Impulses!!! Anyone using them?

Styles

I started using impulses a while ago and i love em. they make Line6 tones sound better and don't even start me on Peavy Revalver. Anyone else into them? Thoughts?

AlanRatcliffe

I like impulse response based reverbs (Currently Waves IR1 and a bunch of impulses I've picked up), but they are very processor hungry. Mucked about with some mic preamp impulses too, but not enough to really judge them properly.

doc-phil

ahhhhh.... What exactly are impulses?? :-[

AlanRatcliffe

Impulse responses. If I wanted to confuse you, I'd send you to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_response
Basically it's a way of modelling a system (like a room's reverb, the sound of an amp or preamp) by putting a short burst of full frequency sound through it, recording the result and then subtracting the original sound to leave you with only the difference - the impulse response. this response can them be used to model how another signal (Like a guitar sound) would sound processed by the same device/space. Great for "real" reverb sounds.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr05/articles/impulse.htm

doc-phil

ah ok ? actually understanding the conept may be a bit over my head, but if they sound cool i'll use them!

majestikc

Impulse Responses are pretty decent, check out the free ones from ReCabinet and the Acmebargig amp simulators, all free, all pretty decent (obviously still not as good as the real thing.....yet).

Impulse Responses can be of anything that has reverberation, guitar cabinets (basically the guitar cabinet "reverb") even a piano case or a dustbin or the inside of a tin can or whatever.

What they do is set up a speaker or two, and some a mic or two certain distances from the speakers and then play usually a very short sharp clicking type sound and record it, and then they anal-ise the reverb characteristics of the room or dustbin or whatever and then the software applies that same characteristic to whatever sound you feed into it.

So the sound you feed into it basically end up as if you played and recorded your guitar in that dustbin or cathedral or......whatever.

SIR 2 Reverb is a FREE impulse response reverb plugin but from what I understand you can load any impulse response you want into it.

majestikc

and some a mic or two.......? :-[

Styles

I've got a bunch of cool impulses that i use to record with at home. Mesa, engl, marshall and orange cabs. loaded with greenbacks or vintage 30's. different mics and placements give lot of variety. If you're not luky enough to own a bucketload of good mics these impulses are great. Take your preamp out into your soundcard or desk, then use the Boogex voxengo plugin and . . .voila!
Awesome tones you normally can't get in South Africa. ? Recabinet rocks, they have a special on at the moment.

deanBailey

+1 to Recabinet.

Heath

In my impulse response is called gas ...... But i bet it aint what you talking about . Looks interesting thou will check them out