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[andymcbain]

An Alesis Midiverb II

[_leras]

I'd suggest the following.

• Reverb or reverbs on sends

• EQ before and after the reverb

• Delays before and/or after the reverbs

• Compression after the reverb and/or delays

The EQ and delays are probably the big ones to help create a dark ambience. Automating the the sends can be great for changing atmospheres, as can automating the post reverb send channel output.

[sinkmusic]

Oh, and... did you consider Tritik Irid?

Yeah. Tested it. Did not liked the sounds. The shimmer stuff is not mine. I would get ValhallaDSP Shimmer only for a bloom-like-reverb

Then, Acon Verberate 2 features a bloom knob

Ah, for reverb tweakers, I should have mentionned that ToneBoosters reverb features a freeze option, a LFO, as well as shimmer. It's not my goto reverb for daily duties, but nonetheless it's nice when I want to experiment and get something different.

And again, Eareverb 2 is very good when you need to work with huge reverb taking a lot of space in the mix, because the deep editing features allows you to place it in the 3D space, and you can also fine tune the reverberators.

[Daimonicon]

I make dark ambient. You need Blackhole.

Never understood the "hype" about Blackhole. Definitely not my cup of tea soundwise never was.

I've also to admit that I never got why plate verbs are so popular. Maybe it's a guitarist thing? My drones, pads and ears are simply not happy with dedicated plate verbs... Maybe wrong settings.

Neither I did under the hype about Blackhole. Plates sounds best on drums, vocal and guitars if you ask me. For something like Dark Ambient I prefer other kinds of reverbs. If I ever use one on stuff like that.

[Daimonicon]

1. Waves H-reverb is great for weird stuff and can do things few reverbs can do and it's 29$ occasionally.
2. Convolution reverb. You can load other kind of samples too and create a new sound. Only your imagination limit yourself.

[inkwarp]

Discovered this beauty: https://www.tritik.com/product/irid/
sounds very lush to my ears...

[sinkmusic]

Oh, and I forget Frostbite2, which is great!
https://www.audiothing.net/effects/frostbite/

[ElVincente]

Maybe take a look at audiothing spring, should complete your other options and can sound really beautifully dark to my ears...

[onerob]

Free options that are good for ambient...

Giant Verb: https://sites.google.com/site/digitalsy ... giant-verb
Tal Reverb 2: https://tal-software.com/products/tal-reverb

[psynical]

What makes a "dark ambient" reverb different than any other reverb? Does it light a candle while it's decaying?

Anyway, Cloudseed gets my vote for the darkest and dankest ambient reverb. I hear it was hand-crafted in a cave.

https://github.com/ValdemarOrn/CloudSeed

[plexuss]

Ok, fine. 112dB Mikron Cascade for all your dark ambient desires.

https://www.112db.com/plugins/mikron/cascade/

[Halonmusic]

Or just download the demo of Xenoverb which has lots of different algorithms ? Plus its really cheap aswell.

[MogwaiBoy]

I make dark ambient. You need Blackhole.

Never understood the "hype" about Blackhole. Definitely not my cup of tea soundwise never was.

I've also to admit that I never got why plate verbs are so popular. Maybe it's a guitarist thing? My drones, pads and ears are simply not happy with dedicated plate verbs... Maybe wrong settings.

With Blackhole it's the swirl of modulation on the reverb tail, that does it for me. it's very lush.

True though, I am a guitarist first and foremost. I use the Strymon BlueSky and Neunaber Wet pedals on my pedalboard. Blackhole is the closest thing in the box.

Here's a song I used Blackhole and the Kuassa shimmer on:
https://soundcloud.com/sorashima/sora-shima-loss

[MogwaiBoy]

This one is mostly Pro-R (very flexible)

https://soundcloud.com/gangviolins/outl ... tonic-edit

[Halonmusic]

Does it really matter what reverb he uses though? i think not