How many differetnt reverbs u use in a song?

[himalaya]

BTW i do mostly electronic music. Maybe that style doesn't demand the reverb sound too much.

On the contrary, I think.
Reverb is one of the better means of creating a sense of distance. So, electronic music would be a perfect style to benefit from having a soundstage in your mix, since electronic sounds do not arrive from an acoustic, 'live' setting.

In most of my live, acoustic recordings I try to capture the natural room reverb, but I can't do that with electronic music, unless I feed tracks to a speaker in a hall and record the output - which is time consuming to say the least, hence a need for reveb. I do electronic music too, btw.
Sorry to sound anal about it.

[eddu]

For me a conventional song is something that clearly has a way of mixing and a typical arrange etc. If you are mixing a ballad and put a bit reduction over the lead singer and pan it hard left..then somebody will probably tell you theres something wrong with it. So you'd better mix it in the "conventional" way: centered, loud enough to be heard across the whole tune, with a touch (or more) reverb, etc.

But this is too obvious to be writing it, i think

[eddu]

BTW i do mostly electronic music. Maybe that style doesn't demand the reverb sound too much.

On the contrary, I think.
So, electronic music would be a perfect style to benefit from having a soundstage in your mix, since electronic sounds do not arrive from an acoustic, 'live' setting.

Agree..its just that i prefer delays over reverbs to get that result. They eat less CPU and tend to muddy less than revs.

[kouts]

In most projects i use 2 reverbs as sends:
1)A medium-small room space (2-2.7 secs)
2)A large hall or something. (3-5 secs)

I use theese two in conjuction to provide a certain -spaciousness- to some elements.
So a lead track will have 10% room & 18% hall (example) and so on...
If i want to use reverb as an "effect" to make an instrument stand-out i will use it
as an insert occasionally.
In very rare situations i'll use a delay fx as a send. I prefer to have a delay independently in each track, gives you better control etc.

[fizbin]

1-3 and probably a delay or two as well. A different reverb for every track is going to mean all your tracks are going to sound as if in different spaces. Conventional wisdom might dictate that this could result in a lack of cohesiveness. At the very least it seems like overkill or perhaps a fruitless experiment. It would also be quite a bit more difficult to manage, CPU issues aside.

[Sascha Franck]

In a "typical" mixing situation I may use 2 reverbs.
But I sort of "expand" them by further delay busses, which are then running entirely through the reverb bus, so I can easily widen up a reverb by sending a small portion of the signal through the delay bus first.
I also tend to use rather short reverbs. So it might come down to something less than a second and another with around 2 seconds reverb time as a rough figure.
In case I need more depth, I prefer to use more delay.

[seamoss]

I got this chart from the latest MIx'N DopE trAx MaG

trance= 4-5 Reverbs
house= 1-2
trip hop = 6-10
pop = 1-3
rock = 1-2
jazz = 0-1


hope this helps

[kmonkey]

Huh where is techno???

techno = depend on project....

[seamoss]

Huh where is techno???

techno = depend on project....

I just listed the important genres