Show Notes
A deep dive into the magical heart of reverb design, with the industry's most passionately reverberant person: Sean Costello of Valhalla DSP! LINKS ➤ If you enjoyed this, please buy Sean's plugins, since they're only $50 each (Get Delay and Vintage Verb first is my recommendation, plus the free ones!): https://valhalladsp.com/ ➤ Sign up to Sean's creativity newsletter project: https://valhalladsp.com/creative/ ➤ Here's the great talk on reverb design Sean did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJLhqfHrwsw ➤ And check out the Tom Erbe's 'Designing the Erbe Verb' talk Mylar mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_qdtQKnqk ➤ Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mylarmelodies THANKS TO SPONSORS http://www.signalsounds.com The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/mylarmelodies03211
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