The Most Realistic Reverb (ever ?)

[@tomiwailee]

For those of you asking, the breath controller I'm using to play the brass instruments is the USB MIDI Breath Controller from Tec. I actually don't know if it's a particularly good one, or if there are better ones out there. All I know is that it works for me, and is reactive enough so that I can play vibrato naturally. I do struggle with shorts, but I think that's a skill issue 🫠

[@xavierbromius]

what vst is the brass

[@theofficiallobst6592]

@xavierbromius what vst is the brass

[@tomiwailee]

@xavierbromius Samplemodeling ;)

[@theofficiallobst6592]

@@tomiwailee Thanks, and AMAZING reverb by the way!!!

[@dstorfer]

I don't think there are better breath controllers - within a reasonable price. Someone has one for like $800, which is absurd in 2024.

[@au5music]

This is incredible. Subbed

[@natus49]

This has gotta be one of the first times I've navigated to something in audio as cool as this without first coming from one of your vids haha. I'm clearly in the right place

[@nickmack7282]

Over 10 years ago, I was trying to make my IRs sound good with very little success. What you’ve achieved here is simply incredible. I’m not sure people fully grasp the significance of this or how much realism and clarity you’ve brought to 'virtual' orchestras. As a VST dev (Beatsurfing), I can imagine the immense care and love you’ve put into this-truly amazing!

[@Superstar-sw5iy]

Incredibly well made. I thought the vid had 100k+ views. to find out it has >500 is mind boggling

[@holidaycomplex]

genuinely such a gem

[@MDMvision]

@@holidaycomplex he just started his channel ;) this is his second video!

[@Erliortmejurur]

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[@noThankyou-g5c]

> is greater than

[@Erliortmejurur]

@@noThankyou-g5c yeah and 100k > 500 lol

[@jazzplatt8532]

this is absolutly revolutionary in i think your on to somthing, i hope this gets the attention of the right people to make this happen

[@schmui]

I'm not even 15min in and I'm watching this standing up straight & slow clapping.

[@ypw-unterhaltung9459]

Bless the KZbin algorithm for this one. High quality underrated video about nerdy audio stuff and then that guy plays Future Funk and has a Future Funk profile pic. My favorite genre ever. Sub earned.

[@giuseppenovella]

This sounds like the best rendition of room acoustics i ever heard! Not only you can pin-point the source, but the low end (which is very tricky to nail) is so real! I think that an "impulse designer" type of software could be one of the best thing. Users can design a room (with a few key elements) or load one of a selection of pre-made rooms and have the opportunity to bake their instrument-specific impulses. Also, for composers, i find that a simple IR-Loaded with basic sets of pre-made impulses (in situ sections, mostly like Berlin Studio) could be very cool, especially for media composers with tight schedules and not so much time to fiddle around. BTW, great job!

[@ryanpmcguire]

I'm actually making this right now

[@MarkHarmer]

As a harpist, kudos to you for correctly identifying issues with the dispersion (polar output) of this instrument. It’s why I often include a blend of mics from different places around the harp plus a distant mic which largely drives the reverb, a technique I first learned when doing drama for broadcast, where the actors can move towards / away from the main microphone and the reverb behaves the way it would naturally (the voice becomes louder and drier when you get very close up to the microphone) because the reverb is being partially driven by a distant mic which more accurately simulates the behaviour in a room even with sources that move around.

[@LudoTechWorld]

The video itself, the way you explain, the demonstrations... Such a high quality content! And for the wave-based Reverb, well, I have the feeling that in ten years, I will be able to say "I was there when it started". Incredible work.

[@natigrinkrug]

This is probably the best video on reverb on the entire internet. Amazing job!

[@Drake21339]

Came for the reverb video, walked away thoroughly impressed that you accurately described the nyquist-shannon sampling theorem (and even broke it down in a way most people should be able to understand). That alone got my sub! More KZbin creators should follow your lead and “bewoooop and bewooooooop”.

[@redcollard3586]

the convolution animation was fantastic too

[@ampersand64]

This legitimately sounds so good, I don't think I could distinguish from a live recording.

[@MixMeMcGee]

Such amazing work. You’re absolutely right about the naturalness and clarity in the low end behavior. And you’re absolutely right… the localization on that cello! wow.

[@prcption8636]

I need this wave based reverb now

[@the.spin.doctor]

I never had convolution reverb explained so clearly!

[@risingofgames]

this was an amazing watch. one of the best, if not the best audio related video i've watched on youtube

[@modvind]

This was honestly incredible. Most accurate room simulation I think I have ever heard. absolutely nailed the very complex nature of reflections, especially in the low end. I work with live sound and have heard plenty of acoustic instruments in big concert halls, as well as symphonies. This gave me chills. If I close my eyes, it just sounds like I'm there, in the room. This seems like a video that should be everywhere in the audio community, it's that revolutionary. I think I'm gonna share it with my former teacher at the audio school I went to. He would want to have a look at this.

[@jakobymaster]

this is a fantastic video. And the trumpet in the beginning.. i need this alien technology

[@DaftyBoi412]

This is how product development, AND marketing should be done imho! Thanks for walking us through your creation, and I look forward to trying it out. Sounds really nice from your demos here! ;)

[@MichaelRushMusic]

35:30 "If you know, you know." This was the moment that I sat up from my couch in awe! Congratulations on creating such an amazing reverb!

[@schmui]

Ok subscribed. You are being followed now. As in "I am actually interested what this person is going to do in the future because what I've seen so far is very educational, entertaining, impressive and tastefully done, no pressure, that's why I'm going to actively check up on him from time to time."* Genuinely impressed. You're thorough, analytical yet fun to watch and actually made me laugh out loud multiple times. Awesome. Period. *This is I quoting myself

[@noThankyou-g5c]

millions of people are producers now. it’s not just a professional enterprise class level audience anymore it’s an entire industry as big as any other major consumer class. If you make this reverb affordable enough that any bedroom producer that can afford serum or splice can buy it, then it will become as ubiquitous as serum or valhalla vintage. I cannot stress this enough. SO many people are producers now the market for production software has exploded at least 10x and likely more over the last 10 years. You dont need to make your market hollywood studios and brick and mortar studios anymore. In my experience very few companies have noticed this and changed their pricing strategies accordingly but the ones that have are the serums, vitals, rc-20s. Vsts just more ubiquitous than FL studio, Ableton, or ProTools themselves. Something like this has the potential to be a plug-in that you just assume you _need_ to have.

[@noThankyou-g5c]

Plus you’re always going to have the opportunity to monetize to a commercial, professional audience with custom IRs. The plugin’s audience is going to be 99.9% people in their bedroom making music 10 people will listen to.

[@noThankyou-g5c]

also i know this is great for scoring/composing etc but if you make a plugin definitely dont give up on that aspect but there should be some curation to pick IRs that sound great with digital synthesizers (so like EDM and pop music), like 70s soul/funk music, and very reverb heavy rock music (like shoegaze etc). Like while focusing on realistic verb curate ones that sound great when used for those genres/instruments. That’ll cover your bases for the “serious” professional grade market (mainly classical music and scoring) AND for pop, edm, rock, and hiphop which is what a huge majority of your potential customers will end up using it for. (i mean just the impact on hiphop alone this would have if people could _accurately_ create their own soul “samples”… ive never been more excited about a piece of music software before lol)

[@OriginalMarcel_]

I never knew reverb was this deep this vid was awesome thank you for sharing

[@longline]

Goodness, that's shit hot. I'll be very interested and following your progress to releasing this. Utterly incredible.

[@dxzzydxm5518]

actually one of the best audio essay type videos ive ever seen. i think you found a niche on your third video, would love videos explaining and diving into other effects. obviously this was about your project but your just seem very knowledgeable and well versed in audio, it would also be a great way to advertise what you work on

[@matthieuhml]

As a post-production sound engineer, I've been searching for a reverb that would be able to emulate those "real" direct and early reflections, and that would allow us to mix the dry and wet signal without phase issues (due to the fact that on plugins like Altiverb the direct sound is coming from a speaker, with group delay and phase distortion as you mentioned in your video). Especially for ADR or dubbing, or even foley, where you want to recreate/imitate the direct sound of the original take, that is absent from the recording made in a "dry" studio. Actually Altiverb, Indoor, Chameleon, Cinematic Room, etc, can't do that. The problem is that they're all sounding like a dry sound with "added" reverb. The dry sound and the reverb aren't blending together. If you could make a plugin like Altiverb or Indoor by AudioEase and make it "wave-based reverbs" and not convolution, it would be perfect for us. The most important thing is that we should be able to mix the dry signal with the wet signal without any phase issues. I don't think it would be important for us that the reverb sounds exactly the same as the original, as long as it allows us to believe the sound is coming from a real place. That the dry and wet signal are really blending together.

[@RobWickline]

turns out, i've always hated sample libraries because of the reverb... the cello example had me floored

[@johnneiberger]

I would buy this plugin in a heartbeat if it were available. I love all the fancy modern reverbs that get really crazy, but if you want something that sounds like a real room, these demos are probably the best I've heard.

[@GBuck276]

As trumpet player I subbed within the first 45 seconds. Your performance was emotive in such a visually incongruent manner to its incredible sound. This is not an achievement to undersell - it’s incredible how practically indiscernible you’ve both managed to program & perform. You set a new benchmark of quality with this and should be proud if you’re not already. Cheers!

[@greglamusic]

Very very, VERY well done, my friend! 👏

[@jonas4661]

As a musician who studies media design and lives together with an audio engineer this video is just pure candy, appreciate the effort, this is incredible work 👏🏻👏🏻

[@myNoiseDotNet]

What a great knowledge you shared, and attention to details. And yes, I do hear the difference, even with top standards convolution reverbs like Altiverb. Fantastic job!

[@joshuabenton3785]

this video is a true gift. Thank you for making it.

[@SivertHenriksen]

This is so nerdy! I love it! Amazing demos, and you describe the concepts really well.

[@averagetoucan]

I was ranting just yesterday about how regular IRs annoy the heck outta me... what you're onto seems to fix every problem i have with them, that's crazy ! It functioning off of 3D models opens the possibility for creative spaces and arrangements too like I cannot state how hyped I am in the moment ! Hope you get the right kind of attention :0

[@mandelbro1]

This is fucking incredible. Instantly subscribed

[@aflobwelrooms]

Damn the opening cut to you on the piano being the one playing that sound is already crazy 😮

[@simonflash_music]

This video is awesome! Thanks for sharing your knowledge in such an engaging and visually pleasing way.

[@picksalot1]

Absolutely brilliant method and incredibly realistic results! Your video/demo conveyed everything clearly. Thanks for this marvelous advance in Reverb. 👏 Subscribed

[@Jeanne_og]

Damn such a great quality work, hope it'll get the audience it deserves !

[@giantsmoy]

I've always faced the same problem with sample modeling or similar instruments, very difficult to place in a space. I think you just created a game changer, man this is awesome!

[@joncjb]

best find in a long time!! Subscribed 100%

[@basilfish1]

I know it exists but never really know how it works but this video makes it very clear now as explained. This is wonderful work! This is one of those things that still surprises you. Great job! Keep it up

[@natus49]

This is absolutely wicked man, and amazing video production as well! Subbed :D

[@gregoryallen0001]

i love how there's always SOO MUCH MORE to learn about production.. ty for bringing this! so well-explained

[@bronsoncarder2491]

So... This is actually an idea I've had for a long time, but I never had the skills to actually work out how to accomplish it. I knew someone would come along and do it eventually though. The reason I'm interested in this might surprise you though; I'm an aspiring video game developer, and I think realistically modelled reverb is the next big step that needs to happen in order to achieve realistically immersive gaming. The ability to take an IR of a virtual space is exactly what is needed to make that happen. I realized that about a decade ago when I learned about convolution reverb in my music production, but I've only recently gotten into more complex coding.

[@zMPHz]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen/heard in a long time! Also the video is fantastic!

[@LionHrodgari]

Revolutionary stuff. Subbed to see where this is going.

[@josephgreve5101]

This is amazing. May the algo bless you!

[@titouanducourau]

this video is one of my favourite ever made, and God knows i watch a lot of ytb ! Great montage, nice dose of humour, great examples and a lot of clarity. I love your work and the fact that you go on details to explains things is perfect. 👍 Thak you very much

[@SoloElROY]

What an incredible video. So well made, so well explained and so mind-blowing to hear.

[@serena_m_]

I would love, love, love an application that could design and bake custom IRs with this technology!

[@S41L0R]

yeah that's what I'm imagining too

[@connor.chan.jazzman]

Instasubbed. This video was so incredibly well made, engaging, and the editing is amazing. You deserve hundreds of thousands of subs, if not millions!

[@simonnagtegaal9282]

What if you just use a little explosion to make an IR then you don’t have the speaker problem it’s perfectly omnidirectional and will create frequency range containing almost every frequency

[@i_never_asked_for_an_alias]

Wow, Sir. All the Kudos to you for putting so much effort into this video.

[@ehdyn]

Great video.. very entertaining. Wish you luck with the development.

[@connorlewis2517]

The plugin is insane and the video is great. You taught convolution reverb in a way similar to sseb which sadly only made 4 videos but really went into depth about the science of audio which is what I’m interested in. Great job

[@M3lonade]

Great video - thanks for using one my tunes! Quite funny hearing it used for testing a speaker lol

[@jaapschilder4947]

You created a new standard, it's unbelievable realistic.

[@MixMeMcGee]

This. Video. I’m not even halfway though and this is SUCH AN INCREDIBLE DIVE IN DEEP

[@afk2017]

Mind blowing! Congrats it’s amazing!!!

[@RevRyukin7]

That Inspirata reverb sounds INSANE. The low end diffusion sounds so nice.

[@modvind]

I like how your little section about digital sampling explains it far more precisely than most videos dedicated to the topic. Good video

[@MDMvision]

bro you rock on the piano!

[@gregorio98000]

Man this is such a wonderful video, thank you for the great content !

[@XSchuauss]

Serious content but not boring. Intelligent work. It certainly makes a difference!

[@OleJ-DK]

I don't understand the technical part but your examples of the wave based reverb sounds clear, transparent and very good! It will be very interesting to see where this goes. Congratulation.

[@cgollimusic]

12 minutes in, wtf is YT doing not pushing this video. Subbed, liked, commented. Hope it gets further than this, otherwise you're gotten extremely unlucky. Great effort. anyway, back to the video

[@Glubre]

I'm blown away by the quality of this video

[@AndrewMcMillenium]

I am more impressed by the insane amount of video editing!

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Amazing work, looking forward to your progress. Thanks for sharing.

[@sabahoudini]

Very nice. When the wave based comes in the instrument just comes alive. It's like comparing a synhesizer with an acoustic instrument.

[@MananaMan]

for the harp i definitely prefered altiverb but for the french horn it's pretty clearly wave based that blows the rest out of the water

[@schmui]

13:06 wow. The real reverb sounds so much more complex than the convoluted one 😂

[@contrabombarde1216]

I want to hear this with organ music. It is just has too great a frequency range for convolution reverb to sound good. You can always tell, instantly, every single time.

[@NewbGamingNetworks]

As a brass player, this video makes me very happy.

[@st.4n]

this is a super inspiring project, the wave reverb technology is cool from my perspective as an architecture student, as it's exactly what i was imagining the software would be while sound propagation and reflection was explained to us! I was incredibly disappointed when at the end of the lecture the demonstration they used was a shitty windows XP-era tool. looking forward to hearing some beautiful spaces simulated and constructed in the future, and again, i'm very impressed by your work, and hope your continued development of it makes its power widely available :)

[@PeterTomlinsonComposer]

Here before this absolutely blows up lol Awesome video, man! I really like your ideas and presentation. Excited to try it out once it's released!

[@JoshRichmanDesign]

True stereo convolution impulse reverbs are currently the most realistic.

[@FlashRayLaser]

Very well made. I see many more subscribers in your future.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

I can tell this was a lot of work. Thank you for that! Very entertaining *and* educational video.

[@MotorGoblin]

Sounds great!

[@michaelkistenmacher]

An excellent video already and then you also used the organ footage from my favorite instrument in the Elbphilharmonie in my hometown Hamburg, Germany. I could listen to the reverb in that very modern room more than 30 times. I wonder, if you knew about it…

[@kenigden]

Wave-based reverb sounds incredible

[@secretreleases]

All the best to you!

[@henningriez7655]

Wow just wow ... i guess you now should have all the support in the world for your plugin

[@dragonfruitreal]

masterful video cant believe this has so little views keep making this kind of stuff

[@Headrum]

im rocking with buddy!!

[@mikekreeki]

Wow, great video. Good luck on your journey!

[@RemcoPeggeman]

Ah yes, the djuuuuub and pfiiiieeeewh transformations, such scientific! Love this

[@yachi7402]

impressive explanation and depth

[@pinnkfrost]

This is fantastic work. Thank you for this! KZbin send this one to the moon

[@MarkHarmer]

I’m totally fascinated by this - and actually it helps me make sense of some of the issues I have had particularly with the bass in convolution reverbs. I have vacillated between those and other parameter-driven reverbs such as Fabfilter Pro-R which to me sound more realistic in the bass particularly. A lot of my recordings are of real instruments in small spaces and I want to create a sense of a larger space, and the most success I have had is by placing a dedicated microphone a distance away and often slightly behind the players, and driving a high proportion of the reverb from that. It gives me more of a sense of the reflections you get from the rear of a performing group and how they feed into the room.

[@schmui]

31:36 omg that makes so much sense. The dreaded aliasing - both visual or audial. You don't even know it's there. Until you do. And then you can't unsee/unhear it and it ruins everything. Its like every bite of your favorite chocolate has sand in it 😂

[@aleksandarstojceski3139]

That's phasing.

[@schmui]

​@@aleksandarstojceski3139 I'm pretty sure "spatial aliasing" is "spatial aliasing".

[@ninjamnox]

Well made so far !

[@dstorfer]

The piano at 23:00 reminded me of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

[@redcollard3586]

Bro SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!! The sound is stunning, mind blowing, and the topic is, as you have pointed out, so deep, this thing deserves a workshop interface almost as complex as Kontakt itself. One thing I wanna point out is that mixers often put reverb on busses not instruments so a way to optimize that would be amazing: putting a plugin on an instrument track to control it's spatial placement, but having the reverb processing itself live on a bus so it gets a mixed signal.

[@gregorio98000]

Ok here comes the second comment because I’m in 12 mins in and you’re just giving SO MUCH incredible information, thank you!! This is amazing man! I hope your channel grows super fast ❤

[@verzeda]

This was absolutely amazing. Hilarious, and super informative in equal measure. You the man, man. Liked, subbed, and I want to marry you now