mastering reverb

[The_Laughing_Man]

Rarely use it in Dance music myself, as dance music mixes tend to be very wet anyway.
I find with good application of compression, nice analog EQ (and of course, tape saturation) the mix saturates and blends nicely without having to add reverb as well.

I use master verb with rock music, particularly as I am never there to record source, so the instruments are rarely recorded and treated in a unifying way, so master verb helps to gel things together.
Most dance music is "made in in one go" and so the sound tends to be, mostly but not always, more tonally coherant.

[TechMouse]

Ah, hang on - I missed the word mastering here.

No - I can't see why you'd use reverb as a mastering tool.

[stjohn]

I use master verb with rock music, particularly as I am never there to record source, so the instruments are rarely recorded and treated in a unifying way, so master verb helps to gel things together.
Most dance music is "made in in one go" and so the sound tends to be, mostly but not always, more tonally coherant.

i might have thought the opposite, in the sense that live instruments are recorded in the same space, and virtual instruments are pretty much idiosyncratically designed. i have actually tried some reverbs in mastering stages before, never with any luck. but i just put that down to inexperience on my behalf.

[rhythmtech]

well ive tried it on on my latest track and it worked quite well - was only about 3/5% on the 2 buss after buss compressor.

i think it would suit certain people like myself as i tend to keep things very dry thru out the mix (as far as reverb is concerned anyway). but i do think its a project by project type of thing.

cheers for the input guys.