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Master Fader and My Fader Reference Guide
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Reverb Type
Reverb simulates the eect of room variations. The Master Fader app comes with nine reverb types to
choose from: plate, ambience, small room, medium room, large room, hall, cathedral, gated reverb and
spring. A button displaying the current reverb type may be tapped to reveal the other reverb types. Tap
the reverb you would like for the selected channel. The image will change to reect the reverb type chosen.
Reverb Type Description Examples
Plate Plate reverbs emulate vintage mechanical reverberation that is
generated with a metal plate. Its sound is characterized by lots
of early reections and no pre-delay.
Perfect for thickening percussive
instruments, such as a snare drum, or
tight vocal arrangements.
Ambience Ambience is the surrounding sound eld.
This reverb adds depth and space.
Ambience is good for scoring movie
soundtracks and post-rock bands
utilizing a lot of depth in their sound.
Small Room The small room reverb simulates the reverberation
(persistence of sound) in a typical small room. Small rooms are
typically coined “dead” rooms with little to no reverb.
Some artists record guitars (and/
or bass) from a bathroom to get a
“punchier” sound out of their amp.
Medium Room The medium room reverb simulates the reverberation
(persistence of sound) in a typical medium room.
A medium room would be good
for thickening up a bass sound
without it sounding muddy.
Large Room The large room reverb simulates the reverberation
(persistence of sound) in a typical large room. Large rooms are
typically coined “live” rooms since they have a lot of reverb.
Sound tends to carry in large rooms
with a lot of open space. This works
well for a good, boomy kick sound.
Hall This reverb is characterized by its large, spacious
sound, long pre delay and vibrant tone.
Adds life to acoustic instruments
and vocals from solos to full-on
symphonies and choirs.
Cathedral This reverb emulates the extremely long tails, dense diusion
and long pre-delays and reections that would be found in a
very large, stone-walled house of worship.
Gives amazing depth to choirs,
wind instruments, organs and
soft acoustic guitars.
Gated Reverb Gated reverbs incorporate an age-old trick whereby an
extremely dense reverb is processed through a fast gate for an
interesting, albeit articial, sound.
Most often used to fatten snare
drums and toms without clutter.
Spring A spring reverb uses a transducer at one end of a spring and a
pickup at the other end to create and capture vibrations in a
metal spring. The longer the spring, the longer the decay time
of the reverberation.
Spring reverbs are typically used on
guitar ampliers or organs in a rock
band format.