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sleepcircle · Post by **sleepcircle** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:50 pm

TAL Reverb sounds horrible but sometimes it's the kind of horrible you need

Kwurqx · Post by **Kwurqx** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:29 pm

There are many of these "the best" and "the best free" lists. But new stuff arrives and you can never have enough choice, right? And great tips are allways welcome.

Anyway....some great options are already listed. Like the recent and great Dragonfly

Adding some (I guess lesser known) reverbs that can do huge reverbs (but smaller too off-course):

Signal Dust - Abstract Chamber
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/abstra ... signaldust

Valdemar Erlingsson - Cloud Seed
https://github.com/ValdemarOrn/CloudSeed

And I will mention a remake of a classic...

Socalabs - MVerb2020 (remake of Martin Eastwood's original MVerb, but in glorious 64 bit)
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/mverb2020-by-socalabs

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:37 pm

Kazi7 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:48 pm Honorable mentions:
Voxengo Oldskool Reverb, Acon Verberate Basic, Riviera by NuSpace Audio (Win-only)

Dislike:
EpicVerb (I love VarietyOfSounds plugins, but the reverb is mediocre at best), TAL Reverb (sounds horrible - digital aliasing at it's worst), MCharmReverb (good sound, but very bad installation and authorization procedure), MVerb (horrible sound)

+1 for Riviera - some great functionality and you can get super wide and out of phase. It's got me interested in their commercial plugins. Voxengo Oldskool however... ugh, SO GRAINY. The early reflections sound like shaking a plastic bottle full of beads! But I know that's kind of the vibe of early digital verbs. However, Voxengo's CRTIV Reverb is now my favourite reverb ever.

I found the new Melda freebie MCharmVerb to be more on the experimental side with some interesting presets but nothing that sounds like a natural space, and with no diffusion control it's grainy as hell (damping the highs doesn't help that much).

Also have to mention Best Service 'Halls of Fame' convolution comes with a free pack of impulses from Lexicon to Bricasti and many sound great.

Reccomended:
https://www.bestservice.com/halls_of_fame_3_free.html

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:28 pm

sleepcircle wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:50 pm TAL Reverb sounds horrible but sometimes it's the kind of horrible you need

Which one? There is 4 versions. My favorites is v2 and 3.

Trancit · Post by **Trancit** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:31 pm

From all free reverbs: Oril River for sure... best sound, biggest versatility, best CPU usage of all free ones at this quality level...

For me it´s easy comparable to VVV qualitywise... this plugin is a steal for free!!

spigmu · Post by **spigmu** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:09 pm

I would say just grab Oril River and Dragonfly and be done with it. Aside from convolutions using whatever the DAW will utilize, that's pretty much all I need. Then again, I don't want to listen to something in 15 years and hear the dated reverbs like I do with my old Rev7, SPX90 and Ursa Major mixes. I go dry unless I decide I want something, and then it's barely perceivable or slightly more, and then often it's with delays and not verbs. I was big into washes and booms until about 2000 and then decided nope.

But we're in a thread started by someone who posted 7 times and was banned. so we're just talking to ourselves

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:34 am

I'm cleaning my plugin folders (these things seem to grow uncontrollaby on their own, I realized I have over 70 plugins installed atm

) and did two shootouts with some reverbs, and the clear winner still is Orilriver. My main tool is convolution, but sometimes you just need an algo verb instead. Oril has a reasonable set of controls, it sounds good on both small and large settings, and is capable of some amazingly beautiful tails with almost acoustic character. It does indeed sound better than some very popular commercial alternatives.

I uninstalled Dragonfly, while it does some abstract long tails really nicely, I couldn't tweak a likeable short verb out of it, it has a metallic taste in it that is difficult to fade out. Tila2, designed for rooms, beats it soundly but Orilriver gets so close to Tila2, I don't need to keep both. I have used Abstract Chamber from the same, brilliant dev for a long time and I love it, but it is a one-trick pony and I can get close enough with Oril.

Unfortunately the Ableton Live reverb still sounds pretty damn bad, but it has a freeze button which I find useful for sound design. I wish they would update it. Meanwhile, Oril it is.

Not a traditional reverb, but I do recommend everyone into ambient and other strange things to try out Lagrange: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/lagrange-by-ursa-dsp

It can send your sound deep into outer space, quite unlike everything else I've tried. Lovely.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:44 am

sleepcircle wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:50 pm TAL Reverb sounds horrible but sometimes it's the kind of horrible you need

Hehehe, thought it was just me.

Never quite got the rave about it... or any other free reverb, for that matter.

an-electric-heart · Post by **an-electric-heart** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:53 am

I just finished a song mixed and mastered with free plugins (that was the point of the exercise, to use free plugins). I used Dragonfly at the start, but then tried Orilriver, and got everything I needed from that.
https://soundcloud.com/anelectricheartm ... mes-indeed

MogwaiBoy · Post by **MogwaiBoy** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:02 pm

Lots of recommendations for Oril River because it's comparable to expensive commercial plugins - seriously.

evilplazma · Post by **evilplazma** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:52 am

https://www.central-mao.com/vst-plugin- ... b-vst-v11/

https://www.central-mao.com/ambient-rev ... t-gratuit/

Kwurqx · Post by **Kwurqx** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:38 pm

Kwurqx wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:29 pm There are many of these "the best" and "the best free" lists. But new stuff arrives and you can never have enough choice, right? And great tips are allways welcome.

Anyway....some great options are already listed. Like the recent and great Dragonfly

Adding some (I guess lesser known) reverbs that can do huge reverbs (but smaller too off-course):

Signal Dust - Abstract Chamber
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/abstra ... signaldust

Valdemar Erlingsson - Cloud Seed
https://github.com/ValdemarOrn/CloudSeed

And I will mention a remake of a classic...

Socalabs - MVerb2020 (remake of Martin Eastwood's original MVerb, but in glorious 64 bit)
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/mverb2020-by-socalabs

On the subject of the longer tail....and remakes....

I forgot all about Elements - Gigaverb. Now in glorious 64 bit. You can go and make coffee and drink it while waiting for the decay to fully fade out (depending on settings).

Elements - Gigaverb
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/gigaverb-by-elements
http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?pl ... rb&id=2511

Recourt · Post by **Recourt** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 12:38 am

Orilriver is better than a lot of paid reverbs. It would be a mistake to not try it out.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:24 am

Is NI's Raum still available and free? It's a very nice reverb with a lot of flexibility.

Russell Grand · Post by **Russell Grand** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:43 am

BONES wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:24 am Is NI's Raum still available and free? It's a very nice reverb with a lot of flexibility.

No. It's $49 now.

whats the best free reverb