drewfx1
dmbaer
Rain
That being said, I use very little reverb. Usually, a tiny bit on the snare to compensate when I lower the room mics in passages where the mix is getting busier, or to push an instrument in the back a bit. But most of the time, it's barely noticeable.
This reminds me of a really good point that bitflipper made some time ago. He said (something to the effect): my reverb is 18db down from the wet signal, so a super expensive high quality verb vs. an adequate cheap (or free) one makes little audible difference.
Corallary: Breverb is probably all you'll ever need if you use restraint in how much reverb you add in.
I always used to be baffled by all the guys out there obsessing over reverb tails.
Then I realized that maybe it's because I tend to like my verbs short and relatively quiet.
I had the same experience with people dissing the sound of compressors that sounded fine to me - I realized that, unlike some people, I like low ratios and not crazy amounts of gain reduction.
Of course I'm sure some people just obsess over things because they can, or because it lets them pretend that they're somehow superior or whatever. But I'm generally only willing to pay for stuff I can actually hear.
I do however think that even when used very sparingly, some reverbs are poorer than other. I often try to stick to my bundled plug-ins because, well, they're pretty good and they're über efficient. I can get pretty far in a mix w only those, even for mix buss compression, but when I start adding reverb, I usually have to start using 3rd party plug-ins. I did give that native Logic reverb a fair chance on many occasions, but even w/ short tails, it doesn't seem to work for me.
One thing I realized a few days ago - even if the Lexicon is my go to reverb, whenever I work on some huge rolling beat w/ a lot of action on the toms and floor toms, in a sparse arrangement, I seem to have even better luck w/ IK's CSR room.
Can't tell if there's a rational explanation - probably not.