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Different enough to be very hard to perfectly match. The PCM has early and late reflection filters - low, high, 1 or 2 pole, etc, along with high cut and bass release times. Aether has input, ER and LR EQ options (low, mid, high), along with a softening EQ option - getting the right balance between these to match PCM's EQ format is somewhat maddening, so I left these as is for sake of getting a general idea. Modulation parameters are similar in these, but EQ is structured much differently in each. Here is what I see as differences: Hannes noted Vocal Hall 4A sounded substantially louder - really that's only the initial bloom of the reverb - the tails are pretty even in level mid way through as they decay, which is what I settled for there (getting out that initial volume was a combination of factors and I ran out of patience). Reverb 2C: PCM Concert Hall (there is a bug in Concert Hall apparently, so it may have colored this test) Reverb 2B: Aether on "Obsession" render mode Reverb 2A: Aether on "Excellence" render mode This sample uses the Lexicon PCM Concert Hall preset. New samples added - somewhat more accurate duplication of settings between the verbs.
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These are more equally matched between Aether and the Lexi standard Hall. Yes, there is a method to this madness, and the reality that it takes time to match reverbs - and it isn't an exact science. This is just a simple violin pizz line to give an easily audible comparison of reverb tail, reflections, smoothness, etc, and is by no means an all-inclusive comparison, or a measure of how either verb will work for you in mockup scenarios.Īnd finally, some vocal samples (vocal from Tonehammer's Francesca library): Fwiw, you are comparing good reverbs, so there is no "gotcha answer" here to embarrass anyone. Note that it is difficult to match reverbs of this type, so there is some variation, but they are close - the point is to listen for quality more than perfectly matched sound. There was a question in another thread about a comparison between Aether 1.5 and Lexicon's PCM Native plugins (full, not LXP), so I ran a short comparison between them using customized hall settings, along with a 3rd sample just to give the blind comparison more weight.