Hello again! Did
anyone get any nice nerdy musical gifts for Valentines day? And yes it is
possible!
So far we’ve
built up our mix levels, edited out noise on the drums and checked phasing and
low end noise with the high pass filters.
Reverb
Next we have a
look at setting up a reverb. What’s reverb? Well it’s a room. It gives another
dimension, depth, to a mix. Initially I’m talking short reverbs. Most novices
slap George Michael style sweeping reverbs on everything. That leads to swampy
muddy mixes. So let’s avoid those big verbs for just a moment.
I almost always
create a “master reverb”. That represents the false room that the band are
playing in. If you add a portion of each sound into that reverb then you get
that depth.
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| Typical reverb setup. Note "busses" to send signal to reverb. |
Once your reverb
track is setup what you have to do next is create an “auxiliary send” on each
and every track you have recorded. Make sure that auxiliary send is set to the
same as the input on the auxiliary reverb track. If you then turn up that aux
send you’ll hear reverb.
By creating one
master reverb you not only add a consistency to the room sound in the mix, you
also take the load off of the computers CPU as reverbs in particular kill your
computer when you have too many!
Raise the sends
one by one. You’ll find that by increasing the reverb and decreasing the volume
of the track that track seems to fall into the background somewhat. Experiment
with this to give all the instruments their place. Be careful not to put too
much on your vocal or main melody instrument though as they could get lost in
the mire.
That’s it for
today. I’ve been answering questions on the email address below. Please pop me
an email if you want a question answered. I don’t consider any question
“stupid” unless you already know the answer!
Also if you want to
do the STC Intro to recording course then call Maggie on 01 6709033.
Thanks for reading,
Andy Knightley
www.krecording.com
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