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Hi guys Been ghosting on this forum for nearly a year and can usually find everything I need by searching for it, but alas, I had to make an account and ask for your guys help...

Anyway, how do you guys go about doing them and making them full and thick? When I try to make them I just throw Lives native reverb on a kick, make it fully wet, fuck with some knobs ( ), turn the decay time up to like 15secs, Maybe compress a bit, but it just seems lifeless.

Any good alternative reverb plugs?

Cheers

Use reverb and compression (NY) as send effects? Also don't reverb the low end of the kick, it'll get muddy.

mthrfnk wrote:Use reverb and compression (NY) as send effects? Also don't reverb the low end of the kick, it'll get muddy.

this and IFFFF i put reverb on a kick it'll be low d/w high decay

I don't know why I never thought of that, I guess I only ever used sends for adding slight amounts of an effect, cheers...

Oh, and how about some other reverb plugs?

can't help you there... reason user

too much effect and the reverb muddies up the initial transient IMO. the best thing to probably do is sidechain the reverb subtly to the kick so the initial 'kick' cuts through but you still get the reverb tail. or have quite a long predelay but i think sidechaining is better.

and use it on a send

and if you do have it on an insert don't make lives reverb 100% wet cause you won't get much if any of the original sound coming through

Check out Voxengo OldSkoolVerb and Ambience from Magnus, EQ the reverb too, OldSkoolVerb has built in EQ.
I also agree with the posts above.

That Ambience is a nice little one, cheers bud!

lives reverb is actually quality for most types of electronic music IMO

but ambience is def a good alternative as well. epicverb is another good freebie aswell

skwiggo wrote:lives reverb is actually quality for most types of electronic music IMO

but ambience is def a good alternative as well. epicverb is another good freebie aswell

I generally don't stray far from lives reverb tbh, I just find it easy to use
I had epicverb on my old system and it was pretty decent, forgot about it when it formated ( ) Thanks mate

reverbed kicks? what, like this?

edit: i've used adverb for that kind of sound. it creates a pretty wide stereo field so you'll have to keep that in mind and compensate, sounds ace tho

I generally just use a send. I have my go to reverb for that, which atm is the convolution reverb in FL. Turn the Dry signal off and the wet to about 50%. This allows me to keep the kick sounding how I want it but also give it some nice space if I feel it needs it. I tend to use this same send for pretty much all my drum channels. Makes everything sound like it's all coming from the same space even though I tend to pull samples from all over the place for just one small drum loop.

Misanthr0py wrote:
Oh, and how about some other reverb plugs?

http://www.valhalladsp.com/valhallaroom

glottis5 wrote:

reverbed kicks? what, like this?

edit: i've used adverb for that kind of sound. it creates a pretty wide stereo field so you'll have to keep that in mind and compensate, sounds ace tho

YES! That is spot on mate

why wouldnt you put reverb on the lowend of a kick if it sounds good?

nearly every techno tune released in the last 2 years is based solely on that technique (for better or worse)

vengeance hall kicks. done.

glottis5 wrote:

reverbed kicks? what, like this?

that's a classic right there. 909 drenched in reverb (i heard that this was recorded at a studio mainly used for classical music that had some crazy plate reverbs, but that's just hearsay afaik)

hasezwei wrote:why wouldnt you put reverb on the lowend of a kick if it sounds good?

nearly every techno tune released in the last 2 years is based solely on that technique (for better or worse)

You can if you want, but it leaves less room for other bass. In that kind of techno the bassline is usually made up from the kick and reverb anyway. If you find a good balance though you can have both, that's where the EQ and parallel processing can come in handy. Most of the techno has the reverb separate from the tracks I hear, otherwise the kick wouldn't have much impact.

this was useful to me, thank you!