Best reverbs !? – Page 10 – Effects Forum

Ok, what’s the bestness in reverb for u? Let’s define the terms. Substantiate your choice. Why vss4? Due to no comb filtering in mono + trnasparent ambiance without fog, almost any standard premises and some limited outdoor spaces can be recreated. It eats 6x more cpu than vss3 and obviously there are reasons for that. Relab? Totally cheap! With their 480 emulation you can’t get anywhere. Reverberate2 by liquidsonics was good unlike castrated v3 but it uses irs – it’s as good as irs are good but most irs in internet are not good and compromise ir technology indeed. If you take your own irs by hand clapping it will become apperent. Valhalla is flat and foggy, not even close to those reverbs from 2006. Actually i think rayspace is the only scientific reverb which beats all other reverbs by vastness of its possibilities. It’s diffuse tail is a bit harsh but in all other aspects nothing even comes close. If the developer could also create modes like water instead of air between baffles ie changing sound speed, non linearity of sound propagation due to liquidic properties, also soil, metals instead of air custom input fields for speed of sound, media properties and properties of baffles themselves, realtime modulation of scatter, then his vst would be the ultimate reverb for ages. Scientific approach is the only correct one. For some reason that reverb is no longer available on his site. It does not really matter if it was only 32-bit. It’s still the best reverb even without support of non-gas media. Unlike other reverbs it can create landscapes. Other reverbs are very limited in that aspect.
Old reverb pantheon by lexicon in certain aspects beats such reverbs as vss3, orilriver, kr-reverb fs and etc of that level. Produced in 2003 it still gives fantastic result – put it 100% wet and there is no metallicity at all, and in mono it also sounds almost without comb filtering. So, old plugins imho were just better and by the way vss4 algo was developed in 90s for their hardware system 6000/4000.