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Auto-Pan the Reverb of a Single Instrument

The Autopanner can be a wonderful effect to apply on a reverb return for a special effect:

You keep the source sound (say, a guitar) in the centre, and autopan a subtle reverb.

This results in the delightful-but-strange sensation that the sound is moving around, even though the focus remains in the same place.

— Paul White in Making The Most Of The Stereo Panorama on soundonsound.com

Reverb - Avoid Pronounced Early Reflection for an Audio Haze

Try to avoid settings that have pronounced early reflections as you want to the reverb to create a kind of audio haze around the main sound rather then an obvious roomy sound.

— Vocals in the Mix on tenthegg.co.uk

Emphasize the Sibilance and Highest Notes With Reverb

While a lot of producers will advocate de-essing, some more minimalist genres can really benefit from adding a reverb with a high pass filter on it, so it only accentuates the highest notes and the s’s and t’s.   This can also be applied to piano with great effect, so those highest notes really bring the goosebumps up on your arms!

— 5 Ways To Use Reverb To Improve Your Mixes on primeloops.com

Equalize Long Reverb on Drums

If you want longer reverb lengths on your drum sounds, you'll find the bass end gets very muddy. Using EQ after the reverb to scoop out all unwanted frequencies can rectify the problem.

— Jono Buchanan in Understanding Reverb on residentadvisor.net

Gated reverb for a thicker snare

A standard trick in any engineer's trick bag is knowing how to make a gated reverb. Gated reverb is a staple 80’s snare sound popularized by artists such as Phil Collins.

Many other artists and producers have used it over the years although it is always related back to Phil Collins.

— How to Make a Gated Reverb Snare on loopmasters.com

Gated Reverb on Vocals

Gated-reverb on vocals is something I think is pretty cool. I think this is used on the song On call, by Kings of Leon. His vocal reverb stays on while singing but cuts off abruptly when he stops.

You patch your effect processor to a gate and the sound source is side-chained to the gate. That way, the gate opens and lets the reverb out whenever the singer is singing, but cuts off as soon as the sound level dips below the threshold of the gate.

— 10 Things To Bear In Mind When Using Reverb on loopmasters.com

Making things feel bigger and bigger

Say you have a really spaced out Sigur Ros rock outro and the drums are going wild in the end.

It can be fun experimenting with automating the reverb so the drums, or maybe only the snare, or everything, whatever you choose, gets bigger and bigger. I know for a fact that this can work wonders live to really give that last song a huge impact on the audience.

— 10 Things To Bear In Mind When Using Reverb on loopmasters.com

Adding Splash to Percussion With Reverb

When trying to get percussion that doesn’t sound too unnatural, sending the drum bus with all the percussion to a channel with some high pass filtered reverb (try above 1khz to reduce the muddiness from reverbing the low end frequencies) can be a brilliant way to make samples sound more natural and live.

— 5 Ways To Use Reverb To Improve Your Mixes on primeloops.com

Mix it up

Use different types of reverb on the same source. Mixing a couple of types of reverb can create an interesting effect.

— 10 Things To Bear In Mind When Using Reverb on loopmasters.com

Modulated Reverb

Adding effects after a reverb plug-in can keep spatial treatments moving.

— Jono Buchanan in Understanding Reverb on residentadvisor.net

Reverb-only Fade-In

Send your drums to a big reverb and solo-safe the reverb. That way you are only hearing the reverb and not the original sound source. It can make for a cool fade-in intro for a song. Especially if you add reverse reverb for the change into the real drum kit.

Mic Placement is Everything Recording Too Loud is a Problem You Must Think Like a Producer

Less is More – The Productive Advantage

Time and time again, I have heard from artists and producers who claim they can produce a project faster on OS 9 than any other platform.

Having a cluster of features in the newest DAW software that you will never use is a real disadvantage when you are desperately hunting for the features you need. Most of us have a life that limits the amount of time we can spend learning the features that our DAW software has to offer, so it is absolutely critical that we can produce something in the limited time that we have away from the spouse, kids, and day job.

I will post links to several artists that have new iTunes releases that have been crafted using OS 9 DAWS exclusively ...