On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:31:58AM +0400, alex stone wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Mmm. Using 8 reverbs for a single orchestral mix doesn't make >> > any sense - unless you are doing something psychedelic (*) they >> > all play in the same space. It's easy to share a reverb for any >> > number of channels even if the dry/wet ratio is different for >> > each. >> >> Using sample libs, which can vary in the amount of "presence" that is >> recorded with instrument/sections, means multiple verb instances can >> bring a little more consistency across the entire orchestra. My >> example is of the 3 complete Strings libs i have, where 1 has more >> presence in the base samples than the other 2. So i have to be careful >> not to add too much to 1, and a little more to the other 2. >> (And this is also true when blending "bright" string sections with >> those that are duller. the duller samples tend to need a bit more >> presence, and the bright samples survive with less, but conversely, >> also need EQ'ing a little, to not stand out so much.) > > None of this means you need to use more than one reverb, and if > the target is to have more consistency you definitely should use > just one. > > Reverb is a linear operation. > > If F1, F2, F3 are linear operations (EQ, delay, gain), then > > F1 (reverb (x1)) + F2 (reverb (x2)) + F3 (reverb (x3)) > > is the same as > > reverb (F1 (x1) + F2 (x2) + F3 (x3)) > > which uses just one reverb. > > > * Set the reverb to 100% 'wet' and connect the outputs to your > main mixing bus. > > * Send controlled amounts of each channel/group/section (after > fader) to the reverb input. You can even equalise or delay > these separately. > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > There are three of them, and Alleline. > >
I'll try this again, Fons, thanks. Alex. -- www.openoctave.org [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
