REVERB, REVERB, REVERB...REVERB.......REVERB........REVERB............REVERB........
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Yea I think you get the point. So what is reverb? Reverb is simply sound is produced after the sound has been made....So most of us that have just began into recording, use presets...Don't feel embarrassed, some advanced users still do it. Yea didn't mean to call you guys out, but there is a theory and technique that must be used for reverb.
Now again we are using...You guessed it...FL Studio....
And I don't like to use my reverbs on my main channels, or in other words I don't use my reverbs directly on my audio files. I allow my audio to go to my master track as a clean audio, then I also map my audio to a send channel. What is a send channel? basically for me anyway, it is channels that I use which I route back to other channels. So in other words, if I set a certain reverb, instead of abusing my CPU in my computer and putting a reverb on each channel. I use only one reverb and route it to many channels..MUWHAHAHA...Sorry evil genius coming out there a bit, he's back in his cage now...
Now I will give you a close up shot of the mixer so you can see my send channels which I have aptly named Long, and Short....
Now for the reverbs themselves and how to determine which reverb to use. First we will start with the easy aspect of it. Pull up any reverb you wish, for this one...I'll use the simply version of Fruity Reverb....
We have put this in the send channel I have named "Long", because we are wanting a longer reverb here, lets go through the presets. YES I did say presets, The key is to use a preset, but adjust it so it fits our current song. So okay I found a setting I liked, Venue...Okay now lets turn the dry setting to 0% as it is shown above. I do this because as I said I want to route the audio channel as a clean straight to the master and another to my send channel as such...
Notice here how insert 1 has the the knobs near the bottom. Both in the master and turned up as well in the Long channel, but not in the short or other insert channels. Aha, shew that was difficult to explain. But this shows that I am routing the sounds in that insert/channel straight to the master, but the same audio is being sent to the "Long" channel which will be nothing but reverb. Which gives us a clean audio, without giving us just a reverbed mess.
Now back to the reverb itself. After we have determined the correct reverb we are going to be using, we have to adjust it to fit our song. Look first at the BPM/Temp of the audio....
As you can see, we are using a tempo of 120.00. So here is a simple bit of math, get your calculators. Okay there is 60 second in a minute, correct. Okay well there is also 1,000ms in a second right? Times those numbers...You get a whopping 60,000 right! Well this is our base number, so remember it, write it down, get a tattoo of it so you don't forget it...Well I wouldn't be that dramatic about it, but it is important to remember.
Okay so we have 60,000. So now we look at our tempo, which is 120 bpm(Beats Per Minute). So we are going to divide 60,000 by the 120 . 60,000/120 and you get....500.
So we have discovered a 1/4th note which is 500ms...
Divide it by 2...250ms which is a 1/8th note
Divide that by 2...125 which is a 1/16th note
Divide again by 2....62.5 which is 1/32nd note
again by 2...31.25 which is a 1/64th note...
Okay I think that may be enough. Now we know by these numbers where we need to set our predelay settings! A lot of work but well worth the effort I assure you. Now the simple part simply go through your predealy setting adjusting to the numbers that you have gotten by your handy-dandy calculator. Now you can judge which one fits your liking and taste.
This just basically gives you a better fit for your reverbs. It is a lot of work I'll admit, but it helps to give your reverbs a bit more realism than the average preset will. Now the other setting on the reverb, which will vary from reverb to reverb, which is why I'm really not going to cover it much. Will help narrow down the reverb. But do know through the send channel, that you can adjust, (via the handy dandy turn knob in FL Studio), how much of the effect you are going to apply to the audio. Even through the effects chain alone in the send channel, you can determine how much the audio will effect the channel as a whole.
The room size, will effect how echoy the effect is, so to speak and high and low cut knobs/settings, change where your reverb will effect your audio. If you are getting too much high end shine off the reverb, dial down the frequency until its gone. Decay will also be more of an amplitude as far as the reverb goes. If you crank that baby up, the amount of reverb/resonance you will get will be overwhelming. Other wise, leave well enough alone.
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