Reverbs

Hey there,
 
I'm working on a project and trying to keep things simple by limiting the number of reverbs and spatial effects.
 
What is your go-to room reverb to add a little a space to most of the tracks of your mix?  I'm leaning towards the Breverb Medium Hall as a starting point.  Good idea?
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks!

I absolutely love Perfect Space. Tried lots of other reverbs but I keep going back to the Real Spaces presets and work from there.

I tend to think of reverb as I would the space that all the musicians would be in if they were recording in one room altogether. When you go to a concert hall, auditorium, stadium, etc. you are experiencing hearing the entire group of musicians in that environment. Due to the placement, the instruments closer to you may be drier sounding than the musicians farther away. The reverb becomes a realtime blender of dry and wet.
Some instruments may be using reverb or delay as a special effect but overall the entire group is in that one environment and should be treated so. I am not a big fan of using a different reverb on every track. As stated before, that technique can destroy a great mix simply because it doesn't sound natural and good luck trying to match the texture on all those rooms. Try just one reverb for a room on the instruments in a buss routing different amounts of each instrument to that room and another buss setup for vocal reverb possibly. This technique to me tends to sound more natural.

Sure. I like Breverb.
 
It's light weight and nice.
 
If you're only using one, don't forget Perfect Space. It's 32 bit, but sounds awesome.
 
The Blue Tubes has one too that I've used on three or four recordings so far.

I little delay on a reverb is a great thing. If memory serves, Craig Anderton has some advice about using delay with reverbs where you set the interval to different prime numbers in the left and right channels.
 
RME's digicheck for the UCX and UFX have both reverb and delay on the only internal FX Bus in the unit, so they totally see applying delay after reverb as practical.

Dave,
 
it sounds like you need to use delays on tracks and then shunt everything through a room reverb.  Perfect Space is the perfect choice for rooms, once you flesh out the impulse choices.  Lots of good ones on the net.
 
Breverb is a great reverb, and I've got the softube one which is really nice.  But the real problem w/ most reverbs is that they ain't subtle enough.  To get a room feel you usually have to knock down the mix ratio to 20-30%.  Most reverbs come in at more than that - breverb has the reverb level at 100% and the mix at 50/50.  I don't blame the revberb designers - they want to show off their glorious work, but unless you are doing pyschedelia it is too thick.  The old standby technique of backing off the level of change until you can't hear it, then add a touch back, usually works for me.  Esp. for reverb.
 
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I see the consensus here seems to be the Breverb.  I don't have it. Although I do have 3 or 4 others....I actually like and use the Cakewalk Studioverb2 on just about all my projects.
 
I load a dark hall or a bright hall and tweeze it as needed. It's my GO-TO reverb.

It's bummer that Studioverb2 won't work in Sonar X3 64bit!

I've used a lot of Perfect Space. Lately I've added Breverb and FXpansion Bloom (which combines other effects to reverb) to my toolbox.
 
With bloom you can, e.g., do first a short ping-pong delay, set the mix for 80% wet, saturate and chorus it and run it trough reverb.

Reverb (and delay) are great effects. For one, reverb takes the sound "out of your face" and gives it some depth, and width too if you want it.
 
As for plugin reverbs, I like Breverb a fair amount - but it's new to me and I haven't done anything but play with some of its presets. I personally use a hardware reverb unit, the Lexicon MX300 - and I use it as a hardware plugin in SONAR. All that said, my goto factory patch on my Lexicon is called "Tuned Room" (patch #44 if you have a similar Lex unit). It's a great way to get away from the ultra-dry/in-your-face sound of most non-effected tracks and put them into an almost studio tracking room situation where they can sound way more natural. Just like you cannot have your eye an inch away from anything and see it all, your ears need some distance from a sound to "hear" it all, IMHO.
 
I don't always leave any reverb on every track, but I certainly use it 99% of the time to hear the "whole sound" by moving it away from me (again, getting it out of my face, so to speak) while I am tracking, to make sure the whole sound is doing what I want it to do. I mean almost EVERY room produces some reverb naturally, so I like to hear sounds in that environment at least once during the process to make sure it is a believable sound in a real world environment - and not what it would sound like in a room with pounds of sound deadening on every surface, which is very unnatural to the human ear. Super dry is great for recording (so you can then effect it anyway you want without "hearing the room" too), but is otherwise very unnatural to the ear.
 
So long story short, I'd start with some smaller than a Hall, and go from there. As I said, I like to start with a Room of some sort - just to get the sound out in the open a little bit so it can be heard from top to bottom & side to side.

I forgot to mention when using the Breverb, I started with the Medium Hall preset and made adjustments.  One was dialing back the length of the reverb down to 1 second to keep it short and sweet and avoid a mushy mix.

I just recently purchased Valhalla Verb and used it exclusively on my last song in the forums. I am really liking this reverb. Before that, I was using Breverb quite a bit. I have always really liked Perfect Space as well, but it seems to be very resource hungry.

You guys are all so conservative.  you're supposed to get your mix wet enough, you can wash your clothes in it
 
You don't see "Real Traps" in the Taj Mahal, do ya??
 

My go to for drums is Perfectspace. For everything else, I use delays or the Lexicon reverbs. I finally bought them a year or so ago and I don't regret it at all.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

I must be in the minority.... I just do not like Breverb.  All the reverb tails sound like the gated reverbs of the 80's to me...not nearly as natural sounding as the old Lexicon Pantheon or PerfectSpace. 

Here's an interesting article by Mike Senior on the topic of reverb:
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul08/articles/reverb1.htm