Quote Originally Posted by DJ Ze MigL
Man U didn't get what I was saying.. It was just a simple tip 4 any1 working on a soft. seq. 2 get a clean rev. with messing the mix with a bassy reverb...
Yeah I know... I just thought I'd share the double kick tip anyway. ;)

Logic (5.3 onward) and Reason both allow chaining of sends and complex signal routing of the returns. Cubase still doesn't as far as I know - hence the need to jump through so many hoops to get a chained send style effect. In my opinion it's appalling that you can't use chained sends without having to use two identical instruments and tracks - or sampling down and doubling up. This really should have been addressed in SX!
:x

At the moment, my Logic autoload has send#1 from all my audio objects patched to bus#1, which is loaded up with the Waves Renaissance EQ 4 and the Waves Renaissance Reverb in the insert slots. The EQ is set up to kill the bass end of sent sounds and the result is quite nice!

I may replace the EQ with the Waves standard... I found out that the Renaissance set of plugins was developed as 'virtual vintage' kit, so there's probably far more processor headroom being taken up by it. I'll save that EQ for stuff that's more up-front.

I'm still getting a little mid-range ringing and a speckly top from this set up, so I often kill a little top end as well. This kinda removes the lushness and separates out the reverb from the rest of the sound... But it's good for adding a little atmosphere without losing clarity.

Still trying to find that 'clean' sound. I'll give Timeworks a go.

Quote Originally Posted by DJ Ze MigL
Insert is fine but u'd b removing bass from a bassy verb... instead of cutting the bass b4 sending 2 verb... but hey depends on what U want and what workz 4 ya...
Surely that depends on which way round you put them in the insert chain? Besides, on Cubase I could never find a way to 'catch' the return from your send before it goes to the output bus, so you're stuck with that sound. Say you wanted to put a phaser or something on it to add a little movement? ;)

It's a little odd to use a send at 100% - seems to me you'd get no level displayed in the channel mixer. (Is this the case? I haven't tried it). It's definitely a good way to use one reverb for several different tracks though... Pity you can't do that with the EQs as well.

I've often wondered what the actual difference is between EQing before or after a reverb... Is there a difference in the frequency distribution, or would the difference simply be in the number and type of phasing/flanging artifacts from the reverb process?

Does anyone know? I'll get experimanting later, see what I come up with!

:)

Tequia