What verb do you use on snare?

I have kind of mostly sworn off reverb. But, one revelation was when I figured out you could do the non-lin thing on snare but way more tucked in than the 80's sound. Can help the snare cut through without evoking hair metal.

I have never been a big 'verb guy. Used sparingly on things, though. That said, I've used the PSP 2445 on instruments, snare (toms and OH, too). Never long or too wet. I tend more toward my room sound. I've used the EMT 250 a bit, but the 2445 gets the call here first if I'm going to use reverb. On vocals I find the Izotope Nectar reverb and delay pretty serviceable.

UAD EMT140 with a predelay

PSP 2445 here too. It's like cheating.

Maybe it’s the genre I deal with mostly, but I rarely want to go without some space on the snare in a mix. Just polishes to me.

I agree with the nonlinear thing in subtle doses.

Verb Suite is awesome for snare (and drums in general). Dozens of presets that just work with no tweaking. One of the few Slate plugins I miss since stopping the subscription.

I bought it outright. I also bought the h3000 stuff for it too. So far it's one of the best plugin reverbs I've used.

I often use a bunch of short verbs (emt250 and Valhalla vintage) and delays (cooper time cube, h910).

For longer verbs, I actually use samples typically. I have a few from the B room at Electrical Audio’s I’m quite fond of

I'll sometimes bring in a single shot room sample and mix that in instead of using a snare verb.

I’ll use a very slight plate or EMT plug on snare and then nuke a room. If there is no room mic, I’ll often feed the whole kit into a room reverb at 25-50% wet, filter it, and nuke it with whatever cool compressor works. Recently it’s VCL-373 but I’ve used Blockfish and Molot all the time. The snare reverb has to blend with the room and then get this insane effect when it gets accentuated as the nuke pumps.

Another option to try is a room sample. You can set up a stereo instance of slate trigger on an aux in place of your reverb plug in. I like the 5AZ4 sample. That way you get a good clean snare ambience without any hi hat leakage. If you need a longer tail you can compress that sample or even send it to a reverb but..again…no leakage so it’s really versatile. It’s also really helpful if you have a drummer that didn’t hit the snare with enough impact. You can use the velocity options in Trigger to help make it more impactful/consistent.

I’ll often use a Slate Trigger to blend in a reverb/room sample on the snare. But also use Little Plate, and 2016 verb sometimes too