Reverb

omen80

Hi all,

I had a listen to this track by a fantastic new Irish band called Hidden Highways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wHuIH-Hqx0

I'm just wondering what kind of reverb you think might have been used in the mixing? It sounds very warm with a long tail on the female vocal. I was reading up on reverbs for vocals and a lot of sites said to use a plate reverb, but that sounds a bit metallic to me, or should I be rolling off the highs on the reverb bus?
I've always just used one reverb on a bus and send nearly all of the tracks to it, but should I use a separate reverb on the vocal also? I'm doing a bit of mixing at the moment and a lot of the music would be just vocal, acoustic guitar, percussion. I'd really like some of the vocals to have the same kind of reverb as the track above.

Thanks for any advice.....

fitz

omen80 wrote: »

Hi all,

I had a listen to this track by a fantastic new Irish band called Hidden Highways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wHuIH-Hqx0

I'm just wondering what kind of reverb you think might have been used in the mixing? It sounds very warm with a long tail on the female vocal. I was reading up on reverbs for vocals and a lot of sites said to use a plate reverb, but that sounds a bit metallic to me, or should I be rolling off the highs on the reverb bus?
I've always just used one reverb on a bus and send nearly all of the tracks to it, but should I use a separate reverb on the vocal also? I'm doing a bit of mixing at the moment and a lot of the music would be just vocal, acoustic guitar, percussion. I'd really like some of the vocals to have the same kind of reverb as the track above.

Thanks for any advice.....

I usually use a combination of several "wet buses" for a vocal.
You could have a plate reverb on one, and a room on another, maybe a delay on a third. Each effect will usually be 100% wet, meaning your fader controls just the amount of reverb/delay, no additional dry signal is being controlled on that channel.

Doing it this way makes it easy to EQ the reverb too.
I'll usually high pass before the reverb, then another EQ after to pull out any nastiness and smooth it out.
I usually use impulses with Logic's Space Designer.
You can get some Bricasti impulses free here, and use them with your convolution plugin of choice:
http://www.samplicity.com/bricasti-m7-impulse-responses/


Getting a good reverb sound on a vocal (or snare for that matter) is usually a combination of a couple of reverbs in my experience.

TroutMask

I used to use the goofy reverbs that came with my DAWs but they annoyed me. Now I use a Lexicon PCM 91 sent to from the the software and recorded back in on a track. I use dedicated reverbs - 4 or so usually

PaulBrewer

http://www.valhalladsp.com/valhallavintageverb

PaulBrewer

UA's EMT plate is also considered a corker.

omen80

Cheers for the info everyone.