From the course: Audio Foundations: Reverb
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Get in the Mix: Gating reverb to emphasize any track in your production
From the course: Audio Foundations: Reverb
Get in the Mix: Gating reverb to emphasize any track in your production
Gated reverb might be one of the least intuitive uses of reverb. Whether it was deliberately invented or sort of accidentally discovered, we'll never know. But whatever its origins, gated reverb is an essential part of music production today. So let's make sure we know how to do it on the all-important snare drum. The signal flow isn't trivial. We run the output of the reverb through a compressor and then a gate to abruptly truncate that compressed reverb so it doesn't last so long. It takes the mess out of our mix. The output of the reverb after compression is itself a long, slowly decaying signal and it would be difficult for the gate to know when to open and close. So we use the key input to open the gate. The close mic on the snare drum feeds this key input by way of a bus, instructing the gate when to open and when to close. But the signal running through the gate, the signal that is in fact being gated is not the snare drum, it's the reverb signal. So compressed reverb passes…
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Choosing the right reverb for each of your tracks2m 17s
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Simulating space with reverb5m 42s
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Hearing space in the mix6m 33s
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Timbre and texture3m 36s
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Shaping tone and timbre with reverb5m 49s
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Creating contrasting sounds for your tracks4m 43s
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Using nonlinear reverb to help a track cut through4m 25s
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Emphasizing the reverb using predelay3m 23s
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Strategically blurring and obscuring tracks1m 46s
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Get in the Mix: Changing the scene by changing reverb7m 37s
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Get in the Mix: Gating reverb to emphasize any track in your production5m 52s
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Reversing reverb to highlight musical moments9m 36s
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Synthesizing new sounds through reverb6m 42s
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Get in the Mix: Supporting a track with regenerative reverb6m 31s
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Getting the most out of room tracks17m 39s
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