tons of reverb?

[New Guy]

If you use reverb to fill a track your a bad producer.

alot of the plastikman tracks are reverb oriented

[Robot Criminal]

... and concept 1 even more so

[tone-def]

If you use reverb to fill a track your a bad producer.

I read that in Future Music Magazine.

So not really my opinion.

[hydrogen]

If you use reverb to fill a track your a bad producer.

I read that in Future Music Magazine.

So not really my opinion.

could have quoted them then... regardless I think they are talking about pop music, most pop music doesn't rely on reverb to make a track good. where as there are minimal tracks soley based on tweaking the reverb settings.

[tone-def]

tracks soley based on reverb are not my cup of tea. Unless it's some kind of sping reverb.

[Red Kite]

To be honest there reverb tracks are getting on my nerves for quite a while. Just some clicka-clacka percussion loops, and the rest is filled up with reverbs (oh yeah, and the two-tone bassline of course). I think this sound come up with early Jay Haze records and didn't really evolve from that. A boring track doesn't improve much if you filled it up with reverbs.

But then of course, there are some producers who used reverb in a way that they don't sound like the usual sounds, maybe even unrecognizable as a reverb (like Pheek )

[manzatour]

red kite and tone def got the point! that is exactly what i intended...

when the use of reverb doesn't go in a sound research or sound design direction, it's just a bluff... or a fake if you prefer

[steevio]

lots of reverb or no reverb, come on guys it depends on the tune.
it's just another tool and an important aspect of production,
if there's people overdoing it because their musical ideas are weak, don't worry about them, they'll be gone soon.