What are your thoughts on Virtual Sound Stage 2 by Parallax Audio?
do mean to derail, but is Virtual Sound Stage Better per instrument/ track or one instance pre sub group?Virtual Sound Stage 2 is good for positioning. However, the space realism wise I think it's better with other contenders
do mean to derail, but is Virtual Sound Stage Better per instrument/ track or one instance pre sub group?
QL Spaces works for me most of the time. I do however own Altiverb and am first to champion its quality.
Sometimes Valhalla Vintage can be a secret weapon.
Very interesting! I just bought this plugin myself. Care to elaborate on how you recreated the "Bricasti-sound" using Symphony-plugin?I have a hardware Bricasti and Seventh Heaven, and while they are close, the Bricasti hardware most definitely sounds more alive and animated than Seventh Heaven. However, I recently got Exponential Audio's Symphony 3D reverb and I've decided to use that instead of the Bricasti on a score I'll be delivering next week. I found that with Symphony it was very easy to virtually match my favorite Bricasti preset, which is their Mechanics Hall. The Symphony can sound alive and vibrant and adds a lot of dimension to the music, just like the Bricasti. And now I don't have to always do a real-time bounce, and I have surround.
I just added Vallala Vintage.
Great stuff, and not just for the price. I have a lot of fun with that one, Room is great too.
i meant - added to my Valhalla arsenal - i now have Room and Vintage.
i had Shimmer and Plate a while back, but silly me, sold them.
pastor Zoot is born again Valhalla.
I must be the only person on the planet not in love with Valhalla. I have the room verb and it really didn't compare to anything I was using. The company name is so cool and I want to like it so much, but every time I end up taking it off and using something else.
When comparing different algo reverbs I own like fabfilter, breeze2, lexicon I usually end up with this one. Unfortunately pretty cpu hungry for my old rig so I use just 1 instance with sends but it sounds simply best to my ears. B2 comes close and has been my got to before but it’s even more hungry with the good sounding presets so vsrs24 is the winner for me in the moment especially after their upgrade some month ago which made browsing for presets much more enjoyable.I am going to through one in here that many do not even know exists. It's part of the Relab subscription: VSRS24 is an emulation of the TC6000...High quality reverb(s). https://relabdevelopment.com/product/vsr-s24/
LA quibbler might argue that are any number of "John Williams sounds" but I hope I know what you mean.
You have a heck of a lot of moving parts there, friend. When I listen to JW's scores (the "big" ones) I feel that I'm sitting in a fairly spacey concert hall. Unless you are producing stems for a dub stage,* adding different reverbs for each section is a lot of work for marginal benefit.
Accordingly, just for an experiment, try turning ALL the reverbs off (bypassing them) and instead try to get closer to your sound by substituting different mic positions on your samples. See how accurately you can emulate the sound you want just by using alternate mic positions.
Then turn on just one reverb (Spaces sounds fine) and start dialing in a bit for each instrument / section. (I assume you're using it as a "send" rather than an insert? If not, I'd recommend doing the send approach.)
I think that many people over-complicate all this. In the olden days (like when Star Wars was recorded, for example) when you had to have hardware for each reverb, using five or ten reverbs was not at all common. Now that multiple FX is "free," I see a lot of really complicated setups.
* In which case your reverbs by section have to be separated from each other so they can mangle and destroy your music -- whine, sniffle -- by, say, turning off your brass or percussion.
This may or may not be useful!