hardware impulses

[DaveBlack]

don't remember seeing this posted at all but this site has a bunch of impulses from compressors, preamps, tape...which I didn't know was possible but very interesting.

http://noisevault.com/nv/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=29

 

[Lionwing]

Thanks for this man I've been looking for some decent bass cab impulses

 

[JonWormwood]

Yup good shit. It'd be cool if anyone else knew any other badass imps of any sort, hook us up with a link?

 

[gabriel g.]

There is a big problem with impulses:
You only have ONE impulse-responce!!!
So this responce CANT give you the character of the hardware unit.

A hardware unit is so great (and the emulations are so expencive) because you need a lot of impule-responces of the single unit.

Like:
How does it sound at 1 o´clock
-"- 5 0´clock
.....

One response gives you only one sound.
thats the reason I prefer allg. reverbs over impuls-responce reverbs...
and thats the reason I always take a real amp over a amp-sim...

 

[Zozobra]

Excuse the noob question, but, while impulses contain the frequency response colouring of a cab/speaker/room/mic/pre/whatever in any given configuration and settings....do they also impart the envelope of attack and decay of a note to the sound?

 

[gabriel g.]

In theory you put a Dirac impulse into any system and recieve the system-response.

thats it...

with some math you get the dirac out of the system-response and can use the real response.

So if you are using a compressor with a ratio 4:1 50ms attack 1s release and a threshold of -10dB you will get this system-response!!!

 

[Zozobra]

Thank you

 

[006]

There is a big problem with impulses:
You only have ONE impulse-responce!!!
So this responce CANT give you the character of the hardware unit.

A hardware unit is so great (and the emulations are so expencive) because you need a lot of impule-responces of the single unit.

Like:
How does it sound at 1 o´clock
-"- 5 0´clock
.....

One response gives you only one sound.
thats the reason I prefer allg. reverbs over impuls-responce reverbs...
and thats the reason I always take a real amp over a amp-sim...

 

[gabriel g.]

?

 

[DaveBlack]

but lets take a compressor for example...

When you mess with the ratio/knee/threshold etc aren't you only shaping it dynamically? Meaning youre not affecting the coloration of the hardware on the audio. Because I could be wrong but it seems thats the idea od these impulses.

Would a hardware impulse from a compressor actually shape the audio as well? I dunno.

 

[Josh M.]

There is a big problem with impulses:
You only have ONE impulse-responce!!!
So this responce CANT give you the character of the hardware unit.

This is very true and exactly what I was thinking when I read the OP. With tape...well, tape never sounds the same twice which is one of the things that gives it character and since an impulse is one single capture of a frequency response, it will always respond the same thus performing more so like digital (as it is) than analogue, which it is trying to emulate.

Anyway, the other stuff should be pretty awesome - thanks Dave.

 

[DaveBlack]

No problem...Im liking some of these reverbs. very slick. Maybe not a go to sound but def for some kind of effect.