Best reverbs !?

[jamcat]

I picked up Primavera a while ago on sale, and it’s now my goto spring, replacing PSP SpringBox.

Primavera has a smoothness and warmth not present in SpringBox, and just as much drip, if not more.
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Interesting. I don't think I auditioned Primavera because I got a bit bored downloading all the latest and greatest spring reverb plugins and finding I still preferred PSP Springbox.

Looks like I may have give Primavera a go

It’s still on sale for 39$ so this would be the time to get it!

[jamcat]

Does anybody compare Primavera and Twangstrom from U-HE?

I compared a bunch of spring reverbs a couple years ago and wrote about it here. This was before Primavera or Fuse Audio V-REV 63
existed. But Twangström ranked pretty low on my list even then. It just doesn’t sound like a spring.

Here’s what I said about it then:

I found u-he Twangström to be pretty artificial sounding too. There's something uncanny about it that just never tricks my ear into thinking it's a spring. It's too clean and nice, and just sounds like a generic reverb plugin to me.

[mjolnir]

I apologize if I already posted this, but this freebie is pretty good for long tail reverbs: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3767/
You can get up to 100 seconds of nice reverb with this.

Usually I hate reverb, but this one turned out useful for making pads.

[JerGoertz]

I apologize if I already posted this, but this freebie is pretty good for long tail reverbs: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3767/
You can get up to 100 seconds of nice reverb with this.

Usually I hate reverb, but this one turned out useful for making pads.

Great recommendation, this sounds really good. Thanks!

[dastewart]

I picked up Primavera a while ago on sale, and it’s now my goto spring, replacing PSP SpringBox.

Primavera has a smoothness and warmth not present in SpringBox, and just as much drip, if not more.
---snip---

Interesting. I don't think I auditioned Primavera because I got a bit bored downloading all the latest and greatest spring reverb plugins and finding I still preferred PSP Springbox.

Looks like I may have give Primavera a go

It’s still on sale for 39$ so this would be the time to get it!

Ok, I downloaded it and did a little bit of side by side testing and .... think I'll stick with the PSP. Absolutely nothing wrong with the Primavera but I wasn't really hearing an improvement on the Springbox, at least not once I'd done some tweaking to get them sounding roughly the same.

I could happily use either.

The only thing I didn't like about the Primavera was that the different reverb models had such a radically different impact on the tone of the source signal. I guess this is also a benefit if you're looking for that kind of versatility but once I've got the tone of the source sounding good I don't want to radically change it with the reverb. But maybe that's just me.

[zerocrossing]

The best reverb I’ve ever used, hardware or software, is Cinematic Rooms Pro. It just always sounds right to me.

[Alexander_D]

The best reverb I’ve ever used, hardware or software, is Cinematic Rooms Pro. It just always sounds right to me.

That's true! Purchased it one month ago. Sounds amazing!

[Gam456]

I apologize if I already posted this, but this freebie is pretty good for long tail reverbs: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3767/
You can get up to 100 seconds of nice reverb with this.

Usually I hate reverb, but this one turned out useful for making pads.

There is a v2.1
https://stone-voices.ru/vst/dreverb

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[jamcat]

In Russia, reverb mixes you!

[martiu]

In Russia, reverb mixes you!

[martiu]

Blackhole is 49$ til 6 of January, 75% down, one of the finest
if you want the best reverb ever made, Blackhole Immersive is 99$ right now, down from 299

[Samual]

I had been using Valhalla ones religiously till I found the Relab ones. I haven't looked back then. Valhalla's plugins are good too, but to me Relab 480 sounds better.

[jamcat]

I own the Relab 480, but I’m waiting for Universal Audio to port the actual Lexicon 480 to UADx. The UAD plugin is a direct port of the hardware, and it includes the 480 Effects bank, too.

[Gam456]

The UAD plugin is a direct port of the hardware

That's for the 224. But Lexicon approved the 480.

[jens]

Does anybody compare Primavera and Twangstrom from U-HE?

I compared a bunch of spring reverbs a couple years ago and wrote about it here. This was before Primavera or Fuse Audio V-REV 63
existed. But Twangström ranked pretty low on my list even then. It just doesn’t sound like a spring.

Here’s what I said about it then:

I found u-he Twangström to be pretty artificial sounding too. There's something uncanny about it that just never tricks my ear into thinking it's a spring. It's too clean and nice, and just sounds like a generic reverb plugin to me.

I think our opinion regarding Twangström is one of the only things where the cat and me are in full agreement.

It really just doesn't really sound like a spring reverb at all.

(For a number of reasons, each of which Sascha (its developer - who generally speaking I hold in hight regard) would flat out deny. It's pretty save to say that he personally has no real experience of his own when it comes to using spring-reverb - prolly hates the things with a passion.)

Twangström is to spring reverbs what Blue Cat's Spinal Vibe is to rotary speakers.