Might as well throw Chorus in the mix while your at it!Discuss the differences / similarities, when to use which etc...
I am just getting into all the gear and it's a steep learning curve but I am slowly getting there!I think you mostly have it. In a high school gym there will be a reverb character. But depending where you are sitting also a slapback echo.
Chorus/phasers introduce a variable phase shift that that will cancel or accentuate certain frequencies. And generally the rate of those fluctuations is variable.
How about flange?
Or rotating speaker effect (Leslie)?
That is really helpful Braylon! @CaptainMoto also once explained to me (I can't find the post, forgive me if I lose your meaning here Moto, just correct me ) that the reverb can be used to kinda push an instrument back in the mix whereas a delay can help to bring it to the foreground in the mix. I sure hope I have that right.....If I have this right:
Reverb are the echoes that accompany a sound and are caused by the various reflections of the room its in. The size of the room, the reflectivity of the surfaces of the room, and the population of the room are the major factors in the sound of the reverb. Because most of us don't have beautiful sounding rooms, we tend to record dryly and add artificial reverb to the signal. Guitar amps use springs, tanks, or digital reverb to get the sound directly out of the amp. The first reverb units were often big rooms or spaces with a speaker at on end and a mic placed in the other to capture authentic reverb. Sounds can be sent through springs, tanks, and plates to achieve different flavors of reverb. Impulse Responses (IR's) are digital recreations created by capturing the reflections in a good sounding room and reproducing it digitally, but don't ask me how its done.
Delay is basically echo added to your signal. A slapback is a quick single repeat that sort of simulates a sound source recorded near a wall. Delays can repeat from once to indefinitely and can be tweaked in speed, pitch, and just about any way imaginable to produce a wide variety of effects. Chorus and phasers are different flavors of delay, but again, don't ask me to explain. Tape delay is an analog style of delay where the tiny vagaries of tape speed provide a sweet delay that many can't live without.
This is my totally uneducated understanding, anyway. Please correct me where I'm wrong or expand on areas where I'm a little blurry.
That is really helpful Braylon! @CaptainMoto also once explained to me (I can't find the post, forgive me if I lose your meaning here Moto, just correct me ) that the reverb can be used to kinda push an instrument back in the mix whereas a delay can help to bring it to the foreground in the mix. I sure hope I have that right.....
I have wondered about any negative effect from using reverb and delay setting on one instrument in the mix that is different from another instrument, especially reverb. Like do the two different reverb settings (on different tracks) somehow create some strange audio artifact (better know as hoo doo) in the final mix. I believe Moto told me I had other things to concern myself with (in a very nice way) and I have never heard anything to confirm my suspicion. Hmmm.....
Reverb, and compression, delay - the onset of my effect confusion.