Why else would there be such an interest in recreating the ‘imperfect’ sound of early digital reverb units, when the latest models by companies such as Bricasti and Lexicon sound so much more natural?Ĭonvolution, on the other hand, relies on impulse responses (IRs): recordings which ‘sample’ the properties of a real space or a piece of studio hardware. Perhaps more importantly, they have been used on many of the recordings that form our memories of how pop music should sound. Synthetic reverbs have the advantage of great flexibility and they can go beyond the realms of the natural, though they tend to offer a basic linear decay shape unless envelope-shaping trickery is applied. Synthetic digital reverbs came first and employed a mixture of FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filters, used to create the early reflections part of the reverb, and recirculating delays employing comb and all-pass filters to generate the complex reverb tail. Waves’ latest plug-in offers all the extra tools you’ll need.Īs regular readers will know, today’s digital reverberators invariably use either algorithmic synthesis or convolution to achieve their results. Default should be OFF.In modern productions, reverb often isn’t just reverb. The H Delay analog settings are noisy as heck and nasty sounding IMO. The mistake waves is making is having the analog noise ON by default.

The analog units that are being modelled are very noisy and each unit has it's own specific noise. Most though I think are just added noise for some sort of weird 'We are classic analog' designers. but Gate or automate the signal afterwards.

Massey Tape Delay (still waiting for AAX64) has an vintage setting that NOT only is noisy and crap but is Darker than the other types so I use. Personally they should leave that out and just make a little plug in called Vintage Noise with a few different setting and therefor we can use it creatively instead of as a setting on a plug in.īut then again. Hey dude I'm having this weird problem.Īnyway Waves call it Analog, and with some googling i think you'll see that its basically some sort of analog circuit design which only adds a sort of old school noise. Ive gotten calls from friends and or clients. Several of the Waves plug ins do this too. Sound Toys Little Radiator actually has a switch called Noise, now I don't know what is anything it does to the actual sound passing through but I KNOW it ads a boatload of hiss. Several manufacturers do this type of thing.

Waves h-delay vs supertap