Reverb Para Principiantes (Ingles)

Reverb For Beginners
Reverb can make a world of difference to your tracks...
Wonderful thing, this reverb. It's the reason we all sound better singing in the bathroom than any other room in the house. The fact is that each environment affects the sound of any noise made within it. Different spaces have their own acoustic signature, and the natural reverb or ambience in a tiled bathroom canenhance the sound of even the most tone-deaf Ronan Keating wannabe.
Now, it may not be the sound of your bathroom, but natural reverb is sometimes used in recordings. With an orchestral recording in a concert hall, for instance, that hall's natural acoustic is an essential and integral part of the overall sound. Likewise, a channel or two is usually set aside for ambient room mics when recording drumkits.
Recording the room reverb with an instrument, however, means you're stuck with it, and committed to using that room sound in the mix, which severely limits the creative options. So, in the majority of studio situations, instruments and voices are recorded with close mics, excluding just about all but the direct sound. Artificial reverb is then added at the mix stage to enhance the soundsand build a coherent overall sound, in terms of stereo width and front-to-back perspective.
Why use reverb?
In the context of making recordings, reverb in the mix helps to create the overall three-dimensional sound picture. Generally, the more reverb added, the further away a sound may appear, and that can help place it in context with the other sounds in the track.
Instruments recorded usingclose miking and instruments that have been DI'd have a lack of ambience that can sound quite unnatural. Adding reverb gives them a sense of space and smoothes out the sound, blurring the edges and helping to layer them together.
Effectively, it enables sounds that were not recorded at the same time in the same room to blend together into a cohesive overall sound. In this respect, it could even besaid that reverb is the glue that holds a production together.
Used in a less subtle fashion, reverb can also be relied upon for the odd special effect, although whether we really want to hear those huge '80s-style exploding snare sounds again is open to question!
How do we get reverb?

The ubiquitous digital reverb unit is the main source of artificial reverb in most studios these days. It iscompact and versatile with plenty of control over parameters, but prior to its invention reverb was generated in other ways.
An early method of creating reverb was to use a chamber - a small room lined with tiles or other reflective surfaces and housing a speaker and microphone.
The sound to be affected was sent to the speaker with the resultant sound captured by the microphone and brought backto the mixing desk. Variations were obtained by changing mic and speaker positioning. This is an approach that can still be applied if a room with a suitable ambience is available - lift shafts, stairwells and tiled bathrooms can all be put to good use in the right circumstances.
The reverb plate offers an electro-mechanical approach to creating reverb. Plates are large sheets of metal suspendedunder tension with transducers attached, and the vibration of the plate produces the reverb, with damping applied to vary the sound. With a sound of its own, distinct from the sound of a miked room, plate reverb has become a familiar sound in popular music over several decades, and all digital reverb units usually contain simulations of plates as standard.
There have been other ways to producereverb, too. Spring reverb works in a similar way to a plate, but using a spring instead of the sheet metal. Spring reverbs are mainly found built into guitar amps, but there have been standalone models made for studio use. The sonic character of a spring reverb is of limited use in music production, however.
Plugging in
Some reverb units can be used as true stereo in/stereo out units, but mono...