[Peibyn]

Dave Platt, many thanks! I feel you've understood my situation and as a result of what you've advised, I immediately want to start experimenting!

I have Audacity 2.0.0 loaded on my computer. Once the vocal line is loaded into it could you tell me, please, what I can do to add high-quality (realistic) reverberation?

About ten years ago, when last preparing a recording that has been selling quite well ever since, I went to Audacity's "Effect" tab and tried using what was probably the most obvious Reverb choice that I found there, but the result was horrendous. So there and then I just abandoned the notion of adding Reverb after the event, deciding that recording in a more reverberative environment or using the Reverb function of an amplifier, as I had done years before, was probably the only way of producing a true reverb effect. Now from what you have written I see that there was probably an option that I missed, or a plug-in I could have added, as you've suggested. I don't think I ever experimented with adding plug-ins to Audacity. But now that I'm finishing with the writing and publishing of a book and I feel the need to return to song-writing, I'm feeling much more adventurous!

Again, many thanks!

There are numerous software "plug-ins" available for popular
digital-recording applications, which can apply various types of
reverb, flanging, phasing, vocoding, and almost any other effect you
can imagine.

Take a look at the (free) Audacity recording/mixing app. It supports
several different plug-in standards (LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST) and
I'm sure there are plugins you'd find both usable and worthwhile.

[Dave Platt[_2_]]

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Peibyn wrote:

Dave Platt, many thanks! I feel you've understood my situation and as a
result of what you've advised, I immediately want to start
experimenting!

I have Audacity 2.0.0 loaded on my computer. Once the vocal line is
loaded into it could you tell me, please, what I can do to add
high-quality (realistic) reverberation?

Go to

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/plugins

for a list of currently-available plugins.

http://lv2plug.in/ has a bunch, based on the relatively new LV2
interface standard. Look under "Projects". Calf, and Invada studio
both include a reverb module.

http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/ has one revert module.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/GVerb talks about Freeverb (in the
CMT), and GVerb and Anwida.

I haven't personally experimented with any of these.

In addition, because Audacity supports open standards for plugin
interfaces, there may very well be commercial reverb plugins which
would work with Audacity.

About ten years ago, when last preparing a recording that has been
selling quite well ever since, I went to Audacity's "Effect" tab and
tried using what was probably the most obvious Reverb choice that I
found there, but the result was horrendous.

With any reverb plugin/module/effect, you can expect that a bunch of
experimentation is going to be required to figure out what settings
are appropriate for your particular source material, needs, and
personal taste. The GVerb page mentioned above has a bunch of
suggested settings for different needs, which "sound a lot better than
the GVerb defaults" (which may have been what you encountered).

[Peibyn]

Dave, many thanks indeed for all of those links. All saved.

There's clearly a variety of options available! I look forward to the experimenting!

Thank you.

[geoff]

On 27/03/2015 1:18 a.m., Peibyn wrote:
Dave Platt, many thanks! I feel you've understood my situation and as
a result of what you've advised, I immediately want to start
experimenting!

I have Audacity 2.0.0 loaded on my computer. Once the vocal line is
loaded into it could you tell me, please, what I can do to add
high-quality (realistic) reverberation?

This is the most basic of functions . A good start would be to read the
manual and check out tutorials on Youtube. Pretty much all DAWs work
similarly.


About ten years ago, when last preparing a recording that has been
selling quite well ever since, I went to Audacity's "Effect" tab and
tried using what was probably the most obvious Reverb choice that I
found there, but the result was horrendous.

Once the effect is placed you have to adjust it to taste. Both the
nature of the reverb (start with a preset) and the amount of reverb
verus 'dry'.

geoff