So, apart from suggesting a given acoustic space, reverbs can also convey other information to the listener ─ a given period, an environment or even a mood ─ in a very subtle, but nevertheless real way.Īs a consequence, when you choose a preset you should always consider the message and/or emotion you want to transmit. It is an essential part of nature, so, in this way, it’s like a living aspect that can “dialog” with our animal nature. Just like scents, reverb is deeply ingrained in the collective unconscious. I, for example, get abdominal spasms whenever I’m in the presence of bunch of lavendar…but I’m digressing here.

The eventual body effects are also unquestionable. And even if smells stir different emotions in each of us, there is without doubt a link between them and the emotions they are most likely to arouse in all of us. In fact, I bet the simple mention of the scent of beloved grandma, an old book, a brand new car, a forest, or even recently mowed grass, is enough to make anybody get the point - besides bringing back to mind some sort of memory. Moreover, scents have a privileged and almost direct access to your memory and emotions, not to mention the direct impact they can have on your body. In nature, there is no reverb per se until a sound excites a given space and someone listens to it. For a scent to exist there needs to be an emitter, a propagation medium and a receiver. Just like reverb, a scent is intangible, since it doesn’t really have a material existence in itself. And if you think of it, this analogy is pretty logical. I like to think that reverb is to music what scent is to the unconscious.

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