Reverb that can do good small rooms?

[Glassback]

The trick with Glaceverb is to set all the sliders on the left to the extreme left. That defeats all the novelty wierdness. The controls on the right are more self evident - the diffusion needs to be carefully balanced - too little is boring and too much is sproingy. But it's a great sounding smooth tail that beats a lot of expensive reverbs. But at the minimum size setting, it's still a fairly big room in my opinion. Out of the freebies - try Kjaerhus Classic reverb. It can do very small spaces.

I take that back - obviously you have tried it. I have to disagree with you is all. I love GlaceVerb. I now use it more than any other.

[Sascha Franck]

Even with anything (apart from the mix control) taken way (=completely) back, GlaceVerb is still doing a rather large room that I'd never use on a full mix. I also find it to sound too metallic. I like it for what it does, but for small rooms it's not what I'd use - and yes, RoomMachine844 can give some good results if you are careful.

[Hypertone]

Another vote for Glaceverb it's good for small room sounds. An impulse verb with some Lexicon impulses is a good choice also.

The demos only show some rather useless sounding novelty presets, and one "theatre". I had missed the idea that Glace is useful as a general-purpose reverb, from the website.

I've never even tried the presets lol. I got some pretty good sounds from tweaking the sliders, but never even scrolled through the presets. It's not amazing, but good for freeware.

[Sidhu]

duh!
small room = Ambience

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/707.html

way cool! for small spaces. Takes a little getting used to though.

Sidhu

[bugs]

My current three of choice:

1. Pristine Space with Lexicon IRs
2. Reaktor's SpaceMaster
3. GlaceVerb

[finnbio]

Well, well - buzzroon room reverb: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1154.html

really!
Alex

[greendoor]

Glassback and others suggesting Glaceverb: I like Glaceverb a lot. I just don't consider it capable of a 'small room' - so obviously our definition of a small room is very different. I mean a very short RT20 if you want the technical term. At the smallest setting, the decay time is still quite long and very noticable. My definition of a small room is one where you don't really notice the reverb until you turn it off.

[.jon]

Hmmm. Ambience? Donationware, and really nice with small spaces.

[stefancrs]

I like ambience for short reverbs. Nice for adding that... room.... ambience.... especially on vocals.

[jens]

try the reverb in here;

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/data/xhipeffects.zip

it uses a method unlike any other reverb (to my knowlage)
anyway, its possible to have a zero size room.

the small room settings sound awesome in my opinion, better
that most intensive verbs, and its free!

indeed - It's fantastic for small rooms!

(and light on the cpu as well... )

[stefancrs]

Will check that one out, would it be a good ambience replacement for those really short "widening" reverbs on vocals?

[jens]

Will check that one out, would it be a good ambience replacement for those really short "widening" reverbs on vocals?

I don't think so - it sounds very natural for really smal rooms - you could easily do a convincing 'living-room'-preset with it...

[stefancrs]

So, ehm, you don't think it could replace ambience for those really short reverbs?

[sinkmusic]

I quite enjoyed Silverspike ROomMachine (it fre, and silverspike's not free reverb are good too, as spinaudio's one).
http://www.silverspike.com/?Download

[jens]

So, ehm, you don't think it could replace ambience for those really short reverbs?

I think Ambience sounds higly artificial...
(mind you: I don't think that's neccessarily a bad thing...)