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Like many other musicians, I’m often asked for comments about in-progress mixes, and recently I’ve noticed a couple of common issues relating to software reverb. The first one thankfully seems to be getting rarer, and that’s the habit of slapping in a different reverb for each and every instrument, which generally results in mixes that may sound complete but very ‘muddled’. Once you point out the advantages of relying on one or perhaps two global reverbs, each instrument feeding into them via an aux send, you end up with all sounds playing back through the same acoustic space, resulting in much clearer and cohesive mixes that more closely reflect

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