redwire said:Aleksi said:I've been using one of the TC30 Mesa IR's (cap edge 0in) you posted on the forum a while ago and I just compared it to the one in the actual update, and the new one sounds quite a bit different to the one I've been using. The new one sounds noticeably "fizzier." I also tried cap 0in with the same results. Do you have any idea why they sound so different?
Uh... Houston we have a problem. The length is a little different. But, biggest difference is the SRC. We switched to iZotope's SRC because it looks good on paper and in our testing the results were excellent and it's integrated in some nice batch processing tools. Anyway, that looks like the problem. It effects the high-end in the 48KHz sampling rate IRs only. Which of course are the ones everyone cares about. It's a pretty significant boost. The other's are true to the 96KHz source. It has to be the implementation in our batch tool because I can't imagine the izotope algorithm itself could munge it up so significantly.
So, I guess that's what I get for rushing it out the door with virtually no beta testing. I'm going to have to reprocess them all with a different SRC, just to be safe. I'm really sorry guys. Especially, all you guys who have cranked out mixes already. Maybe these "sparkly" IRs will become collectors items
I'm just trying to do too many things at once. Mea culpa
So I wasn't just imagining things! It sounded a bit weird to me, so I decided to compare them and noticed a very prominent buzz in the high end. I guess it's back to the old Mesa for a while. On the plus side, I got some great clean tones with the Fender and Vox IR's.