At last!... A Really Really Nice Reverb - FREE

Hi People,
 
I am recommending a fantastic, simple, and FREE VST Reverb.
DX Reverb Light.
http://www.anwida.com/product.asp?pid=7
 
I use it as a bus reverb for vocals, and I must say it is a beautiful clear reverb effect just like I have heard on many a commercial mix. Please note that a lot of my work is done in the style of the Singer/Songwriters of the late 60's/70's, as ballads with very clear vocals and simple arrangements featuring acoustic guitar. (Don McLean, Cat Stevens, James Taylor).
 
In particular, preset #15 called "EchoVerb" works beautifully.
Place it in a buss and pan it to the side a bit, and you will have a truly professional result.... especially when your vocals are uncluttered by a big production.
 
regards,
Adrian.
 
 

AdrianNewington
... I use it as a bus reverb for vocals, and I must say it is a beautiful clear reverb effect just like I have heard on many a commercial mix. Please note that a lot of my work is done in the style of the Singer/Songwriters of the late 60's/70's, as ballads with very clear vocals and simple arrangements featuring acoustic guitar. (Don McLean, Cat Stevens, James Taylor).
 In particular, preset #15 called "EchoVerb" works beautifully.
Place it in a buss and pan it to the side a bit, and you will have a truly professional result.... especially when your vocals are uncluttered by a big production.

Thank you, Adrian.

I used to have the full-fat DX Reverb back when it was a DXi plugin only.  I was hoping that they'd re-issued that as a VST as well (the DX Reverb Lite was also DXi only back then IIRC), but it seems that they haven't just yet.
 
Fantastic reverb though, fingers crossed that they bring the full version back out as a VST :-) 
 
Is the Light VST version 64 bit now btw?

Boy, I cannot get that downloaded! Norton dumps it before I can get to it. Without Norton on it still gets blocked because it came from another computer.
What are you all doing to get it?
Thanks
Michael

cool, thanks
just check the 64 bit install path...;-)

AdrianNewington
Hi People,
 
I am recommending a fantastic, simple, and FREE VST Reverb.
DX Reverb Light.
http://www.anwida.com/product.asp?pid=7
 
I use it as a bus reverb for vocals, and I must say it is a beautiful clear reverb effect just like I have heard on many a commercial mix. Please note that a lot of my work is done in the style of the Singer/Songwriters of the late 60's/70's, as ballads with very clear vocals and simple arrangements featuring acoustic guitar. (Don McLean, Cat Stevens, James Taylor).
 
In particular, preset #15 called "EchoVerb" works beautifully.
Place it in a buss and pan it to the side a bit, and you will have a truly professional result.... especially when your vocals are uncluttered by a big production.
 
regards,
Adrian.
 
 

+1
 
Good call!  Very nice, thanks!
 
Just tried your suggested #15 "EchoVerb", as well as the #12 "Long tail" on the u-he synth, TyrellN6 v3, patch "Bladerunner".  Sweetens it up nicely!

Jeff Evans
I opened up a (Studio One) session that had Reverberate in it on the vocals and after putting this free reverb in its place it did not sound anywhere near as good. To be expected I guess.
 
There is no tone control over this plug so I found putting an EQ in before and after this plugin helps a lot. The pre EQ can be setup in a way as to not let frequencies in that wont do much good and the post EQ is great for some final tone shaping. Once you do this it sounds much better.

 
Have you tried the TAL Reverb II (FREE)?  It has 3 band EQ, room size, pre-delay, stereo width, dry & wet faders.
 
There are also some other free goodies on that site including other effects plugins such as chorus, as well as various analog synth plugins.
 
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-reverb

Jeff Evans
I tend to put an EQ before and after reverbs in quite a few cases actually, it can really help things along.  Especially the EQ before.  Great for only letting into the room the stuff you actually want reverberated.  This is an under rated technique.  It can really improve and clean things up bigtime reverb wise. 

+1
 
Thanks for the tip on the EQ technique!  Had not heard that one before.  May come in handy