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4 Presets, Fat Channel, and Voice Effects
4.3 Reverb
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4.2.6 Voice FX
Need an effect for your Sci-Fi podcast? Want to add a little spookiness to your
Halloween stream? Voice FX are here to give you fun, fantastical effects for your
audio. Expect crazy echoes, distortions, warbles, robot voices, and more.
Don’t forget—just because they’re called Voice FX, doesn’t mean they can
only be used on voices... Experiment with different sound sources!
Like the rest of the Fat Channel, each Voice Effect has advanced
controls. See Section 6.2.7 to find out more.
4.3 Reverb
Reverberation—or reverb, as it is more commonly known—is perhaps the
most widely-used effect in recording. Natural reverb is created by sound
waves reflecting off of a surface or many surfaces. For example, when you walk
across the wooden stage in a large hall, thousands of reflections are generated
almost instantaneously as the sound waves bounce off the floor, walls, and
ceilings. These are known as early reflections, and their pattern provides
psycho-acoustic indications as to the nature of the space that you are in, even
if you can’t see it. As each reflection is then reflected off of more surfaces,
the complexity of the sound increases, while the reverb slowly decays.
The reason for the widespread use of reverb in audio recording is fairly self-evident:
Human beings don’t live in a vacuum. Because our brains receive cues about the
nature of the space around us based partially on audio reflections, a sense of space
can make an audio recording sound more natural and, therefore, more pleasing.