Joel H: "Automation Is The New Reverb"

[drumsound]

I thought over editing was the new reverb...

[Trick Fall]

Reverb is definitely back and not just on indie records. There is definitely less of an in your face sound and more ambience sense of space going on which I'm digging.

[themagicmanmdt]

there's no new or old anything.

'writers block' sounds great! that's part of the feeling!

making it fit and sound natural, or called for, is the trick.

[fossiltooth]

Reverb is definitely back and not just on indie records. There is definitely less of an in your face sound and more ambience sense of space going on which I'm digging.

True. There's a lot more taste in "too much reverb" than there ever has been before. It's definitely become an "aesthetic" in its own right.

'writers block' sounds great! that's part of the feeling!

Equally true. That record sounds exactly how it should sound. It's absolutely perfect for what it is. It doesn't matter if any of us love it or hate it. I happen to like it. I didn't want to. Same thing happened with "The Reminder" by Feist. That record was supposed to be for somebody else. Some vapid hipster. At least that's what the marketing told me. Unfortunately, it happens to be really good, and very genuine.

Dammit. As always:

Truth=1
Being judgmental of other humans=0

all the cool kids are going out to bars and getting laid are wearing slap-bracelets and trading pogs, and marveling at eachother's sneakers that have the pumps built into the tongue....

This is almost certainly happening.

...knew it.

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A guy who's smarter than me once said "Automation is the new reverb". Meaning that it's the new tool that can often be overused and abused by beginners.

Not really. With disc levels where they are, automation is inconsequential. ANY balance will sound fine when crushed.

[greatmagnet]

Truth=1
Being judgmental of other humans=0

Totally. Screw those stupid assholes that are judgmental of other humans. They suck and should not be allowed to live.

[clintsteele]

perhaps I need to replace my big white leather belt and my brut aftershave and procure one of these "slap bracelets"

good info justin!

[GooberNumber9]

Pitch correction isn't the new reverb? I feel like pitch correcting in this decade is like gated snare reverb in the 80's: It was kinda cool on the first 2,000 songs that featured it, but that doesn't mean that it's right for EVERY song.

Maybe I'm just hoping pitch correction today is like gated snare reverb in the 80's because that would mean it is a passing fad.

[jmiller]

Pitch correction isn't the new reverb? I feel like pitch correcting in this decade is like gated snare reverb in the 80's: It was kinda cool on the first 2,000 songs that featured it...

Naw, man. It wasn't cool on those songs, either.

I sometimes feel like a million guitar overdubs is the new reverb.

Or, a bunch of overdubbed "Aaahs" and "Ooohs" over the second verse are the new reverb.

Or, being able to hear air passing over the phlegm in the singer's vocal chords, louder than anything else in the mix, is the new verb.

Or, being able to tell that the singer is doing his/her vocals in a booth, with the lights dimmed, with a music stand w/lyric sheet in front of him/her, after everyone else has gone home, and being able to HEAR the total lack of inspiration is the new reverb.

For a while, distorted vocals were the new reverb; now they are the old reverb, I think.

There are lots of new reverbs.

[fossiltooth]

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Maybe I'm just hoping pitch correction today is like gated snare reverb in the 80's because that would mean it is a passing fad.

Which means it would come back again in 20 years...

...just like gated snare reverb.

[JGriffin]

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Maybe I'm just hoping pitch correction today is like gated snare reverb in the 80's because that would mean it is a passing fad.

Which means it would come back again in 20 years...

...just like gated snare reverb.

I was just about to say.