How to Use reverb in a Sentence

reverb

noun
  • Something haunt ing and harpy with reverb.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Other videos loop the track for longer, slow it down, or add reverb.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But Meyers was the first to add reverb.
    — Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Tell me about the reverb of this song being released.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Gobs of reverb, with sweetness at the edges, conveyed his lovelorn bloat.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • So there’s not a lot of additional reverb added.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • All the background vocals were at the correct volume and the right reverbs were used.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 8 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Trying to match the reverb on Who’s Next was a big part of getting that to sound right.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The singer — known for her reverb-heavy, ethereal sound — described her choice as simple but meaningful.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Suffused with dread and bathed in reverb, the record captures two virtuosos at their most vulnerable.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The reverb is so fundamental on that record, the reverb on Roger’s voice, trying to get the signature of that.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There are basics like levels, reverb, tone, and gain, or settings to manage sibilance and plosives when speaking into the mic.
    — Phil Nickinson, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Many of its songs crystallize around samples of choirs singing, their soft syllables dissolving beneath heavy shrouds of reverb.
    — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Galveston band makes a melodic indie rock with all the requisite fuzz, reverb and moodiness.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, each stream can have its gain adjusted, EQ applied, reverb added and even panned to create a great soundstage.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • This is timeless psychedelic pop, driven by fuzz bass and chiming guitars with an ethereal lead vocal bathed in reverb and a gorgeous sense of melody.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Using a speaker outside the stall results in reverb and echoing as the music bounces around the bathroom walls, making the sound muddy and unpleasant.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The album is swathed in the same dose of reverb, casting a stylish, dissociative effect over what’s an unmistakably melancholy pop album.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 16 Feb. 2017
  • We are used to hearing him through a halo of reverb, as part of a Vocoder robo-choir, tucked back in the mix, less a focal point than another instrument in the ensemble.
    — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The sounds are chintzy and soaked in reverb, like a mawkish ’80s ballad rewritten from memory, and the whole thing slowly falls apart and fades out like an old track by the Field.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 24 June 2026
  • 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

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