Take away the Venture's spring reverb units...  blasphany!

Lexicon's Pantheon never hit me as particularly good. I had better luck even w/ the Sonitus reverb. As for MPX, couldn't say, I've never tried it.

I'm one of the Valhalla fans on these boards.

My favorite reverb right now is Toraverb by D16 Group.

http://d16.pl/index.php?menu=228

Super lush, expensive sound. Great tails. Cross-talking stereo modulation. Easy to dial in. Has the feel and sound outboard gear. Great UI. 64bit host compatible and also 64bit internal signal processing. Fully automatable and is zipper-free when doing it. It's not too expensive and also comes in bundle (the whole bundle is awesome). In fact, all their products are awesome. Their 808/909 emulator is incredible (not a cheap rom-ler, but fully circuit modeled).

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daveny5


I don't know of any song recorded that was successful or unsuccessful because of the reverb used. Its about the music, folks. 

You could say the same thing about the delays, compressors, EQs, limiters, brand of guitar, gauge of strings, size of the tom heads, or a million other little variables.  It doesn't mean that there aren't real differences to be considered when a person is making a buying decision.

cryophonik


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daveny5


I don't know of any song recorded that was successful or unsuccessful because of the reverb used. Its about the music, folks. 

You could say the same thing about the delays, compressors, EQs, limiters, brand of guitar, gauge of strings, size of the tom heads, or a million other little variables.  It doesn't mean that there aren't real differences to be considered when a person is making a buying decision.

Actually it was Ken Scott who said in a recent interview that he's sure that the success of a record was not whether the hit hat was 1 to 3 db too loud or too soft (paraphrased but you get the gist)

...it was Ken Scott who said in a recent interview that he's sure that the success of a record was not whether the hit hat was 1 to 3 db too loud or too soft

True, but the difference between a good mix and a crappy mix never comes down to just the hi-hat level, or the reverb setting, or the type of compressor. 


More likely, the hats are 6db too loud, the vocal is 3db too quiet, the bass and kick are masking each other, the output is clipped and the whole thing's awash in reverb. No single detail is likely to be a deal-breaker, but failing to attend to every detail is a recipe for failure.

bitflipper

...it was Ken Scott who said in a recent interview that he's sure that the success of a record was not whether the hit hat was 1 to 3 db too loud or too soft

True, but the difference between a good mix and a crappy mix never comes down to just the hi-hat level, or the reverb setting, or the type of compressor. 


More likely, the hats are 6db too loud, the vocal is 3db too quiet, the bass and kick are masking each other, the output is clipped and the whole thing's awash in reverb. No single detail is likely to be a deal-breaker, but failing to attend to every detail is a recipe for failure.

Dang.... and here I thought all I had to do was worry about Hi-Hats.

Bad reverb is the most telling attribute of an amateur mix. 9 times out of 10 it will be heard and be bothersome long before the attributes of the song, performance or musicality are measured. Just to add an alternate approach/opinion - There are a host of older hardware units that you can use under $300 that will yeild better results than most of the plugins found ITB except maybe the UAD Lexicon 240, that is one killer ITB plug in.

Middleman,

I wonder what Ken Scott says about reverb?

I´m a fanboy of 
-1. sonnox reverb for small rooms
and 
-2 IKM`s C S R for the big rooms

-3 Lexicon Gated Reverb for snare 

Also liking the bricasti IR´s from samplicity ( free stuff and usable in Perfect Space)
good luck