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The thing about stereo reverb is that it does tend to wash right across the stereo image, whether you want it to or not, even if you're sending to it from a mono track. ... As such, mono reverb is great for enhancing the sustain or tone of a dry instrument/vocal track, without distancing it too much from the listener.
- Should I use mono or stereo reverb?
- Should I use mono or stereo plugins on vocals?
- What is a stereo reverb?
- Should snare reverb be mono?
Should I use mono or stereo reverb?
Use a mono reverb and pan the dry signal and the reverb return to opposite sides. If the sound you're going to process needs to be panned center or close to it, use a stereo reverb with a reverb time shorter than one second.
Should I use mono or stereo plugins on vocals?
Moreover, recording vocals in mono makes them sound powerful, clear, and upfront. And, recording vocals in stereo makes them sound wide, large, and soft. ... But when you record multiple elements, you would rather record in stereo to get the difference of volumes between the elements in the different channels.
What is a stereo reverb?
Reverb Is Stereo.
A reverb effect recreates the way we perceive sound in an enclosed space. Since we have the privilege of having two ears we can safely say that no one ever experienced natural reverb in Mono (except those deaf from one ear).
Should snare reverb be mono?
Send the snare drum to a really short mono reverb. 0.3 seconds is a good rule of thumb. It's not really long enough to become a separate reverb, but it's not short enough to sound like a weird echo.
