic resonances and sharp spikes in the reverb’s frequency response. The denise team challenged themselves to create something better - a perfect room - and invented their TXVerb™ technology. Using this technology, the denise Perfect Room doesn’t use delays for the tail and will enhance the character and colouration of any audio you run through it in an extremely natural way, sounding defined and tight from the lowest kick all the way up to the highest vocal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA9l23AaQkM

Looking for feedback from professional musicians and engineers, we asked Thomas Qvist of the Royal Danish Conservatory to test the Perfect Room. He tried it out with his students, and even though we at denise think the Perfect Room is powerful, it’s always an exciting moment to find out if the real world actually likes it, too. Thomas wrote something that made us blush. We say, go and test it yourselves... https://www.denise.io/store/denise/PerfectRoom

“I have tested it very closely and I am very happy with it! It’s actually in my template now, next to my hardware Lexicon 480L What I really like is that it does something else than all the other reverbs I like. The ‘natural’ reverbs tend to be midrange, but this one is somehow more linear and I like it a lot!”

The Perfect Room highlights:

• TXVerb™ reverb technology: Unique algorithm that enhances natural character & colouration.

• Zero metallic resonance: Retain the clarity and presence of your lead instruments without metallic cluttering.

• Completely tight low-end: Add reverb that sounds completely tight when used on low sources like kick-drums, toms, basses & synths.

• Larger than life mono –> stereo: Create a wide stereo reverb from a mono source without any phase issues.

• Crazy effects: Built-in Shimmer, Detune & Internal Ducker.

• Single tracks, busses & mastering: Sounds so balanced you can use it on your whole track during mastering.

• Perfect for external FX: Used on a bus, you can combine the Perfect Room with all kinds of effects to create character and excitement.

We challenge you!

Go try and compare the Perfect Room with your favourite natural reverb. On the denise website you can download the stems from a track produced by nrec to showcase the Perfect Room and decide for yourself.

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• Get any single plugin, except for the Perfect Room & Bad Tape for €17.99 inc vat - £14.90 / $16.39 ex vat.

Head to the Perfect Room page on the denise audio website to see more tips & tricks and grab a copy for yourself: https://www.denise.io/store/denise/PerfectRoom

[lwj]

Sounds very interesting. Indeed very different from other reverbs!
This has been exactly what I'm looking for... soundwise. It's a shame you can't really automate the tails. Seems like it cuts out whenever I change it, and comes back with a click.

[ilmai]

Sounds nice but marketing seems a bit dishonest and that's driving me off. The only reverbs that I know of that sound as bad as the "metallic" examples are freebies. Doesn't seem like a sensible comparison to make.

[alexishere]

That was on my mind the whole time.

Maybe really old daw freebie reverbs sound like that, but now in logic, there’s Chromaverb sounds so good and natural.

People are using - valhalla, acon digital verberate 2, relab sonsig, softube tsar, seventh heaven pro etc etc the list goes on and on - NONE of them has that matallic sound. Comparing to the worst of the worst reverbs to make the new reverb seem revolutionary is tacky and based on the assumption that people are stupid but people are not.

[andymcbain]

Indeed, the "very common algorithmic reverb" in the video example is without a doubt the grottiest sounding verb I've ever heard It could be an idea for a plugin in itself...

But the algorithm here sounds pretty good to me and the price is good... so looks to be worth a try

[lwj]

Loving this. Very impressed by how this sounds! I've already used it on my track.. there's even a subtle instance on my master.

[AdvancedFollower]

I agree about the marketing - You mean to say everyone has been doing digital reverbs wrong for the past 40+ years, and it took until now until a small plugin company finally figured out how to make a digital reverb that doesn't sound metallic and awful?

That said, the actual reverb sounds nice and smooth. Not sure it sounds significantly better than the myriad of other qualty reverbs available, but it's definitely up there.

[zentatonic]

The gui on this is pretty stunning. Checking it out now...

[lwj]

I'm still wondering what the split function does though. That doesn't seem to be explained anywhere.

Edit: found it. Mono or stereo input, right?

[Denise.Audio]

I'm still wondering what the split function does though. That doesn't seem to be explained anywhere.

Edit: found it. Mono or stereo input, right?

Hi lwj, the split function is explained in the Walkthrough video. It's a stereo/mono button, where the stereo width is controlled by the "width" control. Let me know if you have any more questions though.

Joe

[Denise.Audio]

Sounds nice but marketing seems a bit dishonest and that's driving me off. The only reverbs that I know of that sound as bad as the "metallic" examples are freebies. Doesn't seem like a sensible comparison to make.

Hi Ilmai, thanks for your comment. I can't tell you the name of the reverb, but I can say that it's a commonly used one and it's not a freebie.

[Denise.Audio]

Sounds very interesting. Indeed very different from other reverbs!
This has been exactly what I'm looking for... soundwise. It's a shame you can't really automate the tails. Seems like it cuts out whenever I change it, and comes back with a click.

Hey lwj, thanks for your question. The reason you can't automate the tail is because it would be too draining on the CPU, so the reverb tail doesn't change until after you let go of the mouse.

I hope that answers your question.

Joe

[Vortifex]

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[Denise.Audio]

The gui on this is pretty stunning. Checking it out now...

Pleased you like it, zentatonic.

[lwj]

Sounds very interesting. Indeed very different from other reverbs!
This has been exactly what I'm looking for... soundwise. It's a shame you can't really automate the tails. Seems like it cuts out whenever I change it, and comes back with a click.

Hey lwj, thanks for your question. The reason you can't automate the tail is because it would be too draining on the CPU, so the reverb tail doesn't change until after you let go of the mouse.

I hope that answers your question.

Joe

Yeah, I figured it was something like that.. or some kind of limitation with the algorhythm. I'm sure I'll find some creative uses for automating it anyway Actually tried answering your original question yesterday... sounded pretty spacy.

https://soundcloud.com/lwj/lwj-tunnelvision-contest