Reverb Theory: How do you set yours up?

[hps909]

on single source reverbs you can also side chain a compressor to the reverb on a send using it's source as the key.... so you get better separation of the track and the reverb cleans them up quite a bit especially with long tails .. works well on delays aswell

Can you clarify this a bit more for me? Are you sidechaining to gate the tail or to gate the attack (delayed) of the reverb? My guess is that if you gate the attack you could lose the character of the early reflections. And if you s-chain the tail then you just end up with a gated verb, no?

no gating at all a gated reverb just has the tail chopped off when it falls below a certain level.. in effect your using a sidechained compressor to duck the reverb when the source is playing.. set up like this in live .. add a reverb to a send .. select a source to send to the reverb .. put live's compressor on the reverb send .. open the sidechain .. select the source track as the key input of the compressor drop the threshold of the compressor and raise the ratio a little..

now if you have a long reverb tail on say, a vocal. every time the vocal triggers the compressor, the volume of the send lowers, then raises again when the vocal stops. so you dont have this mish mash of vocal and reverb tail cluttering up the mix and as kev herb mentioned will help phase issues. works particularly well on delays also..