Severed
Fractal Fanatic
I found that shooting many IR's from my favorite Cab and Speaker, and then mixing them until I get the exact response when using this mix with a pair of CLR's is better than buying all the cab packs in the world and hoping for one that works for you. I used a few different standard mics and also a cheap RTA mic. In the end, I shot 8 different positions of each speaker in my 412 cab, including the back, sides, and also from where my ears are when using the real thing. My thinking is I want to hear the cab in the room to reproduce the cab in the room, not just the on-speaker or far field, but still in the speaker beam with FRFR.
I use these IR's in all my presets since, and it really is like just plugging a diff amp head into my real cab.
After trying hundreds of IR's from others and cab packs, what I realized is the mic positions are not right for what I want to hear, and usually they all are single shoots of diff positions and well I spent hours mixing with cab lab with less than satisfactory results. I wanted a single shoot of 8 diff positions so I decided to make my own, using my X32 producer and mix them live, not post in cab lab.
It was a long journey and it took a lot of shoots, trial and error on positions, phase, and experimentation, but in the end I got it where there is little to no difference in the critical high end, no exaggerated mid scooping, and no exaggerated bass flub.
IMO all it takes it spending the time, and by time I mean it took me a couple weeks as its important to take many breaks to reset your ears, do many recordings and always have a reference to compare back to.
Anyways, I'm happy with the results and to me, using a pair of CLR's feels and sounds the same to me as using my old '78 JMP 2203 into a '81 JCM800 412 with G12-65 celestions.
I use these IR's in all my presets since, and it really is like just plugging a diff amp head into my real cab.
After trying hundreds of IR's from others and cab packs, what I realized is the mic positions are not right for what I want to hear, and usually they all are single shoots of diff positions and well I spent hours mixing with cab lab with less than satisfactory results. I wanted a single shoot of 8 diff positions so I decided to make my own, using my X32 producer and mix them live, not post in cab lab.
It was a long journey and it took a lot of shoots, trial and error on positions, phase, and experimentation, but in the end I got it where there is little to no difference in the critical high end, no exaggerated mid scooping, and no exaggerated bass flub.
IMO all it takes it spending the time, and by time I mean it took me a couple weeks as its important to take many breaks to reset your ears, do many recordings and always have a reference to compare back to.
Anyways, I'm happy with the results and to me, using a pair of CLR's feels and sounds the same to me as using my old '78 JMP 2203 into a '81 JCM800 412 with G12-65 celestions.