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Post by Ward on Jun 11, 2016 16:43:33 GMT -6
Honestly? I'm really not that impressed with reverb anymore and find I tend to use it as little as possible. For drums, room mics do SO much to create the space you need, and they can be manipulated, time-wise, to increase or decrease the apparent size of your room too! Just curious ward: How can you make a room sound smaller time-wise? In a DAW, advance the room mics until they align with the overheads, and then keep advancing them very slowly and carefully and you will hear the room shrink in size. Try it. And if they're stereo, flip the phase on the regressive one and make the dominant one centered mono and slowly bring in the out of phase channel, also centered to mono.
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Post by Ward on Jun 11, 2016 16:44:33 GMT -6
Lexicon 224 XL, M 500, 2- M 550, MPX-1 TC Electronics M-One 2 Eventide H3000s Ibanez SDR 1000 Yamaha SPX 90 II Mic Mix Master Room Super "C" 2 different length chambers AKG BX 20 Original 1962 Fender Blond Reverb, Recapped and tubed Roland 201 Space Echo Tapco Reverb Reverb plug-ins Numerous Rack mount Digital delays Sure, fine... but you own every piece of gear known to humankind... well, at least one of each.
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Post by jazznoise on Jun 11, 2016 16:50:38 GMT -6
Mostly room mics. Drums, vocals, guitars. Everything. Even for adding reverb to, or using just for delays or whatever, they're just so much better and they let you commit to the record sound earlier in the recording process. Plus singers love monitoring with a room mic!
After room mics, I'll usually end up leaning more on delays.
After that it's my TC M-One, TAL Plate II, Vos Epicverb and some Spring vst I like. I'll use them in conjunction with delays to get specific effects.
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Post by winetree on Jun 11, 2016 22:51:33 GMT -6
Lexicon 224 XL, M 500, 2- M 550, MPX-1 TC Electronics M-One 2 Eventide H3000s Ibanez SDR 1000 Yamaha SPX 90 II Mic Mix Master Room Super "C" 2 different length chambers AKG BX 20 Original 1962 Fender Blond Reverb, Recapped and tubed Roland 201 Space Echo Tapco Reverb Reverb plug-ins Numerous Rack mount Digital delays Sure, fine... but you own every piece of gear known to humankind... well, at least one of each. I been collecting gear for 55 years. But by no means do I own every piece of gear known to mankind. I only bought what I needed at the time and I don't like to sell things. Some of the things I have sold are now worth many times more than what I sold them for and some were worth a lot less than I paid. Equipment has always been just tools of the trade and I've kept a lot.
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Post by Ward on Jun 12, 2016 0:10:51 GMT -6
Oh Robert winetree. . . I follow in your footsteps, sir! I really don't get this word "sell" at all!! I guess I have about 3500-4000 square feet of gear also. Might be a giant understatement,
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Post by noah shain on Jun 12, 2016 11:45:30 GMT -6
Plug: TVerb Hardware: Coolsprings OC4 passive 4 tank spring. Lush!
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Post by mhbunch on Jun 12, 2016 12:13:27 GMT -6
Plugs: UAD Lexicon and Logic Space Designer
Hardware: Korg GR-1 spring
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Post by Guitar on Jun 12, 2016 14:21:35 GMT -6
Mostly plugins, whatever fits the mood at the time. A new one I like is the Waves Abbey Road plate reverb. The Waves H-Reverb is cool too. Eventide Ultra Reverb ticks a lot of boxes. UAD EMT-140, once in a while the Lexicon Natives or SSL X-Verb. Valhalla Vintage Verb is great. Just enough to fill a space in the mix is what I go for, but not too much. A blending element.
I also build a Hermida or GGG reverb pedal with the Belton digital spring reverb brick in it, and that thing just kills on my guitar pedalboard. In combination with a "tape" delay or a boss DD-7, I can get huge ambience. What a great pedal, insta-favorite.
Another fun thing I did was use a Behringer headphone amp to drive an Accutronics spring reverb tank I had lying around, with makeup gain and shaping on a Mackie 1202 VLZ4. I really should buy a proper Radial Tank Driver so I can use that tank in a less ghetto way.
My favorite hardware reverb I have is the Pioneer SR-101 stereo tube spring reverb. Just oozes vibe. Really noisy though.
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Post by jimwilliams on Jun 13, 2016 10:27:52 GMT -6
Spring, summer, fall or winter, the M7 does well in all seasons.
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Post by Guitar on Jun 13, 2016 10:35:35 GMT -6
I'm loving the new PSP EMT 2445. For me, I'm using that as an obvious verb and Valhalla Vintage for ambience. I also have a TC M-ONE XL. A bit off topic, but in the same realm, I'm also using Soundtoys Effects, a Louder Than Liftoff delay, and a pair of TC D-Two delays. Just started trying out the PSP EMT 2445 based on your recommendation and sound clips, it's excellent. I also just gave Softube TSAR-1 a spin and it was giving some cool artificial ambience for my drums. I guess I like all this vintage sounding stuff.
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Post by joseph on Jun 13, 2016 11:00:14 GMT -6
Yeah PSP is nice on snare, much like the real thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 14:58:18 GMT -6
Room, AKG BX20, Eventide 3000 and a few plugs (can't remember the names at the moment).. I've sold a few older hardware reverbs off in the past few years.
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Post by mjheck on Jun 13, 2016 19:35:50 GMT -6
For 2016, the UAD AKG BX20 has been a staple. It really does a nice job of providing depth.
For getting things in the same environment, mostly Ocean Way, but Valhallah really does small room stuff well too.
For all other speciality and accent stuff, it can be anything - however, it sure seems to work best in mono and panned somewhere specific based on the desired effect. This can be anything from a cheap Boss effects pedal to some Logic Space Designer plates or the UAD usual suspects.
I absolutely loved the Nebula EMT 140, but man what a pain in the ass. I changed systems a few years back and punted on all of it. The other day I tried to download the little free version just to run the EMT 140 and I couldn't even figure out where to start anymore.
But I digress - yeah, the AKG Spring has been awesome for depth, and has been the jewel of the year.
MJH
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Post by iamasound on Jun 14, 2016 5:45:26 GMT -6
Spring, summer, fall or winter, the M7 does well in all seasons. Sir, if you were a songwriter you might have offered; Come summer, spring, winter or fall, my old M7 it does it all.
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Post by ericn on Jun 14, 2016 7:39:31 GMT -6
Spring, summer, fall or winter, the M7 does well in all seasons. Jims new preset plate of prose!
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