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Too Much Reverb...is it possible?

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Inspired by Nick's comment on the Clientele thread...trying to think of a time when a producer went overboard on the reverb and ruined a vocal performance. Is it possible to lay the reverb on too thick?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Preferably stereo-pan it from ear-to-ear too, so the delay not only makes me feel sick but dizzee as well.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And have some steel drums in there too.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

On vocals, DEFINITELY.

Crap singers in local bands please note: turning up the reverb does NOT conceal the fact that you're singing out of tune and can't hold a note for more than half a second!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Vocals: only turn up the reverb if you simultaneously lower the track in the mix. Reverbed-to-hell vocals buried somewhere down below = classic!

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't get enough. also some^h^h^h^h tons of short tape delay snapping back is good.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

No reverb is the way forward. Maybe double-track the vocals.

Tony Mansfield for president.

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

er.. phil collins. nuff said.

― don, Friday, 19 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe double-track the vocals.

Yes! Then mix one hard right and one hard left!

Loads of BACKWARDS reverb can sound FANTASTIC on vocals too - but use sparingly!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Reverb I don't mind so much, but 97% of pop muzik recorded since 1981 has had too goddamn much DELAY.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i love reverb drenched tunes...but 'Espionage Garage' by The Saboteurs is crossing the frontier.

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Friday, 19 March 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

On the theory that all revern is is tons of delays packed tightly enough to create a blurring effect/false depth, I once produced a demo for someone using nothing but delay.

I delayed the room sound, the amp mics, everything; the Bowie trick worked well with all the vox: 90 milleseconds, two refelctions on the right, 120 on the left. It sounded fab!

Geek, still a geek.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Friday, 19 March 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I like a varied sound-picture: reverbed vocals over dry music,
or vice versa, or even more complex shuffling.

Can anyone present any examples of this?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Too Much Reverb...is it possible?"

My Morning Jacket seems to be trying to find out.

I'd like to hear what JMC "Psychocandy" sounded like in basic tracks. I like many of the tunes, but man it sounds like AM radio in water tank.

― earlnash, Friday, 19 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

too much reverb, search the Beatles' cover of "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" from Beatles For Sale.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

also see pretty much every Acid Mothers song ever - but that's the good, psychedelic kind of reverb

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I vote "yes," although I like the reverb on that Beatles cover.

― billstevejim, Friday, 19 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

it seems really odd to me, like a whiskey-hazed reminiscence of the Hamburg days - and about 3 years too early for the psych reverb explosion

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

there is nothing wrong with serious over-indulgence when it comes to reverb. Super compressed brick wall limiting is what is fucking up music right now.

― The Rebukes of Hazard (mjt), Friday, 19 March 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If you are Jamican or Link Wray or The Rock*A*Teens, the answer is NO. As far as the rest of us, you know what they say about too much of a good thing...but sometimes it's fun to do it anyways.

― bren, Friday, 19 March 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. The 80s to thread.

Also, gated reverb is horrible.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 March 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tony Mansfield for president.

-- harveyw (harveywilliam...), March 19th, 2004.

Seconded.

― Rob M (Rob M), Saturday, 20 March 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Quite a coincidence, cos right now I'm listening to Judas Priest's 'Defenders of the Faith', which I would nominate as one of the most reverb drenched big 80's production of all, especially in the vocals and drums. It was quite disconcerting at first, but I'm getting used to it as a period production piece, very much of its time. It bespeaks 80's hubris: cocaine excess, alcohol, triumphant, demiurgical rock fantasies.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Too much reverb: Olivia Newton-John, "Magic"

― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 20 March 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I delayed the room sound, the amp mics, everything; the Bowie trick worked well with all the vox: 90 milleseconds, two refelctions on the right, 120 on the left. It sounded fab!

i know next to nothing about recording techniques, but i'm a huge bowie-fan so i'm curious what this trickery that you're referring to means. what does he do? if it's too elaborate to post here, please e-mail me.

i don't think i've ever heard reverb that i didn't like. i love galaxie500, my morning jacket, the augustus pablo stuff i've heard, arthur russell also seemed to like it...

― willem (willem), Sunday, 21 March 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Well then, get a cheap FX box and put everything you listen through it, stoner.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 21 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

?
just because i love garlic, that doesn't mean i put in everything i eat.

― willem (willem), Sunday, 21 March 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)


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