Reverb recommendations

[dafeda]

Hi,

I bought a Nord Electro 5D a couple of months back and while the reverb is pretty nice, I prefer the sound of Valhalla VintageVerb. In case you don't know, Valhalla VintageVerb is a vst plugin. Ideally, I would like to use VintageVerb while playing live, but I don't want to bring a laptop. Can someone recommend a good reverb effectbox? I've never owned one, and thought I would start here before getting lost in the google jungle.

[harmonizer]

Can I ask what would your playing live situation will be - will it be as a piano soloist, or will you be playing in a band with others? And if playing in a band with others, how many and what instruments? Finally, what will your amplification system be, and what size venue?

[dafeda]

I'm playing with others at rather small venues. The amplification system will be whatever is available as I do not have my own. I think I know what you are getting at though. The type of reverb will probably not matter much when playing with others on non-ideal amplification systems.

Let me ask a different but similar question Say I want to record my electro with reverb. I now put my Valhalla plugin on a track with monitoring on and hit record. As the track number grows and the latency goes up this doesn't work. I would instead like to plug my Electro into some reverb hardware and play through that. Does this make sense?

Thanks.

[Arjan P]

Say I want to record my electro with reverb. I now put my Valhalla plugin on a track with monitoring on and hit record. As the track number grows and the latency goes up this doesn't work. I would instead like to plug my Electro into some reverb hardware and play through that. Does this make sense?

It does make sense, but don't record that reverb, so you can use the Valhalla later on the dry recorded Nord playback signal. Monitoring without latency is simply accomplished by NOT monitoring through software. But ofcourse your audio interface should accomodate that and not all do. In that case split the Nord signal, send one copy to the outboard reverb, mix with the other recorded tracks and play while recording the other copy without monitoring that recording track.

[harmonizer]

I second Arjan's suggestion to not record the reverb, but apply it later during mixing.

[lt773]

Check out Strymon Blue sky or Big sky

[Gustavo]

For recording purposes... what I have seen is most recommended is to have a track that receives all tracks that need reverb. So you apply the reverb to a sort of bus.

Other than that, for a pedal I'm quite tempted by the H9 Max.

[Quai34]

+1 on the H9. I have the MX200 Lexicon on an effect send bus on my one U rackable Tascam mixer for live use. The sound is ok for adding some little reverb.....But for a way more creative way to add reverb, the H9 is awesome...I have it just right after the Prophet 08 and love it....In the studio, I think I will also use it on one of my Aux send bus but never used it that way yet.

[dafeda]

I didn't have my e-mail notification set-up so didn't know there were replies. Great answers, thank you very much.