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Hey quick question on reverb. Im in a music production class and at school my prof tells me to always put the reverb on a send track instead of on the actual track. I notice no difference when i do this but he swears to this method. Is there an advantage? A disadvantage? Any explanation would be helpful, thanks!

no do both. Just use them to perform different things in your track.

going out on a limb, but maybe his affinity for send/returns stems from using reverb units that didnt have wet/dry knobs when he first learned.

In this day and age though you should be abusing/using/reusing reverbs and fx anyway you want to or can, atleast i feel thats part of the fun anyway.

its essentially not much different. the reason he prob tells you to put it as a send is because you can then use the same reverb patch on every sample, and its a LOT less CPU instensive

an advantage to having your reverb on a bus is that everything you send there will sound like it's in the same space instead of having loads of different timed reverbs on every track, also helps to keep cpu levels down

perfect thanks for the help, yeah he uses pro tools for teaching his class, i dont believe it has a wet/dry knob so he uses a fader to adjust the amount. I will definitely try all the tips! thanks

also if you send it you will be able to put the reverb on certain frequencies and stuff like that....

DJStevenSolis wrote:perfect thanks for the help, yeah he uses pro tools for teaching his class, i dont believe it has a wet/dry knob so he uses a fader to adjust the amount. I will definitely try all the tips! thanks

np, enjoy them classes.

Towany wrote:also if you send it you will be able to put the reverb on certain frequencies and stuff like that....

I've read that before but I've never understood quite how that works... do you split up the track to certain frequencies, then put reverb on the ones you want?

Ayatollah wrote:

Towany wrote:also if you send it you will be able to put the reverb on certain frequencies and stuff like that....

I've read that before but I've never understood quite how that works... do you split up the track to certain frequencies, then put reverb on the ones you want?

never done it but i would have sends that have a eq > then reverb, use the eq to pick the freqs you want sent to that reverb unit. Dupliate and change the eq settings to create the other freqs you want to target. Then maybe group them all to gether at the end for more control of the over all effect.

wizeguy wrote:an advantage to having your reverb on a bus is that everything you send there will sound like it's in the same space instead of having loads of different timed reverbs on every track, also helps to keep cpu levels down

pretty much this, also speeds up workflow and allows you more control over your reverb if it's on its own channel. I usually EQ out the low end of the reverb busses and sidechain them to my kick drum to keep a tight mix even if i'm using a lot of reverb.

do both. things that "sound" like reverb, use as sends-- plates, long halls, etc. you can use really short verbs as inserts to change the character of a sound-- a kick w/ a .2-second plate on it doesn't sound like a verbed kick, it sounds like a drum with a deeper shell-- as fast as CPUs are these days, there's no reason not to experiment.

you also avoid that moment in a mix where everything sounds like it's drenched in reverb, and it's always the wrong verb-- get more specific sounds and you're moving forward faster.