Journeys Unknown - R&D - Impulse Responses part 1, Hardware IRs

Hardware Impulse Responses

Throughout this project I will be creating a variety of my own effects and sounds. So far, I have captured Impulse Responses from a collection of my guitar effects pedals, these IR's can be used to create all kinds of weird and wonderful sounds by loading them into a convolution reverb plug in such as Logic's Space Designer or an IR loader such as 'Pulse' by Lancaster Audio.

See my Bandcamp for examples of my experiments

To make the hardware IR's, I used Logic Pro's built in Impulse Response Utility software which can be found in the Space Designer reverb plug in, to send a sine wave sweep through the pedals, and then back into the IR Utility software, which then with a process called deconvolution, separates the sine wave from the recorded signal and leaves behind the finished IR. 

I took various impulses from the Reverb, Flanger and Delay pedals, and by combining the pedals and moving the knobs I was able to manipulate the sound and randomise the results.

Making your own IR's is fun and depending on your set up, has a low start up cost and can yield some incredible results.  

Personally, I recommend the Radial JCR, however there are many other affordable Reamp boxes available, such as the ART Dual RDB, or if you're in the market for an audio interface, The Fender (previously PreSonus) Quantum HD2 and HD8 interfaces offer dual reamping outputs built in which provides a more simplified workflow. 

For those that don't use Mac or Logic Pro, Voxengo have a demo version of their plug in 'Deconvolver' (Windows only), and Fender (PreSonus) Studio One (Windows and Mac) also has a built in plug in called 'IR Maker'.


 

 
 
 
 
 

Space Designer: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/logicpro/lgce357aa791/mac

IR Utility: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/logicpro-iru/welcome/mac 

Pulse 2: https://lancasteraudio.com/shop/plugins/pulse-2/ 

Deconvolver: https://www.voxengo.com/product/deconvolver/ 



 

 




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