Strongly colored reverbs

[A_SN]

I'm preparing a video on the subject of creative reverb design and it seems to me that a lot of reverbs are fairly uncolored/clear/spectrally flat, meaning the wet output has pretty much the same spectrum as the input, and most reverbs focus on how the sound bounces around/gets smeared (in volume over time). Are there good examples of reverbs where the wet part significantly differs spectrally from the source and produce an interesting effect by doing so?

Are there good already-existing examples of more exotic reverbs, like idk, pitch-shifted reverb (say the wet part is one octave lower than the source), or where the reverb/convolution does much wilder things than simply bouncing/smearing the sound over time?

[vurt]

why would you do a video about something you seem to be a beginner yourself in? why not choose something where you are imparting knowledge you have? ie about something you aleady know?

[A_SN]

why would you do a video about something you seem to be a beginner yourself in? why not choose something where you are imparting knowledge you have? ie about something you aleady know?

Because it's a Photosounder video and I'm gonna show people how to do all those things with Photosounder, which I'm an expert at (obviously). The question is are the things I'm gonna show already out there in some form so I have points of comparison.

[vurt]

ah, that makes more sense

there is of course shimmer reverbs, and some where the pitch of the shimmer can be set, whether it's an octave lower?
i tend to, as it's what im used to from olden times, do it myself, which it sounds like you will be doing, putting the extra fx in a feedback loop, or blending somehow.

the best place to start looking might be some of those multi fx, with built in sequencing, they can often be modular in nature so offer these kinds of things as presets

[liquidsonics]

You might find there is some milage for you in the drift mode of Tai Chi's chorus which can rapidly spin out some dramatic sidebands when used aggressively at high modulation rates, and its multi-band can give you a very coloured spectrum depending on how you use it.

[A_SN]

ah, that makes more sense

there is of course shimmer reverbs, and some where the pitch of the shimmer can be set, whether it's an octave lower?
i tend to, as it's what im used to from olden times, do it myself, which it sounds like you will be doing, putting the extra fx in a feedback loop, or blending somehow.

the best place to start looking might be some of those multi fx, with built in sequencing, they can often be modular in nature so offer these kinds of things as presets

Ah yes shimmer reverbs, perfect, that's the kind of thing I had in mind, thank you! It sounds like sometimes it's a reverb pitch-shifted up, but probably done using a feedback loop so sometimes it effectively steps up from one octave to the next all the way up (it seems like shimmer reverbs can do different things so I'll have to look deeper into that).

You said you'd do it yourself, how would you go about doing that?

[vurt]

ah, that makes more sense

there is of course shimmer reverbs, and some where the pitch of the shimmer can be set, whether it's an octave lower?
i tend to, as it's what im used to from olden times, do it myself, which it sounds like you will be doing, putting the extra fx in a feedback loop, or blending somehow.

the best place to start looking might be some of those multi fx, with built in sequencing, they can often be modular in nature so offer these kinds of things as presets

Ah yes shimmer reverbs, perfect, that's the kind of thing I had in mind, thank you! It sounds like sometimes it's a reverb pitch-shifted up, but probably done using a feedback loop so sometimes it effectively steps up from one octave to the next all the way up (it seems like shimmer reverbs can do different things so I'll have to look deeper into that).

You said you'd do it yourself, how would you go about doing that?

in software, id use a modular host (i use bidule personally) build a feedback loop, with a pitch shifter and reverb, so it passes the whole signal through itself, you can add an envelope to control the shape, or even the feedback

this way, you can add anything in the place of the pitch shifter, to create different textures

[kPere]

Fuse audio has some colorful reverb and delay FWIW

[thecontrolcentre]

Check out the the shimmer reverb Velvet Machine by Phonolyth.
It has hi-cut and lo-cut filters, tempo-sync, a mix control, mix lock and an adjustable envelope ...

[El°HYM]

Arturia's Rev INTENSITY can do such Things.

[fairlyclose]

Adaptiverb is the sort of thing you could find interesting

https://www.zynaptiq.com/adaptiverb/

[mholloway]

Blackhole seems a clear choice for this sort of thing.

[dmbaer]

why would you do a video about something you seem to be a beginner yourself in?

For the lesson lies in learning, and by teaching I'll be taught - Procol Harum.

[Ploki]

Yay another list.
Valhalla VintageVerb is on the subtle "colored" spectrum. Neat tho.
2C Audio B2 is insanity part of the spectrum, unfortunately defunct.
FabFilter Timeless3 with diffuse settings is a "pseudo" reverb.

Then there's specialties like u-he Twangstrom - a spring that can be driven. You can also use the mouse to jiggle the springs.

[MattLeschuck]

For shimmer verb I’ve yet to find one that sounds better than Toneboosters Reverb 4. Especially for the price. It gives you a 2 stage shimmer option.

It also has a built in parametric EQ and LFOs.