Then record where you can and capture that ambience.
If you’re trying to say that only a Bricasti is good enough for these situations we’re going to have to agree to strongly disagree here, as well as agreeing that these are highly niche, highly specialized applications which come with a lot of (arguably arbitrary) commercial (and I use that word carefully) expectations.
I’m not discussing whether or not what some studio wants is appropriate. I’m discussing whether or not Bricasti are a) worth the price - which is a matter of opinion, not fact and b) actually sound very good at all, compared to what you’d do with a reverb in general, not in any specific commercial situation where meeting somebody’s arbitrary expectations is the main point. All I’m saying is that, in my view, Bricasti are only relatively good at a very niche set of applications, and again in my view, other reverbs can be made to do just as good a job perhaps outside the view of a very specific, very opinionated group of studio producers in the film and music industry. Your view clearly differs and I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying you’re sidestepping my point.
You might as well come on lines and start deifying an EMI TG12345 MK IV or an SSL 9K… sure, I’m sure some people feel that they can’t make a good recording with anything else. But if I state my opinion, as I did at first, saying I don’t get why people make such a big deal about these things because other great consoles have made fantastic records and in fact you don’t even need a console at all, it’s not much of a reply to come back and say “yes yes yes but these ultra-high-end production situations just demand it and they’re better for that”. Respectfully, I must say that’s not particularly valuable to the conversation.
So, I’ll say it again and then I won’t respond in this thread any more: I don’t think Bricastis are particularly great reverbs, although some people certainly seem to like them a lot, and I don’t know why so many other great reverbs get sidelined for not being Bricastis when those other reverbs do a lot better job of doing the bread-and-butter of creative sound design and technical mixing reverb duties for a whole lot less money. I’m not here to argue if your use case justifies one. I’m not here to argue if you think that they have merit, and I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying that they’re just not worth talking up and putting other reverbs down over, especially in the context of lines users and their typical reverb use cases.
