Your Thoughts on Reverbs

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Which reverbs do you use most?

Zita-rev1
7
10%
Tal-reverb 1 though 3
10
14%
Calf-reverb
15
21%
Freeverb
6
9%
GVerb
2
3%
Mverb
4
6%
dRow Audio
1
1%
IR
11
16%
Other (please specify)
10
14%
Linux DSP SR-2B
4
6%
 
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ssj71:

raboof added the plugins forum a few days ago after I requested it (again) but this was after you'd started this great thread. I'm not an admin so I'll PM him and request this gets moved where it belongs.
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I use IR a lot on master or submix busses. For individual instruments I'm as likely to use Steve Harris's Plate Reverb.
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I'd probably use IR. But since it's available only as LV2 and I use Rosegarden (can only load LADSPA) I ended up with C* Plate 2x2. Sounds good and is an all-purpose reverb in stereo. There is a mono version as well.

Tap Reverberator sounds like a digital delay, at least the LADSPA version that I have.

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falkTX wrote:I *love* TAL Reverb 2 & 3.
Recently I found about this one, https://github.com/HiFi-LoFi/KlangFalter, which I imported into DISTRHO (LV2 and VST).
Where do i find a link to your port of Klangfalter. Looks really interesting but I can't see any updates on your distrho site in awhile. Am i missing something?
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I am looking for a good Arena style Reverb. Do you guys know which one will give me that Arena big sound?
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I found a crap load of IR verbs files here.. I have most already:

http://rhythminmind.net/STN/?page_id=4188
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On most mixes I run two instances of IR, using the Bricasti M7 IR files. One is set to a warm room sound for the drums (since most home-recorded drum tracks I get don't have much of a room sound), and another set to a plate.

My 2nd choice is the Harrison Gverb+ plugin. They improved the open source one or something. I think that one only works in Mixbus though.

I plan to start playing with the Fons reverb soon, and I plan to purchase the LinuxDSP reverb when I have more cash.
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Ricardus wrote:On most mixes I run two instances of IR, using the Bricasti M7 IR files. One is set to a warm room sound for the drums (since most amateur drum tracks I get don't have much of a room sound), and another set to a plate.

My 2nd choice is the Harrison Gverb+ plugin. They improved the open source one or something. I think that one only works in Mixbus though.

I plan to start playing with the Fons reverb soon, and I plan to purchase the LinuxDSP reverb when I have more cash.
yep, Bricasti M7 IR files are my favs too. the backend to IR is Fons's jconvolver. Yes, I forgot to add his link here:

http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linux ... bs.tar.bz2
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Which free one might provide the best Arena Reverb sound?
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Tal, IR as well as the reverb which comes with Renoise
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aeb105 wrote:Which free one might provide the best Arena Reverb sound?
play with them till you find your sound..
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Hi funkmuscle,

do you know where i can find free as in freedom (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) IR files?
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Ricardus wrote:On most mixes I run two instances of IR, using the Bricasti M7 IR files. One is set to a warm room sound for the drums (since most home-recorded drum tracks I get don't have much of a room sound), and another set to a plate.
As I understood you need 2 instances of IR to load one M7-file each, one for the stereo file "left" and one for the stereo file "right". The output of both has to be mixed together. Then you have only one room simulated.

Did I get it wrong?

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bluebell wrote:
Ricardus wrote:On most mixes I run two instances of IR, using the Bricasti M7 IR files. One is set to a warm room sound for the drums (since most home-recorded drum tracks I get don't have much of a room sound), and another set to a plate.
As I understood you need 2 instances of IR to load one M7-file each, one for the stereo file "left" and one for the stereo file "right". The output of both has to be mixed together. Then you have only one room simulated.

Did I get it wrong?
Yes, you got it wrong. I run two instances of IR because I want 2 distinct reverb sounds on some mixes.

1 instance or IR outputs stereo. And if you have the good IR files, like the Bricasti ones that I use, they are actually qudraphonic IR files, and IR and other IR reverbs process that down to a sophisticated stereo output image.
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