Orchestral Reverb

[AstroLokalo]

What's the best reverb plugin for orchestral instrument libraries? I'm looking for something that can create a spacious and realistic sound. Any recommendations?

[martiu]

Cinematic Rooms for orchestral stuff, or if you want IR with realistic spaces, Seventh Heaven

[Digivolt]

Cinematic rooms certainly there's also https://samplicity.com/shop/berlin-studio/ but it's a single space, albeit a perfect space

[vitocorleone123]

Cinematic Rooms Pro and Berlin Studio.

Find more on orchestral everything on VI-Control.

Seventh Heaven is not realistic. It’s quite effected sounding.

[Ah_Dziz]

I use altiverb and Vroom along with VSS for my scoring/ orchestral reverbs. Then whatever else for more effecty bits.

[El°HYM]

TB Reverb4 could be the one.

[jamcat]

Virtual Sound Stage 2.

[Echoes in the Attic]

Can't say I tried every reverb but at some point I remember comparing a whole bunch on a spitfire audio orchestral package where I'd raise the far mics which had a lot of natural hall reverb, and then just the close/dry mics with different reverbs to see if any gave that similar sound. I found that Acon Verberate (this was V1 at the time) did a really nice natural sound. I specially found that orchestral percussion was tough to emulate a natural orchestral hall with an algo reverb and it did a great job. That being said, people often like to add a non-natural reverb tail to the natural orchestral reverb, Something like a lexicon send, in which case you could pick any vintage style plugin to add some tail, like valhalla vintage, or the NI ones or whatever. But that is usually an additional verb tail as well as the natural hall reverb that would either be captured by mics or by something similar sounding (as I found verberate to do). Although I have V2 of verberate I actually never did the same test on their new vivid hall algorithm. The one I tried is now called the legacy hall algorithm.

[noiseboyuk]

Briefly - spatialising orchestral instruments comes in two parts. First is the early reflections, which can be crudely thought of as the distance the instrument is from you (the sound of the immediate reflections from the walls closest to the instrument), and the second is the tail which can be crudely thought of as the sound of the space itself.

Plugins like VSS or IRCAM SPAT do the early reflections thing in real detail (I don’t have either - I think they do tails as well actually). Personally I’m a simple soul and I just use a single ER aux send and a panpot. Instruments recorded bone dry - such as the original VSL series or Sample Modelling - need a healthy dose. In general for the reverb itself I use pretty much anything with a good short Impulse Response for this job (for over a decade I’ve been using Impulse Responses that come bundled with Audiobro’s LASS, but there are plenty of other good options). Note - many orchestral libraries don’t need any extra ER, they are baked into the recordings. Even East West’s Hollywood Series, which by default is fairly dry, does have plenty of ER baked in, you just need to add tail.

The tail is what most people think of as ‘reverb’. East West’s Spaces, Altiverb etc are all common tools that have captured real scoring stages and concert halls. Some prefer the algorithmic stuff such as Seventh Heaven, which also has presets for these kinds of spaces. I’ve been using the non-Pro version of Seventh Heaven for several years on a scoring stage preset, works just fine for me, but there’s a ton of options.

[Samplicity]

The Berlin Studio plugin mentioned above has been upgraded with much more CPU effiency and can now also be downloaded as a 14-day Trial:

https://samplicity.com/downloads/

[osiris]

I've always loved ArtsAcoustic Reverb, and it's on sale.

[Fleer]

EastWest Spaces 2 includes instrument specific presets.