If you want to start with a preset, then the EFX Kick Bomb patch is as good a place as any. Do not be overly concerned with subtlety here, people. Turn the decay *nearly* all the way up, but not quite. Crank up the diffusion to make everything as fuzzy as possible. I've used the Arena algorithm, and selected the largest size available.
You're going to want a pretty evident reverb. Now that we've got the routing sorted out, let's start dialling in some settings. Send the output from the Polar its own channel in the mixer. Send one pair of outputs from the Spider to the FX Return on the Master Section, and send another to the input of the Polar Pitch Shifter. Hold down the shift key when you add these two devices to your rack though, because we don't want to use the default routing here - we're going to do things a little differently.Ĭonnect an FX Send from the Master Section to the input of the RV7000, but instead of sending the RV7000's output back to the FX Return on the Master Section, connect it to a Spider Audio Merger & Splitter. I built the shimmer effect in the Reason rack with an RV7000 Reverb and a Polar Dual Pitch Shifter. Here's a simple piece, played using a tweaked Radical Pianos preset, played through a shimmer reverb patch I created in Reason: Brian Eno, who is generally credited with inventing the effect, had been using it on pianos long before it was popularised by U2’s Edge. While it does work particularly well on guitars, it can also be used to great effect on other instruments. If you’ve listened to much U2 since the mid-80s, then you’ll have heard it. At its most basic, a shimmer reverb is a pitch-shifted reverb tail in a feedback loop.