Once your reverb plugin is in place, choose an appropriate ‘space’, for example, a room reverb for a snare sound or plate emulation for a vocal. Experiment with the size/decay.

With our explainers, the aim is to deliver concise, explicit information on how to do specific recording/audio-related tasks. This instalment describes how various reverb parameters affect your sound.

Vocals are ideal for this sort of treatment as you can keep them reasonably upfront and also blend in a small amount of longer reverb if required. Let’s start with the simplest option which is a ...

To get a feel for how to use reverb, try adding a reverb plugin to a track in a song that you’re working on. Any type of audio will do, drums, vocals, guitar, although bass can be tricky due to ...