REVERB OVERVIEW
USING REVERB
Music recorded in a typical studio sounds lifeless. In a performance space the music is enhanced by reverberation, but even in an ideal space capturing that reverberation can be difficult. Lexicon reverberators solve this problem by enabling you to generate exactly the reverberance that your recordings call for. The Pantheon Reverb
REVERBERATION AND REALITY
The acoustics of a given space are defined by its reflected energy – that is, the way sound is reflected and
It is, in principle, possible to model the reflected energy pattern in a specific space, either real or imagined, and to reproduce this pattern as closely as possible. Alternatively, one could measure the reflection pattern from a specific source point in a real space to a specific receiver position, and reproduce this pattern. One might expect this technique would yield the most accurate sonic representations of halls and rooms.
Alas, the illusion of reality is not so easily achieved. First, real spaces are themselves a compromise. Large rooms tend to provide a sense of blend and distance to music, but provide little warmth and envelopment, and often can make the sound colored or muddy. Small rooms can provide envelopment, but often the sound can be too clear and present.
Our solution has been to study the physics and the neurology of human hearing, to discover the mechanisms by which reflected energy patterns create the useful perceptions of distance and envelopment, and to discover how to recreate these perceptions without compromising clarity. Using knowledge of these mechanisms we can create reverberation algorithms that can give the desired acoustic impressions
–rooms that sound plausibly real, but that give the recording engineer complete control over the sense of distance and the sense of envelopment. These rooms seem real, but they are not. They are designed and adjusted by the engineer to the specific needs of the recording.
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