Opinions wanted: Best Reverb plugin?

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I own a very good (Strymon) Reverb pedal, and when it’s hooked up, it really is an impressive effect, to the degree that I’ve actually had people comment on how good vocals sound through it more than once.

But, I thinks to myself, there must be a competitor ‘verb among the software herd, be it a mersh VST or some funky Free project that nobody’s heard of. I am interested in finding it, if it exists, cause it would be handy if I could not dedicate four more cables and a wallwart and the associated spaghetti to my rig when the Zynthian is already attached.

So as the Subject says, what’s your favorite, or what in your opinion/general consensus is the best-quality Reverb sound…in the Zynthian at the moment? …in the VST world? Free, paid, I don’t care really, but ideally I can run it on a Linux machine.

I’m also curious about these new IR Convolution thingies, for this and for other stuff too (mostly, I would like to create a pedal version of the “Stinger” tube circuit as found in a Garnet BTO amp), but have not found the time to search out the best documentation of how to use them most effectively. Perhaps I could Convolute my preferred Big Sky patches and get the best of both worlds?

Is there any canonical reading one could do about IR? I’m clear on the concept of what they do, and I’m aware there’s a very expensive line of guitar gear that people are using to digitize their other gear now, I figure we can hook that up Freewise right?

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I like the Valhalla’s. Especially the Super Massive.

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Hi @jtode,

Hands down, by direct experience and according to my taste:

  • Valhalla Shimmer (paid, roughly equivalent to Big Sky).
  • Valhalla Supermassive (free, partly equivalent to the spacier Strymon models).
  • Native Instruments Raum (paid, bit of everything, ideal for large spaces, comparable to Strymon but not as otherwordly).

Cheers :slight_smile:

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I like the Dragonverb.

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My goto reverbs on my studio pc are Valhalla Vintageverb (always) and Exponential Audio/Izotope Symphony (sometimes). People rave about AltiVerb when it comes to convolution, but that is to many dollars per decay second for me.

On Zynthian I switch between Tal-Reverb III and the Convolution reverb but didn’t find the time to evaluate great IRs. Dragonfly reverb is great, but causes xruns here.

Don’t know these, but might be close to their digital hardware siblings.