ProSoundWeb: Like with other aspects to mixing, the use of reverb is frequently either overlooked or misunderstood. Reverb is added to a track to create width and depth, but also to dress up an otherwise boring sound. The real secret is how much to use and how to adjust its various parameters.
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Reading this article was super helpful because I have always struggled with figuring out the purpose of reverb and how to properly use it in something. Although this is a article for recording sound and music, I feel like it can also still be super useful in live sound and in theatre. I remember in high school when I would watch other people add reverb to their mixes because our theatre was so dead but the sound always sounded a little out of place because it just seemed like it didn’t reflect what was in the room which was true, but I also think that it is possible that too much reverb was used and that maybe the sound designer could have found a better amount of reverb to use. Understanding that reverb works how panning works but front to back instead of left to right makes so much more sense to me now and I feel like after reading this article I have a better understanding of how to use and apply reverb.
This article was super interesting especially since I’ve been learning all about timing processing effects in sound like echo, delay, and reverb in my Production Audio class every week. We recently just had to do a listening assignment where we chose a song to listen to and had to identify what kind of processing was used on the instruments/vocals in the section that we chose. I found it particularly difficult when it came to identifying the difference between hearing echo and reverb especially when it was used more sparingly instead of being used to create a really intense listening effect. After doing more research online and listening to more examples of people utilizing reverb I understand why it is such an utilized form of audio processing as it is a quick but effective way to change the sound of something. I found it so fun that one of the articles this week talked about something that related so closely to what I’ve been learning.
At first, I am very scared of reverb. I think this because I have always known reverb to be used too much by people too often. It can make something sound naive and unprofessional in my opinion. However, it has its uses and when done well it can enhance something to the next level. In this article they cover how to use reverb well and what it does to a sound mix. The use for reverb is “is to give depth and width to the mix.” Hearing this makes a lot more sense to me and has started to make me understand the use reverb effectively in a sound mix. Reverb can give size to a sound and move it forward or backward in a mix, layering the sound. I would love to be able to mess around with reverb and see what happens when giving more or less reverb to a sound. I am super excited to learn more about sound mixing and the uses of reverb in a mix.
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