Recording reverb in the early days was as simple as just backing up a microphone from your sound source to reach the right amount of reverb you were looking for. Immediately after the clap the person would hear the decaying sound of the clap that is reverb. An easy way to hear reverb is to enter an empty room and clap. In the early days of radio, they would send the radio signal through a line miles and miles away and bring it back. When hearing exact duplicates of the sound is when it becomes echo.
A SIMPLE DELAY SLAPBACK SOUND IN SOUND PRODUCTION SERIES
Reverb is basically a series of multiple fast echoes merged together so fast that the human ear cannot separate the sound into a delayed distinct duplicate sound. Reverberation or as most people refer to it as reverb, refers to the way sound waves reflects of the surfaces around the sound source before it reaches the listeners ear. From big metal sheets to plug-ins in a DAW on a computer, engineers have found ways to incorporate and benefit from reverb and echo on a recorded audio track.īut before skipping into today’s ways of recording reverb and echo let’s shed some light on what reverb and echo truly is and where it came from. But now in today’s age with men and the modern technology that they have created there are all sorts of ways to create reverb and echo. Since before man, creatures and nature made sounds that created natural reverb and echo. History of Reverb and Echo in Audio Production Recording Natural occurring reverb goes further back than man on earth.
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