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I may have already posted this here.. but when I Came back it did not show up in a search, so If this is a double post it was not meant to be...Just please delete one of them as I don't want to piss off your users...Thanks
Ken
CAB ENHANCER IS AVAILABLE FREE AT
http://www.acmebargig.com/
So, what is it and what does it do?
Some of you will recognize this from two of our other products. It has a new version of the CabShaper from DIG and GUTS. It has three distinct functions...It will either emulate a cabinet without the use of IR, It will enhance an existing IR cabinet, or it will enhance a mic'd cabinet. The thought had ocurred to me a while ago that IR and Mic'd cabs can loose some of the "Live" feel. No matter what equipment or how you place a mic. It will always be like that it is a matter of physics. So, what I'm trying to do now is place back some of that live feel...So to speak.
In terms of Cab IR...
You may agree with this or not, but for an example of how the CabShaper will help out, we'll use the example of a snare drum. When you hit a snare drum hard or soft the sound of that snare drum changes with the velocity of the strike. These tonal changes occur, with speakers too. Albeit to a lesser degree, but none the less they occur. So, it is these tonal/resonant changes that are missing from an IR cab. Use of our new EAR(Enhanced Audio Resonance) technology attempts to put them back in. This on the other hand does not occur when you are recording with mic'd amps. EAR Reads how hard or soft you are playing and resonates certain frequencies based on speaker type. Unfortunately, we are still defining speaker sizes with it, but in future versions of EAR you will be able to select your speaker type and size from a list. So for this version, we'll ask that you simply turn the dials until you like the sound...
In terms of Live Mic'd cabs...
You could use a small amount of EAR to enhance the punchiness, but using too much of it in this scenario will not help. But what CabEnhancer does in this regard is allow you access to an extra EQ and 2 filters, plus a widener. So it does not perform any type of "Magic" but does contain the tools required, including a noise gate. One of the filters could also be used as a hiss eliminator, and then you could use the EQ to boost the high end that was removed from the Filter.
As a Cab Emulator...
This is almost identical to the previous version of CabShaper, but I have enhanced the low end rumble. Its not exactly where I want it yet, but getting close. The EAR and Filters also can be used with this as well...Some people use the Cab Shaper almost exclusively, I almost dropped Cabshaper and went to strait IR Cabs, But we decided not to shoot the horse twice. Those of you that know us, know that we always want to try and release things that come out of our head...I Don't like doing what has been done a million times before. There already is a great product called KeFIR available for free, so why spend the time writing another KeFIR when I could be creating stuff Like EAR, or RedShift...I am sure that you guys would rather me try and do something new that you may not have seen or heard before.
This is another Nikko Skin as well, man he does great work...
Oh yeah also there is a brand new control in it as well that takes you to our website, this will now be in all future AcmeBarGig releases
Thanks for all your support and I hope you're gonna like this..
Ken and the Acmebargig team
I may have already posted this here.. but when I Came back it did not show up in a search, so If this is a double post it was not meant to be...Just please delete one of them as I don't want to piss off your users...Thanks
Ken
CAB ENHANCER IS AVAILABLE FREE AT
http://www.acmebargig.com/
So, what is it and what does it do?
Some of you will recognize this from two of our other products. It has a new version of the CabShaper from DIG and GUTS. It has three distinct functions...It will either emulate a cabinet without the use of IR, It will enhance an existing IR cabinet, or it will enhance a mic'd cabinet. The thought had ocurred to me a while ago that IR and Mic'd cabs can loose some of the "Live" feel. No matter what equipment or how you place a mic. It will always be like that it is a matter of physics. So, what I'm trying to do now is place back some of that live feel...So to speak.
In terms of Cab IR...
You may agree with this or not, but for an example of how the CabShaper will help out, we'll use the example of a snare drum. When you hit a snare drum hard or soft the sound of that snare drum changes with the velocity of the strike. These tonal changes occur, with speakers too. Albeit to a lesser degree, but none the less they occur. So, it is these tonal/resonant changes that are missing from an IR cab. Use of our new EAR(Enhanced Audio Resonance) technology attempts to put them back in. This on the other hand does not occur when you are recording with mic'd amps. EAR Reads how hard or soft you are playing and resonates certain frequencies based on speaker type. Unfortunately, we are still defining speaker sizes with it, but in future versions of EAR you will be able to select your speaker type and size from a list. So for this version, we'll ask that you simply turn the dials until you like the sound...
In terms of Live Mic'd cabs...
You could use a small amount of EAR to enhance the punchiness, but using too much of it in this scenario will not help. But what CabEnhancer does in this regard is allow you access to an extra EQ and 2 filters, plus a widener. So it does not perform any type of "Magic" but does contain the tools required, including a noise gate. One of the filters could also be used as a hiss eliminator, and then you could use the EQ to boost the high end that was removed from the Filter.
As a Cab Emulator...
This is almost identical to the previous version of CabShaper, but I have enhanced the low end rumble. Its not exactly where I want it yet, but getting close. The EAR and Filters also can be used with this as well...Some people use the Cab Shaper almost exclusively, I almost dropped Cabshaper and went to strait IR Cabs, But we decided not to shoot the horse twice. Those of you that know us, know that we always want to try and release things that come out of our head...I Don't like doing what has been done a million times before. There already is a great product called KeFIR available for free, so why spend the time writing another KeFIR when I could be creating stuff Like EAR, or RedShift...I am sure that you guys would rather me try and do something new that you may not have seen or heard before.
This is another Nikko Skin as well, man he does great work...
Oh yeah also there is a brand new control in it as well that takes you to our website, this will now be in all future AcmeBarGig releases
Thanks for all your support and I hope you're gonna like this..
Ken and the Acmebargig team
