Morphosis said:
Thanks Scott for clearify! Yes, they put them later in the package - so i recommend to load them totally new down to be sure that you guys get all out of the money
And thanks for sharing your recipes Scott! Learned a lot - you bring me to the rabit hole last year ;-)
Still experiment with these cab thing, particular because of the "to much bass & treble when fletcher munson comes to town" thing .... to many possibilities here: hi/low cut in the amp - PEQ Blocking - (Global) GEQ... or the perfect cabmix ... hmmmm .... how do you guys think about it? never have issues with to much(less lows or highs when using real Cabs ... just with IRs ... so it seems, the mix is wrong, right?
I've come to the - unscientific - conclusion that we hear cabs in 'space' with our ears in a room. What we are doing with an IR is 'hearing' that cab
mic'd up in a room...
without any room. That's not a natural way to hear things. Even with a reference mic. Everything is from a single point; that's not how we normally pick things up with our ears.
So the IR is a 'fixed point' that we are listening to; we don't usually hear that. We are not used to it. (*Engineers and guys that record/mix/do live sound are used to it). So a 'naked cab' sounds funny; even if it is a very accurate representation of a given cab. It's like hearing your cab from one single point, not with your two ears. The one spot it comes from is a microphone, which adds/subtracts/multiplies sonic 'color' to the cab. Even the reference mic is not a match for what we are used to for our ears.
So you have a single point spot, a microphone of various shades of color/character shaping/filtering the sound and you have essentially no room. Imagine hearing a cab in an anechoic chamber. That's a quality IR. Crappy ones even blur the edges more.
So I've tried to find ways to 'present' the cab, via a mixed IR, and add a mostly early reflections reverb at a low level to give the sense of 'room' withOUT a room.
To me, these mixes - and we have a huge jump on them with the experience from the past year mixing away; and the availability of quality professional level IR's - LeCab, Red Wire and OwnHammer - to work with.
I am really having fun today working with Alexander "Yek"'s idea here - and ripping away at volume, there is really something quality here that I've not heard before. It just feels 'natural' and dialing up the amps to work with these mixes - incorporating reference mics (hence my "Ref" names for these) is exciting at first blush.
In the past, I just used Far Field alone, I also them mixed far field with more tradition close mic'd options... but never incorporated a closed mic reference mic.
I need to hear these in context live to 'know'. They sound good, feel good and hold up well against my normal 'check' points.