The 4 Important Ways to Use Reverb in Pro Mixing

Mark explains the four different ways reverb is used in professional mixing and the different types of reverb you need to achieve these results. He discusses the Bricasti M7 the Lexicon 480, PCM 96, software reverbs, Hyperspace and plate reverbs.
Mark Wingfield is a critically-acclaimed jazz mixing and mastering engineer. He has mixed or mastered three Downbeat Magazine Masterpiece Albums of the Year, two JazzWise Best Releases of the Year and three All About Jazz Best Albums of the Year. Jazz albums he has mixed or mastered have received more than 300 rave reviews worldwide. Mark mixes and masters at his UK based Heron Island Studio.
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[@ARKIEMATRIX]

Hi Mark great channel thanks, finally found the time to have a listen/watch. So when! are you, please, going to do a video, on how to use reverb to create a holographic 3 dimensional audio space. Would be awesome. As now have a 16 track live recording to play with on my system. All best John

[@neeharavi]

i'm curious, has there been a separate video about the 3rd point in this video: how to place instruments in the mix using reverb?

[@TheophanKonstantinov]

I've been using all kinds of reverb for more than 30 years, but this was an eye-opener for me. Thank you so much!

[@heronislandstudio8054]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@focusdecorating3637]

Thank you ! I knew there was more to it than I thought and you have just confirmed that

[@tcibeatrecords4707]

Would loved to hear or see a demonstration of number 3 reverb effect….

[@fyzooman]

Very detailed and in depth explanation, keep up the good work and looking forward to more content from this channel.

[@QuabmasM]

One of the coolest fx ways to use reverb: shimmer. You've heard it before especially in the 80s & they sell guitar pedals w/ the effect. Took me over a decade to find the official name of the effect & how to manually recreate it. For the longest I just called it the lexicon 224 long tail technique. Look it up folks if youve never heard it before. It sounds MAGICAL on warm pads. Alot of old soft rock & pop ballads would use it sparingly on the pads for dramatic effect.

[@adamsmith7058]

Shimmer works well with everything, electric and acoustic pianos, guitars, vocals, you name it. I can't get enough of it.

[@jmons33]

This channel is a true gold mine...Is this really free? ...SUBSCRIBED!!!!!!!

[@Alej_915]

this channel is awesome! thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with us, I really appreciate the effort

[@zainpunka1703]

Thank you for taking the time for this, very easy to listen to and informative.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sunray1984]

I'm excited about your every new video, Mark! You are a great musician, mixing engineer and just a great man! Keep it up and thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Thanks for the kind words Sunray1984!

[@BattistaLena]

Love your calm style and finally a focus on Jazz. Thanks for helps me discovering the Blyss mastering channel, really nice. Something about mixing doublebass it would be very interesting!

[@anunusualconnection7945]

I learn so much from you. Thanks a lot, i am very happy to hear all the differnces, cause i thought the same, but have'nt that much experience. To know, that the vintage equipment could be part of the setup, but to get an accurate reverb depending on the location and situation with this new devices sounds totaly right.

[@Barncore]

Super valuable vid. Thanks. Would LOVE if you did a dedicated video on reverb techniques to position the instruments in the 3D space. I haven't found a great in-depth one on youtube yet

[@larkoslarkou]

Thank you so much. Made me realise things about reverb that never mentioned so clearly before.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lo-fidevil2950]

Well there it is. Plate? Room? No one ever explained it before. Fantastic. Now I get it. Nice one.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tonal.states]

I pray for that video mentioned @17:20 for instrument positioning relative to one another, would be nice! Excellent talk too, thank you.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Cheers!

[@Elixirmusiques]

Same here!

[@bachelorgamer8001]

Thank you

[@EricF]

Fantastic video. Cheers!

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Thanks!

[@Recordingstudio-uk]

Great info thanks did you do a video about placing instruments in a mix using reverb

[@oinkooink]

Nice to see a laid back music production channel. Keep on truckin'. Thanks for your expertise.

[@hodshonf]

Great video. I may have missed it, but how did you implement the Bricasti? I use the Fusion-IR packs from the LiquidSonics site in Reverberate 2.

[@emanuelwhitehead6039]

Man you are great

[@alanhaynes418]

I find that using the cascaded reverb algo using all the processing power in my Lexicon PCM91 I can create very realistic spaces. Cross referencing it to recordings of real chambers, it's not 100% - but it's pretty close.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

I also have a PCM 91 it's a beautiful sounding reverb.

[@docshadrach]

I was left wanting to see what techniques they use to locate the instruments in space.

[@Satnamtaro]

Hello～　 Thank you so much for a very to-the-point explanation of how reverbs can be used. I am wondering... Will you be making a dedicated video for usage 3 which is positioning instruments? Also, if you can recommend good material for learning to do that, whether a video or a book, I would really appreciate that. Thank you once again and I will definitely check out your other videos!

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Glad it was helpful!

[@_andreleo_]

I'd love a video on that too. Thank you for the video(s), Mark :)

[@amplifier2]

I‘ve got a Bricasti, a AMS RMX-16, a Lexicon PCM70, a Yamaha SPX, a Sony R7 and I might buy a Lexicon 300 this week. I think I‘m possessed....

[@heronislandstudio8054]

:D

[@savanaviolenta]

Don't forget Strymon BigSky plugin

[@vincentchevalier6321]

I drink your words !

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Cheers!

[@thaexception3406]

Comprehensive

[@__Stelios]

What is your opinion about the VSS3 compared to the M7? They are considered very similar in what they supposed to do, creating realistic spaces.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

I used to have a TC 4000 reverb which is the same as the 6000 algorithms so I know the TC sound well. I also know the M7 well and use it on most mixes. I prefer the M7 but I think it's really a matter of taste. The TC reverbs are great but a very different flavour from the M7. I still use Lexicons and others. Each one brings something different. I think Cinematic Rooms is as good as either the M7, TC or Lexicons, it's another flavour and can be very realistic sounding, as can the M7.

[@__Stelios]

@@heronislandstudio8054 Thank you for your answer! Great video as well 🙂

[@richardsullivan2537]

Are you sure you can’t get a good room sound out of @ Lexicon PCM 70? It has tons of parameters which leaves me thinking it could be dialed in.

[@heronislandstudio8054]

Real rooms have very complex reflections. Those old units sound great at what they do, but they didn't have the CPU power or the RAM to create realistic spaces. That doesn't mean you can't find any patches on them that create some sort of space. But it's not going to sound much like a real room and it won't be very flexible. As you say you'd have to dial it in and there would be a hard to find sweet spot that might create something like a 3D room space. But change anything too much and you'd loose the sense of 3D space. Where as a modern reverb like a Bricasti, or Cinematic Rooms has the CPU power and ram to create hundreds of different rooms and spaces which all sound much more real than an early reverb like a PCM 70. Whatever you need, they'll probably be able to do it. Having said that the PCM 70's sound great, just not that much like a real space. But you don't always want a real space of course. I like the sound of my PCM 91 even though it's hard to dial in a real sounding space compared to the Bricasti.

[@richardsullivan2537]

@@heronislandstudio8054 ok thank you.

[@richardsullivan2537]

@@heronislandstudio8054 I have the pcm 70 but have not learned it really. I took a break from daws and was using Roland MC-101 which is a song writing game changer. So can I use the effects in the Mac-101 I wonder. Also reinstalled Stusio One Version 3 daw on my laptop. Also have Tascam Dp-24 sd multitrack recorder. So I could use any those verbs or could get a new software verb. No Bricasti money here right now. Any additional recommendations?