Freeverb Room Setting Help!

[Anska]

Hiya Clever Recording Folks!
I'm a complete noobie to the world of Audacity and I need some help please with what I believe is Freeverb2.
I have Roomsize, Damping, Predelay, Lowpass, Highpass, Wet level and Dry level parameters.

Now, I've read the forum and it says what each of these sort of does and to experiment to 'get my desired effect' and I've also read some in depth stuff which went straight over my head - but I'm used to an electric piano keyboard and pushing a button that says "Concert hall effect" and "Small room effect" and everything is done to my decidedly amateur happiness.

I bet someone out there with lots more experience than myself can give me some basic parameters for a few basic room effects and I would be so grateful so i can just punch them in an save for future use. For example, the room size seems self explanatory but "0.8650000 size" is what? cubic meters? cubic feet? God only knows and even if I did I still wouldn't have a clue. And Damping is 55% of what? Aarrgh!

Please help if you can. Many many thanks )
Anska

[kozikowski]

Audacity 1.3 comes with GVerb. You might start there. If you're on Audacity 1.2, you should probably not be.

Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.

-- GVerb Settings --

Room Size: How big is the room.
Room Time: I'm guessing these two would be whether or not the room is square.

Damping: The amount of carpeting and drapes.
Input Bandwidth: "Fidelity" of the echo. This could be related to how much Louis the XIV furniture you have in the room. This is different from carpeting which doesn't reflect anything. Credenzas do.

Dry Signal: Wet and Dry are with and without effects. I forget which is which.

Early Reflection: No idea
Tail Level: Liveness of the room leading to one echo dragging on forever. This is the cathedral effect where you can come back next week and still hear the service.

Koz

[steve]

What operating system and which version of Audacity?

[Anska]

Hiya, thanks for your help so far. I have audacity 1.3.12-beta! I am operating windows 7 64bit. I'm using 'Dreampoint Freeverb' but it doesn't say which version.

I just want some parameters I can punch in to the freeverb to give me 'cathedral' 'large room' 'small room' 'club' etc etc etc.....

Sadly, I don't have the knowledge or lots of time to experiment (I have 3 yr old demanding son !). Any help gratefully received.

Many thanks

[steve]

Download "DX Reverb Light - Windows (VST)" from here: http://www.anwida.com/download.asp?pt=12
This is the famous free reverb from Anwida.

The download is a ZIP archive file, so you need to extract the contents into your Audacity plug-ins folder (shout if you need help doing that).

Open Audacity and go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Effects"

Ensure that the VST options are enabled and tick "Rescan VST effects next time Audacity is started" and click the OK button.
Restart Audacity.

You should now see the Anwida Reverb lite listed in the Effects menu. It has user friendly presets

[Trebor]

I just want some parameters I can punch in to the freeverb to give me 'cathedral' 'large room' 'small room' 'club' etc etc etc.....

The free Anwida everb plug-in Steve mentioned has those type of presets ...

[Anska]

Steve... I love you. That's absolutely PERFECT!!! It's exactly what I wanted. Thank you so much. *hugs*

[Anska]

And thanks also to Trebor - the pic was great help and to everyone who answered my post. Cheers y'all.