Live's Reverb

SolonOfAthens · Post by **SolonOfAthens** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:09 am

I've been using it a lot lately as I have nothing else. I'm not terribly happy with it when it comes to vocals, but I like it on some other things. I'd love to buy something like altiverb, but it is out of price range at the moment. Does anyone know of a good and cheaper alternative. Maybe I just need to play with Live's built in reverb more.
Thx

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:24 am

oddly enough I always find myself using blackwaterreverb on my better tunes. I'm not sure what it is about that plug cause it's really not that quality but it just sounds right to me for some reason plus it can have really big sounding reverbs with long tails without taxing the cpu. and I like that it doesn't add a fake sounding spacialness to things the way that lives reverb does.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:26 am

theres plenty of free reverbs...

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/707.html

http://www.knufinke.de/sir/sir1.html(it introduces latency though, so be aware of it...)

basically, do a search over at http://www.kvraudio.com. the quality of free plugs isn't necessarily to everyones taste and if you want to part with cash theres plenty of choices as well...

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:10 am

Yes, i have found 3 or 4 real gems in freeware form. Not of the realistic reverb kind (well, maybe Ambience - and SIR) but quite good and useful anyway.
As Clearscreen said, kvraudio is the place to look.

SolonOfAthens · Post by **SolonOfAthens** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:32 am

thanks for the good info guys.

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:38 am

+1 for ambience

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:30 am

glaceverb

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:03 am

Even though it isn't free,, or even relatively cheap,, iKmultimedia are doing a promotion at the moment where by if you buy one, you can get another one free,, maybe check out the demo for their reverb,, CRS?,, and also check out the other plugs at the same time,,, I'm really digging the Jimi Hendrix amplitube and the bass version is aso very cool if your into that sort of thing,,,

Oh!,,
another option,, if our on an OS X machine,, is to check out the included apple reverb,, a lot of people pass this one by with out giving it a shot, but it does a very cool job,, i use it alot in Logic,,,

mr.adl · Post by **mr.adl** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:14 am

+1 for IK´s CSR, especially now with the promo!

And it´s a very good reverb too, fits well in the mix.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:20 am

Johnisfaster wrote:oddly enough I always find myself using blackwaterreverb on my better tunes. I'm not sure what it is about that plug cause it's really not that quality but it just sounds right to me for some reason plus it can have really big sounding reverbs with long tails without taxing the cpu. and I like that it doesn't add a fake sounding spacialness to things the way that lives reverb does.

+1
from me too, i like the specific 'character' of that lttle freebee.

Funkstar De Luxe · Post by **Funkstar De Luxe** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:23 am

For really good reverb, convolution is the only way to go http://www.voxengo.com/product/pspace/

Lux Libra · Post by **Lux Libra** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:00 pm

+1 for ambience
but i also really like the Tc Native Reverb - very light on cpu and a great sound

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:13 am

Robert Henke posted some good tips in another thread about the Live reverb.

I used his suggestions to save an instrument rack which I now generally load instead of the stock Live reverb.

it boiled down to using two reverbs, panned hard R/L and with utilities separating the two channels...

and using slightly different settings on each channel.

also I beleive he recommended setting the spin differently but I can't quite remember if you were supposed to set it towards bottom right or bottom left. (?)

SolonOfAthens · Post by **SolonOfAthens** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:13 am

You guys are really great. Thanks for all the help. I'm starting to like this forum.