Your (reverb) techniques on drums?

[Cell 2Dee]

Past month and a bit I've been using reverb alot more on my drums. Since I'm not familiar with using it, I just stick to the safe levels. What sort of settings do you guys use on your drums? Doesn't have to be reverb, just anything you do to your drums too.

 

[skidflow]

use very little reverb for kicks and just enough for the snare to cut through the mix and smack you in the grill...lol

 

[Formant024]

reverbs via send/aux fully wet of course 100% send, roll off low freq's then drop the fader untill its just right, the lower it a wee bitty.

render a 2 track from the drum-bus but dry, reverse the render and process some reverb to it, then reverse it again.

 

[Sanova]

iono i have no real technique but i always reverb my drums. I just add a verb with a room-size that fits the speed and feel of the song, then i just tweak from there until it feels good.

I should mention that, adding reverb is in the mixing process for me. Add some presence, create some depth in the stereo field, etc etc with reverb, delay and panning.

 

[UNORTHODOX]

real quick: i like to layer my kicks with a light low passed reverb, or stomp. i'll post more when i can think of more

 

[The Arkitekt]

If a kick feels to fast and snappy, i'll throw a slight reverb on there just to make it a little bigger. Snares are a little different, reverb can sometimes make it sound like a different snare, for snares its whatever setting, whatever sounds good (for me at least). For hi hats, I wet em a little bit with iZotope Vinyl... makes em sound less harsh, smoother, and grittier

 

[Shonsteez]

If your looking to extend the decay of a kick or snare sound you can also achieve that effect by compressing those signals first and playing with your release to fit the timing of the track. The compression will bring up the quitter parts in the decay making the snare or kick sound as if its longer.

I often put reverb on my snares or claps via a send. More control that way.

 

[Greg Savage]

I always gate my verbs

 

[spartan265]

i used to use reverb on my drums all the time, i dont as much anymore, though. i tend to throw a reverse delay on the snares these days, and tweak it so its almost reverse snare infront of the normal snare, works best if your trying to give your drum loop some cheeky movment and groove.. sorta makes the head bop a little more i find.

 

[7thangel]

very sparingly but if i'm dealing with rock than i use it a bit more, sometimes using the L R method to spread it more and get a more stereo feel (only for room/overheads, it's best for other inst. and vox). itb, i make sure i have both a short reverb and a long reverb, snares (or the kit) go to short.

i'm not big on hearing the reverb so it's low in the mix barely audible if at all but filling in the space. my stuff never has reverb on my kicks unless i'm using reverb as glue, but you wouldn't even know it's there.

the type varies, spring (psuedo), plate (pseudo), ir/convo, hardware, i've never really settled on one

 

[2001tilinfinity]

do major producers use reverb on their drums often? i almost never do. maybe sometimes on the snare or hats. more on a crash. not really on bass. unless the track calls for it.

 

[Greg Savage]

do major producers use reverb on their drums often? i almost never do. maybe sometimes on the snare or hats. more on a crash. not really on bass. unless the track calls for it.

Depends on the producer and track. i've seen quite a few use gated and eq-ed reverb on just about everything in the track

 

[MagnaOpera]

do major producers use reverb on their drums often?

does it even matter?

anyways, i try not to use it at all on my kicks unless they're "808s". maybe a bit on the snares. def on the hihats.

 

[God]

Past month and a bit I've been using reverb alot more on my drums. Since I'm not familiar with using it, I just stick to the safe levels. What sort of settings do you guys use on your drums? Doesn't have to be reverb, just anything you do to your drums too.

Reverb is good. Also add a 50ms delay on the drums to fatten it.

 

[samuelock]

more and more often i've been doing less and less with my drums. i only add stuff when i'm going for a certain sound. pertaining to reverb, it usually depends on the sound of the track i'm trying to make.

 

[Bamboo]

Formant - just wondering about this technique of rendering a dry loop, reversing it, processing it with reverb and then reversing back to normal orientation. I have never heard of this technique - what are the benefits and do you do this all the time or just for the main drum break?

Cheers,

Jake

 

[2GooD Productions]

Ive just started going back over my tracks taking reverb away. With reverb sometimes less is more.

 

[2001tilinfinity]

Formant - just wondering about this technique of rendering a dry loop, reversing it, processing it with reverb and then reversing back to normal orientation. I have never heard of this technique - what are the benefits and do you do this all the time or just for the main drum break?

Cheers,

Jake

that sounds cool. i think it's been done.

@Nnxt
and yes it does matter if major producers are using reverb to me because i'm not really using any. and if using it and adding delay most of the time will improve the sound and quality of my drums then i'm gona start doing it.
i know you were thinking who cares what the big guys r doing, do your own thing, then you shouldn't be wondering if we do it either. right?

 

[2GooD Productions]

Reverb and delay are very effective at making synthesised sounds sounding more authentic.
They are not only used on drums, but can give drums a live drummer feel if that is what you are looking for.
eq, reverb and delay are used heavily by me, I have gotten it wrong for a long time but without getting it wrong i wouldnt have learned how to get it right.
I have overused reverb on my drums for months, and then I killed the low bass, Im finally getting my shit together and remixing all my older tracks with my newly tuned ears.
Mixing and mastering takes a great deal of practice, a lot of mistakes and overuse of plugins.
But thats how you learn to use them if you have no instructor, reading the help files in reason also explain a little on the plugins uses, the rest is in the ears. And just when you think they are tuned, they get better and you realise they werent so tuned before.

 

[Cell 2Dee]

@cell
and yes it does matter if major producers are using reverb to me because i'm not really using any. and if using it and adding delay most of the time will improve the sound and quality of my drums then i'm gona start doing it.
i know you were thinking who cares what the big guys r doing, do your own thing, then you shouldn't have asked if we do it either. right?

:beated: That wasn't me that posted that.

Thanks for all the replies fam, I appreciate your views on it. I've not been using it as much recently, or if I have it's been minimal.