Matt Freak Flag 33 Report post Posted May 31, 2016 What kind of reverb do you guys like on your snares? I can never quite get the sound I want, so I usually end up just nabbing the "tail" of a snare from a live drum break that I like. But this has limitations... Like my reverb tail having a random hi-hit in it. Not to mention vinyl crackles. Pre-delay times? Diffusion? Hall/plate/room/etc? Please share what works for you! Thanks in advance... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neil (spatialize) 77 Report post Posted May 31, 2016 you use logic? There's a Big Drum Room impulse in there. That is very nice on snares or on a full loop (filtered a little maybe). Plus I find a bit of either spring reverb or plate on top of something like that is the way forward. The big drum reverb to add depth and the spring (or a plate) to add a bit of a ring or upper / mid freq spaciousness to the sound.. So yeah I find a couple of subtle applications of 2 types of reverb works best for me. 1 Matt Freak Flag reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Freak Flag 33 Report post Posted May 31, 2016 Sweet, will try that... right away. Space Designer's impulses are great but it's hard to find the perfect one sometimes. Surfing IRs is like surfing through presets you can't tweak. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neil (spatialize) 77 Report post Posted May 31, 2016 Maybe try buying some IR downloads? A cheap way of injecting different sound. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neil (spatialize) 77 Report post Posted May 31, 2016 I use the spring reverb in reaktor. sounds good enough to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
via'on 8 Report post Posted June 1, 2016 I mostly use short room reverbs on my drums. It's really efficient to glue all the drum tracks. Also, try to put a compressor after your reverb, it can really make your snare sound bigger. (And don't hesitate to play 3 or 4 different snares at the same time, if you're looking for a big snare hit.) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neil (spatialize) 77 Report post Posted June 1, 2016 Routing your reverb into your drum bus can help too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Freak Flag 33 Report post Posted June 6, 2016 Routing your reverb into your drum bus can help too. That's how I do it usually. That way the compressor can sort of rebalance the drum sound to the room sound in an organic sort of way. Also: Big Drums on Space Designer is a fantastic IR. Tried it and instantly changed my Snare Verb bus on my master template to it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AstroPilot 6 Report post Posted June 14, 2016 Greetings! I use room reverb for snare (and other percs, hats and etc) with decay 200-400 ms, pre-delay time = 60 000 ÷ track tempo ÷ 4 = length of 1/16 . and for example, for 120 bpm, 60 000÷120÷4=125 ms, so its to big number for pre delay time, so why we need to divide on 4 again and we got 31.25. Usually for different reverbs in one track I use different pre-delay time, so let's say for big reverb I will use here 62,5 = 31,25*2 . But anyway don't forget to check everything with your ears! 1 andorra reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andorra 117 Report post Posted June 15, 2016 Greetings! I use room reverb for snare (and other percs, hats and etc) with decay 200-400 ms, pre-delay time = 60 000 ÷ track tempo ÷ 4 = length of 1/16 . and for example, for 120 bpm, 60 000÷120÷4=125 ms, so its to big number for pre delay time, so why we need to divide on 4 again and we got 31.25. Usually for different reverbs in one track I use different pre-delay time, so let's say for big reverb I will use here 62,5 = 31,25*2 . But anyway don't forget to check everything with your ears! I've wondered why reverbs don't have bpm synced pre-delay.. But this formula was new to me, thanks for sharing it! Have to try this today Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AstroPilot 6 Report post Posted June 15, 2016 some of reverbs has bpm sync pre-delays, waves h-reverb for example Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strange Substance 2 Report post Posted November 2, 2016 I got some nice free impulse responses from this site: https://fokkie.home.xs4all.nl/IR.htm#Factory Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Advanced Suite 7 Report post Posted November 10, 2016 Routing your reverb into your drum bus can help too. This sounds super interesting. I want to try this but I am not picturing the routing. How do I set this up? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andorra 117 Report post Posted November 22, 2016 Always a struggle to get reverb snare right.. I love very long and spacey snares but usually those work only with every 1/4th snare hit or so. Now I'm working on a 100bpm downtempo track and trying to get snare reverb working there.. Almost there! Lots of tweaking and adjusting Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iacchus 25 Report post Posted November 29, 2016 Finding a good reverb algorithm is really hard.. many sound tinny and unnatural. Keep hearing about these amazing new reverb plugins, trying them out, and deciding they are crap. I have a fairly cheapish Lexicon box which I prefer to most VSTs, with the exception of the Plug and Mix digital reverb which I think sounds great on some sounds and I am using a lot more these days, just because it's nice to work in-the-box where you can! http://www.plugandmix.com/products/p881-Digital-Reverb/ IR stuff can be pretty good too, use that if I want a ridiculously big reverb. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites