Girls With Glasses - HB Mix

[ptalbot]

It's not too unusual to use a little stereo reverb in mastering, but you've got to be really careful with it. It's a great tool for subtly filling in some thin areas of the spectrum and subtly introducing a bit more stereo width without the consequences associated with stereo widening plugs.

If you're really slick (note: I'm not, Dave probably is though ) a panned mono reverb (or cleverly set up stereo reverb) can be employed at mastering to really transparently true up the tonal symmetry from left to right. Suppose throughout the track the mix as presented is noticeably brighter on one side... that's the sort of thing that should be corrected in the mix, but a really short tonal reverb panned to one side (zero predelay)
can fix this and nobody would even know you were doing it. Serious black magic, though... never seems to work for me.

Using verb in mastering for ambiance, though... I'm sure someone out there is doing it and it sounds great, but it sounds like asking for trouble to me.

Yeah, I don't feel confident enough to do it. I'm having enough troubles already with my mixes!