Best lush long-tail reverb for vocals (drenched with reverb)?

[Ou_Tis]

For example, I'm wondering what c (aka Grimes) might have used on some of her more recent tracks, for example here (around 1 minute 57 seconds in):



Surprisingly, she says she used Manny Marroquin reverb a lot on Art Angels... though that was 4 years ago. The long-tail reverb on these new songs seems different... maybe just more extreme?...

[Touch The Universe]

Dope track!

B2 is good for this.

[Eirikur]

I find AtomicReverb (MolecularBytes) to have very musical modulated tails. I haven't heard anything that tops it. Hyperspace is a brand new contender. I liked it enough to buy it but I'm not using it much yet. Cloudseed is a free reverb focused on long tails. My go-to is Atomic Reverb for this. If Sugar-Bytes would ship the reverb that's in their Factory synth, I think that would be great on vocals.

[mholloway]

Arts Acoustic Reverb is still great for this sort of thing (try the 'fast' mode, with a long decay) but the company pulled a disappearing act -- sort of. They still develop on-board FX and filters for VPS Avenger, but that seems to be all they do; their own website is a graveyard.

Blackhole, maybe?

I'd also try 2C Breeze 2. Not as high a bar of entry $$-wise as B2.

[SoundPorn]

The best new modulated reverb is Comet but remenber there are also a ton of new delays out that you can run into a reverb to modulate the tail

[Turello]

The Arts Acoustic is good for all but i suggest Valhalla Shimmer coupled with some delay...

[Eirikur]

I tried the Comet demo. I could be missing something, but it just sounded like an ordinary algorithmic reverb with a pitch-shifting chorus on the tail. I wondered what the fuss was all about.

[perpetual3]

Zynaptiq Adaptiverb

[Cinebient]

B2 all the way.

[onerob]

Get the free (for now) Native Instruments Raum reverb and you can dial in great sounding lush long tails. Otherwise Valhalla Room or Toneboosters Reverb 4 are also very good and a bit cheaper than their competitors.

[SoundPorn]

Well it's unique because you can midi or CV control to automate every parameter plus it has 5 slots to morph between different presets with a glide control so you can actually have one preset for the 1st part then glide into a different preset for the tail. Also I like how you can saturate the input gain for extra character.

I tried the Comet demo. I could be missing something, but it just sounded like an ordinary algorithmic reverb with a pitch-shifting chorus on the tail. I wondered what the fuss was all about.

[Ou_Tis]

Blackhole, maybe?

I'd also try 2C Breeze 2. Not as high a bar of entry $$-wise as B2.

I've had Blackhole for a few months; it's interesting and I like the rhythmic options, but I haven't been able to get results like this with it on vocals---it's not lush enough, sounds a bit too thin.

B2 apparently still lacks tempo sync. Being CPU-intensive is a little concerning but I probably wouldn't have too much else happening. OTOH the product page says: "B2, like Aether, is not designed to be a reduced-feature effect that producers reach for when they want a particular limited-range trick. Instead it is designed to be a system-level tool that will become essential to your very workflow."

I guess I'll do a shoot-out between Blackhole, Triad, Raum, Atomicverb, and B2 (and maybe Adaptiverb, though it's not on sale outside a bundle).

[SteveWZ]

There are many to choose from and some great ones have been mentioned.
Often overlooked are the Lexicon PCM reverbs, still sound great and low CPU usage.
Also Relab Sonsig Rev-A

UAD 480l is another good one.

[adl]

I'd also say Relab Sonsig-Rev-A, which seems to be the king of lush long-tail reverb. Definitely make sure to try that. It doesn't come with a ton of options, which helps setting it up quick.

[andymcbain]

Another vote for Sonsig Rev-A

But Raum is also very, very good for a freebie.