You summed it up pretty well.
Just my thoughts.
I just wished they used the reverb a bit more sparingly at least on few of the songs.
Clearly not all needed that special "80s treatment".
What are your favorite non-Valhalla reverbs, and why?
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- KVRAF
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- 3426 posts since 15 Nov, 2006 from Pacific NW
I'm not sure what reverbs were used on that Beck album. Since the album was recorded in the Capitol recording studios, I would think that they made use of those amazing stereo reverb chambers that are under the parking lot.Winstontaneous wrote: Sean, curious, have you heard Beck's "Morning Phase" album...any idea about the reverb(s) used? There are some truly amazing atmospheres on there, it's almost like the 'verb is another band member.
I asked Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck's bassist) about the reverb over at TalkBass.com and he half-jokingly said it was a "trade secret."
Justin Medal-Johnson talks a bit about reverb usage in this Pensado's Place video (starting at 47:20):
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- KVRian
- 1223 posts since 11 Aug, 2004 from France
Very interesting thread !
I have one favorite reverb experience in mind. I love the sound you can hear when you are in some large underground parking garages, in not crowded commercial marketplaces, with not too much cars. I can often hear very pure sounds, distant and not well defined echoes, any source sound being able to produce some kind of music or ambiance. I love these places for this atmosphere, a bit Shimmer-like.
I have one favorite reverb experience in mind. I love the sound you can hear when you are in some large underground parking garages, in not crowded commercial marketplaces, with not too much cars. I can often hear very pure sounds, distant and not well defined echoes, any source sound being able to produce some kind of music or ambiance. I love these places for this atmosphere, a bit Shimmer-like.
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- KVRAF
- 4141 posts since 11 Aug, 2006 from Texas
I recently purchased MMultiBandConvolution on sale last week. It's my first convolution reverb and was interested in the idea after watching Reason 8.3 update video to R7000. I was intrigued both from emulating spaces as well as sound design opportunities.
After spending a bit of time with the Melda plugin layout I quickly fell in love with in downloading IRs from the web and trying them on my favorite drum loops, piano and synth plugins. I really enjoy setting wet/dry very high and using small impulses on a sound: it can make a piano sound like toy or act as a sort-of bandpass filter on all sorts of synth sounds. Sometimes it just colors the sound in a subtle and pleasing way. Conversely I also enjoy just grabbing a huge cathedral sound and adding a small amount to something I know already like a pipe organ sound.
I'll always have a place for algorithmic reverbs in my plugin folder but I think I'm starting to really see the appeal of convos too.
Now I'm a bit hooked on IRs and want to buy a portable recorder (thinking about the Tascam DR-100MkII) to create IRs wherever I find interesting ones.
After spending a bit of time with the Melda plugin layout I quickly fell in love with in downloading IRs from the web and trying them on my favorite drum loops, piano and synth plugins. I really enjoy setting wet/dry very high and using small impulses on a sound: it can make a piano sound like toy or act as a sort-of bandpass filter on all sorts of synth sounds. Sometimes it just colors the sound in a subtle and pleasing way. Conversely I also enjoy just grabbing a huge cathedral sound and adding a small amount to something I know already like a pipe organ sound.
I'll always have a place for algorithmic reverbs in my plugin folder but I think I'm starting to really see the appeal of convos too.
Now I'm a bit hooked on IRs and want to buy a portable recorder (thinking about the Tascam DR-100MkII) to create IRs wherever I find interesting ones.Feel free to call me Brian.
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- KVRian
- 993 posts since 26 Sep, 2013 from The Frozen North
Being a relatively new, inexperienced producer, I think I'd have to say that B2 is my favorite reverb. I fell in love with it just from listening to the audio demos on the 2c audio site. It was all downhill from there...
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- KVRAF
- 2960 posts since 9 Dec, 2011 from falling
The UAD EMT 140. It just sounds so damn good.
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- KVRAF
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- 3426 posts since 15 Nov, 2006 from Pacific NW
I was in the parking garage of Swedish Hospital here in Seattle recently. INCREDIBLE reverb sound. No defined echoes, just a wash of reverb.Wolfen666 wrote:Very interesting thread !
I have one favorite reverb experience in mind. I love the sound you can hear when you are in some large underground parking garages, in not crowded commercial marketplaces, with not too much cars. I can often hear very pure sounds, distant and not well defined echoes, any source sound being able to produce some kind of music or ambiance. I love these places for this atmosphere, a bit Shimmer-like.
Certain concrete structures are able to produce beautiful reverb sounds. I've been in stairwells that sound great, and some amazing parking garages. Others are kinda meh. The best ones are like giant reverb chambers: fast onset of reverb, almost instant build of echo density, smooth exponential decay.
Sean Costello
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- KVRist
- 91 posts since 5 Mar, 2015
The westlake studio impulses in Altiverb. They are really nice to make something slightly thicker without using a full reverb.
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- 2591 posts since 15 Feb, 2006 from Another Green World
In high school I played in a New York City Tuba Christmas.valhallasound wrote:I was in the parking garage of Swedish Hospital here in Seattle recently. INCREDIBLE reverb sound. No defined echoes, just a wash of reverb.Wolfen666 wrote:Very interesting thread !
I have one favorite reverb experience in mind. I love the sound you can hear when you are in some large underground parking garages, in not crowded commercial marketplaces, with not too much cars. I can often hear very pure sounds, distant and not well defined echoes, any source sound being able to produce some kind of music or ambiance. I love these places for this atmosphere, a bit Shimmer-like.
Certain concrete structures are able to produce beautiful reverb sounds. I've been in stairwells that sound great, and some amazing parking garages. Others are kinda meh. The best ones are like giant reverb chambers: fast onset of reverb, almost instant build of echo density, smooth exponential decay.
Sean Costello
Rehearsals were in the sub-basement parking garages beneath the NBC building/Rockefeller Center.
100s of low brass (tuba, euphonium, sousaphone, trombones) really activated the space...a phenomenal experience of natural resonance and reverberation!
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- KVRAF
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- 3426 posts since 15 Nov, 2006 from Pacific NW
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- 2591 posts since 15 Feb, 2006 from Another Green World
I found an interview with Tom Elmhirst, who says that the Digidesign D-Verb Mk I was the main artificial reverb on Morning Phase.valhallasound wrote:I'm not sure what reverbs were used on that Beck album. Since the album was recorded in the Capitol recording studios, I would think that they made use of those amazing stereo reverb chambers that are under the parking lot.Winstontaneous wrote: Sean, curious, have you heard Beck's "Morning Phase" album...any idea about the reverb(s) used? There are some truly amazing atmospheres on there, it's almost like the 'verb is another band member.
I asked Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck's bassist) about the reverb over at TalkBass.com and he half-jokingly said it was a "trade secret."
Justin Medal-Johnson talks a bit about reverb usage in this Pensado's Place video (starting at 47:20):
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david.beholder david.beholder https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=159839 - KVRAF
- 1914 posts since 13 Sep, 2007
Very interesting and influencing topic to read.
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- 12442 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
Make. One. Please.valhallasound wrote:
EMT140. So. Good.
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- KVRist
- 461 posts since 31 Dec, 2010 from Perth
Fabulousvalhallasound wrote:
EMT140. So. Good.
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