Should My Reverb Go In Returns Or Inserts?

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In this video, we go over the pros and cons of putting your reverb on a return or directly on the channel. It's essential to know the pros and cons so that you can make inform decisions and get the best possible result you can. Reverb in the return tracks will help you control your reverb more, maintain a dry source signal, glue tracks together, and keep low CPU usage. Reverbs in your channels will help more in pushing elements to the back of the mix, creating atmospheres, and smoothing our harsh frequencies. As with anything, there are always cons, so it's up to you to decide which fits best. In this video, I hope to aid you with the information so you can make these informed decisions.

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[deankossoff]

Watched a bunch of tutorials trying to truly internalize returns. This is the only one that actually clearly gets to the point, thank you🙏

[dodzidenudzakuma]

Thanks for telling us the pros and cons. It answered a lot of questions for me.

My questions were:
1. Should I use the reverb in my synth versus on the channel?
2. What is are the advantages of the reverb on the channel?
3. What are the advantages or reverb as a send?

I understand better now and I believe that I can put it to work in my advantage on my mixes instead of being in mixing hell (It's a real place and lots of us have been there for days or more at a time...)

You also answered my question of reverb as a room!

Thank you!

[Gregorovitch]

I'm getting increasingly impressed with these tutorials. I loved the ARP one and this one is very good too. Unpretentious, no BS, totally legit info.

[jj]

I feel like I've been looking for this video all my life.

Or at least the last 2 years.

[justinclayton]

This guy seems to always cut right to the heart of what I’m trying to figure out, without coddling his viewers but also not assuming they know anything. My confusion is gone!

[claesweicher]

Probably the best explained video out there about this subject! Thank you for this! :)

[terrann]

Slap it on the channel. Live that thug life

[wozs]

Great explanation, but I don't think the cons you mentioned for using return tracks really exist. Just set the return track to "pre" instead of "post fader" and you pretty much get separate volume faders for the full dry signal and the full return signal :)

[alonc]

Dude i was like asking myself exactly that question, and then searched for youtube and landen on this video.
and it was so informative that i cant even explain. so straight-forwoward yet covers everything that i was curious about and more.
Thank you so much!

[darrelljohnston]

Great channel. I have subscribed. Only suggestion is to talk about 5%slower. I'm a native english speaker and I am struggling to keep up with everything you say.

[ViktorNova]

Solid vid! Just wanted to add that you can still use a reverb send to add depth/space in the way you are describing is possible only when it's on the channel if your DAW lets you send to an aux at positive DB values (for example in REAPER you can send audio to an aux send at +5db if you want) so by balancing the send level and the track volume, you can effectively get the equivalent of a wet/dry this way, having the best of both worlds

[ArapBayraminOglu]

You can have 3 reverbs (near, middle, far) on 3 return tracks. This actually can work great to give sounds their own place in the mix.

[Ultraskill]

Thank you, exactly what i was not understanding and was locking for a answer

[ReegeMusic]

Mate thank you so much ! I learnt the return reverb tips in KSHMR tutorials years ago but get hard to find out really when to properly use it ! You finally gave me the right answer to this ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[jn]

Logic x reverbs and delays, instead of having a 0-100% dry to wet, have two sliders one for dry signal and one for wet, this allows you to place the verb on the channel output but have the benefit of much more control

[Ultimateman]

Can't wait to watch the video fully.. Can anyone also tell me the song playing on the background ( I know it's Zen's song and he did some kinda preview of it in one video) but I can't remember it.. Thanks guys and thanks for the great tutorials Zen!

[marijnhaalboom]

Very helpful trick!! Thank you for this one!! <3

[BooksAndShitButNotLiterally]

I think recording the full wet reverb onto an audio track has the benefits of both methods. Works well with delay too, means you can easily make polyrhythms with the delay by having two different ones play together

[Blackain]

no Zen my man, the pro solution is DO BOTH SAME TIME !
in Hardstyle pros put lead reverb on a bus to have it separate and can SC duck it from the lead group etc but also routing both together to another bus to OTT / compress them together for a better more glued sound
in Ableton you just do that with an effectrack on the lead group with effects in parallel chains and add ott/compression afterwards and this is the best result you can get, better than returns and simple inserts !

[daviddipling]

You can also EQ and Sideechain reverb if you put it in the Audio Effects Rack