How common is the addition of reverb in Mastering?

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:36 pm

Just Currious do any of you ME's every add a small amount of verb to a track when mastering to soften up a song/add some ambience?

Justin

Moderator Joined: Sep 12, 2002 Posts: 1833 Location: NYC

I can count the number of times on two fingers. once was a live show in a very very small club and they asked me to add some. the other was a guitar vocal thing where they asked me to add some.

Not something I would do unless specifically asked to do so.

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:30 pm

Why not?
I'm assuming you don't want to verb the kick, bass, vocals any more than already done, etc. ?

Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:08 am

Even more rare than using multi-band compression.

Not that I haven't cleaned up a few bad edits with it...

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:58 am

Thanks for the info. It really did sound better when I used it on another band's project (very very small amount, like wet signal at 18 and dry signal at 100). I A/B'd it and thought the reverb version sounded slightly fuller than the non-reverbed version. Thanks all.

Justin

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:32 pm

I generally get the 'verb I want in the mix and don't add any more in mastering.

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:19 pm

Once...
I was mastering a dance track (club style). The artificial cymbals were very dry - I put a short, subtle decay on only the HF stuff to open up the fake cymbals and other extreme hf stuff. The HPF was set up past around 7K.

This topic sponsored by: