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Re: How do I make a gated reverb?



 I just wondered if anyone know what a gated reverb REALLY is?


Its an overused drum sound from the 80s  :)
Used subtly, its a way to get instruments to punch through the mix while retaining the sense of space around the instrument. 

I don't know the TC device that you are using.   But a simple gated reverb is where the reverb tail is cut off by a noise gate--a threshold control determines at what level the gate begins to snap shut and a hold time control determines the lag before the gate closes.  
Some later day digital gated verb presets feature auto-tempo sync for the hold time feature.  Useful.  But in the absence of this, there is always the calculator. 

Qtr note @ 120 bpm = 500ms.

does this get at what you are asking?

everything you never needed to know about gated reverb here:


Daniel  


Some noise gates allow a time factor that snaps the gate shut after so many miliseconds have passed. 
  
On Mar 5, 2011, at 2:58 AM, mark francombe wrote:

I thought about something like that Per, but wont that just make a reverb that fades out as the guitar signal fades.. (interesting idea, worth a try)

I think I need something that triggers when I play a sounds (opens? like a VCA???) then after a while closes suddenly. So I was thinking...

Env Follower to trigger a VCA, with a short release time. that release time is set to adjust the delay time of a reverb. So loud signal Equals long verb, and release time equals short verb... BUT.. how do I get that *timed* part of a gated reverb, from the moment you hit, to the moment it cuts...

This is just chat really Ill try it later (Rack still in car...) I just wondered if anyone know what a gated reverb REALLY is?

M

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
Try assign *input level* (as detected by the env follower) to *decay
time* of a reverb placed later on in the effect chain. Or some other
paramater... I haven't had a FireworX for years so my fireworkzing is
bit rusty. Heck, just try out what routing sounds best!





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