I spent a lot of time trying to make high quality leads and am wondering, to add that final something to match the quality of the stuff I'm hearing on the TATW player on above&beyonds radio podcast, is a standalone quality reverb essential?

I recently bought Gladiator and Sylenth, and can't make my mind up if the verbs are good enough, not just for pretty ok sonics, but for real top end sounds.

Can anyone recommend a dedicated quality soft verb? Someone mentioned adverb by audio damage at £59.00.

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Lexicon are regarded as making some of the best hardware and i use a software one called panthenon that is pretty nice.

I think that the actual verb is important but technique must play a big roll too for example applying low cuts, knowing the right pre-delay, or ensuring that all the audio events within the track occur in the same acoustic environment.

Saying that though people were saying that my tracks were too dry and not enough verb and delay so i just turned my reverb decay to full applyed a low cut and those same people are saying that my tracks are more airy and bettter now. So i dont know.

them anjunabeats tracks do sound wet though dont they? alive almost!

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WaveArts Masterverb is the best VST I know of. You might also like to look into some freeware convolution reverbs.

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the best thing to do is make the best sample you can with what you got then try out all the top reverb plugins demos and take it from there.

people just go crazy sometimes and buy all those top plugins ect and slap it on their favorate synth and wonder why nothing has really changed.

you will find that certen plugins suit differnt things so i will say when you make something you like render it and then come back to it with a new instance of the daw you're using as not to max out your pc and see what happens with diffrent plugins.

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Originally posted by echosystm WaveArts Masterverb is the best VST I know of.

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Cannot recommend this enough. My go to Verb every time.

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Looks pretty sexy, I'll have to check it out.

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That one looks nice, will try it out.

Reverbs are tricky to get right - you need plenty of space for them in the mix
If you have too many things going on with delays then you wont have room for big verbs, sometimes you wont even need them at all
Also make sure to try different types of algorithms i.e. hall, room, plate etc, room verbs are nice for drums and stuff

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Originally posted by evo8 Reverbs are tricky to get right - you need plenty of space for them in the mix If you have too many things going on with delays then you wont have room for big verbs, sometimes you wont even need them at all Also make sure to try different types of algorithms i.e. hall, room, plate etc, room verbs are nice for drums and stuff

Using gate after the reverb can give you some extra control over it.

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I also use the WaveArts verb and my other go-to reverbs are Waves RenVerb and Tone2 Warmverb. But, to answer your question, the reverb that you use for your synths is not going to make a night/day difference in your overall mix, so I wouldn't go spending a lot of money on a dedicated reverb plugin and expect miracle results in your mixes.

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Originally posted by Richard Butler I recently bought Gladiator and Sylenth, and can't make my mind up if the verbs are good enough, not just for pretty ok sonics, but for real top end sounds.

I use both of those synths as well and typically just use their on-board reverbs and other FX. They both have very good FX sections, and I don't think you're going to notice $200 difference in the sound of those synths simply by buying a $200 dedicated reverb.

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I prefer BlueVerb from Nomad Factory. There is not a lot of autonomy with the unit, which I actually like. I sometimes feel that the more options something has, the more I end up F'ing up the sound.


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Originally posted by Subtle Using gate after the reverb can give you some extra control over it.

yeah i never got the result i wanted with gates, it either cut off too fast or not enough or was too noticeable etc etc
i prefer to just adjust the decay instead

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