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Bring Your Tracks to Life with Reverb Plugins


Does your music sound a bit flat? Reverb plug-ins can help! Sweetwater carries a range of quality audio effects plug-ins designed to help you get creative with your audio and give your material a professional sense of depth and space. Whether you’re after a vintage plate reverb or lush shimmer effects, there’s something here to inspire your mix.


New to reverb plug-ins? The following information will help you choose the best plug-ins for your needs!


Understanding How Reverb Shapes Your Soundstage


Wondering what reverb is? Reverb (reverberation) is vital to our perception of space. In the real 3D sonic world, the sound we hear reaches our ears after bouncing off walls, floors, ceilings, and literally everything and everyone around us. The resulting subtle timing and level differences in reflections allow our brains to interpret distance and the location of the sound source. With increased reverb, the subject seems majestic or farther away — it blends more with the background. That’s why, for centuries, concert halls have been designed to control reverberant signals and shape ambience. Sounds that have less reverb are interpreted by our brains as being closer in proximity and more dominant. All the accumulated bounces and sustained sounds in a space are what we mean by the term “acoustic ambience.”


By contrast, sound in the studio is deliberately direct. Natural ambience is removed. A studio’s walls, ceilings, and floors are treated to absorb and disperse “wet” acoustic energy so only the remaining tightly controlled “dry” signal is recorded. Microphones focus on a very specific sound source and reject unwanted signals. Although the resulting recorded sound can seem uncomfortably close and unnatural, producers use this approach to control the channel in just the right way to deliberately position that sound within the rest of the mix and then bring everything back to life using reverb.


If your recordings sound lackluster, cold, or sterile, consider using reverb plug-ins to breathe some ambience into your mix. These vital music production tools help tracks sit correctly in a mix and pull everything together.


Algorithmic vs. Convolution Reverb: Choosing the Right Plugin for Your Workflow


Do you want realistic reverb simulation? Then convolution reverb plug-ins are the way to go. These use impulse responses measured in legendary recording rooms, making it possible for you to make your instrument or vocal sound like it was recorded in that same acoustic environment. Convolution reverbs are especially great for re-creating classic spaces or vintage hardware reverbs, but they can take some effort to master and use.


If, on the other hand, you’re looking for something that will give you good results and a faster workflow, check out our algorithmic reverbs. They are great if you want to create anything from natural room acoustics to surreal, synthetic spaces with modulated tails. Another upside to using algorithmic reverbs is that they are normally lighter on CPU usage, usually taking less of a toll on your computer.


Find the Best Reverb Plugin for Your Mixing Needs at Sweetwater


At Sweetwater, you can find full versions of reverb plug-ins, along with expansions for your favorite reverb effects. Most are compatible with both Macs and PCs (but you should double-check to make sure your OS can support the plug-in you choose). Many options offer a choice between a boxed version and an instantly downloadable version. If you are a student or teacher at an educational institution, consider our selection of specially discounted academic versions of popular reverb software.


Set free your creative powers and give depth to your music with reverb!

Why shop Reverb Plugins at Sweetwater.com?


With a massive selection of Reverb Plugins, free shipping, a free 2-year warranty, 24/7 access to award-winning support - and more - Sweetwater gives you more than any other retailer! If you have any questions about Reverb Plugins, make sure to give your personal Sales Engineer a call at (800) 222-4700.