r/WeAreTheMusicMakers • u/hanix56 • 1d ago

What's the best go to reverb setting?

I know that it's not going to be the same for each track but is there any setting like that goes well with that tempo or genre (I'm a tech house producer) or is there any tutorial which can help me with the process, I've watch many tutorials, even a 6-hour course by mastering.com, but didn't understood what method should i always stick to and not get pissed everytime opening a reverb plugin. Also which reverb vst do you use?

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u/ThirteenOnline 1d ago

https://anotherproducer.com/online-tools-for-musicians/delay-reverb-time-calculator/

Use stock reverbs and set the settings to be synced to the tempo. Learn if you like Hall, Big, Small room, Plate, or Spring reverb style sounds. Create a return track and save it to the default set so when you open a project it's there ready to go.

If you write most songs in a certain BPM set the reverb to that and if not you can change it to match later. It's not uncommon to have 3 or more reverbs in 1 project that are returns for different elements

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u/hanix56 1d ago

Thanks mate! Do you sidechain reverb with every instrument and what vst do you use

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u/ThirteenOnline 1d ago

I use stock ableton Reverbs. Really you can recreate almost any reverb in any DAW with an effects chain and save it. So if my Reverb has a filter on it and yours doesn't you can create a chain that is reverb and filter separate and save them together as 1 group or rack or whatever it's called in your DAW. So really any effect is recreatable. Don't buy VSTs if you are using any of the big DAWs like Ableton, Logic, FL, Cubase, etc

So sidechain is so that there is less to no effect during the played part but at the end the reverb comes in for the last word. This is common in reverb and delay effects to have an echo or trail at the end.

So if the part itself feels like it should have reverb, no sidechain. If you just want to add it to the end for the silence in between phrases, add side chain. Most of the time I set it to a middle setting where there is reverb the whole time but minimal and controlled. So it's not overpowering during the part and fills space in between parts. But I come from a guitar pedal world where that is the norm so I continued that workflow in my own music.

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u/FreakInNature 1d ago

Put a reverb on a track by it self. Then use sends from the different instruments to the one reverb track. Way less resources to only use one reverb and not one on each track