I'm merely a guy who likes to record his own music, but I find synthetic ambience (reverb) to be really hit or miss when I try to apply it. Listening to professionally done recordings, I find reverb levels vary a great deal, so obviously, there must be some different opinions on the subject...
...in what situations will you use it? When have you found it distasteful (obviously, the 80's were pretty guilty...)? What techniques do you use so it's most effective? What sources do you like the best?
Everyone goes through that newbie phase where they put it on everything. I suppose I'm trying to step back and get things to sit in a mix without drenching it in reverb. It's not as easy as I thought it would be...
...which leads me to another discussion topic. What do you like to use in place of reverb to get stuff to sit in a mix? I suppose I'm mostly getting at reverb applied to vocals, but I'd love to hear how everyone likes to use it on other sources.
Oh well, I hope this is at least somewhat interesting. I remember the compression topic from the old board pretty well...