Valhalla DSP

17 mentions in 12 episodes.

Barry Cant Swim

54:55 · ValhallaVintageVerb · named · high confidence

“I always use the Valhalla one... roll off the low cut, no pre-delay, mess with mix and decay, and I almost always use the 1970s mode”

VintageVerb in its 1970s mode is his default reverb on strings, piano and textures, always set up the same way.

Bob Vylan

26:27 · ValhallaDelay · named · high confidence

“So there's some delay, Valhalla Delay, which I love. All of the Valhalla stuff is amazing. So it's like a lo-fi slap delay thing”

Johnny used ValhallaDelay as a lo-fi slap delay on the upright piano part of 'Humble as the Sun'.

Bonobo

46:09 · ValhallaRoom · named · high confidence

“I usually use Valhalla stuff... Valhalla Room is the one, because it has these huge cathedral decays that go on for a whole day.”

ValhallaRoom is his favourite reverb for extremely long cathedral-style decays in these pitched reverb returns.

46:19 · ValhallaVintageVerb · named · high confidence

“And Vintage Verb is good too, but Room I really like.”

VintageVerb named as another Valhalla reverb he rates alongside ValhallaRoom.

Clean Bandit

58:41 · ValhallaVintageVerb · named · high confidence

“There are memes about how bait it is that you use this reverb. But yeah, Valhalla Vintage Verb. Make sure you take a bit of the low end out.”

VintageVerb is the reverb in Jack's saved 'Jack Vox' vocal chain, set up as a 100% wet send with low end filtered.

EJT

1:25:27 · ValhallaSupermassive · named · high confidence

“I think I'm using a Valhalla Supermassive, which can sound really untamable... so huge and cavernous, and Space Echoes”

Supermassive plus Space Echo create the cavernous reverb/delay wash she rides live and re-records for the fade-to-silence ending of Maybe Nowhere.

Hayley Williams

1:05:25 · ValhallaVintageVerb · named · high confidence

“I usually throw Valhalla Vintage or the UAD Capitol Chambers reverb.”

ValhallaVintageVerb is his default go-to space, mostly on the default preset with decay and pre-delay tweaks, used on the roomy 'woes' vocals.

1:56:30 · ValhallaVintageVerb · named · high confidence

“I like the Valhalla reverb like I mentioned.”

Valhalla reverb is repeated as one of his core go-to plugins.

Kae Tempest

23:17 · Valhalla reverb · named · medium confidence

“Some stock Ableton stuff which is really cool, some Valhalla reverb and an RC-20 as well, which I really like.”

Unspecified Valhalla reverb used inside the lo-fi keys processing chain on the piano layers.

Kasabian

33:51 · Valhalla reverb · named · medium confidence

“There's a Decapitator and then Valhalla. That pretty much is the chain for a lot of things for the last few albums.”

Valhalla reverb is the other half of Serge's default chain for making drums and other sources sound old and dusty.

54:18 · Valhalla reverb · named · medium confidence

“Just a bit of Decapitator and a bit of Valhalla. That seems to get that sound instantly.”

Valhalla reverb pairs with Decapitator to process the layered backing vocals on 'Coming Back to Me Good'.

Olly Alexander

59:10 · Valhalla DSP reverb · named · medium confidence

“Then we've got it going entirely through this Valhalla. That's it without, that's it with. Let's give it the room”

A Valhalla reverb (specific plugin unnamed) supplies the room space on the Triton snare in 'Beautiful' before it hits a limiter.

RDS

1:39:32 · Valhalla reverb · named · medium confidence

“We have the piano but we're bringing up this Valhalla reverb on it and then this Dynamic Tube saturator”

A Valhalla reverb was automated up on the closing piano as the track dissolves into the void.

Rex

25:40 · ValhallaRoom · named · high confidence

“Another big thing that ended up becoming a sound for a couple of the songs on the record was Valhalla Room”

ValhallaRoom in Alex's headphone cue became a defining vocal sound across the album, helping him perform more softly and be inspired while tracking.

39:09 · ValhallaRoom · named · high confidence

“Going back to the room thing that Teo was mentioning about us using Valhalla Room and just that natural live sound”

Jim links the ValhallaRoom sound to the real room mic used on Fin Carter's piano solo.

The Favours

12:08 · ValhallaRoom · named · high confidence

“There's Valhalla Room, Pro-Q 4, and also this...”

ValhallaRoom sits on the CP-80 bus in the Logic production/mix session.

30:26 · ValhallaRoom · named · high confidence

“I put a lot of Valhalla Room on the piano, like almost 50%. And then some saturation.”

ValhallaRoom at near 50% wet plus saturation gave the overdubbed upright piano a floaty quality.