Regardless of whether the reverb was from one of Abbey Road's fine chambers or one of their plates, the secret is in the high and low-pass filters placed on the reverb send. These were set to roll-off everything below 600Hz and above 10kHz, since physical reverb tends to have trouble with low and very high end frequencies. A lot of low end on the verb tends to muddy everything up as well, with no audible benefits.
While there might have been a real necessity to use a bandpass filter set to those frequencies back in the day, rolling off everything below 600Hz and above 10kHz still works well today regardless of what kind of verb that you're using, whether it's a piece of hardware or in-the-box. Be sure to put the filter on the send before it hits the reverb though, since it will sound quite a bit different if placed in the return path (not as good, in my opinion.)
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5 comments:
Thanks for sharing this, Bobby. Will try it on my next project!
Cheers,
In film, dialog mixers often employ a 3k Hz high rolloff for reverb. This allows more volume of reverb before it screws up diction. I have found that this trick works well for vocals sometimes too.
The 3kHz rolloff works great on drum reverb as well.
Hi Bobby,
How would I put the filter on the send in Pro Tools ? Or would it be better to use the eq within the reverb plugin itself
Thanks simon
You could use the filters with the reverb plug, but inserting into an insert on the channel with the plug usually sounds better.
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