How to Use Your Room as a Reverb Effect (Reverb Chamber)

[@PartyMinimal]

Take it a step further and adjust the speed at which you playback the signal in to the "chamber". Play it back 20% faster, and record that verb, then slow it back down. Your rooms much bigger now. You might need to nudge the reverb track forward a bit to get it to line up.

[@creativesoundlab]

3:51 Vocal 4:04 Snare Bottom 4:16 Toms 4:30 Acoustic Guitar

[@brigi7020]

You and Rick Beato have the best channels on youtube! Great stuff as always.

[@schipbreukeling3]

This is a nice one to add to your courses.

[@rx2008]

hey dude., great video. have watched a few of your vids over the past year or so, and always very helpful.

[@seymourbeetle]

I only have two outputs (L and R) on my interface and I like to just solo the track I'm sending to the chamber, pan it to the left and mute the return/recording track so it doesn't feedback. Same concept as yours, but a little less to do! I'm working in a small room and I use this to fatten up sterile VST instruments/synths by putting the mic close to the speaker and recording the instrument solo. It gives it a little bit of air and harmonic content but I make sure to EQ out the occasional harsh frequencies. All in all, I love using chambers to "analog" my sound. It can also be cool to use your phone as the microphone and record the room that way. It's a good lo-fi, crunchy reverb that sounds nice when you blend it with the rest of the mix.

[@carrie7225]

the bathrooms in my school got some kind of coating/paint on the brick walls that makes the reverb in it sounds like your in a fucking ginormous hall, its pretty damn neat

[@JRP3music]

I did this once at our rehearsal room, we placed mics and speakers in the hall way at Shurguard then recorded them.

[@jamesbennettmusic]

To put your own stamp on a plugin or electronic reverb, try sending its output to the echo chamber!

[@AlistairLindsay]

Tried this a few years back it it sounded great. Your video just reminded me to try it again! Thanks for the vid. :-)

[@AdamRainStopper]

Your room sounds fantastic on both the vocal and the cue stick.

[@creativesoundlab]

Thanks Adam!

[@clintonmaher6930]

That's great - totally trying that! Here's another interesting drum recording idea for you... Suspend a shotgun mic about one metre directly above the snare, pointing right down at the snare centre. Have the mic fed down into a piece of PVC or metal piping so the mic is encased by the pipe. Really interesting big snare crack sound!

[@creativesoundlab]

Wow I'll have to try that!

[@clintonmaher6930]

Creative Sound Lab Love to see that in a video 👍

[@sarinsahil]

What kind of microphones can you use to do this? I mean is it limited to condensers or ribbons only? Thank you!

[@brianjuffs4662]

How do you choose which room to use? if it were at home eg monitors in bedroom, mic in bathroom, hall etc

[@hannuback]

I really don't like using software for effects and I rely on my pedalboard to get the sounds I want right from the start. Sometimes I do feel that I could maybe use some more reverb for vocals or something and have sometimes done a re-amp. I might as well give this a try! :)

[@creativesoundlab]

Awesome. Let me know how it works out for ya!

[@skepticalbystander]

I never thought of this before! I wonder how well it'll work in my room, i have carpet, and a lot of fabric furniture dampening whatever reverb is in the room. Anyone think it's still worth the effort trying grabbing what little verb is left off the tops of the walls and the ceiling?

[@creativesoundlab]

That kind of room is still great for this use, but on bright stuff like acoustic guitar or lead electric w a delay on the room you record.

[@skepticalbystander]

Creative Sound Lab i'll have to try it out some time, definitely keeping this idea in mind :) am i right in thinking the more fabric there is in my room, the darker the verb will come out? I mean, i've noticed presence in the reverberations in empty rooms with wood or cement floors, it stands to reason the harder surfaces bounce the verb back harder, but even tho my home studio has tall ceilings, i've never really noticed any natural reverb, wondering if that's because all the furniture and carpet are turning my natural reverb tone knob down too much to be noticeable, i know reverberations are still physically happening, i just wonder if the fabrics are like turning a tone knob down more than it's like turning the effect volume down, or does fabric take away more volume than tone? Either way, i never notice any room verb in my space :/

[@reclinerband]

Guitar sounds beautiful

[@pomperiposse4373]

Dope video man thanks, I'm doing a degree work on using this method for electronic productions

[@mohawkbear8768]

your videos never disappoint. so good

[@creativesoundlab]

Thanks man!

[@elkobamusic7139]

Could I use this on all my drum tracks as a substitute for a room mic(s)? I ask because my interface has only four mic inputs and cash is tight for getting bigger interfaces at the moment :v thanks in advance if you answer :D

[@thecheesewizard]

Great vid Ryan. How do you get variation in your own personal studio? Do you take acoustic treatment out of the room? Thanks as always

[@creativesoundlab]

The fastest way is to remove things from the room or EQ what your sending to the monitor in the room.

[@Woodsaras]

Great video

[@teddybear713]

A cue stick👌

[@creativesoundlab]

I've embraced it at this point

[@oscark7501]

i was looking for where to place my portable speaker in my room to make it have more reverb but now i’m bout to buy a chamber

[@jaimifaulkner]

appreciate the cue stick gag

[@creativesoundlab]

People give me such a hard time about that!

[@jaimifaulkner]

People are the worst. haha. Thanks for your channel Ryan. Great content as always.

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Roommate, you've got 30 days to leave. I need your room.....

[@kortufflpaua]

Why record dry in the first place?

[@creativesoundlab]

I know right! I usually grab a room mic o a lot of stuff.

[@erlannderrantem6972]

Some time it’s not possible to use the room you want as reverb for recording. Means for example if you take the staircase of a building it gonna piss your „neighbors“ off if you record there for a couple of hours, but it can be okay to just run through the recorded parts and reverberate it.

[@sigisfoto]

Fine :-) But it is almost the same as to use impulse response..

[@recordheatstudios4601]

Sigitas Kondratas , settling for almost is your call. Its easy enough to try, bust out of mediocrity, go big or go home.

[@erlannderrantem6972]

I think both has their application. If you have unlimited access to a room it’s great doing it this way or even recording direct there and if you don’t IR Convolutions are great!

[@sigisfoto]

Absolutely agree with you! Or make impulse response of own rooms and quickly use them in the future :-)

[@recordheatstudios4601]

Years ago I blew out a set of event 20/20 monitors. Jus had the one left sitting around doing nothing when all the while it could have been earning its keep! No More! Its got a job now😜

[@robehickmann]

voice sounded like singing in the shower

[@creativesoundlab]

Yeah this is more effect than what I would use in a mix.

[@theperfectsetupguitarandba4816]

Fantastic. Any way of manipulating sound naturally over signal manipulation is fantastic. I like the idea of a single miced drum set recording then this trick. Zero bled then speaker and microphone placement on reverb. Simple clean sound, with the option of coloring the reverb sound. Didn't capture enough boom or high end, find a mic placement that emphasizes what you are missing. Natural eq. Use very fast/sharp/accurate recording the first time around, then warm/slower equipment the second time around. So many options. Fantastic

[@creativesoundlab]

Yes! Right on man.