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Old 01-09-2022, 10:42 AM
jim1960 jim1960 is offline
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For a solo acoustic guitar production I doubt it makes much difference
Maybe not but I don't know that for sure. And since I never do solo acoustic, I'm not likely going to know in the future.

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But for multi track productions ::::
The difference became readily apparent when I was talking on line classes at Berklee. We had a 35 to 40 raw recorded tracks of a rock production we were supposed to mix. And for time domain FX (both reverb and delay) we were instructed to experiment with both directly on the tracks and in parallel. What was a stark contrast was that all (everybody in the class) the sessions with directly on the tracks all sounded like mush , compared to the sessions where we used parallel
That goes right to a question I've been wondering about as I'm reading through this thread and the other similar thread... does applying reverb to the track directly weaken the fundamental of the track in a way that does not happen when applying reverb in parallel? I suspect it does but may not be as apparent on a solo acoustic track because you don't have the build up of a weakened fundamental going across numerous tracks. I could just as easily be wrong on that front though.
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