Impulse responses are great for recreating spaces, whether it is a resonant glass bottle or a large cave. Here's a handy a trick for sculpting your own impulse responses, and therefore your own reverbs, from something that we spend a lot of time getting rid of -- noise! If you listen to an impulse response by itself, you'll find that it has noise-like qualities, except the … [Read more...]
The Tonebenders Share Plugin Secrets
To round out Plugin Use/Abuse Month here on Designing Sound here are some neat tips and tricks from the 3 hosts of the Tonebenders Podcast. Timothy Muirhead: Convolution Reverbs are amazing tools to have in your arsenal of plugins. Unlike conventional digital reverbs which simulate theoretical spaces with arbitrary parameters, convolution reverbs use signal processing to … [Read more...]
Recording Impulse Responses
With growing computing power over the last decade, convolution plugins have become commonplace. Some of the most common ones include Audio Ease Altiverb, Logic’s Space Designer, Avid TL Space, Waves IR-1 and McDsp Revolver. They are usually packaged with large and useful libraries of impulse responses (more on what all this means below), but what makes them really powerful is … [Read more...]