Quick reverb question

[jkrans]

First of all, I just received your demo cube and I’m blown away by the realism. I’ll be purchasing this library very soon. Since all instruments were recorded at Silent Stage, I’m wondering if I could just run the entire orchestra through one specific reverb setting with something like Altiverb and achieve good results? Will the Vienna Symphonic Library sit well in one main hall, or will it still be necessary to apply different reverbs to various instruments and sections to help put them in their proper space?

Thanks!
Jeff

[Dietz]

Oh - this is a matter of taste, I'd say.

Some of the demos were mixed with almost nothing than a Yamaha S-Rev1 or an AltiVerb for reverbation. "Almost", because I like to work with subtle delays and/or echoes, too.

Other pieces were mixed with a combination of one "main"-reverb and several individual early-reflection-engines like the Waves "TrueVerb".

But as a said above - it completely depends on your needs and your taste (and you _have_ the options - quite contrary to sample-libraries with "built-in" reverb).

HTH,

Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

[jkrans]

Hi Dietz,

Thanks a lot for your response.

Jeff

[NG1]

Dietz, would you mind sharing which of the above reverb techniques you used for the Blue Danube demo? Was that Altiverb? It's my personal favorite of the demos from an ambience perspective.

Thanks.

[Dietz]

Quoting from an earlier post of myself:

@Another User said:

The palette of reverbs used in the demo-mixes is quite diverse - on the one hand because we are always eager to try new stuff, on the other hand because intimate solo-pieces simply need other "rooms" as large-scale orchestral stuff. Lately, the Yamaha S-Rev 1 Sampling-Reverb was used pretty often as a "fire and forget"-solution in an astonishing large number of occasions. As a possible alternative, the AltiVerb from AudioEase is a new contender in my arsenal.

During many other sessions the System 6000 from TC electronics was my main reverbation unit, combined with several Waves TruVerbs inserted into single instrument-tracks as individually controllable early reflections-engines (... you can vary the reflection-patterns very easy on this plug-in to avoid resonating artefacts); for those "artificial", glassy reverb-tails I used TDM plug-ins like RealVerb, from time to time. Apart from this, I like a tad of (high-cut) echoes on heroic brass themes, when I have the freedom to do so in less "authentic", more soundtrack-oriented pieces.

AltiVerb is a "Sampling Reverb" (aka "Convolution" or "Imulse Response") from the Dutch (?) company AudioEase (http://www. audioease.com">http://www. audioease.com) - software desigend to work on G4-based Macs. In the meantime, there are PC-based solutions.

HTH,

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Libary

[NG1]

Thanks, Dietz!

So, do I understand correctly that (in some cases depending on musical context) you use a slapback-echo on all the brasses, not just horns?

[Dietz]

Uh - maybe I'm outing myself as a complete ignorant now, but I decide this from case to case only with my ears ... I don't have dogmatic concepts when I mix. So - yes, I'm sure that I had echo-effects on several brass-instruments (and even on one of the woodwind-solo demos, I think).

This may or may not be what _your_ ears want to hear [;)]

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library