How to Use reverb in a Sentence

reverb

noun

• The guitar must be warm but just a bit bright, with a touch of drive and a long-tail reverb that hangs in the air.
  — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
• But La Luz, formed in Seattle in 2012, streaked their reverb with brown acid from the start.
  — Evan Haga, SPIN, 24 May 2024
• The drums sat in front of the door, which was left open so the sound would bounce around and create natural reverb.
  — Aaron Carnes, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
• Add reverb in a small room to get a concert hall effect.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015
• All the background vocals were at the correct volume and the right reverbs were used.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2023
• Mac Saturn is a riffy, twangy kind of band that delivers a good dose of surf-y reverb.
  — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2018
• Rising synth playing an arpeggio with a lot of reverb is backed by pads ...
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
• The young duo dresses its propulsive, woozy rock riffs with lots of dreamy distortion and reverb.
  — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017
• There’s native spring reverb and a quick charger, all in a lightweight package.
  — Josh Chesler, SPIN, 22 Mar. 2023
• The fairies dress in marvelous, Afro-futurist costumes and wigs, and their voices are miked with an echoey reverb.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• For example, there's no head-tracking, just an odd mix of reverb and EQ effects.
  — PCMAG, 17 Mar. 2024
• Just her voice, a reverb-heavy guitar, and a slow-clapping audience that glowed with smartphone lights and sang along.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• The former dealt in propulsive pop full of reverb, whammy riffs and shimmering keys.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• But only Regan, who is deaf, figures out that aliens can't deal with reverb from her hearing aid.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2018
• With the reverb from his mic serving Pride of the Yankees realness, Washington kicked off the big game with his tribute to Robinson.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 20 July 2022
• The Galveston band makes a melodic indie rock with all the requisite fuzz, reverb and moodiness.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
• The handclaps suddenly become massive, and the reverb on the guitars, and suddenly there’s a clarity to all of it.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Talking about the album’s heavy use of gated reverb for the snare drums to give it an epic crack, Clearmountain mentioned how Rodgers’ wanted to spruce up his guitar line.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
• Most of the performances were mixed really well and the live vocals sounded crisp, unlike the cavernous reverb that was going on at the ACM Awards a couple weeks ago.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
• The sound from this reverb is very natural and creates realistic-sounding room space around your tracks with ease.
  — Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• Martine’s reverb-rich production wraps Veirs’s gorgeous melodies in a warm blanket that feels comforting from first track to last.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2018
• Pivoting between glassy and reverb-heavy chords high on the guitar neck, the song is about that timeless subject of popular song, eternal love.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Though the heavy reverb and bass that typically eclipses the band's sound was lost to the wind, the fervor crept up in other places -like in the endless tumbling of spitfire scale-picking from guitarist Jesse Keeler.
  — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The bridge featured a pair of dramatic stops with a single cymbal clang by drummer Nir Z, plus thick harmonies, enhanced by some reverb effects that hint at the sound of a Black gospel choir.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2023
• Expect reverb aplenty as the two-night blowout, backed by local label Freakout Records, takes over a handful of neighborhood venues.
  — The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• Now the reverb is drowned out by a professional vocal isolation booth.
  — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• His groundbreaking stereo, multi-track recording and reverb effects are the basis of what is used in modern studio techniques.
  — Lily Moayeri, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
• But the group's first full-length album was actually recorded in a single night three years before that — then shelved when Dennis Flemion was dissatisfied with the reverb on the recordings.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2020
• Clad in a plaid shirt, dark jeans and brown boots, Isbell was poised and relaxed, even as a sound engineer wrestled with feedback and initially applied cover-band levels of reverb to the vocals.
  — Matt Wake, AL.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• These are things that only occur to obsessives who’ve spent hours debating, say, exactly how much reverb should be on the drums in that four-second passage on the second chorus.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024