The freeing up of CPU power alone is worth switching to the smart reverb method, but that’s not all you get. That’s like an instant 2,000% increase in available power (check my math people). Those 20+ tracks you wanted reverb on earlier? Yep, they can all have it, and you are only using up the resources it takes to run one instance of your reverb. First you can now have only one reverb plugin open and send as many tracks to it as you like. The beauty of doing it this way is two fold. ( Check out a video example of this here.) Now if you want that reverb on your vocal, you’ll need to create an effects Send on your vocal track and “send” it to that newly created “reverb track”. Instead of putting a reverb plugin on your vocal track (using the above example) you simply open up an auxillary track (or buss, or effects track, depending on your DAW) and insert the reverb plugin there. Your only alternative to the OK way to use reverb is do it the smart way. Also, with a track running fully through a reverb plugin you have little control over the reverb signal and the dry signal apart from a “mix” or “blend” knob on the plugin. You’ll have to drop upwards of 20+ reverb plugins into your session, which on an average computer can soak up every last drop of power you have. Imagine you want all of your vocals, drums, and even some guitars to have a bit of reverb on them.
The biggest issue is the CPU strain it puts on your computer’s resources. But there a few major problems with this method. Just like I would with an EQ or compressor. I want reverb on the vocal, so I put reverb on the vocal. When I needed it on a vocal track, I literally opened up an available insert and slapped down my stock reverb plugin on that track. If you’re like me when I first got into mixing, I considered reverb to be just like any other effect in my plugin list. If you use reverb the way I’m about to describe you will have more control over your sound and save your computer power for the rest of your mix. This isn’t a subjective thing, this is a technical thing. Now it matters little to me which reverb you are using or how much reverb you like on your tracks. When it comes to using reverb in a mix, there is an OK way and then there is a smart way.
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