Dear Everyone.

Trying to get the hang of mixing the music I write (I only can use MIDI, I'm disabled!) And I'm watching YouTube videos and getting a ton of confusing messages from them - there might be other dumbass questions - this one's reverb. Right.

First guy says 'Reverb pushes stuff back in a mix'. So I try using reverb to do that and it works a treat. Great. BUT....

Second guy. "Reverb is to make everything sound like it's in the same room". So I put the same reverb on everything so it sounds like it's in the same room. Yes that works - but if I put more reverb on some things to push them back, like the first guy said, then they're not in the same room any more, are they, cos they've got different reverb on!

Third guy. "Choose reverb CAREFULLY so it's appropriate for the instrument or sound you're using." So I do, and it sounds nice, BUT - as I'm now using different carefully-chosen reverbs for instruments in the SAME TRACK, surely each one's now in its own room and none of them are being pushed any farther back than anything else - or being pushed farther back than I want them to sound, even though the reverb on them sounds great!

Please, how do I reconcile the 3 different approaches? If each approach is for a different overall situation, when do I use which?

I get this kinda thing all the time when trying to learn using YouTube vids, hence there'll probably be other, equally dumbass questions turning up at some point (you have been warned!)

Basically I start off confused dot com, watch a bunch of videos and end up SUPREMELY confused dot com - and that's on anything to do with mixing! But reverb's a good place to start.

Hoping someone chooses to answer.

Yours respectfully

Chris.