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RE: OT Create your own Impulse models for freeware Convolution Reverbs



A transient of white noise...

> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:05:01 +0100
> From: akbutler@tiscali.co.uk
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: OT Create your own Impulse models for freeware Convolution Reverbs
>
> Yep, ...but I don't think white noise would do it either.
>
> What's needed is a transient.
>
> At a pinch, you could get each choir member to clap their hands.
>
> To make a profession grade impulse, you need a high quality
> speaker to play a frequency swept sine wave(called a chirp).
> Then back in the studio you take that recording and convolve it
> with the reverse of your sine sweep.
>
> ...and sadly, the broken speaker idea wont work either,
> a broken speaker doesn't have a linear response.
>
> The ideas may still make great *unexpected* sounds of course.
>
> andy
>
>
> Gareth Whittock wrote:
> > I don't think that would work Per. A short burst of white noise produced
> > at the location of each choir member could though be used as an impulse,
> > (picked up from a mic placed where the listener is presumed to be
> > located). You'd then run the voices through your software to produce
> > that particular reverberation.
> >
> > G
> >
> > >
> > > That's an excellent idea! If applied to a choir recording you set up
> > > the stereo mic recording, push record and ask the members of the choir
> > > to sing a short note each, taking turns one after the other. Then when
> > > back in the studio you create convolution impulses for each choir
> > > member and in the mix you insert the reverb on the each singer's close
> > > up mic channel and load it with the matching impulse file.
>


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