How To Use Reverb on Guitar | What EVERYONE Should Know
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- Learning how to use reverb on guitar can be a daunting task, there are so many different kinds of reverb sounds out there, and even knowing where to put the reverb in your signal chain can confuse some players. In today's video Ill show you how I use my reverb pedals, and what I think about when Im dialing in my reverb tones.
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Rhet should do a solo album with these intros omg
Right?!
Seriously, that was a sick intro
I'll 4th that one!!! Best idea for videos. It hooks you right away.
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't like reverb.
OR WHO HAS THE LAST NAME OF A CITY
@@EarthSouthside Great username
I had to practically beg the guitarist in an old band to just use a little bit of reverb on his completely dry, cranked fender super reverb. The attack of the pick felt like an icepick directly in the eardrum.
My reverb taste is very polarized. Either I have just enough for a bit of texture (or non at all) or I have it outrageously present. I used to find it unnecessary (a lot of the time I still do), but now I see value in it. Nothing beats natural reverb of a venue, but some occasional layers to the guitar do add something.
Nor should you
I’ve heard so many guitar tones ruined with reverb. I love reverb. One trick I’ve learned is to bring it up till I can hear it then back it off a little
Prudent approach.
Same goes for setting a chorus or flanger imo
Also Saxophone players.
The example no. 2 that begins at 18:38, is not only the best tone of those two, but one of the best guitar tones I’ve ever heard.
My Big Sky is coming in on Monday. This is video is very helpful. I love plate and spring reverb.
Great opening.
Fortunate to grow up on the Cali coast (pacifica) and the Surf craze.
Now, like Mark says 'Just a little reverb'.
gotta have that bounce.
For me that reverb going through the distortion sounded epic
I run two verbs. One mild, always on, spring and one that does everything. Reverb with overdrive gets muddy quickly so a mild amp reverb is excellent
Nothing better than some clean reverb sounds😍
I got the 63 fender vintage reverb by boss last year and I LOVE it
Wow, Rhett, that intro is beautiful. :-O
that intro song is kicking asses man! great video as always :)
I am one of the people who doesn't use reverb because I didn't understand it. I can't wait to try it out now! Thank you!!
Very educational video for me. Always just used reverb for light ambience.
I love a good reverb, but one place I seldom use it is in my distorted rhythm tones. Especially when the dirt is fairly saturated. The sound is much tighter without it. Occasionally, I'll use a very small delay on a doubled guitar track that is mixed lower than the dry track.
Yup same, reverb can muddy up the distortion sound.
Otherwise, it adds a nice sparkle to most sounds 👍🏻
Rhett: "When not to use your reverb..."
Worship guitarist: no.
They do that a lot don't they???
As a worship guitarist, I definitely thought that! 😂😂
WHAT do 'worship' guitarists know? Hail Mary!
And they'll use reverb effects in addition to playing a very echoy sanctuary 🤣
Lol true
great video thanks. i use the levitation reverb pedal from earth quaker devices. it took me a while to dial it in but it was worth the effort.
Your hearing & musicality amaze me, the only other person I can immediately think 🤔 of with such an ear for music is your old friend Rick B always just enough & not to much I’ve just began to realise some time’s less is more, thanks to listening to you guys. Thanks 🙏 so much
Great tune you started at 6:45.
That mini solo (just some phrases together but really well used) remind me of Pink Floyd's time, and since you've said that solo was once of the most important for your musical development, I have no doubt you've been unconciously inspired by it in this intro
I love the UA Audio Lexicon Reverb
I don’t have tons of pedals (can’t afford em) but I do have a reverb. I have the Earthquaker Devices Ghost Echo.
Funny story regarding reverb.
Back in the 70s and early 80s, there was a studio located here in the south of France (near Nice) named Super Bear Studios. Lots of great albums made here, notably Queen Jazz, Macca's Tug Of War and parts of The Wall. It sadly was partly destroyed by a forest fire in 1986. They had a very old water well, at the bottom of which they had lowered a vintage Neumann U67, and had a speaker at the top of the well which was fed by a bus send from the desk. THAT was their echo chamber.
I've been told the story that, because of the fire, they completely forgot the U67 was there, so for a while (until the studio was dismantled and whatever was salvageable was put into storage) the mic stayed at the bottom of the well. Of course, when they brought it back up, it was totally rusted and busted (I know the guy who purchased the MCI recording desk that was used on all these amazing records).
I've also been told that for The Wall, they used the tiled swimming pool: they put Gilmour's amps at the bottom of the emptied pool and recorded them with a bunch of mics, so as to use the natural reverberation.
And then there's the famous Power Station staircase and Headley Grange (of Zeppelin fame). Nothing like natural reverb...
Also, Rhett, something you didn't mention regarding pre-delay is, manipulating it can change the perceived distance between the source and the listener. When in a big reverberating space, if the source is close to the listener, direct sound arrives slightly faster than the reverberated sound, and that time relationship changes the further the source is from the listener (to the point where, if the source is far enough, reverberated sound arrives pretty much at the same time as direct sound...ie a pre-delay at zero). And these time relationships are a big part of how our brain analyzes sound to deduce distance.
That's one of the tricks you learn in audio school when studying post-production: using a shorter pre-delay on reverb moves the source further from the listener (removing top end does that as well).
Oh, and excellent video as always ! I'm one of those guys that don't use reverb on their guitar rig btw, I'm a delay guy, always have some delay going on (stole that from EVH).
I use a JHS Prestige and a EHX Holy Grail as always on pedals when playing at home. Depending on the room I'm in live, sometimes the Grail is on, sometimes it's not. Love me some reverb!
Wow I like the onboard reverb on my bassbreaker but I sometimes use a chorus with the depth way up n they speed low
Haha! Wow, that was kinda funny at the end, when you said your "there is no plan B" tag, I was a diehard skateboarder when I was a teenager, and Plan B is the name of a pro skateboard manufacturer, right when you said that, my eyes happened to glance past a little Plan B fingerboard I have on my desk, lolz, I was like, "but I'm looking at it, it exists," heh, that just caught me off guard :P I'm a verb junkie too, I have 5 verbs on my board about to be 6. I have an always-on RV-5 in spring mode that goes into a Gamechanger Light Pedal, usually in harmonic mode for the super hollowed-out ghostly haunted verb it gives, I can't live without this pedal now :P only had it for like 3 months, that goes into a Red Panda Context² that I use mostly for the grain function and sweep back and forth between the verb/delay knob with an expression, that's super fun to blend back and forth between delay and verb, then into a Walrus Descent for my beloved Hall verbs where I have a building hall setting, and a cave hall setting, and a nice subtle shimmer and a reverse verb where exp is assigned to predelay I believe it was in my presets which gives it crazy ripping fabric of spacetime sounds when you get fast and wide with the exp movements, like messing with delay times with exp, that finally goes into an Astral Destiny for my more-than-subtle shimmers and spacey stuff, all with assigned expression parameters, I love expression pedals too, just got an OBNE Expression Ramper couple weeks ago, my new favorite way to use the Astral Destiny's exp out, I like it on that and on my Super Pulsar tremolo, it makes any pedal you plug into it a whole new game, it's fanfkntastic! Get one everyone who has pedals with an exp out, Expression Rampers are $70! 9v low current. Oh, and I'm heavily considering the Zoom MS-70CDR, technically I'm getting it for the lofi vinyl crackle function, and hoping it'll let me dial in white noise, I already have every other lofi element somewhere in my convoluted setup except that, so I'd be getting a bunch more reverb options from that pedal too, not a bad thing for a guy who doesn't understand the phrase "too much reverb." :) almost half my board is verb, haha, and technically I don't use it much, I'm primarily a death metal guy, the RV-5 is literally always on, and I use em in my clean passages, but those are sparse compared to the distortions, but I'll blues jam and ambient jam and psychedelic jam or Doom jam with my fuzzes and all my verbs all over for hours :P they just don't actually make it into most of my actual songs, I just have an obsession, with verb and exp...and fuzz, like every sane guitarist, lolz jkjk, anyway, go forth brethren and sistren, verb it up!!! And get an Expression Ramper, they're genius if you like movement in your effects!
Thanks for sharing Rhett. Very good
That opening track had some fire in it!!!! Way cool.
Thanks Rhett, I learned a lot from that video.
That was a killer intro track. For a great reverb sound, try Why’d you lie by Colin James.
I’ve only ever used my amps reverb and have recently started looking at reverb pedals because my board is “done” and have no idea where to start. This couldn’t have come at a better time
Great video. I always use my reverb in the loop. The predelay is a great point for keeping your guitar from getting lost in the wash of the reverb.
Thanks for this. I have a switch on my hall of fame,shortand long pre-delay and never really understood what it did, now I understand. TC don't explain in the manual.
New studio looks and sounds gorgeous!! Nice video mate 🤘
Fantastic vid Rhett
Great info that I can use going forward.
New studio is AWESOME man...
Great video Rhett! Very informative. Congratulations on the new place too! The studio looks awesome! Happy for you both!😎👍
Love the new work area
man ik digging your new studio looks good
Thanks for a great overview of reverb uses and mishaps, but I was distracted by your neck pain in a year with your Mac so high 😊
I'm a guitar player and I've been a professional audio engineer for nearly 40 years and I worked for 3 years at Lexicon. You could say I'm a wash in reverb ;-D Everything Rhett is saying here about reverb on guitar is spot on. One caution I would add in recording situations... It can be difficult to know exactly what reverb and how much of it is needed before you have the entire mix in place. It can be virtually impossible to change the reverb once it's recorded on the same track as the guitar. If the artist and I decided on a reverb sound that I can create with plug-ins we record with no reverb in the guitar signal path. If the reverb is coming from plugins or studio equipment like a 224 or a BriCasti it's always available during the mix. If we're recording in a studio or in a location that has a cool sounding chamber or unique reverb unit I will dedicate track(s) to recording the reverb so we can take that sound with us. Getting the best mix is a delicate and sometimes complicated process of balancing all the various sounds in a given song. The more flexibility you give yourself in tracking session by not combining sounds together (something us old farts called bouncing) the more options you'll have during your mix. I've had a number of sessions where what the guitar play put on sounded great at the amp and in the room and even in the headphone mix but when we sat down to do the final mix it was just a little too much... there's no way to adjust that pre-delay after it's recorded that way.
Hey Rhett, thank you for your work, you do so great making this channel! I have a question - do you record the drums live or you use a virtuall drummer? Your demo tracks sound sooo good!
Lots of new info on reverbs for me!!! Thanks Rhett!
The intro alone deserved a like. 👍🏻
That opening jam! 🤯🤘🏻🤘🏻
Very cool Rhett. I found this hugely informative, thank you.
So I just came back to this video of yours after the initial release. By then I was very much impressed by the intro - great tune there, and in general very useful advises from you.
As of now, a year later, I can say that when I'm doing a stereo rig on my HR Gigboard, I'm finding myself experimenting with putting a fuzz or a distort after the reverb to add further textures to that channel, even using my exp pedal to adjust the mix level of that fuzz/distort on the reverberated sound.
Of course the other channel is colored with another delay and/or reverb. The possibilities are endless...
Thanks for the Pre-Delay tip :)
The EMT 140 was definitely my favorite! Good Stuff
that intro was amazing ;O
Thanks. The playing is on 🔥 🔥
Just awesome! Thanks for that!
My reverb is literally always on, either my small room that's just barely there to liven up my tone, my medium reverb, or my large ambient reverb.
The cabinet that holds your heads is awesome. Where did you find that piece of furniture?
Kind of see thanks well done as I am learning
Great as always, thanks Rhett!
Love seen these guitar videos of ppl that can just play these beautiful riffs out of nowhere. I’m very new to guitar, question, the music you played throughout this video are those samples from songs or are these sounds you made up yourself?
Lots of good info. I quit using reverb a while back and went to delay. 240ms, 35% feedback, 25% mix gives me a kind of faux reverb. Gonna have to go back and play with the predelay. Just got a Pod Go and I’m still getting used to it. Nice intro, btw.
Thanks for all these great tips on reverb!! I use my trusty Hall Of Fame by TC Electronics.
30 years ago I had a ('78) Deluxe Gold top too. What a great guitar! Rawk on man!
Yeah, I know this is a reverb video but that Noventa Jazzmaster sounds awesome!! Gotta get my hands on one of those! Great video, btw!
Rhett I've come back to this video just about a few times every month since it's been released trying to teach myself that part you're playing at 11:51. I can't explain why but its one of the most beautiful bits of music I've ever heard. Is that a song you're covering or something you've written? I need to know man it's killing me haha
I to love the reverb....but...always in the FX loop!!!....great stuff my man!!!
Is it ironic that this reverb video was the first video after Rhett showed himself spending hours removing reverb from his new studio?
I was quite happy with my Flux Echo combined Reverb and Delay, but now I need to invest in at least 3 reverb pedals...
In regards to where I place my reverb, it is towards the end before phaser/chorus.
Man, I used Reverb all the time too, I love buying Reverb Effect Pedals there...
Just discovered this Fender Marine Layer Reverb pedal, sounds really nice at about $115
Very interesting content indeed. I've got this funny impression that nowadays nobody cares anymore for this kind of stuff, and then I see 100k+ views, makes me feel good about it!
Great video man!!! Really enjoyed. Can you tell me how you would run you pedal train for this set up. Volume pedal, Petty John pre-drive, Tremelo, TC hall of fame, and a loop pedal. What do you think would be best? Appreciate your input!
Excellent info!
Just like you, I like to use reverb on everything I do, I use it always at the end of the digital chain on my PodGo
I learned a lot, thank you!
Great video! Loved the opening drone scene😁
Nice video man. I would’ve added a wet dry amp combination to it as a very useful tool as well.
I'm a reverb junkie....
I have a Big sky Reverb... found a setting I enjoy.... have no idea how to program favorites... so I can search for more.
Very informative thanks 🙏
Hi Rhett, i was wondering if you would like to do a guitar collection video... I have been watching you for almost 2 years now and you almost always have a new and interesting guitar at hand... i know many of them come and go but I would love to know what’s going on in the arsenal in general😅
Enjoyed this one Rhett, thanks.
I liked your bit about how NOT to use reverb.
I have my guitar going to OCD pedal to the front, then, fx loop goes out to CE-5 BOSS chorus ensemble, then to DD-3 delay, then a TC Electronics Skysurfer reverb before it goes back to the loop. Also amp has a reverb on it. Is that where I should have it? I need tips on using my digital delay with the reverb, because i know there is great stuff they can do together.
Nicely didactive and well explained ! Never use Reveb rather a slap back delay
There are a couple things I don’t think Rhett touched on here that can be useful to know. A darker reverb can be really nice for creating a wash underneath your guitar. It won’t get in the way of your dry signal as easily if it is a little darker.
Also for more ambient sounds, usually you don’t need as high of a mix as you would think. If the mix is too high it can create issues with your dry signal being lost or your tone sounding muddy. What you probably want is a longer decay on your reverb. Predelay can be huge here (like Rhett mentioned) but just turning the mix down a little can help too!
Also with shimmer reverbs, usually they sound the best when the mix of the octave up isn’t noticeable. Turn the shimmer level or tone control down until it is just below where you are noticing it and you can get some really great reverb sounds!
Understanding reverb is a huge part of getting great guitar tone. Great video man and thank you for the content!
Enjoyed it. Maybe on next effect video, include clean/dry sound for comparison.
My first real amp back in the 80s (a Carlsbro something or other) had a real spring reverb in it and I've always had reverbs available ever since (not always on but always available). If I could only have one effect it would have to be a verb of some sort. Great video!
Yeah... We had one in our house. Was a carlsboro stingray. You could tell it was a real spring by the noise it made if you knocked it when it was switched on. The sound it made was a thing of beauty 👍
What was otherworldly reverb plug-in by lexicon? What preset was it? Absolutely beautiful!!!
Perhaps you can use Hammond springs?
what's the fuzz you're using on the white novo in the intro? the cheese ball? sounds amazing and great video!
That opening 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love this sounds
Isn't your shelf set up the wrong way ?
Informative, thanks. I do think that distorted reverb trails have their place. I usually use.a plate reverb pedal and run it through the effects loop, though, so I guess I'm a fan of the clean reverb.
Very informative 👍
You didn't name modulation, that goes often hand in hand. You have it as a knob on that Universal Audio pedal you used, and you even used it without naming it in the video. I can see why, that's definitely a side story to where the essential juice about reverb is. This is a very good video, Rhett. However: gosh i love modulation on reverb, and it's often one of the important controls and a classic.
I even love chaining delay, chorus and reverb, and use sends to send to a different stage in the chain. Maybe only reverb, maybe chorus + reverb, Maybe delay + chorus + reverb. You can basically make a song out of that single dialing of these three effects. One chain, one setup, one song. I know i know i have derailed :D
That jazzmaster 😍
Mother of God... this was epic!!!
Thanks for the great tips about reverb!👍 ...any tips about delay?
Nice video Rhett 😊
I question though: are you sure algorithms are different in the UAD pedals ?
I thought they just put the same algorithm but with some fixed parameters… do you hear differences between the UAD plugs and the pedals you have with about the same parameters ?
Thanks 😊
When I was younger, I didn't want to use reverb at all because I thought it was why a lot of the guitarists I saw live at local shows sounded muddy.
I may have been partially right, but it was most likely a crap soundguy. lol
10:01 Test Pedalboard of Science = Bill Nye reference? :)
what is the jazz master sound!!!!!!!!!
I didn’t here any mention of when to use mono or stereo reverb , or how reverb should be panned in context of a mix ? Could you shed some lite on this ? From the song you were playing at the intron, sounded like there was way to much reverb on your lead , sounded like a stage or theatre reverb .
Question. We play mostly outdoors. Picture a winery type atmosphere. Would you say using a little more than average amount of reverb for a rhythm guitar ok to do? Even if the singer and lead guitar is only using a little bit? 🤷🏼♂️
I just acquired a used super reverb right and I can't stand the reverb on it it sounds horrible has anyone ever tried to adjust the spring tension on a spring reverb plates are my favorite reverbs on drums and vocals I used to work at a studio in Brooklyn we had a 240 plate made by EMT that originally came out of sigma sound in Philly I fell in love with that thing put it on everything unfortunately that studio closed like a lot of good studios in New York have last few years
For me, reverb is as natural as having strings on my guitar. The question is not whether to use it, but what application. Of course, as Rhett noted, when layering, I may have a dry track/channel/sound source; non effected signal, but the total audio mix has reverb… in the mountains… in the skies… in the tunnel… in the well…
Reverb. Can’t breathe without it. And delay.
And overdrive… And strings on my guitar because I’ve always rather have been a drummer, but we don’t want that.