23-11-2014, 05:18 AM
It also sounds like you've got a pretty fixed approach to reverb based on what you've described, but IMHO there are too many factors to consider when choosing reverbs to work that way.
Something worth considering is that the depth field can be managed by means other than ambiance... quite often after setting a rough balance I find it helpful to alter the tonality of various tracks to place them further in the depth field and rebalance the mix as necessary. Once you get the tonal properties of depth in roughly the right place, it's a lot easier to give tracks the proper ambiance, and oftentimes that ambiance will help you true up the tonality at the same time.
A lot of that is simply my opinion... many others are probably getting great results with a different approach, but hopefully that's helpful. Reverb is tricky.
Something worth considering is that the depth field can be managed by means other than ambiance... quite often after setting a rough balance I find it helpful to alter the tonality of various tracks to place them further in the depth field and rebalance the mix as necessary. Once you get the tonal properties of depth in roughly the right place, it's a lot easier to give tracks the proper ambiance, and oftentimes that ambiance will help you true up the tonality at the same time.
A lot of that is simply my opinion... many others are probably getting great results with a different approach, but hopefully that's helpful. Reverb is tricky.
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!