I enjoy a good reverb, the one in the Peak/Summit sounds amazing, but I usually find that when I’m using a nice delay, especially a stereo delay with separate controls or a delay with a LPF, it kills the urge to use any reverb at all. If the delay is fairly bright and I’m using short times sure it can be nice, but I feel like so many verbs will just make things sound duller and kill transients and “fizziness” in a nice synth patch.
Especially since I’ve been using my Eventide Rose on my Odyssey, I have tried running it through 5 different reverb units and it always sounds way better with no verb.
Any thoughts, do you use reverb with delay or do you prefer delay only?
If I had to have just one, it would be a delay (in fact that was my Eurorack choice).
There are times when just a touch of reverb is good, when the discrete nature of a delay would alter the sound too much. But I find myself just using delay much of the time.
For me, reverb is my main love. I do love a good delay, though. so it is really a tough pick. But on a given track, I may use delay on one track, whereas, with reverb, it is usually on multiple tracks, and sometimes a little on the mix as well. I just love the vibe a beautiful reverb can bring and glue a track together. A reverb on a send is a nice way to align your orbits on multiple tracks, but sometimes I will use different reverb types on different tracks so that people don’t know where they are in space anymore and are ready to leave the space station early because this isn’t the type of trip they thought it was.
I’ve never regretted owning both Space and TimeFactor.
Zoom MS70CDR AND Korg NTS1 are two cheap but good ways to avoid having to choose between the two. I have all four and plan on adding more delays and reverbs over time.
I’ve always been looking for a decent reverb that sounds good instantly without messing around - since I’ve been using the eventide space, I can’t imagine a track without this reverb. delay - echo is driven here in front of the hall. but I’m never really 100 percent satisfied with the delay (OT, rytm and A4 delay), so I wanted to see whether this old eventide time factor is as cool as the space.
Given the ultimate choice between the two, I would choose delay. It provides a rhythmic quality which is super inspiring, plus a delay with a diffusion setting is basically a reverb anyway.
Which is why my favourite plugin ever is Valhalla Delay. It’s a delay but has a diffusion setting which adds a ton of delay lines, essentially making for a reverb of sorts.
