Simplicity is key and less is more in some of these situations. Limiting yourself to as few reverbs as possible can help you grow the most. It is important to know which reverbs belong to particular genres and trends. Putting reverb on every track is something producers tend to do in fear of having a dry signal.
It comes around full circle though, if you don’t experiment you’ll never know how to get from Point A to Point B. The more you do it, the better you’ll know your tools and how to get something to sound the way you want it to. Speed is a matter of knowing what your doing. Some projects only have a budget for a few days, some only a few hours. The key to mixing professional mixes is how good you can get the work to sound within in a given set of time. A lot of the times, the sound that’s there is going to be the sound. The problem with trying to get something from nothing is that you can spend hours or even days on trying to get it “perfect”. Just don’t beat yourself up over it, let it be fun until you get the hang of it. We live in a digital age where anything is possible. Without experience, this particular feat is quite difficult, BUT this is not to say that you should never try this, you should. Why? It can take a lot of time and if it is not done right it tends to sound unnatural. Even as an engineer with years of experience, I am very careful with doing this. The first thing to avoid is trying to turn sound into something it isn’t. There are several things I can advise you as a beginner to avoid, but I’m just going to share the top 7, in no particular order. As an engineer for 10 years there are some things I’ve been able to learn over the years.