It’s not a good idea to run the send faders much higher than zero. If you’ve got the fader up to zero and you still want more reverb, you can raise the output level of the D-Verb return channel by clicking on its volume button and adjusting the slider control. Make sure the clip indicator in the D-Verb Plug-in window doesn’t come on. Save your session.

9. Click on the small square button in the upper right corner of the Send window and it will expand to show a stereo send meter. Click on the “Pan knob” in the Send window and pan the send all the way to the right. Note that the dry drums are still in the middle, but the reverb mostly comes out of the right channel. Option-click (Alt+click) on the Pan knob to return it to the center position. Close the Send window. Unmute the Rhythm and Lead Comp tracks.

10. Click on the first send button on the Rhythm track, but this time hold down the Option (Alt) key while doing so. Choose bus > bus 1-2 (Stereo). Note that sends appear on all the remaining tracks. This feature saves you the trouble of doing each one individually, but in this case it presents one problem. It has also put a send on the D-Verb channel, which is a definite no-no. Raising the send fader on that channel will cause a feedback loop that will make your speakers howl. To remove it, click on the little diamond on the send button for that channel and select “no send.” Save your session as “Lesson Two - 2 D-Verb.”

11. Click on the Rhythm track’s send to open its Send window and put some reverb on the Rhythm track. Try it on the Lead track as well. Take some time to experiment with the different reverb algorithms in the D-Verb Plug-in window. Check the System Usage meter to see if it has changed since adding the D-Verb Plug-in.

Multi-Mono D-Verb

In the previous scenario, D-Verb is configured as a stereo reverb. The reverb controls are ganged together so that changes you make will apply to both the left and right channels. The reverb outputs are panned left and right. You were previously instructed to select the multi-channel stereo version. New in 5.1 there is also a multi-mono version.

Let’s say you want a short reverb on the drums and a long reverb on the Lead track. You could create another aux channel and open another D-Verb Plug-in to accomplish this, but you want to conserve DSP. Here’s a solution:

1. At this point the D-Verb channel should look like the one in Figure 13. Click on the D-Verb insert and select multi-mono plug-in >D-Verb.

2. Option-click (Alt+click) on the D-Verb channel pan settings to set them to the center position.

3. Figure 14 shows the upper half of the D-Verb Plug-in window. There is an illuminated Master Link button with a chain link icon that indicates that the controls for left and right are linked. Click on this button to unlink them so that we can set different parameters for left and right.

4. Make sure the Channel Selector is set to “L” for Left Channel. The D-Verb Input Level should be turned all the way up. Set the algorithm to “Room 2.” This will be the short reverb.

5.Click on the Channel Selector and select the “right” channel. Turn the input all the way up on this one as well. Leave the right channel on the “Hall” algorithm and set the decay to 4 seconds for a longer reverb.

When you play the drum track, you’ll notice that panning the aux send to the left sends the drums to the short reverb, and panning to the right sends the drums to the long reverb. It would be much more convenient to have separate controls for each reverb. Here’s how:

6. Change the send on the Drum track from bus 1 - 2 (Stereo) to bus 1 (Mono).

7. Create a new send on the Drum track and set it to bus 2 (Mono). Now you have a separate send for each reverb.