Glue Your Mixes Together with this Reverb Technique 

Hey man, this is so wonderful to hear!! I am so happy you have found it helpful! Let me know how the mix progresses!

The reason you're "not supposed to do it" is because often there's at least a few tracks that don't do well with reverb in any given mix, and the "approved" way of doing it, is to send almost every track to reverb (or a mix of 2-3 differing lengths of) on fx sends set to 100% wet. This way you can pick and choose every track's amount of reverb, and not send the tracks that don't really want reverb on them to it. However, this takes a ton more time, and if you are ending up going to send EVERYTHING to the reverb anyway, and by roughly the same amount, and the reverb is already the shape you want it (frequency wise and dynamically), there's very little reason not to use this technique. It does however afford less overall control, like you can't EQ or compress your reverb on it's own anymore (another reason people tend to use fx sends more).

Nice video

Working on a mix now and I did something similar; I was like "I'm not supposed to like this".

Love this! It really is such a good plugin!

I am very happy it has helped you! Best of luck with all your music mixing!

My pleasure! Thank you for watching!

I’d love to hear about how you get on with it! Thank you so much for watching!

No, thank YOU for watching! 😊

I think this is incredibly cool! I bet it worked fantastically!

Nice!

Thank you!!

I am SO happy you’ve got something out of the video, thank you very much for watching! Please keep me updated on how your mixing goes! And yeah, different verbs are worth trying but I bet the convo reverb will do a fine job with the right tweaking! Have an awesome day!

Thank you 😊

Thank you so much, man! Can’t tell you how much I appreciate you watching!

@@AlexWhiteComposer I am glad to engage such a thoughtful content provider. If I may ask, would you be open to an offline conversation (perhaps via the "Signal" or other secure app? I have an idea regarding content which I would love to discuss with you.

Hey, yes! More than happy to chat away from RU-vid comments. I would like to stick to email, but you are very welcome to drop me a message at alex@alexwhitecomposer.com

@@AlexWhiteComposer Thanks, Brother. Email, sent.

My pleasure, thank you for watching!!

Sounds ace! Let me know how it goes!

Honestly, Hitsville is my goto reverb these days. Its character is amazing!

I showed also a tip on my channel, for mastering. I would love your evaluation

❤️ Thank you for commenting! And yeah, it’s a proper fun technique isn’t it?

Yes! You can use any reverb plugin that allows for a very short decay time (reverb length) and preferably isn’t something like a spring reverb which will have a very identifiable character (that spring sound). What DAW are you using? I might be able to recommend something specifically in that DAW!

@@AlexWhiteComposermaybe something from Ableton? I use a room snare reverb which I dial back quite a bit on my drums. I wonder if any other room reverb would work on the main

I will double check about Ableton Live, but yes, certain a snare room verb will work a treat! Just be really careful not to add too much. Just a tiny taste of it!

I bet it sounds awesome! Studio One is excellent!

Thank you! ☺️

Hey! This is Luna from Universal Audio. I really love it!

Let me know how you find it! 😊

Does this work in edm?? I make techno and on my master bus I shy away from it because I’m unsure of how to use it correctly

Yes, it absolutely does! It’s style irrelevant, because you’re not trying to use it to make “the sound of reverb”. You’re adding a “glue”… a cushioning and common element to everything in the mix - it should only be something you can hear kind of “padding out” the sounds - especially on sparser sections or breakdowns. It’ll add an almost 3D dimension to the mix that makes things sound wider and fuller, but never a sense of actual reverb. It’s all about the gaps, not the core of the sounds.

This is Luna by Universal Audio. 😊

Honestly, any reverb that can have a really short decay time! They all sound a little bit different but you’re looking to use it in very small amounts! Think like between 2% - 10%, and 10% would probably be on the high side! Just listen out for it in the gaps, rather than on top of the audio itself!

Thank you. @@AlexWhiteComposer

Those sound like awesome ideas! I love a bit of distortion on vocals well! 😃 Thank you for commenting! I really appreciate it!

nice one mother mother song called the sticks is a good ref@@AlexWhiteComposer

Andrew Scheps is amazing!

No! This is very much one of those processes that you mix into! It’s the same kind of thing as mixing into a compressor! Bear in mind there are no rules, lots of folks mix very differently from each other, but setting up a selection of plugins on your mixbus as the very first stage of your mix is very common, and this is a great first process to get started!

Gonna mix into this myself, dunno if I want to put a reverb before a compressor, as subtle as it is, that will be last on the chain

Sounds cool to me! Let me know how it goes!

So it would sound like all the shit out there? At least he is working with a real music