impulse recommendations for sir

[jamie_drum]

I just installed SIR. No problems thus far using it as a plug in on an send/bus.

I downloaded a few impulse files at random and tried them. However, they tend to be so big. Furthermore, one bundle of impulses will have like 3 dozen microphone positions in the same ampitheatre or room. It would take a long time to try them all.

Can anyone recommend some impulses or settings that have worked for them?

[Qwerty]

The Lexicon PCM-91 and PCM-81 samples from Noisevault are keeping me amused currently.

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[The Seifer]

I'm also using the PCM 91 impulses from noisvault. If I had to rate them on a scale of awesome to radical I'd give them "100%"

[dachay2tnr]

Hey, thanks for this thread. You guys made me realize I had an old version of SIR.

I had downloaded SIR awhile back, but never installed it until I got S3 and the VST wrapper that came with it. When I finally installed it, it never occurred to me that a newer version might be available.

Then when I read this thread and downloaded the PCM91 impulse files, they wouldn't work for me. After scratching my head for awhile, I realized these were 24 bit files - whereas the other ones I had been using were 16 bit. Light goes on, and I check to see if there is a newer version of SIR that can use 24 bit impulse files, and whadya know. (I had been using the 0.76 beta.)

The real benefit of all this is that SIR sounds significantly better to my ears using these 24 bit impulse files. And lower latency. And more controls. And still free. That's my kinda stuff!!

[James Argo]

I heard some effect in Sound Forge (Acoustic mirror?) which just like SIR, is also using impulse thingee as base for the reverb. Are they compatible?

[Qwerty]

I'm not sure if you can use Acoustic Mirror in real time as a track insert. Also people seem to maintain that it is even more resource intensive than SIR.

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[moskus]

Record them yourself using WinMLS...

[Qwerty]

But who's going to lend me a Lexicon and my bathroom doesn't sound good

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