Let's Make A Custom Reverb IR for UE5 Metasounds - So Easy!!!

Unreal Engine 5 Metasounds tutorials continue with….
“Make Your Own Reverb IR” for Unreal Engine 5’s Convolution Reverb Effect. It’s way easier than you think!!!
00:00 Intro
00:54 Unreal Documentation “Convolution Reverb”
02:09 Process for Making Your IR
03:11 Adding The Reverb in Metasounds
05:35 Results and Tweaking Mix Balance
06:13 Other Applications and Conclusion
I’m honestly shocked that I didn’t know how to do this until last week. After today, you’ll never be the same! (OK, maybe that’s a little much...)
Reverb isTHE secret sauce for making music and sound effects sound amazingly sweet and life-like. Compression, EQ and Reverb are the 3 main food groups of a great mix. If we use them properly, we become stuff of legends!
In this video, using our Metasound Qwerty Synthesizer, we will make our own unique and custom Reverb IR and I will show you how to quickly implement it into your project.
I used Logic Pro X to do this, but you can literally use any DAW that has a reverb plugin... which is literally all of them.
But don’t stop there! You can use any wave sound as an IR. I'll explain...
Have fun!
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[@DanReynoldsAudio]

In the Impulse Response Asset, you can adjust the IR normalization (which defaults at -24dB) to taste if your impulse was on the quiet side.

[@brianmichaelfuller]

Dan, thanks for that info!! And for the comment. I’ve learned a ton from watching your videos on Quartz and Metasounds. Looking forward to more of your insight!

[@curtissmithsound]

Fun trick that I used with Conv, can't remember where I learned it online, but take an ice scrape sound, make that your IR and then run your dialogue through that. Sounds like your Dx is in a helmet (sure tweaking is required). Nice short vid btw :)

[@brianmichaelfuller]

Oh wow that’s a super cool Idea!!! I may need to try that. Thanks!

[@hottestmanevar]

UE PLZ Like wtf is this workflow, 4 layers deep you can finally even remotely start trying out the actual sound effect... Easier to just edit the initial sound in any audio editor than to hoop around all this bs... Didn't even try to finish this honestly EDIT: I'm sorry I was wrong. This system is not bad. After succesfully destroying my keyboard trying to implement this, I'm convinced that this whole system is legit a creation of Satan himself. If not, then whoever came up with this bs workflow should be banished to purgatory where he will only work with whis system for eternity and beyond

[@brianmichaelfuller]

Yeah it’s not for the feint of heart! But it’s a necessary evil to exist within a world of C++ where audio is just a tiny part of that world