Hello all,
During the Germany meeting I was having a chat with Tim (BigTim to you) and we were agreeing how "hungry" from a processor perspective Reaper was when you slap a reverb on the MASTER track. Well this morning I came up with a neat little trick that I thought I would share, and yes it seems much less hungry...
Our thinking BTW is that when you put some FX on the MASTER, it seems to add it to EVERY track... so if you had 10 tracks, that would be 10 reverbs! all working hard for that final sound...
My process now is as follows.
Create a new separate track.
Pull the fader down to -18dB
Add "sends" to this track from any other tracks that you want reverb to be added to the final outgoing mix.
Add a completely WET reverb (WET +0.0dB) (i.e. no DRY signal at all) to the new track. (I am using an IR file and that is where the -18dB came from, because I turn off the "Attenuate impulse by -18.06dB" option)
Ta dah! nice reverb which you can easily turn completely off by muting the track, and fade up and down to your liking.
Enjoy...