drum reverb > drum bus minor idea

[philbrown]

This isn't rocket surgery, but if I've run across this I don't recall, but surely nothing I invented. This is very genre and mix dependent obviously, but lately I'v changed my signal flow a bit and I'm really liking the results.

Simplified description:
Normally I route all drums to a drum bus aux with some compression, with sends on the individual drum channels routed to a reverb aux (or 2 or 3) routed to the master bus.
Lately what I started doing is the same except I'm routing the reverb INTO the drum aux bus. This is on a relatively natural sounding drum kit, not EDM or metal or whatever. Using a fairly natural reverb and running it into the drum bus seems to pull the kit together and sound more like a drum set than individual drums, especially for a bit more intimate non-bombastic sound. I'm not using super-heavy compression on the drum aux, more like a glue (in fact I use Cytomic's 'The Glue' quite a bit on the drum and/or master bus).

Just an idea.

[mhschmieder]

Interesting. Are you using mono or stereo reverb for this?

[philbrown]

Interesting. Are you using mono or stereo reverb for this?

Stereo. I've tried totally different plugs from a Bricasti preset on Slate's Verbsuite, Lexicon short hall or medium room, Eventide's T-Verb, Flux Session verb... "tell them all I loved only them" to quote an ancient line. The idea is getting the drums into a nice coherent space.

[mhschmieder]

Good rec on the Slate, which I just bought. That will save me time if I start out by auditioning the Bricasti set on the drum bus.

[philbrown]

Good rec on the Slate, which I just bought. That will save me time if I start out by auditioning the Bricasti set on the drum bus.

I found this helpful:
http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1 ... edit#gid=0

[HCMarkus]

Good idea Phil!

[philbrown]

Good idea Phil!

Cool!