Of course, ReaVerb works just fine :) However, after having explored some other options (all of them *free*), I feel that there are more user-friendly IR loaders out there, such as e.g.: * Pulse, by Lancaster Audio; * IRmageddon, by Forward Audio. These allow quicker selection of IRs in a folder, blending of multiple IRs, phase shifting and EQ before blending, etc. Another awesome option, one that is quickly becoming my favourite, is: * Mikko, by ML Sound Lab; I use the *FREE* offering, which has only one speaker type and a couple of microphones, but it sounds the best of all. You can place as many as 9 microphones in front of the one speaker, adjust EQ, distance, phase etc per microphone, etc. The sound is glorious. The free offering doesn't allow export of impulse responses, but by just using the plugin you don't need that. Alternatively, you could in fact create impulse responses by just shooting an impulse through the plugin and recording it. The sound really beats all of them, in my humble opinion.
i use this method for my IR's and it's great. True, most guitar IR loaders have a phase adjust and independent levels per IR, but honestly it's nice to just use whats there. That said I wish we'd get an update with indi levels and alignment features. You can now do this with FX containers, it's just not as simple as a single plug instance. i'd look more into 3rd party loaders but most I've tried don't work with screen readers and aren't worth my time. cheers
awesome... im a newbie to Reaper & daws in general..... I've been researching IRs a bit & convinced about its versatility in tone shaping.......this video helps me a lot...... thanks thereaperblog....
+Daniel Leonov true. back in the day, i used line6 pod for live performances...... and being able to interchange the mics & cabinets alone affected the output sound a lot........ makes sense to incorporate IRs into home studio recordings....
Cool! I've been thinking of using IRs of violin bodies in conjunction with a very dry electric violin sample. It might allow adding expressive vibrato to the violin sound without the problems caused by altering the pitch of a sample that includes the body resonances. Pitch bending a sample that already has body response alters the frequency of those resonances along with the string note which sounds very artificial. Soundfonts of dry electric violins seem a bit hard to find though since they aren't very usable on their own.
pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/IMP-RESP/. I can't find the original link that described them in more detail but in general they were excited by tapping on the bridge with a fingernail. Haven't tried them in ReaVerb yet either so take them for what they're worth.
Sorry for the delay, thought I replied earlier. Here are some orchestral string body IRs. Haven't tried any of them yet though. pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/IMP-RESP/
great video thanks, have been using the js guitar impulses and have found them really good with my laney pulse distortion tube preamp. I get some good sounding marshall cabs/amp sounds. Must try some other impulses.
What's the difference between using Reaverb for this and using JS: Convolution Amp/Cab Modeler? Is it just more flexible to use the former? Or is there a difference in how the two plugs apply the impulse response file?
I'm new at this. How do I download an IR into the ReaVerb Plugin? When I click file on that my window look just like a regular windows 10 window with Docs, Install data, and plugins options. I have Gods Cab from Wilkinson Audio downloaded and am trying to copy and paste it on the FX folder but still not seeing it anywhere.
I have tried this today without any success in Reaper Loaded Pulse and Ignite. Tried both with IR's from Lancaster Audio and Ignite respectively. Need help to figue out what Im doing wrong.
Hello, I´m experimenting with IR´s for so long, but honestly said, I´ve never reached the results like demonstrated in several videos. So my question, would you provide the IR`s that you use in this video? Thanks a lot in advance. Regards, Heiko
Hey there Jon! Know this one's oldie but...you spent a lot of time at the Sneap Forum some years back right??? Those ASEM and Burny bring me the memories lol
not really, if you like the sound of those cabinets. If you want to try impulse responses for cabinets remember to disable the cab/mic section in Bias fx
@@TheREAPERBlog my problem is whenever i play the guitar the sound from bias fx2 is amazing but during playback after recording it in reaper the guitar tone is muddy. Any recommendation on how to fix it?
IRmageddon by Forward Audio (free!) can "detune" impulse responses, i.e. make them longer (lower pitched, larger speaker) or shorter (higher pitched, smaller speaker). I am confident you could use this to take a regular impulse response from a 12" guitar speaker, and "detune" it to sound more like a 15" one.
^ What Jon said. You can indeed just blend them (you can in fact blend many!). You might want to inspect phase (wave form going up? or down?), and starting point of the IRs though, to make sure they are in phase and lined up!
If you're in the market for modern cab IRs, check Rosen digital stuff. They sound ridiculously good, plus they have a nice IR loader based on Ignite amps nadir.
Excuse me, but I don't use ReaVerb with IR, because it is NOT real-time - you can't record guitar and monitor it at the same time and listening the full mix. Tell me if I'm wrong. But thank you for your videos, I'm subscriber for about two years.
no problem it was a very brief mention that was easy to miss. adjusting the FFT size can help with that CPU load, or stick with the other plugin if it works well for you.
I forgot one ReaVerb bug but here it is again - ReaVerb doesn't work in realtime from time to time (with ZL) and I don't know why. Nothing changed in the mix. FFT size doesn't help with that latency. But NadIR works fine always. I'd like to change it to native Reaper stuff, but I see for now I can't. Thanks anyway!
@@CHURFolkMetal you need to select ZL before you load the IR file in. If you load the IR first and then check ZL, it won't work. Delete and then add the plugin again, check the ZL box, and then load the IR file.
I've tried a few IR's just so that I could compare it to the "stock" amp sims like GR6, and I have to say that I wasn't impressed at all. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but to me they don't sound better than any amp sim there is out there.
In order to get a cab to make a sound to capture as an impulse response, you need to drive it with at least a power amp. So a "cab impulse response" has Power amp, and cabinet, speaker, and mic (type, distance, angle) as part of the sound.
I am just learning reaper and this is the best channel I have come across. Great content!
Of course, ReaVerb works just fine :)
However, after having explored some other options (all of them *free*), I feel that there are more user-friendly IR loaders out there, such as e.g.:
* Pulse, by Lancaster Audio;
* IRmageddon, by Forward Audio.
These allow quicker selection of IRs in a folder, blending of multiple IRs, phase shifting and EQ before blending, etc.
Another awesome option, one that is quickly becoming my favourite, is:
* Mikko, by ML Sound Lab;
I use the *FREE* offering, which has only one speaker type and a couple of microphones, but it sounds the best of all.
You can place as many as 9 microphones in front of the one speaker, adjust EQ, distance, phase etc per microphone, etc.
The sound is glorious.
The free offering doesn't allow export of impulse responses, but by just using the plugin you don't need that.
Alternatively, you could in fact create impulse responses by just shooting an impulse through the plugin and recording it.
The sound really beats all of them, in my humble opinion.
IRmageddon doesn`t look free at all. Or was it?
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I was free back then (my comment is a year old), but I believe it no longer is...
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Nowadays I mainly use NadIR
@@matthijshebly me too, but I like the colorful interface of Irmageddon, however not gonna pay for it lol
hey, thank you for that info, how is latency situation with Mikko?
i use this method for my IR's and it's great. True, most guitar IR loaders have a phase adjust and independent levels per IR, but honestly it's nice to just use whats there. That said I wish we'd get an update with indi levels and alignment features. You can now do this with FX containers, it's just not as simple as a single plug instance. i'd look more into 3rd party loaders but most I've tried don't work with screen readers and aren't worth my time.
cheers
Thank you for this. I've been using Amplitube for years and I've never managed to get sounds as good and quick as with this method.
awesome... im a newbie to Reaper & daws in general..... I've been researching IRs a bit & convinced about its versatility in tone shaping.......this video helps me a lot...... thanks thereaperblog....
True. Printing guitar preamp signal and shape it with different IRs is a good workflow, I've been doing this for while.
+Daniel Leonov true. back in the day, i used line6 pod for live performances...... and being able to interchange the mics & cabinets alone affected the output sound a lot........ makes sense to incorporate IRs into home studio recordings....
Yes. Actually I prefer changing IRs to EQ'ing guitars while mixing (mostly). Just works better.
Cool! I've been thinking of using IRs of violin bodies in conjunction with a very dry electric violin sample. It might allow adding expressive vibrato to the violin sound without the problems caused by altering the pitch of a sample that includes the body resonances. Pitch bending a sample that already has body response alters the frequency of those resonances along with the string note which sounds very artificial. Soundfonts of dry electric violins seem a bit hard to find though since they aren't very usable on their own.
where did you find violin body IRs?!?
pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/IMP-RESP/. I can't find the original link that described them in more detail but in general they were excited by tapping on the bridge with a fingernail. Haven't tried them in ReaVerb yet either so take them for what they're worth.
Sorry for the delay, thought I replied earlier. Here are some orchestral string body IRs. Haven't tried any of them yet though. pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/IMP-RESP/
Nicely done, thank you, I use Reaper so will try this out, cabs make all the difference.
This was great Jon!!! Thank you 😊
great video thanks, have been using the js guitar impulses and have found them really good with my laney pulse distortion tube preamp. I get some good sounding marshall cabs/amp sounds. Must try some other impulses.
What's the difference between using Reaverb for this and using JS: Convolution Amp/Cab Modeler? Is it just more flexible to use the former? Or is there a difference in how the two plugs apply the impulse response file?
don't think I've ever used the JS one. I'll have a look.
I'm new at this. How do I download an IR into the ReaVerb Plugin? When I click file on that my window look just like a regular windows 10 window with Docs, Install data, and plugins options. I have Gods Cab from Wilkinson Audio downloaded and am trying to copy and paste it on the FX folder but still not seeing it anywhere.
I have tried this today without any success in Reaper Loaded Pulse and Ignite. Tried both with IR's from Lancaster Audio and Ignite respectively. Need help to figue out what Im doing wrong.
Hello, I´m experimenting with IR´s for so long, but honestly said, I´ve never reached the results like demonstrated in several videos. So my question, would you provide the IR`s that you use in this video? Thanks a lot in advance. Regards, Heiko
Damn. Impressive results.
Great video! helped with impulses.
Thanks very much for this.
Hey, does anyone have some sources for good cabinet impulse files?
Hey there Jon! Know this one's oldie but...you spent a lot of time at the Sneap Forum some years back right??? Those ASEM and Burny bring me the memories lol
yep! I still have Brian Hood's ball clap samples around somewhere even
@@TheREAPERBlog my Goodness!! I kind of learned much more there than I did at audio academy. Good times, cheers man!
had to re-watch this a few months later for it to click, for whatever reason. tyty
Nice idea. Thank You !
Both links are broken
That's awesome! Thanks
My bias fx 2 has the cabinet do i need a extra IR?
not really, if you like the sound of those cabinets. If you want to try impulse responses for cabinets remember to disable the cab/mic section in Bias fx
@@TheREAPERBlog my problem is whenever i play the guitar the sound from bias fx2 is amazing but during playback after recording it in reaper the guitar tone is muddy. Any recommendation on how to fix it?
Do they have something for bass guitar?
IRmageddon by Forward Audio (free!) can "detune" impulse responses, i.e. make them longer (lower pitched, larger speaker) or shorter (higher pitched, smaller speaker).
I am confident you could use this to take a regular impulse response from a 12" guitar speaker, and "detune" it to sound more like a 15" one.
how can i combine 2 impulse response in 1 wav file?
you can drop the two IRs on different tracks, adjust volume slightly lower
Then render to a new file.
^ What Jon said.
You can indeed just blend them (you can in fact blend many!).
You might want to inspect phase (wave form going up? or down?), and starting point of the IRs though, to make sure they are in phase and lined up!
If you're in the market for modern cab IRs, check Rosen digital stuff. They sound ridiculously good, plus they have a nice IR loader based on Ignite amps nadir.
Impulse Reasponses...
Very impulsive ReaSponse. Thanks!
Excuse me, but I don't use ReaVerb with IR, because it is NOT real-time - you can't record guitar and monitor it at the same time and listening the full mix. Tell me if I'm wrong. But thank you for your videos, I'm subscriber for about two years.
the ZL button at the bottom.
@@TheREAPERBlog Oh, thank you, I feel so stupid, 'cause it was on 4:55, sorry! (But ReaVerb is 0.8% CPU and NadIR is 0.2% as for me)
no problem it was a very brief mention that was easy to miss.
adjusting the FFT size can help with that CPU load, or stick with the other plugin if it works well for you.
I forgot one ReaVerb bug but here it is again - ReaVerb doesn't work in realtime from time to time (with ZL) and I don't know why. Nothing changed in the mix. FFT size doesn't help with that latency. But NadIR works fine always. I'd like to change it to native Reaper stuff, but I see for now I can't. Thanks anyway!
@@CHURFolkMetal you need to select ZL before you load the IR file in. If you load the IR first and then check ZL, it won't work. Delete and then add the plugin again, check the ZL box, and then load the IR file.
I've tried a few IR's just so that I could compare it to the "stock" amp sims like GR6, and I have to say that I wasn't impressed at all. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but to me they don't sound better than any amp sim there is out there.
cab impulses shouldent have tubes in them...? haha?
In order to get a cab to make a sound to capture as an impulse response, you need to drive it with at least a power amp. So a "cab impulse response" has Power amp, and cabinet, speaker, and mic (type, distance, angle) as part of the sound.
Ah ok, thank you. :)
I don’t think the IR can capture dynamic and saturation. I think (quite sure) it captures only delays and EQ but I might be wrong?
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