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Old 08-05-2022, 06:37 AM   #1
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Default Anybody do multiple reverb sends for panned parts?

I feel like I should be doing 3 tracks of reverb to send to. middle, left and right. to send the panned parts to their perspective sides. or toy around with sending it to opposite sides.

is this a thing? im still learning obviously. lol.
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Old 08-05-2022, 08:01 AM   #2
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It is a thing! And...we learn by doing. Trust your ears. If you like it it is good. Just be careful not to over-verb. My early mixes are way to wet. I like the songs but cringe when I hear them.

I currently use IRs to create a space for everything to sit in and then fill in individual tracks with other options. And yes, I do a lot of panning dry and verb. Sometimes left/right sometimes panned together.

I am currently partial to Liquidsonics. They are a bit pricy but sound very nice.

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Old 08-05-2022, 08:29 AM   #3
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yeah i lean towards dry sounds. i dont like too much verb. but i feel like my panned parts atent as effective cuz im sending to 1 reverb that is down the middle. lol. it dawned in me that might not be ideal.

Whats an IR?
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Old 08-05-2022, 12:44 PM   #4
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IR = Impulse Response

Google Free impulse response reverb and the results will far exceed my ability to explain. There are a lot of nice freebees out there and ReaVerb handles them nicely...if only one at a time.

resoundsound.com is also a great place to start with links to free IRs and lots of great info. Have fun!!
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Old 08-06-2022, 11:57 AM   #5
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Well thank you!!!!
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Old 08-07-2022, 05:49 AM   #6
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This may not quite be what you are asking but this is worth a watch if you haven't seen it already as an example of a simple but very effective reverb technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww-cH29IGeM
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Old 08-10-2022, 06:55 PM   #7
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I don't know if this helps with what you're looking to do, but you can actually adjust pan in your send. Sometimes I'll have a synth doing something on the right side, and then I'll send the signal to the reverb track monoed and then panned left... and then perhaps vice versa with another synth that is panned on the left side and reverb on right. It does seem to be good way to make things sound wider.

Of course that doesn't work well if your reverb plugin wants to do something completely different with the stereo signal though, so be aware of that, of course.
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Old 08-12-2022, 04:16 PM   #8
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Oh wow nait, thank you!!!! a lot of times i will put two mics on my amp to do similar things. pan one opposite but take all the lows out. kinda acts like reverb. but thank u for the tip. it never dawned on me i could pan my send, yet there it is plain as day on the little send panel. im not sure what the other stuff does. obviously there is level and i think i saw a phase button. but there is a long slider next to the pan. do u know what that does?
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Old 08-14-2022, 07:38 PM   #9
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https://i.imgur.com/iIf06xM.png

If you mean that long slider on the left that I circled in red in the picture, that's what controls the volume of the signal being sent in.. so, for example, if you slide that all the way left it will send nothing. If you look on the row immediately above that slider, and on the very left, you'll see the send volume.
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I feel like I should be doing 3 tracks of reverb to send to. middle, left and right. to send the panned parts to their perspective sides. or toy around with sending it to opposite sides.

is this a thing? im still learning obviously. lol.
This makes sense to me in a lot of cases, but I wouldn't necessarily stop with panning. Also panning across can work well as it will balance out the mix in some cases, just make sure the end signal is as mono compatible as you need it to be. I actually use the pan on the tracks very seldomly but use a lot of stereo shaping on the tracks and plugins that are themselves interesting in the stereo image.

You will find that people do any and all processing on the effects-tracks and the returns, typically EQ-ing the effect, transient processing before it goes into a reverb or delay to take away the attack, and I personally like to rub Trackspacer on the effects return to make sure the effects don't overly compete with the original signal. Just try it out and go with whatever you think works for the track.
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