Chuck P
Inspired
OK so maybe some of you guys that are more tenured and smarter about this stuff than I am can help me with a terminology question.
It seems to me that lately folks are using "AITR" (Amp In The Room) to mean two very different things:
It seems to me that these are almost opposite concepts - the former is about capturing and presenting ambience in a realistic way, and the latter is about a cab sound so dry it removes even the mic and preamp coloring and replicates what physically happens when an amp+cab are blasting away. My impression is that folks are somewhat exhausted about this latter topic and that it isn't getting as much discussion as it did at times in the past.
Are these both common usages of "AITR" (or is #1 a tongue-in-cheek play on #2)? Do you guys just use context to tell who is talking about what? For example, I saw a recent thread that claimed the FM3 really had that "AITR sound", and I'm not totally sure what to make of it.
It seems to me that lately folks are using "AITR" (Amp In The Room) to mean two very different things:
- There are some current threads using "AITR" to describe various ways to get cool room ambience on a recorded or headphone sound. Today's hot topic is using long IRs to combine cab characteristics and room reflections to get a great natural cab+ambience+mic room sound right out of the cab block.
- Traditionally, I understood "AITR" to mean the degree to which you could make an FRFR system sound indistinguishable from an amp, live, if they were in the same physical space as the listener. Like, could a person tell which was [AxeFX-> power amp->FRFR speakers], and which was an amp+cab.
It seems to me that these are almost opposite concepts - the former is about capturing and presenting ambience in a realistic way, and the latter is about a cab sound so dry it removes even the mic and preamp coloring and replicates what physically happens when an amp+cab are blasting away. My impression is that folks are somewhat exhausted about this latter topic and that it isn't getting as much discussion as it did at times in the past.
Are these both common usages of "AITR" (or is #1 a tongue-in-cheek play on #2)? Do you guys just use context to tell who is talking about what? For example, I saw a recent thread that claimed the FM3 really had that "AITR sound", and I'm not totally sure what to make of it.