Set the decay to 1.9 seconds, the Bass Multiply to 1.5X or so, the Early Size to 150 msec or so, Early Send all the way up, and adjust the tone to taste. Meanwhile, it is easy to dial in a more 'natural' hall with ValhallaRoom. But ValhallaShimmer doesn't do short well. The 'ConcertHall' preset in ValhallaShimmer is LOOOONNNNGGG - like 10 seconds or so! To be fair, that preset was meant to emulate the 224 Concert Hall algorithm, which sounds best on longer decays. The goal of VRoom is to have short natural room sounds, as well as other physical-type spaces - halls, chambers, cathedrals, super short ambiences.įor example, a real concert hall has a decay of around 1.9 seconds around 1000 Hz, with the low frequencies having a decay closer to 2.5 seconds. it also wouldn't be my first choice on percussive sounds, although i haven't tried it. It sounds absolutely TERRIBLE for natural room ambiences. closest thing i've tried is a lexicon pcm 70 with the hall or plate algorithms and the 'chorus' parameter engaged, but they sound different too.ĭefinitely not recommended for natural ambience. yes, lots of digital reverb plugins do the long wash thing, but nothing i've tried has ever come close to capturing what this thing can do. Where shimmer excels is as a sound effect, or a completely unnatural but glorious sounding pitch shifted and chorused/modulated washes of ambient sound. With shimmer, there are a few different basic algorithms to choose from, which are long, very long and ridiculously long black hole.

apparently EOS is better for those, but i haven't tried that either. That's the thing I find kills most reverbs - big washes are easy to make sound good. How is it for natural room ambiences for percussive sounds? Babaluma wrote:the more i use valhalla shimmer, the more i am in love with it, and the fantastic manual is hugely informative in helping you to get a really wide variety of sounds out of it.

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