I always have the problem of using reverbs especially for vocals. How much is too much? And how upfront the vocals is too upfront in the mix? 
How do you guys roughly figure these out?
How do you guys roughly figure these out?
How much reverb is too much ?
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hi wadi and others,
what is your set up ?
in my last productions i used quite a lot of reverb because i don't like delays and i think you need something to give the vocals its own space!
but i don't like it when you hear that the vocals are too isolated from the rest - although i add a lot of reverb to the vocals i don't really want to hear it in the music it is more about feeling it! you have to be careful with the reverb level, in my case i use different reverbs for drums and for vocals (small room for drums, small or medium plate for vocals)!
vocals go this way in my set up:
recording with a focusrite penta preamp/compressor and an akg c3000, quite a lot of compression but not too much - i can't write it down, just compare as often as you can the solo vocs with compression and without!
the recorded vocs are routed to a bus with a bit of eq (lowcut and gaining a bit at nearly 1khz - depends on the singer), the tube simulation by antares with a light setting, and sometimes a deesser( depends on the singer, too) - this bus is routed to the next bus, where the final vocals end!
the reverb i receive from an effect send from the vocals tracks is routed to my final vocals bus!
so i have a bus just with reverb, one bus with dry vocals and both are routed to another bus with a limiter and so you can handle it quite good, i think!
important is the limiter on the main vocals - otherwise the reverb will be too up front the mix!
that is my way - please tell me, what you think of it!
bye
alex
what is your set up ?
in my last productions i used quite a lot of reverb because i don't like delays and i think you need something to give the vocals its own space!
but i don't like it when you hear that the vocals are too isolated from the rest - although i add a lot of reverb to the vocals i don't really want to hear it in the music it is more about feeling it! you have to be careful with the reverb level, in my case i use different reverbs for drums and for vocals (small room for drums, small or medium plate for vocals)!
vocals go this way in my set up:
recording with a focusrite penta preamp/compressor and an akg c3000, quite a lot of compression but not too much - i can't write it down, just compare as often as you can the solo vocs with compression and without!
the recorded vocs are routed to a bus with a bit of eq (lowcut and gaining a bit at nearly 1khz - depends on the singer), the tube simulation by antares with a light setting, and sometimes a deesser( depends on the singer, too) - this bus is routed to the next bus, where the final vocals end!
the reverb i receive from an effect send from the vocals tracks is routed to my final vocals bus!
so i have a bus just with reverb, one bus with dry vocals and both are routed to another bus with a limiter and so you can handle it quite good, i think!
important is the limiter on the main vocals - otherwise the reverb will be too up front the mix!
that is my way - please tell me, what you think of it!
bye
alex
