Ducking Vocal Reverb

In this tutorial we’re going through how you can and why you should set up ducking for your vocal reverb.

Applying sidechain compression (ducking) to the reverb track allows you to have a nice big deep reverb tail without getting in the way of the actual vocal. The vocal feeds into the reverb whilst also triggering the compression, pushing it down. Vocal ends and the reverb comes up.

It’s a great way to control the mud fill space and add depth all at once.

The setup is almost identical to Gated reverb, only swapping a compressor for the gate. (link below)

Here I’m using Valhalla Vintage verb and ReaComp but you can use any reverb and any compressor that can accept an external sidechain input.

Update – Why not compress before the reverb? is it the same?

See also – Gated reverb
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