Recording Discussion Club

Barney Hi Barney, I always like to start with the presets in the "classical" section, mainly the "Large Wooden Church" as they render a very pleasant and natural reverb!

As for the rest of the settings they are highly dependent of your signal. If you put Nimbus onto a dedicated reverb channel, the "Wet" fader needs to be all the way up, then you would adjust the strength of your reverb as we've discussed in the "All About Dynamics" lesson  

Barney Awesome, great mics! Though the strength will be mainly influenced by the distance of your mic to the sound source and their respective position within a given acoustic environment! If you plan to use artificial reverb, I would go closer than usual to your sound source (probably as close as we've done in the workshop as I've intended to work with artificial reverb anyway)!

Barney 

Case 1: Nimbus is on a dedicated reverb channel with your guitar signals routed into that track:

 In thatcase you need to turn up your "Mix" knob in Nimbus all the way up until it says "Wet", because you want ONLY a reverb signal on that track that you add to your dry signal on your guitar track. You would then turn up the Reverb by turning upt the Fader in the Reaper mixer (in my case it's called REV, short for reverb).

Case 2:

 Now my Nimbus is directly added to my guitar channel, that means that the only control I have over the strength of the Reverb is by turning the "Mix" fader up and down. If it's at 0% the fader says "dry" meaning that no Reverb is added, if it's at 100%  it says "Wet" meaning that you will only hear the reverb effect. If the plugin is inserted directly onto a guitar track I would typically end up with something betweeen 10-30%!

Barney Wow, that turned out really great!!! The sound you captured is warm and transparent and the reverb adds a nice touch of spaciousness without being overwhelming!
I'd recommend to turn up the Reverb Time up a touch, maybe around 3s to further increase the perceived size of the hall. Alternatively, you can increase the "Reverb Size" but to be honest I haven't read through the manual in order to verify how these times differ. I guess that the added reverb size is adding a high pass filter in order to emulate the high frequency absorption of air friction!
 On a different note, your left channel is approx 6db louder, I would adjust the panorama of your recording either by turning the pan knob or by decreasing the volume of the left channel if you recorded onto two several tracks!
But other than that it's a wonderful rendition of Malat's "Serenata Espanola", congratulations!!!

Barney Very cool, thanks for clarifying that! All Plugins tend to work somewhat differently, so looking into the manual is essential since every software developer set their own priorities!

Barney Larger Reverb size, but slightly adjust the reverb time to be a tad longer as well! The manual says :

Barney said:
A large reverb size with a shorter reverb time may also create a longer length with lower density and a more natural sound. It’s best to test these parameters with impulses such as clicks or snare drum strikes. 

 I already like the sound and density of your reverb, it's just not long enough for my taste. It's also possible that the overall level of the guitar isn't loud enough to excite the room. This occurs in real life as well, when we speak soft, there is almost no reverb in a big hall as the volume simply doesn't reach that point of reverbation and reflections (we talked about that in the live stream: If you double the distance, you loose 6db of volume, which is half the signal level)!