Behringer X32 Effects Tutorial Vintage Reverb

hey guys is Drew brash Thor dbb audio today I'm wanting to do a video on the vintage reverb which is a time-based effect with the x3 - now this is an emulation of the EMT 250 now the EMT 250 it was a vintage reverb that was released around 1976 now the cool thing about this thing was is it actually sat on the floor it was very large and it was the first reverb to create ambience completely an electronic system now the price on this bad boy was around $25,000 which inflation now would be about $100,000 so that's a lot of money for this reverb back then so let's go ahead and just dive in see what this thing's about so the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to hit the effects button and we're just going to load it in on effects 1 now we do that by rotating this knob until we get to vintage reverb here we press set and it's already currently on buss 13 in effects rack 1 so once we have that we're going to press edit and now we jump into the vintage reverb so we can see that we have a lot of different adjustments here and we have two layers we have one and layer two now let's go ahead and start with layer 1 now the first button that we're going to see is front and rear now the difference between this is just a little bit of a variation on the sound of the effect basically of the original emt 250 had multiple inputs and so depending on which input you were using you would have a different sound the main difference that I hear when I'm using this is just a little bit of difference of where the actual reverb occurs in the stereo spectrum so go ahead and try different uses of this knob here now decay is going to be our time of the decay of the reverb at 1 kilohertz and we have time from point 4 millet from point 4 seconds all the way up to four and a half seconds which is a long time now the next knob that we have is our red dots here this is low multiply now low multiply controls the low frequency delay time at 300 Hertz so that's going to be the the amount of decay in the low end so if you wanted to have more low-end in your reverb you'd want to have this up higher now if this was at a 2x setting like this it would double the amount of the K from our original setting here now high multiply is the same thing as low multiply but this controls the decay time around six kilohertz so this is going to be our high frequency information so we can see that we have all the way up to 1 and all the way down to 0.25 so if we have this at 0.25 this would be 0.25 of this setting so if we had this at 1 second the high multiply would basically set our decay time on the high frequency down to 0.25 seconds or 250 milliseconds the next one is modulate modulate is going to be very similar to a chorus sound so you can basically vary the amount of chorus that's going to be in this it's very very subtle so if you have it a hundred percent it's going to be in there if you have this at zero percent it's not going to be active let's go ahead and jump into layer two here and so the layer 2 has the pre delay now this is going to be the time between the original source and the effect sound so we can vary the amount of time so if we have a snare hitting we can vary that amount of time for the reverb to appear in our sound so we have the pre delay adjustment from 0 all the way up to 120 milliseconds so if I was wanting to get like a slapback reverb like it's bouncing off of a cement wall I'd want to raise this up higher into the 90 to 100 milliseconds if I was wanting to just have something pleasant sounding I probably have it in the 10 to 30 milliseconds usually sitting about 20 to 30 milliseconds low-cut is going to be a low cut for the reverb if you don't want to have your kick drum sound making that reverb sound very long you can use this to cut out the information in the low end that you don't want same lowing same thing with the high cut the high cut is going to cut out the high end that you don't want to have appearing for a long time in the reverb this is going to be post the effect and then we have our level knob now we can adjust our level from positive 12 all the way down to negative 12 so if you have your channel setting in a certain level and you just wanted a little bit more reverb coming through you can use the level knob the last thing that we have on this is vintage now the vintage is just going to emulate a little bit of the sound and the noise from the original effect if you wanted to have a little bit more noise free operation I would turn vintage off so let's go ahead and actually put some music into this and see what these different things do okay so now that I have a little bit of music coming through here I'm just going to mute all the instruments except the drums and I really can really hear what this thing is doing now I have the drums going into my effects one and then into my vintage reverb here now I've go ahead and taken the delay pre delay at the decay the low-cut all of this stuff and turned it completely off so you can really hear what this thing is actually doing so our decay will appear here now let's go ahead and turn this to about two seconds so it's pretty long decay let's go ahead and adjust the lo multiply here so you really just heard the low end started coming through a little bit more here now let's go ahead and move over to the high multiply so we'll hear this in the symbols so you can create a lot of different sound using our decay our low multiply and our high multiply if we were wanting this to sound like a really big arena basically we can take this decay time and set it to something around like 1.8 seconds and then really bring the low multiply in the high multiply up because in a big arena there's going to be a lot of reverberation that's happening in all the frequencies so we can go ahead and take this all the way up on both of them and now we sound like we're in a very big arena now if you were wanting to sound something more like a concert hall where there's a lot of carpet and seating and everything like that that's going to be something where our high end is going to be a little bit more muffled and then if you were wanting to say make it sound like an acoustics of treated room you can bring them all up multiplied down and bring the high multiply up a little bit do some normal settings here and we'll hear this happening here so that's just going to sound like a pretty big room if you want to we can go ahead and bring the decays back down here and let's go ahead and listen to the pre-delay so we can really hear that snare it goes Papa Papa verse is zero so another example of this is if we were running to make it sound like a very large large room we can set the pre-delay up to about eighty second 80 milliseconds sorry and then bring up the decay bring in the loam all right here so that now just made that room sound very very large let's go ahead and bring in the modulate here it's very subtle so let's go ahead and bring in the low-cut and show you guys that here so I'm going to mute the overheads and just have the kick drum the snare and the Tom's coming through on this okay and likewise we can bring the high cut and then lastly we have our level here which basically we can turn up and down our effect here so if I was wanting to create a sound where it was going to be a little bit more pleasant of a sound for reverb basically I would set the low-cut here to about 70 Hertz and the loca the hi-cut sorry would probably be about 14 kilohertz just to give a little bit more vintage of a sound here I would turn on vintage just for the effect and then let's go back up to the first layer here I probably have my decay setting about one and a half seconds here and my low multiply I like a little bit more low into my reverb and a little less high-end so this is probably where I would have my settings be here for just kind of a normal instrument reverb and let's go ahead and check out the difference between front and rear this is very subtle so I'm not going to talk during this point now notice a big difference in the high end with this so the difference between the front and rear setting is it's going to just change where those reverberations are happening in the stereo spectrum thank you so much for watching this tutorial on the vintage reverb this is such a great effect that I love to use it's definitely one of my favorite reverbs on the board to be able to use I use this a lot for vocal reverbs and instrument reverbs now if you have any questions feel free to post below also make sure to check out the blog posts that I have with this as I have a little bit more detailed information than I just have in this video and lastly make sure you subscribe to my channel you will see the most recent videos that I'm making on the x32 thank you so much

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 01 2016