Whats Reverb like today?
An engineer of ours told me a few weeks ago that there was less reverb in mixes today compared to those of say 10 years ago. One of my recording instructors had talked about this also. I told Chaz (the engineer) that I thought he was full of s**t and there was every bit as much reverb being used today. We met with gloves on in the mastering room (with the truest monitor speakers in the building) and listened. Chaz is occasionally a recording instructor for RID and has a choice collection of current R&B always with him. I wanted to see what changes in reverb there actually were in this idiom. After several CD cuts were played, we pretty much agreed with the changes but had different ways of describing the changes in reverb sound for the 21st Century. Gone in today’s mix of today is the long-tail reverb of last decade, and if it was present it was in very restricted amounts. There is every bit as much reverb in the mixes but shorter reverb that often is more of the instrument’s sound tha
