This reverb is worth every penny, the best I have heard in a very very long time. I am a reverb fanatic, and this definitely cuts the mustard. Great stuff.
I'm currently learning this reverb and I have to say it's one of my absolute favorites. The other reverb I use regularly is the Berlin Studio Reverb, which simulates the reverb characteristics of Teldex, Berlin. Berlin Studio is excellent in its own way. While the reverb doesn't offer the same level of control as the Air Studio Reverb, the quality is equally good!
Nice job, Sam and I'm sure you are singing something profound and insightful in Swedish and not just singing about your grocery list this week 😁 - But it's a great arrangement in either case! The reverb sounds pretty amazing. I bought Heavyocity's Vast earlier this year which is unique for sound design verbs. Between that and Sonible's Smart: Verb, Spitfire's offering is not something I would get now, but definitely a serious choice for someone in need of a quality plugin.
Thank you! I like the sonible myself, but haven't tried heaviocity's reverb. I think the Spitfire is going a little more towards unparallel realism and orchestration, and even though flexible, not so much sound design.
I was inboxed when this reverb was first released with its introductory price. I remember Spitfire mentioning that a surround version may be down the track. I came to the same conclusion, that understanding the reverbs you already own is a great first choice, rather than opt for that extra few percent. I've purchased a few commercial convolution reverbs, and keep going back to Space Designer included with Logic Pro. I run in surround, as it includes true surround impulses. With tweaking I can get just as good a result as the commercial products. You pay for nice wrapping, and refined presets, with the commercial products, but the quality and spacial info in the multi impulses is pretty fundamental to how good the reverb will sound. When Spitfire upgrade it to surround I will consider purchasing it, just to have the Air Studio sound available to all my instruments, not just my Spitfire libraries.
Thanks for your review Sam! I have a question. Would you benefit from plugging this reverb into vsts by spirfire that were already recorded live in air, or would it make it sound less realistic? I’m considering this because I like the ability to move the reverb around in the space and get the feeling of realism but am unsure if using this in spitfire symphony orchestra would degrade the natural sound of air that I am getting from the live performance. Maybe I should try adding an algorithmic reverb like cinematic rooms. What are you learning thoughts?
Most, not all, spitfire libraries are quite wet, and the reverb that is baked in the samples sound very good. There is no need for the air reverb ontop in those cases, I believe. But perhaps for the drier libraries, and those not recorded in Lyndhurst. If you use only libraries recorded in air, you don't need this reverb I think.
Just to get more depth, as instruments are not in the same point of the room naturally in the orchestra, but mostly just a creative and controllable sound.
Spitfire Audio is not a company that creates reverb plugins... and from this offering it's obvious that they are not as they completely missed adding a surround option into the Air Studios Reverb. They would have been wiser to partner with a company like Liquid Sonics or someone else to help them create a more full featured plugin. This is not one for me! For a much better high end reverb I'll go to another company who does this as their specialty.
I think Spitfire will update this eventually. Your best alternative right now is probably cinematic rooms by liquid sonics. That's a great reverb for about the same price. It can do atmos, but it doesn't really work the same way. Atmos is certainly important, and will be when more so in the future, but for pure music it isn't really that important. Cheers!
@@SecondTierSound I could care less about Atmos... it's a format that was invented for film and works well for that, but for normal music, it's just foolish. However, surround (regular old 5.1, or even 7.1) makes greater sense for any new reverb unit to have as an option. Again... I believe that more than enough wonderful reverb plugins are available without another one being added to the mix (no pun intended). To make more sense with this, Spitfire would be well served to make another reverb plugin from Abbey Road Studio One, or even a few of the well known scoring stages around the world. However, once again, Spitfire Audio is a sampled musical instrument company. Why move out into an area that is not their expertise? Again... NOT for me. If anything, instead I'll pick up Cinematic Rooms (the two channel version because I don't need surround).
There is no other reverb that does what Air is capable. Their sales are dropping so why shouldn't they sell reverb?You really think they can't hire experts and do it the right way?
