From: Paul Winkler (pw_lists_at_slinkp.com)
Date: 11/25/03 13:10 EST
From: Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> Subject: Re: [Ardour-users] Re: good quality reverb - brutefir! Message-ID: <20031125181042.GG1111@slinkp.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:10:42 -0500 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:12:37AM -0800, R Parker wrote: > Are you guys suggesting it would be practicle to use > IR for creating filters of rooms that have great > accoustical values for audio production? In practice, > record an instrument in a crappy room, apply "great > room" which filters out the responses of sucky room. no, it overlays the great room on top of the crappy room. Therefore you want to minimize the amount of crappy room in the recording: deaden it as much as possible and mic appropriately. Even better is to start with a room that is not crappy :-) By the way, this is really a digital update of an old analog / acoustic technique :-) Studios used to have "echo chambers" - a lively, isolated room with speakers and microphones. Signals would be fed from the board to the speakers and back from the mics to the board. Until the advent of plate reverb, that's what all the big studios did. Abbey Road for one. It's also a technique known to modern home recordists. A band I was in a decade or two ago recorded a demo in a pretty dead room and then piped the mix into a tolerably good boombox placed in a very reverberant hallway. We placed two mics in the hallway and recorded the result onto one or two tracks, depending on what we had available (this was 4-track!), and we treated those tracks as a reverb return during the mix. With some EQ, the result was vastly better than any reverb unit we had access to at the time. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE CATS OF DEVIANT KNEECAP WANDERER! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Ardour-users mailing list Ardour-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ardour-users
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