Best ambient reverb?

[Sampleconstruct]

Here is a vid I did some weeks ago, cascading all Valhalla plugins (and feedback looping them via Bus Send in Logic) to create something very huge - processing a slow piano arpeggio:

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Here is a vid I did some weeks ago, cascading all Valhalla plugins (and feedback looping them via Bus Send in Logic) to create something very huge - processing a slow piano arpeggio:

Great, for a few reasons:

- Sounds great
- All the gui's laid out like that look beautiful
- I got to learn a new trick. I didn't realise you could chain sends through multiple channels like that. What is the advantage of doing it like this, as opposed to stacking them all on one aux and using send levels to mix. I'd imagin this allows for different chainse, eq's, fx etc to be placed uner different instances, but is there anything else?

Thanks

[do_androids_dream]

My favourite - for 90's shoegaze type ambient reverb - is Tal 3 reverb - 100% wet. Even better if you put it through soundtoys microshift.

[Sampleconstruct]

Here is a vid I did some weeks ago, cascading all Valhalla plugins (and feedback looping them via Bus Send in Logic) to create something very huge - processing a slow piano arpeggio:

Great, for a few reasons:

- Sounds great
- All the gui's laid out like that look beautiful
- I got to learn a new trick. I didn't realise you could chain sends through multiple channels like that. What is the advantage of doing it like this, as opposed to stacking them all on one aux and using send levels to mix. I'd imagin this allows for different chainse, eq's, fx etc to be placed uner different instances, but is there anything else?

Thanks

Well in this case the last bus in the row sends it's signal back to the first bus in the row thus creating a feedback loop which opens up all sorts of new sonic possibilities. In Logic you can also send a Bus to itself creating a feedback loop inside a Bus. Also with this setup you have individual level control for each plugin, as the Valhalla plugs don't have a dedicated master volume control that is very useful indeed. Plus the thing you mentioned, I could now add more FX on each Bus for more sonic mayhem, but here I wanted to stay within the Valhalla domain.

[Chris-S]

Hi,
are they running in serial or parallel?

[Sampleconstruct]

Hi,
are they running in serial or parallel?

Serial thus cascading.

[Firebird]

More Videos!

Here we have a back to back.

One video is done with Valhalla VintageVerb, the other Eventide Blackhole.

Several Presets are auditioned on both reverbs.

My conclusion is, BOTH are awesome, uniquely different and don't really over-lap.

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Valhalla VintageVerb:





Eventide Blackhole:

Sweet

Valhalla VintageVerb:





Eventide Blackhole:

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Here is a vid I did some weeks ago, cascading all Valhalla plugins (and feedback looping them via Bus Send in Logic) to create something very huge - processing a slow piano arpeggio:

Great, for a few reasons:

- Sounds great
- All the gui's laid out like that look beautiful
- I got to learn a new trick. I didn't realise you could chain sends through multiple channels like that. What is the advantage of doing it like this, as opposed to stacking them all on one aux and using send levels to mix. I'd imagin this allows for different chainse, eq's, fx etc to be placed uner different instances, but is there anything else?

Thanks

Well in this case the last bus in the row sends it's signal back to the first bus in the row thus creating a feedback loop which opens up all sorts of new sonic possibilities. In Logic you can also send a Bus to itself creating a feedback loop inside a Bus. Also with this setup you have individual level control for each plugin, as the Valhalla plugs don't have a dedicated master volume control that is very useful indeed. Plus the thing you mentioned, I could now add more FX on each Bus for more sonic mayhem, but here I wanted to stay within the Valhalla domain.

Yeah, I just caught the last bus sending back to S5

Looks like it prove to be a lot of fun. Thanks for the explanation:tu:

[Audiority]

You could also give Audiority Polaris a try, even if it may not sound that lush

[Lesha]

As of today, there is a new player on the market.

Enjoy: http://www.realtimeonly.com/

[Sampleconstruct]

As of today, there is a new player on the market.

Enjoy: http://www.realtimeonly.com/

Reverbical is a great reverb, very versatile for all sorts of realistic and warped spaces, it can go huge, lush and modulated.

[Sampleconstruct]

Testing Reverbical live on video with some of my Chromaphone 2 patches, using presets I made for the Reverbical factory library as a starting point:

[snigelx]

2CAudio B2 is fantastic for Dark/Light/Techno ambient musics because of the great control over damping and internal signal equalisation using TWO separate engines (these can be switched on or off) which can then be swapped around through the stereo spectrum and even cascaded (which means... All kinds of spaces are possible with this. It is my creative and detail verb, but it can be processor hungry depending on oversample and diffusion network settings. if that wasn't enough,.. each engine has it's OWN dynamics processor and saturation module. that dynamics module can be routed several different useful ways depending on application. if you didn't need all the bells and whistles of B2 then 2CAether is another good choice.... both algorithmic but top quality. You can get some FANTASTIC timbres out of B2 that sit inside the space you create and some highly customisable modulation of the diffusion. You do that with creative highly versatile damping on both engines and a combination of internal signal equalisation. Both engines allow for Infinite Time and they sound beautiful and clean...depending on your settings. Warning, it has a bit of a learning curve.. You should know how a basic reverb is working and what all the usual parameters can do to alter the output...however it has an Excellent thorough manual as well.

[SteveWZ]

2CAudio B2 is fantastic for Dark/Light/Techno ambient musics because of the great control over damping and internal signal equalisation using TWO separate engines (these can be switched on or off) which can then be swapped around through the stereo spectrum and even cascaded (which means... All kinds of spaces are possible with this. It is my creative and detail verb, but it can be processor hungry depending on oversample and diffusion network settings. if that wasn't enough,.. each engine has it's OWN dynamics processor and saturation module. that dynamics module can be routed several different useful ways depending on application. if you didn't need all the bells and whistles of B2 then 2CAether is another good choice.... both algorithmic but top quality. You can get some FANTASTIC timbres out of B2 that sit inside the space you create and some highly customisable modulation of the diffusion. You do that with creative highly versatile damping on both engines and a combination of internal signal equalisation. Both engines allow for Infinite Time and they sound beautiful and clean...depending on your settings. Warning, it has a bit of a learning curve.. You should know how a basic reverb is working and what all the usual parameters can do to alter the output...however it has an Excellent thorough manual as well.

This is B2 used extensively on a dark ambient tune:

[4damind]

Currently I prefer often Blackhole or ValhallaShimmer. Yes, this are more the "not so real live" reverbs but for this big spaces often used in ambient/chillout etc. they working great.

In this track I'm working on, ValhallaShimmer is the most used reverb.
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