Valhalla Vintage Verb Vs Supermassive

[Tina Larzelere]

TheCOLOR control dials in the tone color and sonic artifacts of each specific reverb era. The 1970s color model is dark and noisy with the potential for strange and random artifacts. The 1980s is still funky, but with a brighter sound. NOW is too digital, clean, and colorless. As you switch through the eras, the colors of your GUI change, too.

I had previously been using different free reverb plugins to make 80s inspired music but a lot of them sounded too clean and modern. After buying vintage verb I fell in love with the sound of it. It makes even a really dry analog synth sound massive and smooth, It pushes it out into the stereo field. It works great on snares for that 80s punch and it shines on pads. An amazing plugin and worth having in a studio whether you are a beginner or professional.

If you want dark, rich-sounding reverbs this is the plugin to use. Absolutely stunning sound quality, whether you're using it for a light dash of reverb to give any instrument that special "mojo" or going crazy with 100% MIX settings for special FX purposes. This plugin will give you the "lonely clean guitar tone" used by Mikael Akerfeldt when used with the right settings and a PRS guitar. Such a wonderful sound! Valhalla rocks!

VVV cost only 50$ but the sound of it is really lovely. I use it in almost every project. This reverb gives depth and magic to patches you use it on. It gives you a "place" in which you can put your works and you know it will sound good. This is a must buy! 10/10

Usually went I'm using Kontakt The Grandeur Library. I would paired this reverb up with the modern setting. It amazing how this reverb just change the whole feeling coming out from the kontakt library itself especially empathizing on the clear notes.

"I've grown to love some of the custom programs I have been able to make with this plugin. What I love most is the user interface and it's minimalistic design. Being a person who worked for years on Lexicon 224, 480L and PCM 70 through 92, I can really appreciate how Sean Costello of Valhalla has found a way to make the Lexicon sound more ready, willing and able than it ever was. This software is fun!"

When someone asks me what reverb they should get, not matter if they're a new producer or someone who's been doing this for a long time, I will always recommend this. I own a plethora of other reverb plugins. I have the Reflektor, the Waves IR1, the Waves TrueVerb, the UAD Lexicon 224, and the UAD AMS RMX16. A majority of those reverbs cost hundreds of dollars, however this $50 plugin just continues to make me smile every time I load it up. This is always the first reverb I use in a project. For just about everything. Sometimes I take a break to use the RMX16 but this is the one for me.

The team at Valhalla are like the mad scientists of the audio world. Everything they do is wonderfully creative, allowing for endless possibilities. However, their ability to package an ungodly amount of creative juice into a simple, clean and modern UI that looks equal parts slick and pretty, is quite amazing.

Valhalla Supermassive is one of their newest additions to their power-packed time-based effects family. It was a plugin that came out in mid-2020, amid the pandemic. The creators say that working on the plugin helped them overcome the anxieties of the pandemic and this process had encouraged them to offer the plugin for free, as a sort of care package to everyone stuck inside, making music.

Valhalla Supermassive reminds me of a beehive. From afar, it looks like a simple structure, but throw a tiny rock at it and watch it explode into absolute chaos. The UI is deceptively simple, with its flat design and restrained colours. Nothing about the plugin gives away the sheer expanse of its capabilities.

Let us talk about the controls. The plugin looks very similar to the Valhalla Plate. The UI is split into 5 smaller sections. The first section on the left consists of the mix knob and the width knob.

The depth also varies as a function of the Mod rate, so that you can have faster modulation without sounding too out of tune. This is extremely useful in setting the character and era of a reverb. Imagine having a Lexicon with this function, to make a vintage verb sound a lot more modern by cutting the de-tune.

Valhalla Supermassive is what you call a great production/inspiration tool. You can use it to remarkably jazz up synth sounds and paint luxurious landscapes. When you initially use the plugin, it feels like something you would reach for when you are looking for those rare, large and dense verbs. Unless you work extensively on genres that use this style of effects, it is not something that would become your regular choice. But with a bit of tweaking, you can use this plugin to create very interesting and workable spaces in your mix.

Do give this plugin an honest attempt. Play around with shorter delay times and mix amounts. A quick forum search reveals that people on the internet have been using it in varied ways, from slapping it on top of other time-based effects to morphing and shaping kick drums.

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Thanks for tip, I will check those out later on, I had a brief look. It sounds like supermassive might a good one to look at (your using it, so it is good ) and

I imagine it might go well with some of the HollowSun plugins.

I found dropping the limit on polyphony helped a lot as well. Some makers

have lofty ideas of 768 notes/voices in a default state, 32 seemed a bit more realistic and freed up a lot of memory as well.

Realising this made a huge difference. 3 stereo line outs on the sound card helps, theres a lot more control than I had before. Cantabile and various plugins has been a decent learning curve, one I am coping with suprisingly.

Sean Costello has always been interested in the interaction between musicians and the academic and professional worlds.[3] He has co-written academic papers about reverberation, including a 2009 paper about using algorithmic reverberation with the Ambisonics system[4] and a paper about implementing a digital simulation of a spring reverb.[5]

ValhallaDSP was founded in 2009; Sean worked as an audio DSP designer and consultant for about a decade before founding his own company.[6] Before Valhalla DSP, Sean Costello had his first plugin work made public[7] when he provided four reverb algorithms for the Audio Damage EOS reverb plugin which was initially released in 2009;[8] one of those four algorithms was not available until 2017, when Audio Damage released EOS 2.[9][10]

Valhalla Room is a reverb plugin which mainly simulates the acoustics of realistic rooms and halls, although it can also be used for special effects. It has 12 different algorithms. ValhallaDSP says this reverb is best for "idealized room impressions".[13]

Valhalla Vintage Verb is a plugin with the sounds of various late 1970s and 1980s digital reverberators, including ones which sound like Lexicon[15] and EMT[16] reverbs. This plugin has been used song such as Hello and Water Under the Bridge by Adele,[17] as well as on Lana Del Rey's album "Lust for Life".[18]

ValhallaDSP says this reverb is best for the sound of "old school digital hardware reverbs".[13] One review feels that while it is excellent for getting the unreal larger than life sound of a classic Lexicon reverb, it does not work as a subtle reverb effect and is not a reverb for every occasion.[15]

ValhallaDSP says this reverb is best for the sound of "warm and dense reverbs of the 1960s and 70s".[13] Third party reviews of Valhalla Plate have been generally positive,[22][23] but one review pointed out that "it won't serve all needs", since it only simulates plates and small chambers, and does not emulate larger spaces.[24]

Valhalla Delay is a plugin which simulates the sounds of a number of vintage delays, including tape based delays (such as the sound of Roland Space Echo, Maestro Echoplex, or reel to reel based tape delay units), "bucket brigade" delays, 1980s digital delays, and delays with pitch shifting.[31] It features a "ghost" mode which combines delay with frequency shifting.[32]

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