"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Iain Churches
wrote:



It is not the word "reverb" that is in contention, but the use of the
word "delay", which can clearly be either verb or a noun, depending on
the context.

"Delay" is a verb in the expression "delay the reverb" but a noun in the
expression "reverb the delay"

Perhaps you will have done so by the time this posting appears.

But as yet I've still not seen you explain:

1) How anyone (not already privy to your jargon) reading your initial
assertion would have known you used the same word for two different
things.

2) What you mean by saying one use is a "noun" and the other is a "verb".

Your earlier explanation seemed to say that in one case you applied a
reverb process, and in the other applied that *and then combined it with
the current input to the reverb process". That does seem to me to be a
clear functional distinction. But I it isn't clear to me how that answers
the above questions.

Both these terms are colloquialisms in
every day use in the studio environment. Every producer, engineer,
student and trainee understands their meaning, and the difference
between them.

That doesn't particularly surprise me. Quite easy for an in-group to adopt
a jargon that make no sense to anyone else. Ambiguities like these are
common enough. e.g. the use of "compression" or "bandwidth" to mean quite
different things which those "in group" would distinguish from context.
But
I'm not clear why you'd expect anyone else to understand your (hidden)
meaning when you simply wrote

"You can delay the reverb or reverb the delay. Totally different".

This issue does interest me as I've lost count of the number of times I've
found both students and 'experts' don't really know what they are doing as
a result of such lazy jagon where the user assumes "people know what this
means" without the need to actually explain or resolve the ambiguity. It
clouds both comminication and the ability to think.

To date, with the exception of yourself, I have met no-one else who
was confused