reverb

[ri-vurb]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to reverberate.

reverb

/ ˈriːvɜːb /

noun

1. an electronic device that creates artificial acoustics

Word History and Origins

Origin of reverb¹

1595–1605; irregular < Latin reverberāre to cause to rebound

Example Sentences

That’s up 2.4% on an as-reported, consolidated basis, or up 6.1% when excluding Reverb from the prior-year period, Etsy said.

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Bach’s music has a circular spell quality and the pipe organ, resounding with reverb in gargantuan cathedrals, was the original synthesizer.

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And the clattering syncopated loop that repeats through “Oblivion” is there mostly as a contrast to the wispy and diaphanous vocals, which are so thin and leavened with reverb that they threaten to float away.

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But it’s D’Angelo’s soaring vocals that transmute the molten instrumental throbbing into a transcendent buzz, achieved through multi-track vocal layers and a vacillation between climactic reverb roars and serene breaks.

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You know that Mark Twain quote, “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes”? Here, it’s an echoey reverb with all the panicked gals shouting at once.

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