Reverb
noun
It is a sound effect that repeats many times and seems like it is echoing.
The singer's voice filled the room with a rich reverb.
Often appears as...
- add reverb
- heavy reverb
Usage tips
Technical
verb
It is when a sound gets echoed or repeated.
The sound of the drums was reverbing through the alley.
Often appears as...
- reverb off
- reverb through
noun
It is a sound effect that repeats many times and seems like it is echoing.
The singer's voice filled the room with a rich reverb.
Often appears as...
- add reverb
- heavy reverb
Usage tips
Technical
verb
It is when a sound gets echoed or repeated.
The sound of the drums was reverbing through the alley.
Often appears as...
- reverb off
- reverb through
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Music Production
Reverb is often used to create depth and space in music recordings.
The producer added reverb to the guitar track to make it sound spacious.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Natural
While reverb can occur in nature, it's also artificially created in studios.
Despite being indoors, the recorded speech had a natural-sounding reverb.
Pro Tip 3/3Adjustable Effect
The amount of reverb can be adjusted to be subtle or overwhelming.
They used just a touch of reverb to warm up the vocal track.
Pro Tip 1/3Music Production
Reverb is often used to create depth and space in music recordings.
The producer added reverb to the guitar track to make it sound spacious.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Natural
While reverb can occur in nature, it's also artificially created in studios.
Despite being indoors, the recorded speech had a natural-sounding reverb.
Pro Tip 3/3Adjustable Effect
The amount of reverb can be adjusted to be subtle or overwhelming.
They used just a touch of reverb to warm up the vocal track.
Pro Tip 1/3Music Production
Reverb is often used to create depth and space in music recordings.
The producer added reverb to the guitar track to make it sound spacious.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Natural
While reverb can occur in nature, it's also artificially created in studios.
Despite being indoors, the recorded speech had a natural-sounding reverb.
Pro Tip 3/3Adjustable Effect
The amount of reverb can be adjusted to be subtle or overwhelming.
They used just a touch of reverb to warm up the vocal track.
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Toy tiles that talk to...
you can control live like reverb and filter you attach it to a particular sound and then tilt to adjust it and then overall effects like tempo and volume that apply to the entire sequence so let's have a look start by putting a
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Everything you hear on...
that we're inside the submarine. But once you've created your sounds and you've synced them to the image, you want those sounds to live in the world of the story. And one the best ways to do that is to add reverb.
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Tagging a Juvenile PIPE...
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Video examples
Toy tiles that talk to...
you can control live like reverb and filter you attach it to a particular sound and then tilt to adjust it and then overall effects like tempo and volume that apply to the entire sequence so let's have a look start by putting a
Video examples
Everything you hear on...
that we're inside the submarine. But once you've created your sounds and you've synced them to the image, you want those sounds to live in the world of the story. And one the best ways to do that is to add reverb.
Video examples
Tagging a Juvenile PIPE...
inches away from razor sharp teeth they can bite your hand off just like a big one skin may not buy you in half but it doesn't take that to ruin our day minimal rivers more reverb yeah Adam
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Quote examples
Jimmy Page
British Musician
The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.
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Meryl Streep
American Actress
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
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Julia Holter
American Musician
I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.
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Kathleen Hanna
American Musician
I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.
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Jason Isbell
American Musician
The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.
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Washed Out
American Musician
I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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Johnny Thunders
American Musician
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.
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Ken Hill
British Playwright
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
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J Mascis
American Musician
No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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Finneas
American Musician
I have nothing against reverb.
Quote examples
Jimmy Page
British Musician
The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good.
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Meryl Streep
American Actress
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
Quote examples
Julia Holter
American Musician
I usually like to hide my vocals behind the music. I don't like to hide them consciously, but I have a tendency to prefer the vocal at the same level as everything else and put lots of reverb on it.
Quote examples
Kathleen Hanna
American Musician
I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.
Quote examples
Jason Isbell
American Musician
The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.
Quote examples
Washed Out
American Musician
I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
Quote examples
Johnny Thunders
American Musician
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.
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Ken Hill
British Playwright
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
Quote examples
J Mascis
American Musician
No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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Finneas
American Musician
I have nothing against reverb.
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