Siërra R., "Botfly Mother "Inhaling The Sodium Vapors""

I think one reason is that it reminds me of certain fx from the original Baldurs Gate game. But also it's just objectively cooler to put instruments into a context that is unreal than "large hall" or whatever.

I think leaning into the fact that I don't have an acoustically optimal space to record in influences this choice. And also, generally making weird electronic rock instead of something more grounded, helps. Like, you're telling me that I'm not going to take the opportunity to put a reverb on a track that sounds like spirits gasping from beyond the grave?? Please. This album is inhabited by ghosts thank-u-very-much!

Non-linear verb must be underappreciated because it's considered dated, but, to me, so do most audio production techniques. Like, we live in a decade where autotune and pitching your voice could be called dated. I don't mean "bad" when I say dated, just that musicians have been using it for a long time, and it is a stylistic choice that feels "of a time."

Dated or not, I'm still gonna do it. If I sound like the 80s so be it.

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renzo🐸@renzofrog5/17/2023, 1:37 AM

do it!! have fun with the music!!!!
does non linear reverb simply refer to non-realistic reverb or is there a more sophisticated distinction? googled a bit and seems like gated reverb falls under non-linear because it doesn’t follow real room acoustics

-H/|][|\|T-@haint5/17/2023, 3:01 AM

So, now I may be wrong about this, but I think the gated reverb being listed as non-linear may be a misnomer, because non-linear reverb was popular in the 80s and was often gated.

But what I'm referring to is a reverb algorithm, that instead of its reverberations becoming quieter over time like a real-world, physical reverb, it varies in volume in unrealistic ways. Maybe it becomes quiet then loud one or several times. This means sometimes a non-linear verb will often have an almost partially reversed sound, as it swells then fades.

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