Add natural ambience to your tracks with the RELAB DEVELOPMENT Q82 Natural Resonance Reverb, the world’s only dual-engine premium recreation of a beloved '80s hardware reverb; the Quantec QRS is revered for its highly realistic ambience and long reverb times. This legendary resonance reverb has been meticulously recreated offering the authentic feel in every tweak. Relab’s advanced machine learning captures every nuance, giving you the sound and feel of the legendary hardware including the quirks.
Shape your sound with precision using Relab’s unique dual-engine design that enables real-time fine-tuning of reverb width and front-to-back depth for unparalleled sound sculpting. Additionally, you can enhance your mixes with ease with hand-tuned 8-voice modulation, first-reflection channel swapping, and expanded bandwidth control. The Q82 makes crafting complex, textured reverbs fast and simple.
Dual Engine
- Q82’s unique dual-engine design combines two powerful reverb systems, each with its own set of four outputs, working in harmony.
- This dual approach gives you the ability to fine-tune both the width and front-to-back depth of your reverb in real time.
- With Q82, you’ll enjoy the creative freedom of blending the distinct qualities of both modules in this twin-engine titan, ensuring your reverb always sits perfectly within the mix.
Reverb Engine
- Most reverbs rely solely on the time the sound takes to reflect off surfaces. But Q82 uses unique resonators to replicate the natural behavior of sound traveling through the air.
- Essentially, Q82 uses the room as an instrument, giving you a reverb that feels alive and integrated with the original signal, and producing a more natural and enveloping experience.
- When you use the seven room-size options, from 1 to 1 million cubic meters, and an adjustable first reflection, you’ll be tailoring reverbs from subtle echoes to massive tails.
Enhancement Engine
- Enhance mode helps Q82 distinguish itself from other reverbs by creating the illusion of a space with minimal reverb.
- Imagine having an additional set of hyper-focused microphones, capturing the very first echoes that bounce off surfaces in a room. This adds an extra sense of three-dimensionality to your tracks without introducing the muddiness that often comes with layering longer reverb tails.
- Using Q82 to control front-to-back depth placement, you can make sounds present and upfront or subtly push them back, without drowning them in excessive reverb.
Multiple Reverb Algorithms
- Toggle between two unique reverb algorithms—a pristine, factory-spec German unit and a deeply characterful, time-worn US unit. With the Temperature Control knob, you can now emulate the evolution of sound from a cold startup to the warm, rich tones of a hardware unit left on for 72 hours. Your sound, your era, your choice.
- Q82 2.0 captures the essence of classic gear aging. The US algorithm faithfully recreates the quirks of an unstable crystal clock and aging components, while the German version delivers the stability and clarity of a freshly restored machine. Together, they offer sonic flexibility no competitor can match.
- You’ll hear the difference from the first instant: precision, warmth, and a touch of hardware magic. With Q82 2.0, your reverb evolves in real time, letting you craft timeless spaces for every sound.
8-Voice Hand-Tuned Modulation
- Q82 also includes Relab’s proprietary hand-tuned Advanced Chorus Ensemble (ACE). The 8-voice modulation adds unique layers of depth and complexity to the reverb, making your sound richer and more textured.
- Each voice is meticulously hand-tuned (using a special tool pictured here) and then deeply embedded within the reverb algorithm.
- When you dial in the modulation, you can feel how it’s more like a natural part of the space you’re creating, rather than an added effect.
Enhanced Bandwidth
- The original unit’s frequency response was limited by the internal sample rate of its digital algorithm and analog filters, resulting in a natural roll-off at 8 kHz.
- Q82 gives you full control over this and offers a range from 4 to 16 kHz. Instead of a typical low-pass filter, we recalculated the behavior of the internal sample rate and analog filters, to give you a highly unique and resonant frequency curve.
- RELAB carefully chose roll-off points that follow a specific geometric sequence (Renard Series), which, we believe, is what the original designers would have used had they ever chosen to enhance the original hardware.
Hand-Crafted Presets
Invigorate your mixing process with presets that have been meticulously crafted by experts. These aren't generic settings; they're starting points designed to inspire and guide you to your best-sounding mixes ever.
DAW Compatibility
- Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
- Pro Tools: from version 11.3.2 or later
- Cubase: 9.5 or later
- Nuendo: 8 or later
- Live: 9 and up
- Mac OS X 10.15 or later (64-bit only)
- Logic Pro: 10.x
- Pro Tools: from version 11.3.2 or later
- Cubase: 9.5 or later
- Nuendo: 8 or later
- Live: 9 or later