
There’s another verse, a guitar solo, and once again, that magnificent chorus beaming down upon the listener like some glorious sermon from upon a heavy metal pulpit. By 1:13 a verse finally begins, spanning a scant 27 seconds before a soaring, full-throated chorus, comprising not three, not four, but eight chords. At 46 seconds in, the beat takes an unlikely disco turn while two guitarists engage in a round of fretboard martial arts. They’re even more realistic and smoother.It begins with 14 seconds of harmonized guitar riffs, then the crack of a snare drum, which sends those glorious riffs to climb ever higher. (In Ableton it’s hidden, right click on the pan sliders and there’s an option to do Split Stereo Pans).Īnd for anyone using the Valhalla stuff and wanting to see a (maybe) upgrade from those, look at the Lexicon stuff. setting your left and right pans to 90 (out of 100) or 45 (out of 50) will allow those reverbs to live better in the edges of the field. If you wanna get the best sound from your reverbs, try putting them on aux tracks and routing to them (so you can control just the sound of the reverb) and also setting all your instruments (except for reverbs) to not use 100% of the sonic field. They will really up your reverb game, which will be a major jump in the sound quality of your mixes as a whole.


I used to (and still kinda do) use VintageVerb, Plate, and Delay for different applications. They’re all well made and sound amazing, and they have a lot of different controls that allow a deep tuning of each preset.

Ableton Reverb -> Valhalla Reverbs -> Lexicon Reverbs
