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Jay Rose added a new comment in Production 512: My, What A BIG Room You Have! - A Beginner's Guide to Reverb"Less is more" indeed!
Reverb does not make a voice bigger. It makes it farther away.
Generally, big things are farther away... but (in a normal room) a giant monster in-your-face will have less reverb than an announcer ten feet away!
If you want an intimate sound, dial the reverb down or...More"Less is more" indeed!
Reverb does not make a voice bigger. It makes it farther away.
Generally, big things are farther away... but (in a normal room) a giant monster in-your-face will have less reverb than an announcer ten feet away!
If you want an intimate sound, dial the reverb down or totally out. Let the listener's office/bedroom/car acoustics provide the only reverb. It'll sound more like the talent is talking directly to the individual listener.
From a film-mixing point of view (I left radio about 15 years ago), voice reverb is used primarily to make studio replacements match location dialog. Voice-overs, unless they're the character talking from their dialog world, have little or no reverb.Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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December 1, 1993
Production demo from interview subject Troy Smith, plus promos from WEGR/Memphis, KRBE/Houston, WWMG/Charlotte; and commercials from KSHE/St. Louis, WXKS/Boston, WVIC/Lansing, CJOJ/Belleville and ...