Reverb

I´m a professional lute player and do a little recording. I use a tascam interface (US-122L) and two Neumann microphones, and then ... good intruments and old churches. I use GB for recording and cutting. Now I do need a little extra reverb once in a while - the GB reverb is not really satisfying. What software would I use? Logic express seems to be an instrument by itself, not a digital tape recorder.
I would really appreciate help, hope I´m not in the wrong forum ...
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) iLife05, iWork06

AudioUnit is a plugin standard developped by Apple.
When you to the details of a real instrument tracks,
there's two pop-menus for additionnal FXs. Click on
it and below GarageBand Effects, there's AudioUnit
effects. Select AU Matrix Reverb.
I found it. Interesting ... I´ll give it a try. Still, I guess I feel most comfortable with a good ol´church and original reverb. Thanks to you all!

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Hello Šlapias,
You’re having a problem with your speakers making a buzzing sound.
What is the product number of your laptop?
If you are able to connect external speakers to the laptop, it could be that the internal speakers are bad.
Please respond at your earliest convenience.
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Let me know how everything goes.
Have a good day.

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--monadyne

Hi Monadyne,
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So treat yourself to some good ingredients and the rest is up to you, namely: taste and experience!
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Well, I hope this email hasn't put you to sleep. I really hope I can get this figured out, as I'm keen to record.
Thank you again..
Best,
Jenny Jo
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:35:03 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Is it possible to add reverb to vocal mic, without affecting my keyboard sound?
Out of some disbelief I had to try my own setup suggestion from above, since it's not a thing I do daily anymore. Without wanting to go into any dispute with the above poster, I can only say:
It works well here.
Your mileage may vary.
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Thnx!

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Is this inaccurate?
Completely inaccurate, yes. Whoever told you that clearly hasn't the faintest idea of how to lay over a VO properly, nor appreciated the horrible mess this would cause. If anything, completely the reverse is true!
The idea is that when the VO is talking, the music track ducks in the background - by anything up to about -12dB, depending on a number of factors, including the type of music and the intended age range of the listener. It's normal to duck the music further for program material intended for adults rather than kids. If you do this properly, the chances are that a) the VO will be heard at the appropriate time, and b) that the music won't get in the way of it at all. Adding reverb to the VO is, if anything, going to make it blend in better with the music track (which probably has reverb on it already), because it will sound more like it. What you want is a VO that's clearly distinguishable from the music, not the other way around. So that's music generally with its own reverb, and voice absolutely dry.
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I'm trying to reverb an audio clip in my timeline and I can't find the effect tab in the browser to drag to my audio clip to reverb. I can reverb the clip in the viewer but can't it won't drag to the timeline. I'm using FCE

I'm trying to reverb an audio clip in my timeline and I can't find the effect tab in the browser to drag to my audio clip to reverb. I can reverb the clip in the viewer but it won't drag to the timeline. I'm using FCE

You cannot drag the effects themselves to the timeline. You add them to a clip in the Viewer, just as you have done.
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You only have to drag the clip to the timeline if the clip was not already in the timeline (for example, if you opened the clip from the FCE Browser; or set different In and Out points in a master clip to use a different portion of the master clip in a different location in your timeline).
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@RafMaravilla
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Can confirm this problem exists - same links / same page work in Firefox and used to work in Safari.
Ugh. Apple you are getting very frustrating.

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I just did a test two seconds ago.
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Did Logic dump the 3.0 Reverb plug-in in Logic 7 ?
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What happened ?
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Looks like 3.0 Verb was intentionally removed by either Apple or Emagic.
This doesn't make any sense. It produced some great effects. Apple needs to bring it back.

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