reverb
/ˈriːvəːb
/ /rɪˈvəːb /noun [mass noun]
1An effect whereby the sound produced by an amplifier or an amplified musical instrument is made to reverberate slightly: the best available Barios recording, despite reverb...
- Devoted fans will recognize a lot of the original backing tracks, which all have been remixed and dubbed up with plenty of spacey echo, harsh delay, copious reverb, and psychedelic sound effects.
- The front soundstage was wide and deep, with surrounds used for slight reverb and ambient audience sounds.
- Much to his disappointment, it transpired that Sam's conversation with a deity could be explained by his amp picking up the random radio hissings of a passing cabbie - but passed through wah-wah and reverb, it sounded almost godly.
1.1 [count noun] A device for producing reverb: there are 16 effects available, including a number of reverbs...
- My favorite preset, Dual Backyard, is a true-stereo preset that uses two reverbs linked together.
- The bottom line is, unless you're planning on tracking a multipiece band simultaneously with multiple headphone mixes, lots of plug-ins, virtual instruments and CPU-hogging reverbs, then you needn't worry about this problem.
- Again, that's something you can simulate with reverbs and delays.
Origin
1960s: abbreviation.
- betrothed
- betrothment
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Bettendorf
- better
- betterance
- better dead than red (or better red than dead)
- betterer
- better half
- better-heeled
- bettering house
- betterish
- better late than never
- betterment
- bettermost
- betterness
- better off
- better-paid
- better safe than sorry
- better than
- better the devil you know than the devil you don't know
- better-to-do
- Betterton, Thomas
- bet the farm
- betting