I'm not sure if the hype has caught up everyone so here's a short summary. This already legendary "djentiest IR on the planet" called "Misha Mix 08" was created by Misha Mansoor for Cab Pack 13: USA Bulb 4x12. That's the IR you'll f.ex. hear on the Haunted Shore's Viscera EP:
If you went to see Periphery live last year that's the IR you most likely heard except for Cab Pack 19: ML Angle ever since we started doing beta for it. I was fortunate enough to visit the Periphery guys in Washington DC two months ago and while discussing the IR being used they said there was a huge IR shootout they did and in the end it was a battle between "ML Angle Attack" and "Misha Mix 08" and surely enough the "Misha Mix 08" (which by the way is the very first IR I ever collaborated on with Misha) was chosen as the tone for the upcoming Periphery album.
If you're not a geek you can stop reading now. Here's where things get interestesting... only for IR geeks. I wanted to find the recipe for this magical super djent IR. After hours of reading logs and notes of how things went down when creating the pack I cracked the code. Turns out it is a simple blend of two Alloy IR's from Cab Pack 13: "USA Bulb SM57-MD421 44" and "USA Bulb SM57-SM57 20". So that is three SM57 mics and one MD421 with real mic phase. Feel free to experiment with that mix and make it your own.
What can we learn from this? I think the majority of people may not dive this deep into a Cab Pack to even think of blending two Alloys together but that's the whole magic of the IR world. The options are endless and it's usually the interesting "less is more" approach that gives you great results. If you really want to find "your tone" please take the time and trust your ears to find the IR's for you.
If you went to see Periphery live last year that's the IR you most likely heard except for Cab Pack 19: ML Angle ever since we started doing beta for it. I was fortunate enough to visit the Periphery guys in Washington DC two months ago and while discussing the IR being used they said there was a huge IR shootout they did and in the end it was a battle between "ML Angle Attack" and "Misha Mix 08" and surely enough the "Misha Mix 08" (which by the way is the very first IR I ever collaborated on with Misha) was chosen as the tone for the upcoming Periphery album.
If you're not a geek you can stop reading now. Here's where things get interestesting... only for IR geeks. I wanted to find the recipe for this magical super djent IR. After hours of reading logs and notes of how things went down when creating the pack I cracked the code. Turns out it is a simple blend of two Alloy IR's from Cab Pack 13: "USA Bulb SM57-MD421 44" and "USA Bulb SM57-SM57 20". So that is three SM57 mics and one MD421 with real mic phase. Feel free to experiment with that mix and make it your own.
What can we learn from this? I think the majority of people may not dive this deep into a Cab Pack to even think of blending two Alloys together but that's the whole magic of the IR world. The options are endless and it's usually the interesting "less is more" approach that gives you great results. If you really want to find "your tone" please take the time and trust your ears to find the IR's for you.