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  • Until MIR - How do you use Reverb?

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    B
    Hi,

    I look forward to someday "placing" instruments on a stage and having everything sound great without having to mess with reverb settings (I hope this is what MIR or GigaPulse does). Until that time, however, could someone please give me a basic idea of how you create this effect with reverbs?

    At first I used the NFX "small hall" for everything and set panning positions for a typical orchestra set up. While this sounded better than without panning and the NFX reverb, it still doesn't sound "right". Then I tried using the medium hall for brass to make them sound further away, while still using small hall for the woodwinds and strings, but this didn't really work. It's hard to explain, but the sound is either dry and unrealistic or echo-y and unclear no matter what I try. SO, now I'm going to try and learn to use Sound Forge with impulses. Can someone please suggest a set of typical settings?

    For instance:

    1) How do you mix dry and wet? 75% dry/25% wet for close instruments 50/50 for medium depth, and 75/25 for far away?

    2) When do you boost Low, Medium, and High Frequencies (are high for "high instruments" like violins and piccolos, etc.??)

    3) Do you put "far back" instruments like brass and percussion in larger room sizes with a longer decay?

    4) When do you adjust damping and diffusion?


    Thank you for any help!

    -Brennan
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD
    Many people use two instances of convolution reverb for these purposes, one for the overall ambience and reverb, another for additional distance cues. While many others will tell you differently, I like to keep a lot of the dry signal in the mix, while adding reverb via a "classical" Aux-Send routing.

    EQ is a very different animal - what is right in one case, may be completely wrong in another. In general, VSL-instruments don't _need _ a lot of EQing, while they nicely _respond_ to EQing when you really go for it. Keep in mind that you will lose bass and treble with larger distances, but don't make this a rule.

    There has been quite alot of discussion on these topics during the last year, so maybe the "search"-feature of our forum will reveal more opinions, until other people drop their replies here. (... and yes, a FAQ is in the making.)

    HTH as a starter :-]

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • B
    B
    Thanks Dietz!

    Did some searching and found a few ideas. I'm still having difficulty getting instruments to sound farther away but without sounding like they are in a different hall altogether.

    -Brennan