antcarrier
Power User
This is basically what I'm talking about! Would love to try out your IR.
I'm working on it, will be ready eventually! Just had another IR capture session last night actually. Editing time!
That's essentially the problem of this technique. Capturing a signal like this requires a mic and all mics have characteristics and need to be positioned somewhere so it will not re-create a guitar speaker. You know... good IR's aren't "muddy, phasey or ice-picky".
Of course, it is impossible to use IRs to make your monitors emulate speaker directivity. IMO this doesn’t really matter, because with real cabinets, directivity is also the culprit for “muddy” or “ice-picky” tone, even when using the best guitar speakers. I don’t like hearing my real cab 90 degrees off axis, or with my head directly in front. So you are right, I am just describing good IRs - how annoying would it be if you had to position your studio monitors 15 degrees off axis in order to sound good!
Good FF IRs sound significantly different to good NF IRs though, and personally I find them more inspiring to play through because they feel more familiar. Of course NF IRs sound great too - its all about context
I don't think he's necessarily aiming to do the whole guitar speaker recreation thing that was popular on Fractal years ago. He doesn't use long lengths for his captures either but quite the opposite going for just 20ms I believe. Not sure if you've ever checked out antcarrier's recordings he's posted, but as long as I've been around these forums he's been using far-field captures of his own making and he's got a really great smokey jazz sound going on top of being an outstanding player. It's quite unconventional to what you do Mikko or even myself, but I can't deny he's got something pretty cool going on
Thanks a lot man! You are right, I only use 1024 point IRs
Close mic'd IRs sound very different than listening to a cab at a distance. For this very reason we have scheduled some studio time for a "Far Field IR Pack". We're going to try a variety of techniques to try and capture some far-field IRs. Technically you need a large space where the reflections occur after the IR has finished, like an airplane hanger or something but I've got some ideas on how to do it in a studio.
I am very interested to hear what you come up with! I had a feeling that you might be experimenting with FF IRs when you included the ‘floor reflections’ parameter in the AF3 (I'll get one one day).
I wish I had a aeroplane hanger...