Every Vespers video I've watched feels like a briefing before pulling off a heist! =P The end of the track sounds beautiful. I love the reverb tail! It's epic!
This spreadsheet is already coming in handy, thank you so much! I'm impressed with how noticeable it is when you calculate the reverb tail just right, and my songs are often very busy so this is just the tool I need
Thanks so much DJ Vespers. This was precisely the information I was looking for and the spreadsheet was more than I could have hoped or asked for. It's excellent! I'll have and use that forever. Thanks again.
Great tutorial and spreadsheet! - Really helpful for electronic music. Sadly I'm doing a lot orchestral music lately and there it will be hard, because there you have no "fixed pre-delays" in relation to the bpm. It's a great tool for digital reverb, but for convolution reverb there will be some issues I guess :'(
100%. Most of the time I see people using reverb, they just throw it on an tweak the decay time. The pre-delay is super essential to set up, depending on your goal and desired effect with the reverb. Cheers!
Great upload! The BPM value is absolutely key in resolving values for a wide range of effects, such as chorus as its a delay/time based effect. You showed the compressor plugin during your commentary and it would be interesting to have your thoughts on that and how BPM could possibly be used to determine/resolve compression values. Obviously you've given a lot of thought to the maths as in your spreadsheet which is a great help! I've been using the delay charts from AIR studios in London for some years now after getting so frustrated trying to work out bpm/rev-delay times by ear! This information was a closely guarded secret up until the mid 90's and so were MIDI CC (control change) parameter numbers!
@@warpacademy Thank you for your reply. I am sure that is definitely possible. Would you mind to give an example of the math you would use for resolving compressor attack and release times? What about ratio, threshold, knee and gain values? The info fields in the DAW invite you to enter precise numbers for all of these and so it should be able to resolve those values as well. The DAW understands - emphasis: 'given ranges' - because its coded to do this. I would be very happy to have some email correspondence with you on this if you have a website contact email ie :info@
Hi! Further to the above I would set a compressor like this: Scan the target file for its peak dB amplitude & use that as the threshold value. Adjust ratio to taste. Use bpm / 60,.000 to resolve attack & release m/s values. Make-up gain is the mirror of the negative threshold value. That's the scientific approach so worth trying as a 'go to' place to start,,then adjust to taste. Knee setting is probably math resolveable as well. Any sound we perceive is related to maths & time i.e, speed of sound. I don't know why we use pan pots when we could use Haas panning. Its far more natural in how we perceive sounds in the real world. Caveat; It only works up to130 m/s though, after which its heard by our ears as an echo.
DJ Vespers I just usb CMD + 1, 2, or 3 to change the grid size to what I need. Or if I figure out a 1/4 note then I can easily half it or double it. No need to leave Ableton and can stay in the flow.
PLEASE HELP ME!!! And even though this is lengthy, please hear me out! I honestly can't describe how useful your attached BPM Reverb Timings Spreadsheet has been, thank you so much! However, it is lacking two things that have caused me to still constantly refer to my calculator. Most importantly, and specifically when referring to the milliseconds column, I really wish that the numbers rounded to the third decimal place (ex. 5,818.182) rather than to the closest whole number. This would be beneficial when it came to making crucial decisions on things such as reverb pre delay timing. Secondly, I wish that the spreadsheet column info contained answers ranging from 8 bars to a 1/1,024 note rather than from 8 bars to a 1/128 note. I know that may sound excessive, yet when producing a song at a very slow BPM it would be a life saver! Having said this I was wondering if you could possibly edit the original spreadsheet to include these two crucial missing puzzle pieces. If not, or if possible for me to do so myself, please inform me as to how, if you could pretty please, PLEASE, it would literally make this the most amazing musical resource ever! If you by some miracle are able to make the spreadsheet for me, just know that I won't be able to stop myself from telling every single musician I know and meet about this video, your spreadsheet, and your youtube channel!!! Thank You!!!!!!!
This is excellent thanks - clear and concise explanations backed up by well produce visuals! But with that, from a user experience viewpoint, could I request that you don't use that RGB separation style screen transition, as it's quite unpleasant on the eye and adds an unnecessary visual noise which distracts from your excellent teaching content. Cheers!
Great idea. And yes, you certainly can. This technique can be used for any time-based effect. Compressors are very interesting to experiment with in this respect.
I love how simple and easy to understand you make it. I would find it fantastic if you could make the .numbers spreadsheet also available as a .pdf document. I do have a Mac but not numbers at the moment. However, on second thought one can not change the variables in a .pdf smh.. Okay any who, I shared my dilemma :D Love your work brother :)))
Hey hey. Yeah, you can't run calculations in a PDF. We've made an Excel version available and you can load that into Google Sheets for free if you don't have Excel. It's in the download now.
I made this pre-delay and reverb time calculator, which calculates the pre-delay and decay time directly in your browser. You can check it out here: anotherproducer.com/online-tools-for-musicians/pre-delay-reverb-time-calculator/ I hope this helps! Cheers, Phil
now this is the 7th video of yours im watching today ..this one is so gooooooood..one doubt..how do you decide how much pre delay to set on a particular track?? does it depend on instrument or the way instruments are played? please help
Good idea and it kinda makes sense in most parts. The other ableton vids which use device on/off automation to end a reverb tail to me seem more logical though given an RT60 isn't a complete fade out of reverb, it's just a convention ;)
cool, I'd love to purchase the track without the vocals for use with my band if that interests you, if you happen to release an instrumental. Looking forward to the release. Thanks again.
This video deserves a billion views.Helped myself by subscribing.i also subscribed to your mailing list,didnt find the spreadsheet for download.how do i download it pls
Anyone with an easy, succinct answer to that would be fooling you. Reverb treatments can vary hugely depending on the genre and feel you're going for, as well as BPM of your song. I mean, there are some standard things you can do, but nothing that can be universally applied with good results. One thing I will say, that can point you in the right direction, is to use pre-delay on a lead vocal. A lead vocal should be intimate and up front, therefore having some separation between the dry and wet signal is advantageous. Also, be very careful not to overmix the reverb. I go for the "invisible reverb" effect, typically, where I nudge up the wet signal until it becomes noticeable, then back it off. The perfect setting (for me) is to miss it when I deactivate the reverb, but not to overtly notice it when it's in. That is the essence of the "invisible reverb".
Drews the man. Love it! but for sum reason when i open up numbers i can't change the bpm timing or do anything to it for that matter. It just stays at 70. Any tips
Hey Stephen. You may need to update your Numbers program. Or, you can easily load the Excel version into Google Sheets for free, online and use the calculator. Cheers!
Interesting! But... I see on you site "Hit up the link, download it, and it’s yours" (about you're usefull excel sheet) ... well ... did someone find the link ;-) ?
the perfect background music for the beginning of this tutorial - th-cam.com/video/9BIuX7IsdE8/w-d-xo.html somehow I cannot paste the title of the song here. So, it is THE HARMONICATS - PEG O' MY... (the 1st song with a certain form of reverb added, or so?)
This is a great tutorial, and I have to ask why a reverb? It was really hard to notice any difference felt like a reverb was really not the best example, the delay in the beginning was perfect and I understood completely why this is useful. I am now lost on why this is useful, if the calculations I make are on time with a bpm of say 128, how can I use the ms I get from your spreadsheet to sync my devices like a saturator or another device that has no pre-delay. Again I understand this is a reverb tutorial, and I just felt lost at the end of your video. Felt like I downloaded somethind I won't need. Normally I am onboard with all of your video's you're fantastic and prolific artist! I have all your warp academy courses, they are siiiick! :D Though felt really lost on this one. Any help would be much abliged, looking forward to working with you this year! Have a sunny day! :3 -BR
Dear Vespers Thank you so much that clears things right up! I do understand pre-delay and now I totally get it! I am sure, to use your excell sheet a lot more now, thank you so much for refrasing and getting back to me in a timely manner. Still love all your vids keep up that fantastic pro life and masterful insight to tips and tricks. I also want to thank you for responding back too, I can see that you are one if not the best teacher and ableton trainer to learn from hands down, keep kicking butt. With much
Great answer, and I've just used it on my Korg Kronos, wow! What a huge difference, I now can get that large sound I was struggling to get. Thanks a million :)
This is one of the keys to a good mix
Sure can be. Thanks for watching Matt.
This is the best tutorial I have seen
Thanks for the spreadsheet, i had enough going back and forth to the calculator app ... thanks ... great tutos by the way
You are a True LEGEND ❤ Thanks for the spread sheet and YES inspired to make new tracks!
You're so welcome!
one of tha greatest tuts ever
Much appreciated. Thanks for tuning in!
Really useful and clearly explained! Thank-you.
Thanks man the spreadsheet is so handy!
Cheers Robert. Have fun calculating those pre-delay and reverb times!
I just found one of the best music prod teaching ever :D
This BPM Reverb Timings Spreadsheet is truly a useful tool. Thank you so much for providing it!
Cheers! Hope you enjoy using it.
The amount of info I just learned with this one video!!
Cheers!
soo helpful sir .. thank you soo much .. 💓
One of the best music production vids I've seen in a while
really informative very well presented video , and thank you so much for the spreadsheet!
Glad you enjoyed it!
great video and a big shout out for the spreadsheet!
I really enjoyed this one @DJ Vespers thanks, and appreciate the spreadsheet!
I learned something new today, thanks DJ Vespers!
Every Vespers video I've watched feels like a briefing before pulling off a heist! =P
The end of the track sounds beautiful. I love the reverb tail! It's epic!
Thanks for doing this
No problem
Great tutorial. Big thanks 🤩
Glad it was helpful!
You are great ! Thanks for sharing this priceless knowledge with all of us !! God bless you !
Cheers. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the free spreadsheet brother I don't know how this eluded me for so long lol
Thanks ! Very helpful tutorial !!
This spreadsheet is already coming in handy, thank you so much! I'm impressed with how noticeable it is when you calculate the reverb tail just right, and my songs are often very busy so this is just the tool I need
Mind blown. Thank you
Awesome Tip!!! Thanks for posting this video!
It`s a big step forward for me. Thank you so much, Vespers!
Thanks so much DJ Vespers. This was precisely the information I was looking for and the spreadsheet was more than I could have hoped or asked for. It's excellent! I'll have and use that forever. Thanks again.
It's great to see how far you've come. This tutorial & spreadsheet are golden, thanks!
Never knew I'd use a calculator to mix my project one day. Nice 🔥🔥
This is great , thank you so much
Great video and explanations, I'll get the spreadsheet and have it on ready for any session from now on. Thank you for this!
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
This is great ! Thank you ...
Thank You learn something new today
Great video and thanks for the Spreadsheet
realy nice man! thx!!!!!!!!!
Great tutorial and spreadsheet! - Really helpful for electronic music.
Sadly I'm doing a lot orchestral music lately and there it will be hard, because there you have no "fixed pre-delays" in relation to the bpm.
It's a great tool for digital reverb, but for convolution reverb there will be some issues I guess :'(
Fantastic Tutorial.. Extremely helpful and beneficial to take sound(s) to another level! Thanks a bunch for that spreadsheet too..
thank you for your video help me a lot
Cheers Peter. Glad you liked this one.
Thanks a ton for the spreadsheet, man. Really saves my time. Keep on going)
GOAT Tutorial
5:50 pre delay is in essential how we perceive part size of the room
100%. Most of the time I see people using reverb, they just throw it on an tweak the decay time. The pre-delay is super essential to set up, depending on your goal and desired effect with the reverb. Cheers!
amazing
Good job 👍
Cheers mate. Thanks for watching.
This is absolutely simple and mind-blowing at the same time, thank you for sharing pro-mixing content! Subscribed.
Nice one. Welcome to the channel! Happy mixing.
mixed for 10 years and my head just impoded
dope video man. thanks
No problem 👍
Wow, your music sounds so clean bro!
Great upload! The BPM value is absolutely key in resolving values for a wide range of effects, such as chorus as its a delay/time based effect. You showed the compressor plugin during your commentary and it would be interesting to have your thoughts on that and how BPM could possibly be used to determine/resolve compression values. Obviously you've given a lot of thought to the maths as in your spreadsheet which is a great help! I've been using the delay charts from AIR studios in London for some years now after getting so frustrated trying to work out bpm/rev-delay times by ear! This information was a closely guarded secret up until the mid 90's and so were MIDI CC (control change) parameter numbers!
Glad you liked this one. And yes, you can also use the calculator to determine beat-synced compressor attack and release times.
@@warpacademy Thank you for your reply. I am sure that is definitely possible. Would you mind to give an example of the math you would use for resolving compressor attack and release times? What about ratio, threshold, knee and gain values? The info fields in the DAW invite you to enter precise numbers for all of these and so it should be able to resolve those values as well. The DAW understands - emphasis: 'given ranges' - because its coded to do this. I would be very happy to have some email correspondence with you on this if you have a website contact email ie :info@
Hi! Further to the above I would set a compressor like this: Scan the target file for its peak dB amplitude & use that as the threshold value. Adjust ratio to taste. Use bpm / 60,.000 to resolve attack & release m/s values. Make-up gain is the mirror of the negative threshold value. That's the scientific approach so worth trying as a 'go to' place to start,,then adjust to taste. Knee setting is probably math resolveable as well. Any sound we perceive is related to maths & time i.e, speed of sound. I don't know why we use pan pots when we could use Haas panning. Its far more natural in how we perceive sounds in the real world. Caveat; It only works up to130 m/s though, after which its heard by our ears as an echo.
Excellent!!! Thank you so Much.
You are the best ... THANKS
Cheers! Have fun with the reverbs.
Killer content! Thanks!
Thanks for watching Brooke. Stay in touch!
yeo bro i've been watching ur tutorials, and i really appreciate you share all ur knowledge about audio n mixing, nice bro thank you
A tool and the knowledge that I can use also on my guitar reverb(s)? Priceless !! Thanks Vespers! That's some deep, dope shit.
you can also just drag and select an amount of time in arrangement view and it shows the time in the bottom bar.
DJ Vespers I just usb CMD + 1, 2, or 3 to change the grid size to what I need. Or if I figure out a 1/4 note then I can easily half it or double it. No need to leave Ableton and can stay in the flow.
Very good.
Thanks!
PLEASE HELP ME!!! And even though this is lengthy, please hear me out! I honestly can't describe how useful your attached BPM Reverb Timings Spreadsheet has been, thank you so much! However, it is lacking two things that have caused me to still constantly refer to my calculator. Most importantly, and specifically when referring to the milliseconds column, I really wish that the numbers rounded to the third decimal place (ex. 5,818.182) rather than to the closest whole number. This would be beneficial when it came to making crucial decisions on things such as reverb pre delay timing. Secondly, I wish that the spreadsheet column info contained answers ranging from 8 bars to a 1/1,024 note rather than from 8 bars to a 1/128 note. I know that may sound excessive, yet when producing a song at a very slow BPM it would be a life saver! Having said this I was wondering if you could possibly edit the original spreadsheet to include these two crucial missing puzzle pieces. If not, or if possible for me to do so myself, please inform me as to how, if you could pretty please, PLEASE, it would literally make this the most amazing musical resource ever! If you by some miracle are able to make the spreadsheet for me, just know that I won't be able to stop myself from telling every single musician I know and meet about this video, your spreadsheet, and your youtube channel!!! Thank You!!!!!!!
Hey man this videos is the next level!Cool
This is excellent thanks - clear and concise explanations backed up by well produce visuals! But with that, from a user experience viewpoint, could I request that you don't use that RGB separation style screen transition, as it's quite unpleasant on the eye and adds an unnecessary visual noise which distracts from your excellent teaching content. Cheers!
Excellent video! Spreadsheet is great! What would be a good wet/dry ratio for reverb?
Thanks for the advice DJ Vespers. Appreciated :)
Hi. Please, do you apply the same concept in the attack and release of a compressor? thank you very much
Great idea. And yes, you certainly can. This technique can be used for any time-based effect. Compressors are very interesting to experiment with in this respect.
THANK YOU!!!!
Great stuff vespers :) keep up the top work 🤟🏽
just coming back to these techniques! man this tune is tremendous! :)
This f@ckin' crazy! Thank you so much, I watched twice before get into this!XD
Cheers mate1 Have fun with this technique in your tunes.
BIGUP..!
Cheers mate!
You articulate this very elongated at 7.15 onwards
Excellent!! :)
I love how simple and easy to understand you make it.
I would find it fantastic if you could make the .numbers spreadsheet also available as a .pdf document.
I do have a Mac but not numbers at the moment.
However, on second thought one can not change the variables in a .pdf smh..
Okay any who, I shared my dilemma :D
Love your work brother :)))
Hey hey. Yeah, you can't run calculations in a PDF. We've made an Excel version available and you can load that into Google Sheets for free if you don't have Excel. It's in the download now.
Awesome thank you! Going to share with my ableton peeps now.
ty!
Thanks for posting this -- very informative. I'm subscribing to you and checking out the warp academy!
I learned how to calculate it but how can I know when to get the decay and predelay in each track ?
You'd have to figure out what sounds good to you on each sound and customize a reverb to each different one if you want.
Dope bro
I made this pre-delay and reverb time calculator, which calculates the pre-delay and decay time directly in your browser.
You can check it out here: anotherproducer.com/online-tools-for-musicians/pre-delay-reverb-time-calculator/
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
Phil
Nice one. Useful tool!
@@warpacademy I'm glad it's helping you!
very cool, where's the link for your spreadsheet for Mac?
The link was in the description. Here ya go: BPM Reverb Timings Spreadsheet [FREE DOWNLOAD]: goo.gl/85rxvz
Cool stuff
Un gran respeto y admiración por tomarte esa gran labor ! pregunta : el link no funciona podrías subirlo de nuevo ? gracias
Thank you for the video it's awesome. Do you have a Windows version for the bpm spread sheet?
You're very welcome! Yes, there's a .xlsx version included in the download. That'll fire up in Excel for you on PC. Cheers!
Thank you
NP
Thanks for the spreadsheet! I wish Android users had Audiofile Calc...
I never realized that you had to subtract the pre-delay time from the decay time.
Well, only if you're a little OCD like I am.
Yup, me too!:-)
now this is the 7th video of yours im watching today ..this one is so gooooooood..one doubt..how do you decide how much pre delay to set on a particular track?? does it depend on instrument or the way instruments are played? please help
Good idea and it kinda makes sense in most parts. The other ableton vids which use device on/off automation to end a reverb tail to me seem more logical though given an RT60 isn't a complete fade out of reverb, it's just a convention ;)
same for the predelay calc vs side chaining the reverb to the dry signal. Good ideas though and I will use these, thanks for the video :)
that ain't no sunshine remix is rad btw!
cool, I'd love to purchase the track without the vocals for use with my band if that interests you, if you happen to release an instrumental. Looking forward to the release. Thanks again.
I don't find any link for the spreadsheet on the website :(
Here's my online Reverb and Delay Calculator for anyone interested. Whole to 128th including dotted and triplets: nickfever.com/music/delay-calculator
great tutorial! Unfortunately i won't get any email when i sign up for the spreadsheet
Check your SPAM and promotions folders. Then try and submit again. If you still don't get it contact our support.
This video deserves a billion views.Helped myself by subscribing.i also subscribed to your mailing list,didnt find the spreadsheet for download.how do i download it pls
@@warpacademy thanks
HOW DO YOU SET REVERB CORRECTLY FOR LIVE VOCALS/MALE/FEMALE?
Anyone with an easy, succinct answer to that would be fooling you. Reverb treatments can vary hugely depending on the genre and feel you're going for, as well as BPM of your song. I mean, there are some standard things you can do, but nothing that can be universally applied with good results.
One thing I will say, that can point you in the right direction, is to use pre-delay on a lead vocal. A lead vocal should be intimate and up front, therefore having some separation between the dry and wet signal is advantageous. Also, be very careful not to overmix the reverb. I go for the "invisible reverb" effect, typically, where I nudge up the wet signal until it becomes noticeable, then back it off. The perfect setting (for me) is to miss it when I deactivate the reverb, but not to overtly notice it when it's in. That is the essence of the "invisible reverb".
seems that the link to the spreadsheet is down
awesomeeeee!
♥️♥️
Drews the man. Love it! but for sum reason when i open up numbers i can't change the bpm timing or do anything to it for that matter. It just stays at 70. Any tips
i asked for the spreed sheet 3 days ago and still havent seen a link to the download and no its not in my spam box
iv down loaded the spread sheet to my Mac but it opens in preview page , and can't change any BPM can any one help as it looks great ,thanks
Hey Stephen. You may need to update your Numbers program. Or, you can easily load the Excel version into Google Sheets for free, online and use the calculator. Cheers!
@@warpacademy thanks , your a star
Cheers mate! Glad to help.
Interesting! But... I see on you site "Hit up the link, download it, and it’s yours" (about you're usefull excel sheet) ... well ... did someone find the link ;-) ?
In my Reverb plugin there's no Decay time in milliseconds but percentage instead what to do in that case bro?
Get a new reverb plugin. That's silly to make a parameter in %. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
@@warpacademy Nah mate, really appreciate that honesty 👍🏻
+1 Sub...
And yeah I'm gonna buying Vahalla Vintageverb now after giving it a thought.
any one have the link to this spreadsheet ? links not working
why i can not download the BPM Reverb Timings Spreadsheet?
Did you follow the correct link? warpacademy.com/bpm-syncing-reverbs-tutorial/
the perfect background music for the beginning of this tutorial - th-cam.com/video/9BIuX7IsdE8/w-d-xo.html somehow I cannot paste the title of the song here. So, it is
THE HARMONICATS - PEG O' MY... (the 1st song with a certain form of reverb added, or so?)
This is a great tutorial, and I have to ask why a reverb? It was really hard to notice any difference felt like a reverb was really not the best example, the delay in the beginning was perfect and I understood completely why this is useful. I am now lost on why this is useful, if the calculations I make are on time with a bpm of say 128, how can I use the ms I get from your spreadsheet to sync my devices like a saturator or another device that has no pre-delay. Again I understand this is a reverb tutorial, and I just felt lost at the end of your video. Felt like I downloaded somethind I won't need. Normally I am onboard with all of your video's you're fantastic and prolific artist! I have all your warp academy courses, they are siiiick! :D Though felt really lost on this one. Any help would be much abliged, looking forward to working with you this year! Have a sunny day! :3
-BR
Dear Vespers
Thank you so much that clears things right up! I do understand pre-delay and now I totally get it! I am sure, to use your excell sheet a lot more now, thank you so much for refrasing and getting back to me in a timely manner. Still love all your vids keep up that fantastic pro life and masterful insight to tips and tricks. I also want to thank you for responding back too, I can see that you are one if not the best teacher and ableton trainer to learn from hands down, keep kicking butt. With much
Great answer, and I've just used it on my Korg Kronos, wow! What a huge difference, I now can get that large sound I was struggling to get. Thanks a million :)
Does anyone still have this spreadsheet? I can't access the page to download it for some reason.
Did spread sheet link exspire?
No, it's still valid. We're just migrating our site to a new server so please check back in a day or two. Cheers!
It's back up and live now.