Specifications

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Simulating Early Reflections
Different physical environments have different
early reflection signatures that our ears and
brain use to pinpoint location information.
These reflections influence our perception of
the size of a space and where an audio source sits
within it. Changing early reflection characteris-
tics changes the perceived location of the re-
flecting surfaces surrounding the audio source.
This is commonly accomplished in digital rever-
beration simulations by using multiple delay
taps at different levels that occur in different po-
sitions in the stereo spectrum (through pan-
ning). Long reverberation generally occurs after
early reflections dissipate.
Reverb One provides a variety of early reflec-
tions models. These allow you to quickly choose
a basic acoustic environment, then tailor other
reverb characteristics to meet your precise
needs.
ER Settings Selects an early reflection preset.
These range from realistic rooms to unusual re-
flective effects. The last five presets (Plate, Build,
Spread, Slapback and Echo) feature a nonlinear
response.
Early reflection presets include:
• Room: Simulates the center of a small room
without many reflections.
• Club: Simulates a small, clear, natural-sound-
ing club ambience.
• Stage: Simulates a stage in a medium-sized
hall.
• Theater: Simulates a bright, medium- sized
hall.
• Garage: Simulates an underground parking
garage.
• Studio: Simulates a large, live, empty room.
• Hall: Places the sound in the middle of a hall
with reflective, hard, bright walls.
• Soft: Simulates the space and ambience of a
large concert hall.
• Church: Simulates a medium-sized space with
natural, clear-sounding reflections.
• Cathedral: Simulates a large space with long,
smooth reflections.
• Arena: Simulates a big, natural-sounding
empty space.
• Plate: Simulates a hard, bright reflection. Use
the Spread control to adjust plate size.
• Build: A nonlinear series of reflections
• Spread: Simulates a wide indoor space with
highly reflective walls.
• Slapback: Simulates a large space with a long-
delayed reflection.
• Echo: Simulates a large space with hard, un-
natural echoes. Good for dense reverb.
Level Controls the output level of the early re-
flections. Turning the Early Reflections Level
slider completely off produces a reverb made en-
tirely of reverb tail.
Early Reflections section