Output meter: This meter will show the output of the sound after processing, if this is clipping then you may need to tweak you input signal slightly. Input: The input level slider simply sets how loud the signal coming into the plug-in is, this can be brought down if the signal is clipping or brought up if your signal level is fine and you simply want to hear a little more of the processed signal. Now we’ve covered a few things that can be achieved with the effect, lets look at the typical reverb unit’s settings and what they do. For instance, you could try Mid/Side processing to add space to the sides of your mix, or hard-panning the reverb element perhaps with a high pass filter which will add more of a sense of distance. When you get more comfortable using reverb, you can experiment with settings and track routing to add width.

While there are no rules or specific instruments which strictly require the effect, once understood it will give you the ability to place an instrument exactly where you want it. Reverb within music productions helps to give a mix depth, if panning is the tool to let you decide where elements are placed between the left and right speaker, it is reverb which lets you decide whether an instrument is right in front of you or set further backwards within your mix. With that in mind it is important within your mixes to make use of reverb delicately as it can very quickly ruin the sound of a mix if used inappropriately. While a tunnel is of course an extreme example, when you really think about it, you can probably hear as subtle a difference as walking from your bedroom to your hallway despite them probably not being too dissimilar in size. If you were to shout inside a tunnel, your voice (the ‘direct’ sound) would travel outwards to bounce off surfaces around in all kinds of directions which eventually return back to your ears, it is these reflected sounds which is the reverberation. Reverb or ‘reverberation’ is not simply just an effect which makes vocals sound nice! It is what we hear everyday and allows us to almost ‘hear’ the environment around us. In this tutorial we will be looking at reverb and how it can be used within your mixes, in particular we will be referencing Digidesign’s ‘D-Verb’ plug-in although you will notice across different reverb units that the optional variables are roughly the same.

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