On 22 Dec 2006 at 19:54, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 07:14 PM 12/22/2006 -0500, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Does anyone understand the parameters provided by the GVerb filter in > > Audacity? I've Googled on it and found little of use -- a few people > > offer settings that they think are great, but nobody seems to > >explain how the different parameters interact. > > What do you need to know? > > It's a standard room reverb. Think of it as an envelope generator, but > with reverb parameters.
This doesn't really mean much to me. > The default settring has the dry signal at zero; move that way up and > the rest of it should start making sense. I've tried all sorts of settings on it, experimenting with one at a time, and never really got anything that I liked (though I got some that were acceptable). > Roomsize is the presence; What do you mean by "presence?" How does that translate into actual reverb sound? I found that I actually got better results with smaller rooms and wetter settings. > reverb time is the total length of the > reverb; damping is like the furniture in the room; input bandwidth is > the room's tendency to resonate certain frequencies; dry signal level > is the original; early reflection is the mix of nearby signals (the > 'boingy' part); tail is the resonance after the reverb itself. This part I always understood. > This particular reverb is a tad weak. Audacity takes VSTs, so you can > drop better ones into that directory. I recommend the Kjaerhus > "Classic" series (free!). The default settings on that are acceptable, in fact, though not ideal. I'll play with it and see. I had been using my synthesizer's reverb and chorus before recording, because it made my weak orchestral strings sound better. Should I make the recording from MIDI completely dry and then use the Kjaerhus chorus and reverb filters on that? Or should I just the synthesizer chorus and the plugin reverb? Or is this something I'll have to experiment with to find out? Thanks for the help! -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
