Reverb Quotes

#1. It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

Brian Setzer

#2. It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!

Kelly Hogan

#3. I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

Kathleen Hanna

#4. I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

Victoria Legrand

#5. 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

J Mascis

#6. I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.

Stephin Merritt

#7. In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

Ben Folds

#8. There were voices on the other side - eldritch voices, the sort of voices that mere typography will remain totally unable to convey until someone can make a linotype machine with echo-reverb and, possibly, a typeface that looks like something said by a slug.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

William Shakespeare

#10. Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

Alex Scally

#11. The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Johnny Thunders

#12. The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Ken Hill

#13. Surf is that music which is entirely about evoking something. There's never any vocals, so it's not about the lyrics, it's about the reverb.

Stephin Merritt

#14. If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set.

Paul Taylor

#15. My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.

Cass Sunstein

#16. Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

Matt Damon

#17. Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life ... and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive.

Robert H. Goddard

#18. Even though I always came back, he said he was always watching me leave.

Kimberly Novosel

#19. I had equal opportunity to touch God sitting in my room, singing Him songs, as I did on a stage in front of twenty thousand people.

Anna Blanc

#20. What an astonishing thing a book is.

Carl Sagan

#21. Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

Trip Lee

#22. My mother's eyes were incomprehensible; they were dark stages where dimly seen mob scenes were staged and all one ever sensed was tumult and drama, and no matter how long one waited, the lights never went up and the scene never was explained.

Harold Brodkey

#23. It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

Dane Cook

#24. He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. I was falling back again and fast, or maybe I'd never stopped feeling something for him. And it was still hopeless, but at least, I could touch him a little bit.

Stephanie Witter

#26. Sometimes misfortune brings opportunity

Jocelyn Murray

#27. A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

Robin Hobb

#28. There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Culp