Guys from oldschooldaw.com would disagree with you strongly. And they would be right. Because if reverb can't emulate real spaces it can't emulate anything because it means it can't create normal early reflections. Super clean tails already were in vss4 algo in 90s. Just turn off early for tail. Even vss3 had super clean tail. Those answers do not describe technical terms but look like amateurs' discussion what they like to do on sundays. The word 'clean' does not describe anything. There is parameter c80 describing reverb's denseness or how much it enfogs the dry sound and this parameter is usually the diffusion knob. Reverbs with higher c80 are more transparent. That parameter can be measured by vst plugin analyzer. What really makes a reverb outstanding is its ability to generate early reflections to shape the landscape,not just giving dumb tail with high c80. Tail itself can be made more transparent by less wetness vs dry signal. More impotant is degree of flutter echo and grainyness in tail. Grainyness can be supressed by shorter rt60 for highs but flutter echo cannot and it discloses if the given algorithm is good or bad. The highly promoted orilriver is worse than free kr-reverb fs for those 2 parameters and as i have said pantheon has no flutter echo and grainyness totally. Vss3 supports presets from tc m4000. There you may find some presets that sound like adaptiverb's capability to turn sound into dreamy pads i.e. vss3 and vss4 can produce not only real spaces but also those cheap synthetic long tails from valhalla like plugins but with much higher quality and much more subtle tuning features and it dates back to 90s. Forthat reason the guy above could not find replacement for old cubase reverb. Study tails for artifacts using stacatto notes of saw waves to determine flaws of reverbs. I totally reject plugins like valhalla,voxengo and other cheap promoted in every pub stuff. Those are amateur programmers without long standing experience and secrets that corporations like tc have had. All they can do is trying their best to fight against metallicity in reverbs i.e. solving some primitive first order tasks as they have no understanding for more harder to figure out things which are knowhow inside corporations and were handed down from fathers to children. For that reason most free or cheap stuff is low quality including infamouse freeverb2 from dreampoint from 2000 which was claimed to be first free pro quality reverb but it has never been such.
Statistics: Posted by geroi99 — Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:33 pm