Buy ALL The Reverbs!!!

[antithesist]

That's the spirit! Funny, too. I think all the ValhallaRoom vs. X and Y, and CSR going on sale for cheap kind of pushed things over the edge. It culminated for me with accusations of a particular developer's uh... prostitutes? maybe roaming too freely. There's probably a better way to put all that, but I'm itchin' to get back to the fun. Where's my drink?

[@midnight]

I don't really like to use a bunch of different reverbs. I usually stick to one reverb, with a few different settings, because I understand that is how professional records are made.

[@midnight]

Apart from the odd guitar with a special spring reverb, or what have you. But for general reverb duties, I use one reverb per album, with a few different settings. I let the songwriting do the rest.

[Aiynzahev]

Run the LX480 through Aether on some long endless reverb setting at 50% mix. Beautiful. (For thematic and textured styles). I will post some examples sometime.

Those are the only two I won though. The only others I may get are TC Electronic's $40 one, Lexicon native or some sort and ArtsAcoustic and Shimmer. These are not priority buys of course

[antithesist]

I don't know why someone would want a ton of reverb plugins. I guess it depends on the style of music you make, but once you have found the few that really define your sound, what is the motivation to keep buying them? I have a few freebies and a couple of commercial ones, and I have yet to find myself stuck during mixing for yet another reverb algorithm. Is there really a need for more and more reverbs or are we looking at a case of GAS? If there is something I am missing, I would truly like to know.

Of course it's GAS, my reverb's bigger than yours, that one does something that mine doesn't do, etc. Plus there's plain old shopaholism, buyer's remorse, collecting and hoarding. You're not missing anything, other than the serious aspect of what Shy wrote. Most people seem to want bigger and better, not to mention newer and faster. My problem is with wanting more vs. wanting less (maybe that does more, maybe not). I've been thinking of it more like this lately: do you mind having a lot of presets for your favorite synth? If you don't, then maybe it's okay to think of your plug-ins as presets. That makes it okay to have a lot, right? Of course, this all goes for other than reverb plug-ins. Okay, back to the fun! We're going to try to have a sack race in a little while.

[Aiynzahev]

Well maybe for some, but It depends on the music you make as well.

Some people use reverb to create realistic spaces while others do different things with them. They vary a lot in this regard and there is a certain quality about reverbs that makes them addictive. They vary so much in character.

[valhallasound]

Is there really a need for more and more reverbs or are we looking at a case of GAS? If there is something I am missing, I would truly like to know.

I can say it more than once,
'Cause I'm thinkin' twice as fast,
Yo-dee-ay-lay-heee, lay-dee, hee.

Everything I like is nice,
That's why I try to have it twice,
Yo-dya-lay-heee, lay-dee, hee.

LLLLLLAAYYYY DEEEEE, HEE,
YODEEALLAAYYYY HEEEEE, HEE,
YODEEALLAAYYYY, HEEEEE, HEE.

LAYDEE HEE,
YODEEALLAAYYYY HEEEEE, HEE,
LLLAAYYDEEE, HEEEEE, HEE.

That's the spirit! Funny, too. I think all the ValhallaRoom vs. X and Y, and CSR going on sale for cheap kind of pushed things over the edge. It culminated for me with accusations of a particular developer's uh... prostitutes? maybe roaming too freely.

Well once I saw a bore,
Who was a social whore,
Yo-dee-a-lay-hee, hee, hoo.

And they said I had a limp,
And then they tried to say (pass around) I was a pimp,
Yo-del-ay-heee, lay-hee, hee.

YODEEALLAAYYYY HEEEEE, HEE,
YODEEALLAAYYYY HEEEEE, HEE,
YODEEALLAAYYYY, HEEEEE, HEE.

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[darsho]

what do you mean 'buy all the reverbs'

There are other revberbs besides ValhallaRoom ?

Be cursed, Blasphemist !

Thou shalt only have one reverb and it's name is Valhalla !

[eytanmich123]

Is there really a need for more and more reverbs or are we looking at a case of GAS? If there is something I am missing, I would truly like to know.

I can say it more than once,
'Cause I'm thinkin' twice as fast,
Yo-dee-ay-lay-heee, lay-dee, hee.
....
....
....

That's the spirit! Funny, too. I think all the ValhallaRoom vs. X and Y, and CSR going on sale for cheap kind of pushed things over the edge. It culminated for me with accusations of a particular developer's uh... prostitutes? maybe roaming too freely.

Well once I saw a bore,
Who was a social whore,
Yo-dee-a-lay-hee, hee, hoo.

YODEEALLAAYYYY HEEEEE, HEE,

Sean, I thought you "just make eye balls"

Apparently, you "make" a whole lot more...

[eytanmich123]

And while we're at it :

BUY EVERYTHING ! FROM ANYONE ! EVEN IF IT'S FREE !!

[eytanmich123]

what do you mean 'buy all the reverbs'

There are other revberbs besides ValhallaRoom ?

What ?!

Darsho, son of Darsho Sr. of audio, you have been found guilty by the elders of
the forum, of uttering the name of our Reverb, and so as a BLASPHEMER you are
to be stoned to DEATH !

[mandolarian]

Dang! A verb block party and I missed the invite. All I can say, is that when I was younger I could never get enough tail. Just the one LXP in the rack.

Then it was the used SPX90 and midiverb followed by the Eclipse, PCM90 and H8000 and there was never a cool day in the studio. DSP space heaters on a hot summer night. Now, for a tiny fraction of the cost and heat, in VST verbs, I can get fully soaked in whooshy, splashy, dreamy, dazzling, dark, soaring ambiance, bask in finely enveloping and coarsely morphing transients that bloom in delight while floating away effortlessly to the ends of perception. Multiple times.

To a mere mortal a great decay is very nearly the most sensual way to almost exquisitely touch eternity.

Sure, I'm way over-tailed for someone my age and it's a bit like death by chocolate dipped in Valhalla sauce, but I'm not ashamed to admit it:

I'm a reverb whore.
I'll take your slapback and ask for more.
Whisper to me in your most intimate space,
Dunk me in your darkened chamber, stretch me on your sizzling plate,
Toss me down your endless hall, slam me hard against your tiled walls, I won't hesitate.
When the arrow of time and the bow of space dance in place, in the play of waves rippling over and over to the last ethereal trace I adore, I embrace, for...
To the core, I'm your reverb whore.

Kick me to the PayPal curb, but mark my words - I vow to buy all the verbs.

[antithesist]

Yikes!

Reverb block party indeed!

I go out for a while and you guys wreck the joint.

N-i-c-e-!

[Arglebargle]

Since I bought ValhallaRoom, other reverbs can go pound sand as far as I'm concerned.

[JeffSanders]

Mandolarian, just need to chime in here. Cosmic poetry skills sir.