Karl37 wrote:
I agree with you about white noise and reverb to fill out your track, i use these all the time but you have to not go overkill on the reverb,
I like a really good quality reverb, i use a lot of the Valhalla reverbs and i really love these, i also EQ the low end from my reverb tails unless you want the low end in it for a break etc but i love reverb to be nice and clean. and yeah side chain that tail for that added element, its old skool but still effective.
Ah so you did pick up the valhalla reverbs. I remembered suggesting them to you on your search for a good reverb. If I hadn't ended up with the NI reverb classics I probably would have grabbed those. They sound really good.
Some good ideas in here. I'm much better at filling out the mix from the time that I started this post. One of the ways that I do things now is I've started keeping most of the elements on my track clean with a little reverb being sent to a return track but then I have several fx tracks to add depth. It was something recommended by Bill Burgess. Have a few tracks with more extreme effects and just pull short pieces of audio from other tracks in your mix. Then you can just mix and match what audio you want to have what effect at any time without affecting the original instrument. It's worked out really slick so far. So for example have a reverb with a long tail on one track, ping pong delay on another with a fair amount of feedback, maybe one with a bitcrusher and a delay or a flanger. Last time I had a reverb set to 100% wet as well just for ambient noises. I'm still not that great at creating things like glitchy effect noises but I'm getting there.
Makes mixing all the elements a ton easier as well.