![]() ![]() ![]() Though a certain amount of reverberation is inherent in recording sound in general, producers began intentionally using reverb in recordings around the late 1940s. Rather than the sort of distinct, spaced out echoes you might hear after shouting in a canyon (or coming from a delay effect), reverb occurs when those reflections arrive at our ears so close together that we perceive them as a continuous “tail” that lingers after the original sound has faded.Ī reverb chamber/midcentury dungeon at Capitol Studios In a general sense, reverb (or reverberation) is a natural phenomenon caused by reflections of a sound arriving at our ears after the original sound does. But first, a little history: What is Reverb? In this article, I’m going to take a look at why that is plus some of my favorite ways to use it. I never got to hear that reverb in action, but plate reverb is an absolutely essential part of my tool kit as a mix engineer and producer. I’m pretty sure I added avocado to mine - and if you ever have to move a plate reverb as a favor, you should request avocado… at a minimum. We spent an evening lugging a heavy, clunky box into a moving truck, and I believe he bought me a burrito as thanks. My first introduction to plate reverb happened some years ago, when my friend (and Pro Audio Files colleague) Max Foreman asked me if I’d help him move a plate reverb unit out of the basement of a studio where he’d been working.
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