To start off, I'm a big Ryan Adams fan. On later releases I've noticed him having quite a verby sound on his vocals, but the reverb never gets in the way. Like huge long verbs that stick out in the mix, but still his vocals come across quite undisturbed. Been experimenting to try and achieve a similar effect, but haven't quite gotten the hang of it. Been trying with sidechain compression on the aux, combined with a little bit of pre-delay, but I'm not sure that's how he achieves it. Listen to tracks like My Wrecking Ball, Gimme Something Good, How Much Light and the soon to be released cover of Taylor Swifts Bad Blood to get an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Any good advice would be much appreciated.
So what I've done is send the vocals to an aux with Space Designer with a long hall verb with pre-delay between 20-50ms followed by a compressor with the vocal track sidechained. Perhaps that was obvious... I was just guessing here, so any other techniques to get this dead on?