Simple Stereo Bus Reverb Question

It seems like you set up your bus well.

The output of that bus can be sent to your master. Think of it as the "wet".

Usually when you use a reverb bus you set the reverb's internal "mix" to full wet.

Now you can create sends from any tracks and each can share the same reverb. This Saves CPU cycles while helping blend you mix into a whole.

Mean while you send the tracks' main outputs to your Master or sub buses and think of them as your "dry".

Most people probably mix and match with some bus effects and some track effects... so after you get familiar with buses you'll probably realize that they have benefits which can be enjoyed but you probably want to use some track effects as well when that is actually more convenient.


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mike  

Pretty much right on with the advice above.  Let's just review.  Create a new bus.  Route its output to MASTER.  Insert reverb into this bus FX. Looks like this is what you have done so far.

Now, in order to give your project some consistency in mix, create a send in each track you want to go to the reverb and route the send there (many songs have everything go to the reverb and they control how wet that track gets by adjusting the send volume in each of the tracks).

Your send can either be PRE or POST and this basically will turn on if the reverb will be sent before or after your track channel settings (any FX or Processing, that is EQ/COMP, etc) included the fader.  If the send level is too high in a track, this too can add too much volume to the combined sound of the track and the reverb, thus making it seem louder.

I like to set the overall volume of a BUS track pretty high and control how loud each instrument gets processed by the send volume in that instrument's track.

There are some cool things you can do with BUSSes but yes, this is much more CPU effective that loading a reverb in every track that you want reverb.  

Also, you could create 2 reverb buses to accomodate two different feels... maybe a tight room sound for vocals and instruments and then a large room reverb for toms (just an example on how to use this).  Again, you can then send any of your tracks to one or both of these reverb busses.

Hope this helps,
Jim

Ok, so am I right in saying this

Your dry track will be outputted to your master bus, however you will be ALSO sending this dry signal to the reverb stereo bus (wet), which in turn is then also outputted to your master. Is this not two separate signals going to the master bus (obviously make it louder).

bitflipper why are you eliminating the "dry"slider?is that common procedure?

Cian

Getting rid of the dry signal on a bus effect gets rid of the doubling problem. Dry is on the original track, effect is on the bus.

This has all sorts of interesting applications, once you start to get to grips with it. For example, you can now EQ your dry signal and your wet signal differently.

This can be really useful if you want quite a prominent and noticeable reverb sound, but don't want to end up with loads of muddy low end build up; you just put a high pass EQ on the reverb bus to clean it up.

Both a high pass and a low pass cutting off the low and high end can be really good for delays that vocals are being sent to, too. There's all sorts really.

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all the best,
mike