Effects

Abstract

Reverb is created when multiple, fast, complex echoes are merged together. The resulting sound is a type of ambience that the listener hears as one effect.

In recording and mixing scenarios, reverb is used to recreate the natural ambiences of different rooms and spaces without having to physically record in those spaces. Reverbs can also be used to deliberately create weird, unnatural and crazy spaces. Some reverbs are created using digital algorithms whilst convolution reverbs use impulse responses—samples of actual physical spaces.