californiamusic
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Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
What is your complete favorite VST Reverb Plugin for vocals? Everyone having different tastes in sound aside. I still love the sound of the Lexicon Native Reverb. ; )
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 11:23:56
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EMT 250 from the UAD2, best ever besides my hardware..
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 11:31:36
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There's lots of mileage in the FREE Epicverb
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 12:21:37
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 12:32:41
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Valhalla Room - great value @ $50
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 15:05:40
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I tried alot of demos and chose the Relab LX480 ( ilok required) from Plugin Discounts for $199.99 . to me it sounds as good as the $1200.00 Lexicon plugin . The LX480 gives you plenty of features and looks and interfaces like the real thing. If you use ilok Try the Demo.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 15:31:53
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Mine used to be Perfect Space, until I "upgraded" from using an Audiophile 2496 soundcard to a Focusrite Pro 14. Now it is totally unusable due to the latency on the Focusrite.
If you can use Perfect Space, try a preset Real Spaces/Performance Hall/Compressed Light as a great starting point for vocals.
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Rasure
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 15:35:38
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 16:03:15
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I love the impulse reverbs.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 16:18:54
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I like the softube tsar 1. You have to use the dongle but it is still my go to.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 16:28:04
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Bullet proof vest on - I still like the surround version of the old Lexicon Pantheon from SONAR years past, used in a stereo project. It was always more subtle than the stereo version IMHO and worked well for vocals, also IMHO. 
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 16:30:34
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Nothing wrong with Pantheon.
The presets are pretty horrible but anyone should be able to coax something good out of it
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 16:37:59
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I find myself always coming back to my UAD-1 RealVerb-Pro. The presets are very usable with minimal tweaking.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 17:10:03
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Still looking for the reverb holy grail myself.
Spaces from EastWest is awesome.
For whatever reason, I find Pantheon to be the worst sounding reverb out there (I know am in the minority)
Sonitus and Perfect Space come with Sonar and are both very usable.
Lately I am using less and less reverb and using delays in it's place.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 18:07:57
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PerfectSpace is an excellent vocal reverb. No need to embark on a costly quest for something better. If you don't like any of the bundled IRs there are hundreds more out there on the net.
I do like ValhallaRoom a lot, though. It's a nice companion to PerfectSpace.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 19:37:21
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ValhallaRoom has become one of my favourites due this forum.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/02 20:11:54
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Obviously opinions on this are going to vary greatly.... 2C Audio Aether....very nice sounding (and award winning) reverb...and it's lil brother Breeze... http://www.2caudio.com/ I would like to have either one of those... For now I use TSAR 1R that came in my Softube Mix Bundle....it's a great sounding reverb and it's available for about $50 bucks now by itself...which it wasn't until recently. I'm surprised that the CSR boys haven't been chiming in here... PSP EasyVerb is also a good sounding reverb plugin and relatively cheap....not very IN DEPTH, but good sounding for $70 Demo them all.....get the one that YOU feel best suites YOUR EARS and get it! I've used demos of Spaces, Breverb, and on and on....so ...that's my 2 cents worth...
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californiamusic
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 00:23:39
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SUBMARIN.. totally agree. The EMT 250 is definitely one of the best I've heard ; )
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 00:31:35
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Rasure
Im really liking a free one called Ambience
http://magnus.smartelectronix.com/#Ambience
For win users download "Windows VST Full"
Ambience is an excellent reverb. It doesn't play nice in 64bit on my system though. I'd have to say Sonitus Reverb is my first choice, and Ambience is a close second.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 01:01:00
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Softubes Tsar 1
IKMs CSR
Sonitus
Pantheon
Perfect Space
Yellow Tools Independence FX
All can bring subtle differences. Depends what you want and what the context is for the reverb. Then there's a mountain of others as previous posts show along with all the ones not mentioned yet.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 03:56:40
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cclarry
I'm surprised that the CSR boys haven't been chiming in here...
The problem with this this is that CSR isn't 64 bit yet.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 07:09:15
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Actually, for me, the best reverb for vocals is NO REVERB. But, I do create space with a couple of delays... one about 10-12ms and the other 30-45ms (depending on the song tempo). Doesn't really matter what type delay and make sure there is NO feedback loop unless you want a delay effect that repeats itself, for Vocal Air mode, just have ONE repeat. You do this making sure that the only output from the delay is the delayed signal and not a mixed source/delay signal.
These delays give the vocals AIR without the wash of reverb and keeps the vocals standing out in a mix. Try it, you might like it.
Unless, of course, you want the reverb sound as an effect. Using reverb on many instruments just makes the mix cloudy or spongey.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 09:50:34
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Valhalla Room is the best $50 I've spent in a very long time. Other than that I use the UAD EMT140 plate and the EMT250. I also really liked the old Cakewalk FXReverb, but it's not 64-bit compatible.
I'm not a fan of convolution reverbs for vocals. They don't do modulated reverb tails convincingly.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 10:08:55
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Spaces from EastWest is awesome. You got that one right (my "goto" everyday). Also, the Softube TSAR 1 is pretty darn good. 
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 10:17:35
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I'm holding out for a Pro Channel reverb.
I'd go for the TSAR 1 if it were designed to work in ProChannel and I could buy it without buying the whole package of tools.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 10:40:33
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I'd go for the TSAR 1 if it were designed to work in ProChannel and I could buy it without buying the whole package of tools. Hmmm... A $50-ish ProChannel version of TSAR1? Yeah, I could certainly do that. Without an ilok.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 10:46:30
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Depends on the song, vocalist, material.
For most pop+rock I think any decent plate plugin will work nicely.
(For the problem mentioned with tails using convo try a gate+ compressor on the bus to smooth them out)
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californiamusic
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 11:07:26
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The Lexicon PCM Reverbs I have are still 32bit as well, the only 32bit VST I have left. But it's so good I still use it ; )
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 11:15:23
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stevec
I'd go for the TSAR 1 if it were designed to work in ProChannel and I could buy it without buying the whole package of tools.
Hmmm... A $50-ish ProChannel version of TSAR1? Yeah, I could certainly do that. Without an ilok.
If it was available, I'd buy that today even if it did have an Ilok as I already have one.
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Re:Opinions on Best Vocal Reverb Plugin
2012/07/03 11:19:50
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stevec
I'd go for the TSAR 1 if it were designed to work in ProChannel and I could buy it without buying the whole package of tools.
Hmmm... A $50-ish ProChannel version of TSAR1? Yeah, I could certainly do that. Without an ilok.
If it was available, I'd buy that today even if it did have an Ilok as I already have one.
For a reverb it be more like a 'Pro-Bus', not channel.
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