Introduction to music_production_week5

Introduction

What is Reverb?

Uses of Reverb

Types of Reverb

Algorithmic Reverb

Convoluted Reverb

Comparison

Which reverb to use?

Three main parameters of reverb

Time Design

Room Design

EQ

Reflection

Gratitude

Hello! My name is Ankit Gomkale. I live in

Bangalore, India. I am very much

passionate about music. I have been

playing guitar from 6 years.

This lesson is for week 5 of Introduction to

Music Production at Coursera.org. I will

be talking about similarities and the

differences between algorithmic and

convoluted reverb. Also, I will

demonstrate the importance features in

both types of reverb.

Reverb is the effect that is applied to a

sound signal that makes it “sound” like

it’s in a space. This space can be

anything from a recording studio, jazz

club stage, orchestral hall, or anything

you can imagine.

To make instruments sound real / like

recordings in real rooms

To apply a thickness effect or a

“distance” effect (exaggeration)

Broadly, there are two main types of

reverb:

› Algorithmic Reverb

› Convoluted Reverb

In algorithmic reverb, sense of reverb iscreated in mathematical formula, similarto how synthesizer creates sound.

Algorithmic reverbs generate your reverbsound strictly based on parameters youset in the DAW.

Based on set parameters, algorithmicreverb emulates real spaces. This reverbdoes not sound very real on singleinstrument.

Convolution reverbs use real sound

samples, recorded from real rooms

known as “Impulse Responses”.

The reverb plug-in filters sound through

this impulse response to generate a

“believable organic tail” based on the

characteristics of a real room.

Algorithmic Reverb:

› A lot of parameters need to be adjusted.

› Needs less CPU processing.

› Easy to use but hard to master.

Convoluted Reverb:

› Uses “Impulse response”.

› Sounds more natural.

› Pretty heavy on CPU.

The answer is- Both!

I tend to use convolution reverb on solo

instruments because they help fill out the

sound where there aren’t many other

things going on in your track.

Algorithmic reverbs on the other hand

tend to excel at adding reverb to full

mixes, or samples that already have

some room recorded in.

Time Design

Room Design

EQ

Every algorithmic reverb plugin can be more or less difference from one another in terms of features but every one of them will have a section dedicated to toadjust time design parameters like –decay, pre-decay and attack.

If you are trying to create a sound of an actual room then keep the reverb time at less than 2 seconds. After than it sounds unnatural.

The same thing applies to “room design”.

It is the second fundamental section of

algorithmic reverb effects and here you

can make your own “virtual recording

room” by setting its height, width, etc.

Here you can configure your high cut,

low cut filters.

Changing the high cut filter is like

changing the materials in the space.

More of high frequencies gives you sense

of being in empty room with hard walls.

On the other hand, less of high

frequencies give you feeling of warm,

curtain filled room.

Due to lack of resources, I could not

make audio or video tutorial. So I had to

settle on this write up tutorial. During the

course, I learnt some new things from

various sources on internet. I made use

of the knowledge I got by putting it in this

tutorial. I hope you find this tutorial

helpful.

I have put some efforts in making this

tutorial helpful. Actually how helpful it is,

only you can tell that. So I am looking

forward to receive valuable feedback

from you. Feel free to tell how I could

have made this tutorial even better.

Thanks a lot for reading this tutorial.