Some of the things a reverb on the sum tackles can also be fixed by other means, with fewer side-effects.

If you have a very dry mix and a reverb would have raised the noise floor a little to get rid of unintended bits of complete silence (which might be quite common in sparse intros or outros), then you could use some other quiet, non-distinct sound to achieve the same thing (noise, field recording, that sort of thing) and restrict it to the places where it's needed.

If your sum reverb is used to put everything in the same room, then my question is, why wasn't it already? Fix that in the mix—be very conservative with the amount of different reverbs and delays you use.

As always with music, there are multiple ways to skin a particular cat.

The reverb modules themselves often have EQ. You can throw on the entire mix, sure, but just like mastering reverb bands you may want to exclude entire chunks of the signal, such as below 300~150 hertz and above 18khz, whatever you want. You can use the eq settings right in the reverb, or add an EQ module after.

Also consider that the reverb won't chain with the synths unless you ask it too... you can get a lot of poppiness and dynamic if you chain the reverb. Choose a chain compression setting that gives you the snap you really want without sacrificing dynamic or sustain.

Quote from: GuttyDozen on January 06, 2016, 05:07:58 pm

People have been saying that I should be sending everything to a reverb bus and this adds some glue to the track. I saw Flux Pavilion do it in that new in-the-studio video of how he made Emotional but he did it inside Ozone 5.

- My question is do you really just send everything to the reverb bus? Even your kick and basses? Or should you EQ out low frequencies and just do bus reverb for like >500Hz?

Edit: What other kind of settings should your reverb bus have?

Thanks!

Can i get a link to that in the studio?

I linked it on the first page, about midway down

It works super well for gluing stuff together, but as mentioned before. Probs best to take out the lows, the highs and probably around 400-600 and 3-4k for muddiness reasons.