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Why Your Reverb Sounds Amateur

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Why does reverb sound huge and deep on real records, and either invisible or a swampy mess on yours?

In Episode 12 of KNOBS, Simon Moro and Terry Hart pull reverb apart: how the pros actually use it to create space, depth and emotion, and why amateur reverb almost always gives itself away.

They get into the multi-reverb approach, a short ambient reverb for width, a long one for size, a plate…