Reverb ruins your music

I love reverb. I love lots of reverb. I love reverb too much. There, I've admitted I have a problem. In this video we'll talk about some ways I've found to balance my love of reverb with clarity and separation in my mixes. Maybe they'll help you fellow reverb lovers out there...

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[Centomila]

"Reverb is the sustain pedal of sound designers" - Gandhi

[jakestewartmusic]

Long, cavernous reverb is a wonderful thing.
Bone dry, in-your-face sounds are wonderful, too.
Knowing when and how to use either, and the many gradations in between, to your creative benefit is an even more wonderful thing.

[hermestrismegistus]

"Guess what! I've got a fever, and the only prescription... is MORE REVERB"

[Zaccyonline]

This cleared my skin, clipped my nails, washed my hair and whitened my teeth. Thank you. Off to play my moog.

[VinceFinemMusic]

It's crazy that just yesterday my untrained self was looking up if every voice should be sent through their own reverb or all mixed down into one. I'm very glad you monitor my Google searches and created this video reply in such a timely manner!

[Christian-opss]

Hi Jameson, I really like your videos, not many people give compositional advice, and in such a clear way.

A suggestion for improvement, you often tell about the changes to do, but I think it would make things much clearer and fun to follow along with if you show these improvements on a track. For example in this video if you took one of your old tracks and showed how some concise steps would clean it up and then A/B it.

All the best from a fan!

[rick]

Reverb IS my music. I dont play very well, so I need reverb. 😂

Good pointers though. Thanks.

[Recloh]

May I remind you that a big jumbled mess due to reverb is actually a genre of music and some of us love it

[luxanmusic]

Adding on to the idea of using a reverb as a send to get everything to sound like it's in the same room, using multiple copies of the same reverb, but with different pre-delay and mix levels can help place instruments at different depths within the same room.

[krnflks]

David Byrne talks a lot about the way in which a physical space provided to a musician often times shapes the kind of music produced, very worth looking into if you're a huge nerd.

[craigsurette]

I love that organists are functionally playing the building as an instrument....
It was realizing this fact, that made me start to feel less that artificial reverb on synths was a crutch

[marslightsnoise]

Composition is the best arranging tool, arrangement is the best mixing tool, mixing is the best mastering tool, etc. ❤

[DerekPower]

My name is Derek Power and I have a reverb problem. And I love it =D

[mickeythompson]

Back in the day, when we only had one reverb, this issue didn't arise! :-)

[rick]

I love how you dont say, "See you next time!" Very refreshing.

[cranklabexplosion-labcentr]

Me (who’s been writing atmospheric black metal the past few months): ohhh… gotcha.. I’ll stop using reverb for every instrument I guess..

[leestanford]

As a lifelong classical pianist with a penchant for Chopin Nocturnes as well as electronic music, I think this is the best channel on YouTube.

[panos]

The ONLY guy on this planet that really understood reverb and delay was Vangelis 😜 (just kidding of course but there is a minor truth in that....)

[MontyDatta]

I'm not sure why but the mixed track example you used at 6:42 really did not sound to my ears

[croay]

Many thanks, my mixes are too perfect and well made. I needed a way to ruin them and make them sound like something made by a human (not a god) and you helped me a lot with that. I appreciate it.