Help - Reverb

[mike1234]

I can not put any reverb on to my vocal track which is not extremely unnoticable.

Are there any default settings? or can anybody tell me a subtle setting for a vocal track.

Every time I use this plug in I can hear it very working very loudly and it makes it sound like my vocal is in a very large hall and it buries it into the background. The only thing I can do to reduce the effect is to lower the mix but that is the same settings on a lower volume which is no good.

Are there any other free reverb plug in's which are better?.

Any help would be great

Thanks.

[shareec70]

Consider creating an Aux track. Place reverb on that track to desired settings. Then, on your vox tracks, use an Aux Send to send some of your vocal to the Aux Input track for the reverb. Mix as little or as much as you like. This will keep your main vox dry and up in the mix and you can use the Aux Reverb track to give the mix your desired amount of "wet" signal.

[msg6794]

An addition to that thought - make sure your reverb on the aux track is set to 100% wet, otherwise you'll get some funky phasing issues. You can adjust wet/dry by lowering/raising the vox track vs. the aux reverb track.

[zv yoda]

Originally Posted by msg6794

An addition to that thought - make sure your reverb on the aux track is set to 100% wet, otherwise you'll get some funky phasing issues. You can adjust wet/dry by lowering/raising the vox track vs. the aux reverb track.

I wasn't aware of that - why is that?... because if the aux has some "dry" signal, it phases with the original dry signal too?

So that means if I set up reverb as aux (which I alsmost always do) I shouldn't use the reverb plug-in to mix the signal - just set it to 100% & mix via aux fader with the dry signal?

You learn something new every day!

[msg6794]

Originally Posted by zv yoda

I wasn't aware of that - why is that?... because if the aux has some "dry" signal, it phases with the original dry signal too?

So that means if I set up reverb as aux (which I alsmost always do) I shouldn't use the reverb plug-in to mix the signal - just set it to 100% & mix via aux fader with the dry signal?

You learn something new every day!

That's exactly right!

[flommer]

Originally Posted by zv yoda

I wasn't aware of that - why is that?... because if the aux has some "dry" signal, it phases with the original dry signal too?

So that means if I set up reverb as aux (which I alsmost always do) I shouldn't use the reverb plug-in to mix the signal - just set it to 100% & mix via aux fader with the dry signal?

You learn something new every day!

Also consider that you could/should be sending other tracks to that same reverb aux, so adjusting the mix within the plugin means you have less control of all the dry signals going to that aux.. With the verb at 100% wet, you only mess with the send faders for verb and track faders for dry..

[zv yoda]

Thx for the tip... I suppose it makes sense when I think about it!

[Ziko]

mike1234, it also sounds like maybe the reverb presets you're choosing are a little too "large", maybe try going for a smaller room emulation that way you'll be able to have a little more reverb in there without the vocals sounding a long way away.

If you're in to messing with the finer settings yourself, try:
reducing the length of the tail a little
using a pre-delay setting of 20-50ms if there isn't one already
using a low pass filter to darken the reverb up a touch