![]() ![]() “Real places are great because they sound so special and they come with this association,” says Matt. “The Ursa Major Spacestation and some of the 'real spaces' are also favorites.” “Very special to me are some of the vintage hardware units, like the Stocktronics RX-4000 Plate reverb, The SwissEcho 2000 or some very old Farfisa Spring reverbs,” says Christian. And no outside sounds.”Īfter traveling to unique spaces and unearthing rare gear, we wanted to know if there were any particular IRs that really stuck out to Christian and Matt. It was the best place we could have imagined! Huge. It’s the same place that a month later was used for Atonal festival. “For the video, we got in touch with the owners of Tresor who also own Kraftwerk Berlin, an abandoned power plant. ![]() Not only was I shocked by the number of unused spaces in such a popular city, but because of the history of Berlin, and the way these places were somehow left in a state of disrepair but stuck in the time they were abandoned, it was like traveling in time. It was incredible, you really start to feel the history of berlin when you go to these places. This led us to a bunch of old abandoned hospitals, ice factories and military buildings. “When we were scouting locations for the Convolution Reverb movie we were looking for interesting places in Berlin that were large and quiet. A starter pistol will also color the IR a lot (and limit the bandwidth) but often that’s ok. “I used a starter pistol because I can hit record on my laptop and walk around a space firing off at different locations and I don’t need to haul big heavy speakers anywhere (it’s also the most fun). Relating the story of this IR, Matt explains: Another great tool for taking IRs is a gas starter pistol (the type used to start athletics races) - as used by Matt in the video above. While a sweep might be ideal for large rooms, it’s also more difficult to set up. “For pro work in the field,” says Matt, “it’s best to a) work at night when there is the littlest street noise possible b) use really good signal path (loud and clean monitors, high quality sound card and measurement mics ) and c) use a long sweep (a sine wave that moves smoothly from a low to a high frequency).” Sampling from plug-ins or hardware reverb is a bit simpler - here, Matt recommends using a DC click - a short, one-sample sound impulse that provides a very “clean” sound source. Ever wanted to capture the sound of the actual batcave? The EchoThief collection includes an IR from the original location of the batcave from the 1960s TV version of Batman.Ĭollecting IRs can be tricky business - to learn more about it, we interviewed Ableton sound designers Matt Jackson and Christian Kleine. There’s also a treasure trove of free IRs available from a diverse community of sound designers online.
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