Pumping reverb effect

A pumping reverb is actually easy to do as long as you have a compressor with sidechain capability and a reverb with a long tail. The pumping reverb has become an effect often used in trance music and is regarded by many as a signature effect of german producers Vengeance.

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Education

Tags:

• ableton
• live
• audio damage
• eos
• vengeance
• pumping
• compressor
• sidechain
• plughugger
• carl löfgren
• carl lofgren
• tips
• ducking

[Senj1n]

Never use FF2 Model for Sidechaining... Set it to FF1 and 10ms lookahead and you're good to go..

[haro82]

Thanks a lot for showing how to do this. I was just looking for how to do this exact effect on a track I'm working on now.

[doradoradoramen]

just a suggestion...

try softening the knee,

lowering ratio slightly,

changing comp behaviour to RMS (ala alesis 3630 i.e. french/daft punk sound) or opto - you will find a much smoother more pleasing duck effect...

also the fastest attack will improve tightness and groove with kick drum -

release was fine but with the above settings and tempo between 120-133 bpm you will find that a release of around 87ms will give a magic flow with threshhold adjusted around -10db gain reduction.