The 1.0.4 version of ValhallaRoom added a set of Cathedral presets, that were dialed in from published acoustic measurements of various Italian cathedrals. A few hints in dialing in a cathedral sound: Turn DECAY up to correspond to the midrange decay rate. Gothic cathedrals can have decays up to 12 seconds long, while cathedrals from […]
In one of my previous posts, I described the characteristics of “real-world” concert halls, and how to emulate them with ValhallaRoom. In general, real concert halls have a fairly fast onset of reverberation, a decay time between 1.6 and 2.1 seconds, and a somewhat longer decay time at low frequencies than at mid-frequencies. A realistic […]
ValhallaRoom was named for its ability to get realistic room sounds. From this perspective, a concert hall is nothing more than a really big room. The physics and reverberant characteristics of concert halls have been studied extensively in the last century, starting with the work of Wallace Sabine (the acoustic consultant for the design of […]
ValhallaRoom can be used to generate a room sound that works well with acoustic drums. Some recommending starting points: Use the Large Room or Large Chamber Reverb Mode. These provide an earlier onset of echo density. Dial in the initial “size” of the room with PREDELAY. A standard trick is to use 15 to 30 […]
Generating a gated reverb sound with ValhallaRoom is easy: Set the DEPTH control to 0%, so that only the Early reverb is heard. Set PREDELAY to 0.0 msec, so that the gated sound is generated by the Early energy only (the PREDELAY can be set higher for gated echos). Set Early Diffusion to 100%, for […]
Now that ValhallaRoom has been released for OSX and Windows, I want to put up a few blog posts that go over the features of the reverb, how to dial in the sound you want, tips and tricks, and so forth. To start things off, let’s take a look at the GUI, and go over […]
ValhallaShimmer was primarily designed as a reverberator. However, it can also get some cool chorus sounds. The Chorus preset is a good place to start. Some general tips: Set Size as low as possible. This will keep the reverberant quality to a minimum Use one of the smaller reverbMode settings. The Chorus preset uses smallStereo, […]
As a followup to my Eos tips and tricks post, I thought I’d share some more reverb tips. All of these have been tested with Eos, but should also work with a wide variety of hardware and software reverbs. Set the high cut filters to a fairly low frequency. Older hardware reverbs, such as the […]
