[RWP] Impulse cabinet responses

Fri May 16 10:23:49 EDT 2014

Yay, glad it's at least half working.

Ah, I kind of misunderstood the stage of the creative process you were
aiming to use this for. What gear are you recording with? Reason I ask
is that this method of using IRs usually performs pretty badly here
when I monitor it in real-time. It's more the sort of thing that's
useful to apply after you've recorded when you're sculpting the guitar
sound in a mix. I think there are impulse loaders that do a better job
of the real-time stuff than ReaVerb if that's what you need, but
someone else would have to chime in and suggest an accessible option
because I haven't gone beyond ReaVerb with this. For tracking in
real-time, I usually go with a sound I'm happy with from TH-2 or more
recently the Kuassa plugs, then I focus on the cab impulses after
during the mix.

As for your second question, if it's metal tones you're shooting for,
pretty much everyone playing that genre nowadays puts some flavour of
drive in the signal chain before the guitar hits their preamp when
using real gear. There are plenty of plugins out there that emulate
the characteristics of those drive pedals. TSE Audio have a pretty
good Tube Screamer emulation that was free if I remember right, so
Google for a copy of that and put it before the amp sim. Just to be
certain I haven't confused you, you'll probably want to go guitar,
drive, amp sim, then cab impulse last.

Let us know how you get on

Scott

On 5/16/14, Hadi Rezaei <hadirezaei at gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi Scot
> I've done the instructions, and it seems i'm getting the IRS signal now.
> cool!
> The sound still has some problems though. i'm very unprofessional when
> it comes to guitar amps and signals, and i always used to play with
> native guitar presets.
> I'll describe the two problems, can you explain what needs to be added?
> 1: When i play the guitar, it has still cracking sounds in it, like
> little  buzzing sound in the sound. it's totally unclean.
> 2: it sounds like that the signal is weak, so i have to hit very hard to
> get that metal sound that i need. Is this because i need some kind of
> filter?
> If you need i can record the sound and show it to you.
> Thanks for helping!
>
>
> On 5/16/2014 5:28 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>> Ah, sounds like ReaVerb needs a little extra encouragement. Once
>> you've loaded the IR, come out of the fx window and use Shift+P to get
>> to the automation controls. The top two parameters there should be
>> called Dry and Wet. Dry is the level of unaffected signal that you'll
>> hear, wet is after the IR has been applied to the signal. At a guess,
>> ReaVerb is still playing you the unaffected dry sound, so crank up the
>> Wet control and drop the Dry down until you can't hear the unprocessed
>> sound anymore.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, shout and I'll attempt it at this end to see
>> what's missing from the instructions. This is all from memory so far,
>> and my memory isn't the best lol.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 5/16/14, Hadi Rezaei <hadirezaei at gmx.com> wrote:
>>> Hi scot
>>> So, from your explanations, i get that there are plugins that will load
>>> IRS for you.
>>> I've got an IRS to test here,, but i had no luck since now, with
>>> reaverb.
>>> I have added my amp sim into my effects, then add vst: ReaVerb. then the
>>> add button for reaverb appears.
>>>   From the dropdown, i chose the file item, then  found my .wav file and
>>> openned it.
>>> Now what i should be doing? i hit the strings and still i'm getting the
>>> amp sim without ANY IRS.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/16/2014 5:03 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>>>> The simplest way to get started with this is to go Googling for free
>>>> IRs, then use your favourite convolution plugin to load them and put
>>>> that after whichever amp sim you're using. Seeing as you've already
>>>> got ReaVerb, that might be the loader to try first. If you tab along
>>>> passed the presets combobox etc until you come to an Add button,
>>>> that'll pop up a menu where you can choose an IR to load. It's a bit
>>>> button bashy because you have to manually hit the remove button then
>>>> hit Add again to load the next IR, so not exactly quick for
>>>> auditioning a bunch of options, but it's fine once you've narrowed it
>>>> down to a few decent IRs that are your go-to sounds.
>>>>
>>>> Recab and similar plugins have the advantage that they use dynamic
>>>> libraries, so there's a definite increase in the realism, but you have
>>>> to weigh that up against the hassle of finding an accessible option.
>>>> Alex H has had some success with Recabinet that involves using NVDA's
>>>> OCR addon. I've picked up a license for Recabinet too because I was
>>>> proper impressed with the stuff he gets out of it, but haven't had
>>>> chance to play around with it yet.
>>>>
>>>> If you find that static IRs are good enough for you in the mix
>>>> (honestly, they probably will be unless you've got some serious guitar
>>>> chops and taste) and you want to move beyond the free stuff to a more
>>>> complete collection, I've had good experiences with the stuff from
>>>> OwnHammer.com. His libraries are cheap, nicely organised, and sound
>>>> well captured to my ears. I like them because they seem to strike a
>>>> good balance between sounding natural but still being fairly close to
>>>> mix-ready compared to the other popular libraries I tried.
>>>>
>>>> Hth
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>> On 5/16/14, Hadi Rezaei <hadirezaei at gmx.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hello guys
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone who is familiar with guitar amp sims and all of that
>>>>> stuff,
>>>>> help me to find an impulse cabinet response?
>>>>> I want to break away from native guitar instruments presets, so i have
>>>>> downloaded some AMP sims, (lepu plugins), but i currently do not have
>>>>> any IRS.
>>>>> I have tried  poulin recab, but the  problem is that my reaper crashes
>>>>> when i  scroll down the list o its settings,  (Shift+P)
>>>>> and it's the only plugin that crashes my reaper like that.
>>>>> Can  someone  guide me through this? i'm lost abit.
>>>>> I'm doing google searches, and there are two types of IRS, one being
>>>>> plugins, and one being wav files. that's what makes me so confused.
>>>>>
>>>>> So if you got a good setup with some good  cabinet sims, please show
>>>>> me
>>>>> how can i do it as well.
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
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