Reverb with ducking

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onerob wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 4:40 pm Toneboosters Reverb 4 has an excellent ducker with separate attack, hold and release control. Having a hold setting makes it more flexible.
TB is quality stuff in general.

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Not everything has to use ducking reverb.
But if I use ducking reverb then I will put compressor after the reverb for clarity. especially for vocals and guitar.

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Benedict wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:21 am
bite_me wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 6:51 am
Benedict wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 5:47 am Duk duk duk. It's just double dutch.

In 35+ years I have never cucked, sorry ducked a reverb. It is a silly thing ...
Cool, keep it like this the next 35+ years.

Ducking is a mixing and sounddesign choice and always worth to try.
Bitwig makes sidechaining and ducking incredibly simple, so no special reverb is necessary.
Rude wot.
Acting like I am too silly to understand the thing. Well played.

Who says I haven't tried? Clearly, I have if you hadn't selectively (mis)quoted to suit your agenda. Again: I don't see the point as it makes things sound weird. Rooms don't duck - sounds do mask in the human mind but that is what a mix engineer uses, not this constant avoiding which in no way represents a reality anyone actually likes outside of a special effect that should not go on over and over because the music sucks so bad it can't stand without this lazy trick. Disco, Hi-NRG, House were all better before tucking cucked it up.

Oh and while I like Bitwig I can apply side chains mighty easily in Reason thank you very much for suggesting it is only because I am not using the you-approved DAW therefore it must be too hard for me.

Sheesh, we can all do better than this BS. Attacking people out of nowhere because we don't like that they don't agree. So childish. Have your say, but leave me out of it.
:-(
Bite me wasnt rude at all. But you were quite rude and insulting with your post telling its a silly thing to duck.

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DCrown wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:35 pm Was ducking used back in good ole days?
Depends on what "old days" do you mean. :)
DCrown wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:35 pm Do you always duck?
No.
DCrown wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:35 pm What are the reverbs with ducking feature?
Instead of using the ducking feature of a reverb, I can recommend Kickstart 2 (or any other volume shaper) with midi trigger input. This is way more flexible.

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My T-Verb Premium has this feature.
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I can't even play a doorbell properly :)

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I will add my humble suggestion to the discussion.
You might want to take a look at Unfiltered Audio TAILS. It has ducking on steroids and much more beyond that. Like it can switch between two reverb buffers on transients, something not many reverbs can do! Great feature if - let's say - reverb tails of the pad chords are clashing with each other. You can get creative with it too, there is a lot to play with.
The other reverb with ducking that I like is Lair by Aberrant DSP. This one has much different sound palette but also offers wide range of sound design possibilities. UI quckly

You can get both during regular sales.

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Benedict wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 5:47 am In 35+ years I have never ducked a reverb. It is a silly thing as a general rule as rooms do not do this - doing so may be ok for an effect but silly as it is unsettling. Occasionally I might ever so slightly duck an echo but even then I could not at all with no real loss.

I think that this obsession with chaining the side of their sample to the other side of the other sample is just because they don't know how to mix so they are not Mix Engineers but Avoidance Engineers. They make reams of same-same noise where everything is separated from everything else and it is totally pointless as 'music as an ensemble performance' is about together (909s or violins alike).
Do you even mix, bro? :hihi:

Your opinion then is clearly adding very little to this thread if you don't use this powerful mixing technique.

Ducking reverb is great, can do great things to a vocal.

For electronic and dance music it's also a very very common tool, as is ducking any sound. No rules.

I use this often and do not see the need for it to be built in to a reverb. Id always prefer to use any ducking tool or technique with any reverb.

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KSHMR Reverb is my go to

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DCrown wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:35 pm What are the reverbs with ducking feature?
one more to the list:
TAL-G-Verb

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