Reverb for Soloists
In the context of mixing orchestras and solo instruments, 2 things are important that a reverb plug-in should be able to do:
1) push instruments into the depth, without much reverb tail.
This is needed to place the brass instruments behind the strings, for example.
2) add reverb to (solo) instruments without pushing them into depth at the same time.
See a short video about 2)
Now you can try out whether your favorite reverb tools can solve these tasks.
As a rule, convolution reverbs solve point 1) very well. If you shorten the tail you will get good results. Algo reverbs are more suitable for task 2): Tail without early reflections. However, many plug-ins do not really manage to attenuate these early reflections in such a way that the instruments no longer go into the depth with more reverb.
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