How I mix music_Part # 17_Reverb

The Hubbel telescope just spent 2 weeks pointed at what we thought was nothing. Instead of nothing, Hubbel found millions of galaxies. We thought there was nothing there …but let’s point a 500 million dollar orbiting telescope at it anyway ...just to be sure.

When reverb is crafted as open space in your mix, lending itself to the depths and spatial enhancement of the show itself, you will have achieved what Hubbel did. You'll have brought light out of darkness. You've identified space. 

You will have created black in a sea of stars giving depth, personality and dimension to the show you are presenting. In all actuality you will have a complex galaxy of settings in delay, timber, reverb time and as many variables as is available to you, given your reverb processor, to create what most will hear as ...nothing.

 

Ever see an actor look in the camera while they are acting? When they do it ruins the shot unless it's done with purpose, for effect. Reverb/Echo is the same. Unless it's done for effect reverb/echo is best when it's heard, not noticed.

The difference between reverb and echo is time. Echo is a long reflection of sound while reverb has a way shorter reflection time ...or, do you want echo-echooo or reverberation ...ation ...ation ...ation?

Here's Ms. Ross's "Mirror-Mirror" A blend of reverb and echo used for both spatial enhancement and effect.

The trick in mixing reverb is the mix environment itself. A dead mix space will produce mixes reverb light where a bright bouncy room will give you a mix reverb heavy. Both are caused by unbalanced acoustic spaces.

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