RoshRoslin
Power User
Thank you so much Rosh. Did you get to try this yet?
Not yet.
Thank you so much Rosh. Did you get to try this yet?
All I can say is that a local Marshall collector tried the 65 cab and wanted to buy it from me straight away saying that he has three slanted ones but this straight one sounded even better than the ones he's collected over the years. He went through the serial numbers and shouted out "YES!!" ... thought it was worth mentioning.Great playing, Herr BB! You know your way around a fretboard. Hard for me to gauge the tone from a YouTube clip, though. Do you feel Mikko managed to capture those nice mids that the G12-65 has...better than others have managed? I'll shell out $80 to get the goods, but I would hate to get more of the same for that price.
It's essentially 5 Cab Packs combined.@ML SOUND LAB is it the large number of IR's and presets that make this cab pack price higher that some of your others?
Great playing, Herr BB! You know your way around a fretboard. Hard for me to gauge the tone from a YouTube clip, though. Do you feel Mikko managed to capture those nice mids that the G12-65 has...better than others have managed? I'll shell out $80 to get the goods, but I would hate to get more of the same for that price.
That's the biggest compliment of this year... there's still one month to go though.I have all the marshall cab packs and i have been satisfied with them.
Yet I bought this one as well.
All I can say is:
Holly shitballs, mom!
Although it's an expensive mic it's more about the quality vs quantity factor in my case. Last year everything was "more is more" and we made Cab Pack 20 with 1775 IR's. After that it's been about "less is more" and making the packs quick and satisfying to use rather than forcing people to spend hours of time to get something out of a Cab Pack. I definitely would go full out Redwirez on these packs but with the precision and process that I create these packs it would take me months to shoot just one cabinet if I had too many mic options. These 5 mics and 5 cabs took me around 6 months. My main concern is risking quality over quantity and doing rush jobs with more mics that the majority of people wouldn't even try out.A question for you Mikko (and other IR creators, too): Will you ever add a Neumann U87 mic to your collection? It's expensive, I know, but I'm still using some of the Redwirez IRs because of this mic...
A question for you Mikko (and other IR creators, too): Will you ever add a Neumann U87 mic to your collection? It's expensive, I know, but I'm still using some of the Redwirez IRs because of this mic...
Bigger bang for the buck might be neutral reference mic captures like an Earthworks. Then we could use the mic sims and get the U87 and other flavors that way.
Do the ML Sound Lab packs come with wav files? Can they only be used with Fractal products?
i like to import wav files into my daw for manipulation at times.
Of course! I use my mic robot to fine tune distances on pretty much all captures that I make. That being said I strongly believe that pulling the mic back a lot is not the way you get the best sound. It starts to smear the character of the cabinet and I feel like that technique is beneficial when you're not really liking the natural sound of the speaker cabinet. I try to find the real character of the cabinet and emphasize that character rather than try and make it sound like something that it's naturally not. That has always been my approach. My approach to creating mixes is completely based on me playing around with different distances with two or more mics.Mikko- I assume most of the IR's in this pack are close mic scenarios? Save for maybe something like the Royer?
Do you ever mic cabs further away to get some room involved?
This is much appreciated. The mixes are there for this reason. Mixing IR's is not for everyone and I'm not talking about skills alone but people can easily get lost trying to keep their ears neutral and make quick decisions based on what they hear. I'm glad the 65 and 4x10 are getting the love they deserve. Those are definitely the more vintage sounding speaker options.I went ahead and picked up this Cab Pack. Glad I did, it does make a muffin bettah. The G12-65 is big, bold and creamy. Got stuck on the Fuchs + the G12-65 for a long while .
I tried the 4x10 with the 59 Bassman and that is really sweet combination also.
I've also realized I suck at IR mixing. Every time I think I've got a great mix and then a/b to Mikko's Aces, I lose. So, less is more for me. I like the abbreviated format.