Hi Friends, Have you ever struggled with mixing with reverb? The biggest mistake that I have made with reverb is going overboard and making a washy muddy sound mix where everything is smeared together in reverb. Reverb can make your tracks sound like they were recorded in a completely different space. This is particularly helpful if you are recording in a bedroom or small home studio environment and you want your tracks to have that big studio sound! Have a marvellously reverberating time!
I had this issue when mixing and using reverb in my non treated room...a pair of HD600s solved that for me. I’m happy to mix in headphones to a place where I can send the mix to a mastering engineer
Thanks sooooo much for this!!! I'm a touring FOH technician, I just got to try these tricks on tonight's mix and I can't tell you how grateful I am for you taking the time to do these kind of vids!!! They are super effective!! I've been touring for many many years and it's easy to get stuck in a rut with trying to constantly improve mixes. To be able to get new inspiration from the knowledge you are sharing is just the coolest thing! Thank you so much Warren!!!!
Ok - just to clarify as I am having issues with side chaining the Reverb (It doesn't work as you demonstrate). Is this right (Using bus #1): 1.Vocal track ==> Send Bus 1 ==> Aux Track that has a reverb on it. (pretty standard). 2. Below (the slot after) the Reverb place a Compressor. 3. Side chain the compressor with BUS 1. Control the reverb above it with the compressor. I realise this is "ducking" - I just don't get that nice clean sound you have. The effect is less evident unless I am near Limiting on the compressor. If anyone else wants to chime in please do.
Cool. Is it possible to get a great vocal reverb sound, with just putting reverb on a vocal track? I think many of us here are still struggling with more beginner stuff. Like for example, if you have a reverb plugin, what settings to use to achieve different effects. Still trying to work that one out before going into advanced routing with multiple verbs.
Great question! I prefer not to, however you can and if it sounds great then fantastic! I like to have a separate reverb track, it's easier for my brain to think and gives me controllability!
Thank you for the great tips and techniques. So many of your videos have been really helpful. As a hobbyist engineer, It makes the projects I work on way more interesting. The process is more fun, and the outcome is more enjoyable. :)
I'm still amazed to see protools users spend an awful lot of time doing bus and auxiliary set ups. This supposedly professional DAW is an insult to ergonomics and creativity ... Seriously, take a look at REAPER, I think you'll win a LOT of time :)
Warren, Trying the multi mono gtr trick in Logic Pro x, but Logic automatically creates a stereo Aux track...then your only choice is a stereo bus say Bus 15. doesn't seem to have a dual mono option. Any suggestions ? Great videos as usual. Happy 2018!
Hi Brian, marvellous question! Is there any setting inside of the plug in so it reads as multi mono? As long as the reverb reads dual mono you are good. If not I would suggest setting up 2 mono tracks
If I remember correctly, you can get a plugin to be dual mono by selecting a mono plugin on a stereo track. For example- The aux is stereo then you chose a reverb from the plugin menu and you should see the option for dual mono there.
There actually is a little mono/stereo toggle on the bottom of tracks in logic. It’s been a while but you should be able to click what looks like two circles intertwined and change it to one circle. Boom stereo to mono.
Hi, Warren! Thanks for all the informative videos! About the trick #1 - @2:42 It seems that you are eq-ing the kick drum before hitting the reverb, not the reverb sound (you place the eq before the reverb in the chain). Am i right?
Thank you so much for these tips, Warren! The day your wife was putting up the christmas tree and you did the Q&A, I asked the reverb questions you’ve answered here! Cheers from the Netherlands! Thumbs up!
Great video. I really think yours are the most practical videos I have seen on mixing. Question 1: I found the bussing on vocals confusing. I use reaper, and the send/routing might be a little different. So we would want to buss from the track that has one reverb to the other and put them in series vs bussing straight from the vocal track to 3 separate reverb tracks? Is that correct? For the compressor we want the input to be from the original vocal track, but in the fx chain on the same track as the longest and last reverb? Does the order of the reverbs matter do you always go shortest to longest? or is all the sends individual from the main vocal track? Question 2 is after all this are you still using another reverb on the master for final mix? Ty
Hi Adam, marvellous comment! Lot's of great questions! There is no specific order of reverbs etc. I'm unfortunately not versed in Reaper, maybe someone here can help? I am not using any kind of Reverb on the Master bus! I hope that helps?
Warren, how do you make your Mac OS UI look like good old Mac UI? I mean, red, yellow, and green buttons on the top left corner of a window be 3D, like in good old days. Thank you.
Well, aren't you the jaunty one in this very helpful video? :-) Great advice, particularly love the panning on the guitars - each guitar cuts through with clarity and yet also has its reverb going on! Thanks Warren!
Hey Warren , just to make sure i got it right it would be lovely if you could reply--->> so basically the sample to trigger the reverb is mostly used when you have live recorded drums cause you have the bleed through all the mics especially if they recorded in the same room..and when you send all these drums to a reverb it will get superwashy and the drums will lose definition??? Kind regards
I use similar approach 3 reverbs usualy on vocals with abbey road trick of course however I started to use sidechain comp trick after reverb 4 years ago
Hi Warren thank you so much :)This brings freshness to the music. Very nice demonstration of the use of the reverb, do not abuse it as you say so well because we could drown.
reverb is the hardest thing to understand how to master for me... this helps! and dual mono is something i see engineers do all the time but it sounds weird and i don't want to mess anything up so i never do it lol
Wonderful! So glad to be able to help! Try new idea, don't be afraid to make mistakes! I now there's apt of people are there quick to criticise but here we are all about learning together! Thanks for being part of our community!
How can the multimono reverb technique be done in Reaper? In Reaper there's just one kind of track where you can put everything, so there's no different versions of the same plugin (besides 32 and 64 bits). Thanks for these tips Warren :D
Great tips as always. Actually in my last (cover)song I recorded I used the sidechain trick (it was before this vid, but I think you've mentioned this trick before). I love the effect it's giving. However, multiple reverbs... never thought about that! Time to get playing with that!
Hi Martin Luxen great stuff! Yes, I have talked about it before! Thanks for noticing! I wanted to make a quick video incorporating many techniques! Thanks for watching and commenting I really appreciate it
A producer/mixer named Marc McKlusky (Motion City Soundtrack, Ludo, Weezer) also sends bass to reverb. I don't know how he pulls it off- likely careful selection of reverb time & other perimeters plus high pass filter, but none of his mixes suffer from it. Thanks Warren. Great video.
Awesome! Yeah, I'm going to give it a whirl myself- question is, do I make sure it's still panned straight up the middle when sent to the verb? Or is there some freedom with the pan position in regards to the reverb? Thanks for the reply and stay marvelous!
If you want to cut the track completely you can, it will of course not feel as natural as ducking. If you're after a dramatic cut then the gate will sound good for you!
Great video! Some nice tricks in here! If people want to do the opposite side pan trick on logic, you can open Direction Mixer and flip it 180• after your verb. Actually whilst I'm on the subject, you should pan stereo instruments (on logic) with the Direction Mixer instead of the pan knob as the knob turns one side down as apposed to panning the full sound. So if you panned a stereo piano left on logic, you are turning down the left hand (players perspective) essentially. Hope that helps people! Love these top videos Warren! The saturation one has changed my life!
Produce Like A Pro No worries! I'm taking on my first full length record for a local artist in a few months from tracking to master, it really helps knowing I have videos like this to help me along the way.
Produce Like A Pro that would be amazing. I am writing a song at the moment with several reverbs and what you show (very well may I add) seems to indicate left and right verbs separately for vocals, snare etc. At the moment I have a few verbs with many elements of my mix all feeding into stereo verbs and I'm getting a bit lost. Sometimes I wish I knew someone who could take a look at the file and give my some mix suggestions.
Hi warren a random one. When you’re mixing an album or EP how do you prepare yourself time wise. I’m mixing my third career Album for clients whom I supplied with backing tracks or beats. The first two were done during Covid so that was ok but now it feels a bit more pressure 😢. Cheers
Dear Warren, you have amazing skills at what you do and thats what simply makes you the best in my opinion ! These videos are more than valuable to any budding mixing engineer/ musician ! Thank you !
I have a problem that I hope you guys can help me understand better: I read a tutorial from Produce Like A Pro which is: 1. If using 2 vocal reverbs, use 1 single reverb with short pre-delay and short reverb time to create a short vocal reverb, just a little to keep vocals natural and a longer stereo reverb to highlight the tail but I really don't 'I don't understand if the mono reverb will be on the mono send channel or the stereo send channel (I use cubase) because when I put mono reverb on stereo send channel, does it sound like it becomes polyphonic with no purpose? 2. problem 2: If I use 1 reverb and then use an external EQ to remove the mids and highs, can I use the comp side chain? Special thanks!🥰
I'm using Oldskoolverb by Voxengo in a bus track. I'm not sure it has the option to pan the reverb exactly opposite to where the dry signal is coming from into the reverb. Space Designer by Logic has a switch that does this instantly and hassle-free.
