The following tutorial shows the user how to use the How to use Mixverb in Studio One.
On the modern days of audio mixing, the digital tools that engineers use in order to shape the recorded sound are called Plugins. Plugins can emulate the behavior of vintage analog pieces of gear, or simply act as clean/linear digital signal processors, performing tasks such as equalization, compression, limiting, expansion, gating, time-domain effects, etc. Studio One 4 comes with a variety of proprietary plugins that can help the user mix a music production completely “in-the-box”.
One of the most used processors that come with Studio One is the Mixverb, which can be defined as simple reverb tool that was designed to be used as an insert due its mix knob. It presents all the basic reverb parameters that can be found on reverb devices, with the added gate feature.
For the purpose of this tutorial, we will explain how to use the Presonus Mixverb plugin in Studio One 4:
- Open or create a new Studio One 4 song:
2. Open and maximize the MIX tab:
3. From the inserts list of the track, select “Mixverb”:
The Mixverb plugin window will open as:
It is easy to see from the previous picture, the Dual Pan plugin has several parameters that can be explained as:
- Pre: This knob adjusts the predelay time.
- Size: This knob adjusts the size of the reverb space.
- Damp: This knob adjusts the amount of damping of the reverb signal.
- Gate: When this switch is ON, a gate is applied to the reverb output signal.
- Gate Thresh: This knob controls the threshold of the gate.
- Gate Release: This knob controls the time it takes for the gate to close.
- Width: This knob adjusts the width of the stereo field.
- Lock: When this switch is ON, the mix control is locked.
- Mix: This knob adjusts the contribution of the original signal vs the affected signal.
For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use the Mixverb to create a dense reverb effect. The Mixverb will be set as:
- Pre: 15ms.
- Size: 77.5%.
- Damp: 23.5%.
- Gate: OFF.
- Gate Thresh: N/A.
- Gate Release: N/A.
- Width: 100%.
- Lock: OFF.
- Mix: 79.5%.
4. Apply the previous configuration, and the Mixverb plugin should look like this:
At this point we have successfully explained how to use and configure the Mixverb plugin in Studio One 4. The tutorial has now finished.
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