NEW Speaker Cabinet Impulse Response Library - Guaranteed to Grow More Hair

[kreeper_6]

Originally Posted by Animus

Question: I have a Rivera Ktre head which has a line out and a speaker out that goes to a Bogner Uberkab.

What's the best way to get the amp directly into the computer and bypass the cab? Should I just go line out directly into the converter? Go line out in my Great River Me1nv? Or do i need some kind of converter box?

thanks

This...

[jslevin]

Not really into the whole brevity thing, I guess.

JSL

Originally Posted by redwire

Hey there slutz,

Please allow me to introduce myself... I'm a computer programmer and sometimes musician/audio engineer. Like many of you, I've experienced the painful burning and itching of crafting killer guitar tones in less than ideal environments... bedrooms, basements, and tiny boxes filled with equipment scrounged together on the cheap... wives, girlfriends and 9 month old babies that just don't understand your commitment to abusing 60 year old radio technology.. and let's not forget the neighbors with the cops on speed dial.

Like you, I've had the obligatory, brief, and ultimately unsatisfying dalliance with that little, red, bean-shaped doxy we all know, a summer fling with a PDI-03 that I'm still friends with, a torrid two-week affair with a hot piece of Italian code and a drunken one-night stand with an isobox that I'd rather not talk about. But, true audio love had eluded me... until now.

Nowadays, I'm fortunate enough to have access to a first-class studio space in Soho crammed with some of the best gear available. I tell you this, not to gloat. Nay, dear brother, I have not forgotten my less fortunate comrades, plucking away in the trenches. On the contrary, I've expended a considerable amount of time, effort and electrons finding ways to bring an extensive gear collection, a sweet live room and my technical know-how to bear on solving the problems of the home studio and project recordist. Who knows, I may even have something that you pros will find useful.

You see, I do it all for you. Well, you, and the fact that I'm most productive when working at home, just me, my clumsy, sausage-like fingers, a guitar, an amp, and my laptop, so I could use a few solutions, myself. And, oh yeah, the money. I plan on making tens, perhaps hundreds of dollars on this. Well, hopefully, enough to cover the cost of bandwidth.

Which brings me to the point of this rant. Today, I'm proud to announce the launch of Red Wire Impulses, the culmination of many, many months of work and more than a smidge of personal sacrifice...

Using a collection of industry standard mics and a few extraordinary specimens just for fun, we painstakingly captured 9 legendary speaker/speaker cabinets, using up to 9 mic positions at up to 9 different distances. We ran each mic into a Neve 1073, or 1084, preamps expensive enough that your wife would probably divorce you if you bought one yourself, then finally into a Lavry Blue or Prism Sound Orpheus for A/D conversion. We gave the whole glorious mess to buckaroo and perfectTommy, our twin super-computers, who worked tirelessly for weeks crunching the numbers and voila...

...we've produced, for your discerning ears, what is perhaps the greatest Speaker Cabinet Impulse Response Library lower Manahattan -- dare I say -- the New York Metropolitan area, has ever known.

"What's an impulse response?" you ask. Basically, it's a little wav file you load into a convolution plugin to route your guitar signal through. The signal can come from your amp's preamp, the line out on your amp, a guitar DI box, or a dummy load box with a line out to safely get the direct signal from the power amp. The plugin uses the IR to make it sound like your guitar is being played in the space and using the equipment that's sampled in the IR. In our case a well-mic'ed speaker cabinet, in an acoustically treated live room, run through a Neve 1073. It doesn't capture every aspect of the signal chain, but for speaker cabs, it gets really close.You can run your amp on 10, 11 even, and listen to the results at any volume.

If you want great recordings without all the mess, then saunter on over to Red Wire Impulses... sashay if you must. However you get there, just get there. You owe it to yourself, and generations of your progeny. Plus, we have a really nice tutorial and naked pictures of Megan Fox. Ok... so no pictures, but we do have a pretty decent tutorial on how to use your amp with speaker IRs.

Anyway, we hope you like our IRs and find them useful and for the love of all that is Alex Chilton, please use them responsibly.

Yours truly,

--mike... and Red Wire Impulses

[lydpik]

Originally Posted by AshleySmith06

One can use Convolvobot! to process an already recorded track using upto 10 of the impulses in the pack(s), so you can hear what the end result is. Or you can make a purchase with 100% money back guarantee if you find they're not what you're after.



I think I'm gonna plug for the bigbox next week and see what's what.

Nice - and great idea by the way!

[lydpik]

Originally Posted by Absolute

Personally I thinks its nuts to not have audio examples.

I have never bought anything, that has to do with sound, for my studio without hearing it first--why would I start now? I may show FAITH in Randy Staub...but this? and about the convobot--never make your potential customers jump through hoops.

Thats what I thought too...

[lydpik]

Originally Posted by kreeper_6

This...

The man just passed away! RIP

[shadyru]

Sound samples please!

[BorrelNote]

Maybe a suggestion Redwire, you guys should also sample libraries for Nebula. (Acusticaudio) Nebula already is capable of playing static IR's. But much better would be to capture the cabinets with dynamic ir's. For example, Nebula can sample a cabinet from -45 db to 0 db in 45 steps of 1 db and play the 45 different ir's via so called volterra kernels. Sort of like dynamic convolution. There are already great samples of cabinets for Nebula. Check them out if you haven't already.

Good luck !

[Kazrog]

Post removed - I was wrong - and I am very sorry - Redwirez is an awesome product of its own, and is NOT pirated Recabinet. See below. Please remove any quotations, I take back every word that I said in this post.

[HOTC]

whats the best way to use the IRS without an amp
Im gussing just use some vst effects for distortion,delay or whatever

[s34nsm411]

Originally Posted by Kazrog

oh snapppp

[Animus]

Wouldn't the same cabinets sampled through the same mics etc have similar response anyway?

[Beau777]

Karzog, that's a very bold accusation but I'm sure you wouldn't have posted if you didn't feel like you were certain. I hope you're wrong because I hate to see something like this happen. I would like to see Red Wire respond though.

[Beau777]

Originally Posted by Animus

Wouldn't the same cabinets sampled through the same mics etc have similar response anyway?

Those repsonses aren't really "that" close either.

[Animus]

Originally Posted by Beau777

Those repsonses aren't really "that" close either.

This brings up a interesting thing... what if redwire actually impulsed Recabinet? Why would or wouldn't that be illegal? What's the difference between impulsing the actual cabinet brands or the impulses of those cabs. In both instances someone is profiting off a product that is derivative.

[redwire]

Thanks for retracting your posts and clearing the air, Kazrog. No need to have all this personal info floating around on the Internet anymore, so I'm deleting it.

[Mikey MTC]

Very uncool to smear the guy's rep over more than one forum without giving him a chance to respond ahead of time. Not a good look at all and Mike, you have every right to be pissed in my view! tutt tutt

[Beau777]

Originally Posted by Mikey MTC

Very uncool to smear the guy's rep over more than one forum without giving him a chance to respond ahead of time. Not a good look at all and Mike, you have every right to be pissed in my view! tutt tutt

I agree and I'm glad Mike posted. I feel good about my purchase and will probably be picking up more of them as they are released.

[Led]

So where is Kazrog now? Comparing spectral images of his whistling with bird calls and threatening to sue the birds? Man you made some big calls, you should probably back it up or retract....

[redwire]

On a happier note. We're going to have a Supro Thunderbolt S6420 in the studio for several weeks, so I'm going to try to hit that... er... I mean sample it.

[Kazrog]

OK, wow....

I stand corrected. I am extremely sorry. In fact, I will go as far as to say that these IRs actually sound awesome!!

Mike, I really feel I have taken the wrong approach here, I should have at least contacted you first with my concerns. I feel pretty lame and stupid about it. It's been a crazy week and I've had to deal with a lot of BS surrounding the leak, and the fact that you sampled so much of the same gear, have a similar folder structure, and have very similar text in some places on your site is, I suppose a reflection of all the things I'm doing right (until today anyway), and not you being a pirate.

As a token of my gratitude for you being so understanding (and actually funny) about this, I will link to your site as a recommended product. You're doing great work and to me as a musician and producer myself (not just an "IR guy") it's great having another set of options.

Again, I'm very sorry and I will sleep easier knowing that you're doing legit awesome work. I'm actually glad to be wrong.

[redwire]

Originally Posted by Kazrog

OK, wow....

I stand corrected. I am extremely sorry. In fact, I will go as far as to say that these IRs actually sound awesome!!

Mike, I really feel I have taken the wrong approach here, I should have at least contacted you first with my concerns. I feel pretty lame and stupid about it. It's been a crazy week and I've had to deal with a lot of BS surrounding the leak, and the fact that you sampled so much of the same gear, have a similar folder structure, and have very similar text in some places on your site is, I suppose a reflection of all the things I'm doing right (until today anyway), and not you being a pirate.

As a token of my gratitude for you being so understanding (and actually funny) about this, I will link to your site as a recommended product. You're doing great work and to me as a musician and producer myself (not just an "IR guy") it's great having another set of options.

Again, I'm very sorry and I will sleep easier knowing that you're doing legit awesome work. I'm actually glad to be wrong.

Ok. Awesome. Thanks for setting the record straight. I'm not a guy who enjoys conflict, so I'm glad that's resolved. As far as the similarities go, like you said, I think it really is a testament to the things you did right, you definitely picked the right cabs and mics and chose some pretty nice preamps as well. I would have been remiss not to sample some of the same stuff. It's all legendary after all. But, I should have been more sensitive to how it looked.

I really don't expect you to post a link to my site, but it's a really nice gesture.

As for similarities in the text, I was reading a lot of amp modeling related ad copy and user manuals, including yours, when I wrote the site, so I'm not surprised some similar stuff crept in.

No worries. Peace once again reigns over IR land.

[C Heat]

Come on, group hug people, group hug

Glad this was resolved happily

[Led]

That showed some class Kazrog.

[HOTC]

glad that got sorted out
now for a question
whats the best way to use the IRS without an amp
Im gussing just use some vst effects for distortion,delay or whatever?

[el cochino]

Originally Posted by HOTC

glad that got sorted out
now for a question
whats the best way to use the IRS without an amp
Im gussing just use some vst effects for distortion,delay or whatever?

A software amp simulator like Amplitube, Revalver or whatever you like best.

[r.staettler]

anyone using them? how do they sound?

if anyone is using these in combination with real tube distortion, how close to real amps does it come?

[TheEqualizer]

Kazrog should probably be banned. His posts were not only inflammatory, but they were uncalled for. Kazrog is a direct competitor looking after his own interests, after all.

[Beau777]

Originally Posted by TheEqualizer

Kazrog should probably be banned. His posts were not only inflammatory, but they were uncalled for. Kazrog is a direct competitor looking after his own interests, after all.

He did admit his error, state his reasons for posting, apologize and remove his post. This stuff happens. In the end, it's usually the quality of the product and customer support that rules anyway. No need to drag this through the mud any more.

I still love these IR's.

[hurd300403]

just bought the Celestion AlNiCo Blue...and all I can say is WOW.

Great stuff!

[redwire]

As the guy on the receiving end in the kerfuffle, I would like to let it go. I appreciate the support, but I don't think the negativity is good for anyone.

Like I said, while I don't agree with the way he did it, I understand why he freaked out, given how the timing of my release corresponded with a leak of his IRs to a crack site, so I think this whole thing is best relegated to the memory hole.

I'll let my posts on the subject stand for a little while, then I plan on deleting or editing them.

...and how 'bout that upcoming Supro Thunderbolt... huh?