With EXOVERB, spatial audio Dear Reality has released a stereo reverb plugin. With its intuitive interface and 50 simulated environments using a unique hybrid multi-impulse simulation processing, EXOVERB provides a refreshing take on reverb with a never-before-heard quality of depth and space.
In this article, we will give interesting insights into EXOVERB’s development, the thoughts behind the plugin, and what clearly differentiates it from its competitors.
As a spatial audio company, the creation of virtual acoustics, and the comprehensive customization of them, thus realistic sounding reverbs with a qualitative depth, have always been driving factors.
Over the years, we received feedback from our customers that they use the room simulations from our spatializer plugins like dearVR PRO2 in their everyday stereo mixes. So, the spatial audio simulation of rooms provided an impact on the sound that previous stereo reverbs did not.
When designing EXOVERB, Dear Reality has used their experience in high-quality simulated and spatialized room sounds to develop a revolutionary stereo plugin with a hybrid mix of previous technologies and new approaches. It offers a remarkably balanced and customizable sound, creating the most natural reverbs with an immersive fingerprint.
What distinguished EXOVERB from other reverb plugins?
It is rare to find a reverb plugin that offers a high level of depth perception in a mix. Most reverbs provide a decent stereo width, but they often sound flat or two-dimensional. However, many don't have much of an impact on how close or distant a sound feels. EXOVERB dials in the perfect amount of depth with a clear and responsive sound.
EXOVERB's unique interface helps to speed up your production process by easily finding the sweet spot of reverb, early reflections, and dry signal. It is designed to let you create mixes with greater control over the depth of sounds and instruments. The user interface boosts a new level of creativity in mixing, as it enables the user to sculpt the distance of each sound in a mix, creating more spatially realistic results.
This depth perception is achieved using Dear Reality’s proprietary processing technology. Packed into the futuristic yet intuitive interface are over 50 hand-crafted acoustic environments for producers and engineers to enhance their mixes by giving their listeners a natural sense of space and distance that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. From small room ambiances to cavernous, expansive chambers, variety has been a key factor in guiding the development of EXOVERB and its unique environment collection.
INCREDIBLY NATURAL ACOUSTIC SCENES
Choose from 50 different ambiances, rooms, halls, and plates
UNIQUE TRIANGLE PAD
Control the dry/wet signal plus early/late ratio at the same time to easily create just the perfect reverb sound for your tracks
PRE-DELAY
Shift the perceived distance of your signal up to 500ms
SIZE
Shorten or extend the reverb length to fit the character and tempo of your track
DECAY VALUE
Adjust the decay time (up to 150% or down to 50%) Use spatial separation to create natural-sounding front-back depth and space in your mix.
WIDTH & DEPTH
Adjust acoustic scenes with unheard three-dimensional depth and width
METERING
Monitor and adjust your in- and output level directly in the GUI, easy as that
INDIVIDUAL EQ SECTIONS
Create tonal adjustments with separate filters for early reflections, decay, or the summed reverb signal
Though spatial audio technology offers new perspectives on sound and immersion, people forget that stereo can produce immersive sound fields with realistic depth, too - if done right. With EXOVERB, Dear Reality unlocked this capability by applying the fundamentals of their well-known spatial audio technology to their pure stereo reverb plugin.
Unlike most reverbs, EXOVERB uses a unique reverb processing engine carefully hand-crafted by Dear Reality. Rather than using traditional impulses or algorithms, EXOVERB uses synthesized multi-impulses, designed relying on the experience gained in spatial audio. Each impulse is carefully hand-designed to create a highly natural-sounding reverb.
Another notable feature of EXOVERB is the perception of depth it creates in mixes. Very often, when comparing professional and amateur mixes, one key difference is the feeling of depth. The instruments all sit in their own space, some closer and others further away. This sense of depth can be hard to achieve for beginners. Typically it’s done using filtering and adjusting the volume; however, this doesn’t create a truly realistic sense of depth.
When you listen to EXOVERB, you will quickly hear how it influences the depth of a sound. The Depth control also makes this easy to manipulate, letting you place sounds closer or further away in the soundstage.
EXOVERB incorporates the fundamentals of spatial hearing, enabling enhanced control of spatial distance perception. The results are true-to-life sounding reverbs with three-dimensional depth perception on all playback systems - both speakers and headphones.
Anybody who uses reverb finds in EXOVERB a powerful tool perfectly suitable for any audio production. We designed EXOVERB with a range of genres and producing types in mind, from newcomers to veterans of the mixing desk.
Its easy-to-use and straightforward designed UI - especially their unique Triangle Pad - makes it a perfect fit for new and intermediate producers who want to achieve professional-sounding mixes with ease. It quickly enables you to create realistic-sounding reverbs with a high-quality, natural sound, and a sense of depth that is often lacking in mixes.
With its outstanding sound quality and ease of use, the plugin is perfectly compatible with any DAW, whether in the studio or at home! The large selection of acoustic scenes gives a new level of freedom to mixing engineers who need diversity in their reverb sounds.