Being able to get that great reverb or ambience that came from a big studio tracking session would be great for the remote mixer without access to the same space, reverb unit or plugin. One new A.I. plugin makes this a reality…

The Right Reverb

For those working in high end facilities, reverb and ambience comes in three flavours: from the recording space, from an esoteric reverb box, or from a plugin. Having these choices isn’t just an expensive luxury. Relying on one type of reverb, or even just one reverb overall is not ideal when choosing how to place sounds with the appropriate spatial personality.

That’s not to say that the aim is to have a number of unrelated reverbs in a single mix; rather it is desirable to use fewer reverbs which have been chosen as the right tool for the job as opposed to being used by default. The small studio owner or mixer often has their hands tied on this latter point, but the choices have recently grown thanks to a single, innovative, A.I. tool.

Replicating Reverb And Ambience

If you’ve ever received a track recorded in a space with great ambient textures, a perennial problem exists when it comes to overdubbing in another studio, or even at home. That is, how do we match that ambience and maintain the sense of place without ending up later with something that sounds bogus or “stuck-on”.

The Reverb That Can Recreate Another

In a recent article, I wrote about the astonishing Chameleon reverb from Accentize. Accentize describe Chameleon as “an intelligent audio plugin which uses artificial neural networks to estimate and model the exact reverb content of any source recording. You can build a reverb profile in seconds and easily apply it to dry studio recordings.” Features include:

• create unlimited different unique reverbs with a single click

• automatic parameterisation of dry/wet-mixing, stereo-width and pre-delay

• the ideal tool for realistic ADR and foley matching

• useful for creative sound-design or music-production

• extract the natural room-impulse-response of any recording and export as a wav-file

Watch in the video how I use Chameleon to match the ambience of a distant recording of guitar and apply it to a reamp guitar that’s anything but…