Assuming I can restrain myself from tweak-mania on some frequency in the snare thats annoying me or some similar wild goose chase. Why is it always the snare?
As mentioned last week the Acousticas Bricasti impulse responses...
Are.
A.
Maaay.
Zing.
They really brought life into the mixes over the last week or so - even adding too much reverb sounds good with them.
I was looking around for a convolution reverb for PT M-Powered on Mac last week to give the IRs a try and was surprised how few options there are.
Altiverb don't do demos.
Waves IR-1 is $800 or something stupid.
SIR / Voxengo don't do RTAS.
The two options left were TL Space and MCDSP Revolver.
I'd heard great things about TL Space from Steve Shannon, but I had already demo'ed it about 2 years ago, which ruled that out, so Revolver it was.
Initially I was dissappointed to see Revolver reporting a latency of 1024 samples.
This immediately kills a reverb plugin for me - if I wanted a pre-delay, I'd add it myself :)
Luckily, a bit of digging around turned up a low-latency mode with zero reported latency.
Nice.
So, the Bricasti IRs.
Wow-eee.
Wonderful stuff. Like I said, you can use way too much reverb and it still sounds good.
No, make that great.
The right IR immediately becomes part of the sound - like its always been there.
Most of the time I'd start off by finding one that suited the vocal, then trying to feed various other things in to it to see how well they sat - snare, guitars etc.
Sometimes I set up a seperate verb where I needed a different sound, but for the most part feeding everything into one 'main' reverb worked a treat.
Revolver is cool, with a huge number of tweaky parameters (luckily split across several different pages to keep the interface uncluttered), EQ and two seperate built-in delays.
DSP use is fine, and the included presets are pretty decent.
Combined with the Bricasti responses, it's definitely the most fun I've had with a software reverb.
I'll report with more thoughts on Revolver as I get to know it better.
Anyone got a real Bricast I can 'borrow'? :D
2 comments:
hoo boy... I'm downloading those IR & revolver as I type... yum.
TL SPACE pete. was using the old plate in windmill to mix last week. when i got home i had to tweak a few mixes. i tried using the plate verb in TLspace instead (there was no way I was booking more time to make a change to a mix) and it's 50 times better!
you know I'm right. it kicks ass.
steve
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