Best all-around RTAS reverb ?

Steve, Yea the Ren. Reverb really is great for all those issues. It sounds great, and doesn't take up too much cpu at all. It comes with the Ren. Comp and Ren. EQ as well, two of my most used plug-ins. I saw the Ren. Collection at Guitar Center for like $199 today. I've tried RealVerb, it sounds great, but's a tremendous cpu hog. Chris

Do yourself a favour, all the plug verbs or should I say , any of the ones that are any good are cpu hogs and cost more than outboard? Wonder why?. I bought a tc electronics m300 and Ill never go back. Its a dual processing engine, verb on one side with effects on the other. I reckon the verbs are great, a friends lexi isnt as good. They are cheaper than most of the plugs and no cpu issues with outboard gear. Run as many tracks to it as you want, just tweak the send or return. I am now the verb plug anti-christ but many will differ. Have a read about it, have a listen and then decide. PS. I dont work for tc, Im just impressed. The lexicon is great too, mpx models I think(?), They are just a bit more expensive here in Australia, yet still no where near as expensive as thier software counterparts. I dont see a case for software plugs anymore.

All of this is such good advice. The thing that I like about the plugs is the Visual aspect as well, I find it helps to see whats going on as well as listening. (ears being the bst thing of course). I have the Ren, from waves, the Realverb and the Dverb. They all sound good, my Fave would be the Realverb, it's interface, and sound. Dverb still sounds good, and is so easy to tweak, and I am still geting my head around the Waves, it's my new toy. at the end of the day I love this quote from my Hero Chick Corea.."Listen..and work the rest out from there" Peace NoteFram

Ya, I like the plug in verbs because you can automate and so on. Then again, I used to love pounding on spring reverbs (drummer at heart) ..now thats automation! My all time favorite was the tape reverbs. "Tape reverb was utilized by constructing a tape-loop device with a record head and multiple playback heads at intervals along the tape. Known as tape delay or tape echo, the signals from the successive playback heads were progressively diminished to attempt to mimic real reverberant decay, but it was always at the regular intervals dictated by the head positions." I used to use Realverb more but with the release of Waves 3.5 I am using Ren more. they both serve different needs

Yeah, tape verbs/delays, as a guitarist from the old school, the first delays and echoes I used was the old "copy cat", some here may remember it. Van Halen 1 had it on there, **** I feel old now. Great vintage sound. I also had a Alesis quadraverb years ago, not a bad unit,probably pick one up for next to nothing now.

Two cans of coffee, remove the coffee, put in your mic and you,ve got the dverb sound. Sorry digi but I think its the only plug that is a let down.

D-Verb sounds similar to a reverb unit from a Fender amp...read horrible when turned up, sometimes that's exactly what I want........ My general philosophy is that the reverb should be more felt than heard, if I really hear the gorgeous sound of -type in your favorite unit here- it's usually too much...... JMHO (by the way , I mostly use Realverb ) Andi