

There are high-cut and low-cut knobs for precise sculpting of your reverb signal. Add this to a plate model with some predelay, and you have an excellent all-purpose vocal reverb. For example, if you increase the early reflections and decrease the late reflections, you’ll create a reverb that feels like it’s nearby. All these can do wonders when applied to a vocal. Finally, with its rate and depth controls, the modulation menu lets you add subtle or extreme pitch effects on your wet signal to either humanize it with subtle modulation or completely alienate it with extreme pitch modulation. The diffusion menu with its late and early reflections controls will help you bring sounds in the front of the mix or push them back. The shape controls help you set the size of the reverb space and the attack of it. VintageVerb includes many more controls which you can use to fine-tune your reverb sound. This is an interesting feature that can help you sculpt your bottom end with accuracy. This means if you choose 2x on the bass multiplier, the decay on your low end will be double what the overall decay is. You also get the bass frequency and bass multiplier knobs, which will help you set the decay time of your chosen low frequencies in relation to the main decay time.

You get the high shelf and high-frequency controls which allow you to decrease the higher frequencies of the wet signal. In the damping section, you can sculpt the tone of the reverb. You can apply the color options to each of the different modes, which gives you unparalleled sonic flexibility. Finally, if you choose the now color option, you’ll get a full stereo modern reverb with a clean sound and no artifacts.


Similarly, the 1980s color has a noisy sonic profile but is significantly brighter and wider than the 1970s. The 1970s color has a lower resolution and a downsample character that helps capture the darker, filled with artifacts, the sound of that era. This is where the vintage emulation occurs since you can set the tone to the 1970s, 1980s, or now. The true brilliance of VintageVerb is inside the color menu. In addition, each mode has different decay length capabilities, different room size and shape, and overall completely different characters, which make VintageVerb a sound designer’s dream. Some of the modes are concert hall, plate, room, chamber, random space, chaotic hall, chaotic neutral, sanctuary, chorus space, and many more. There are numerous modes with different characteristics that will make for subtle reverb sounds or exaggerated and chaotic ones. Valhalla VintageVerb is very versatile, mostly due to the different modes it carries.
