Best Freeware IR Reverb

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Best Freeware IR reverb

  • Convoboy Lite

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Freeverb 3

    Votes: 1 11.1%

  • Revolverb

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • SIR

    Votes: 7 77.8%
  • Total voters
    9
dickiefunk

dickiefunk

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Hi. I'm totally new to using IR reverbs and would like your opinions as to which is the best freeware IR reverb. I'm mostly concerned about audio quality and CPU. Which would you recommend as the best in these respects?
 
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I don't know - which one will cause Cubase to crash the least?

I'm tired of free plugins that make my software crash every time I hit play, dagnabbit!
 
cusebassman said:
I don't know - which one will cause Cubase to crash the least?

I'm tired of free plugins that make my software crash every time I hit play, dagnabbit!
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maybe it's not the plugins that are the problem ;)

i use almost exclusively free plugins and REAPER never crashes on me. at all. :D

Cubase is now collecting dust somewhere on my hard drive.
 
Gotta go with Sir. Just make sure you adjust your projects to compensate for the samples latency. Does anybody know where to get some good IR files? Everything I see is mostly weird stuff like stone temples, asylums and crap like that.
 
I've used SIR but it uses a lot of CPU, which is ok if you freeze the tracks or have a good computer.

I haven't tried it in a mix, just on solo guitar stuff. It was hard to find a balance between 'too wet/too much' or too little, but once you do it can sound pretty good.

I used one of the church impulses from the link zed posted.
 
rockabilly1955 said:
Gotta go with Sir. Just make sure you adjust your projects to compensate for the samples latency. Does anybody know where to get some good IR files? Everything I see is mostly weird stuff like stone temples, asylums and crap like that.
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http://pipelineaudio.net/node/44

At the bottom of the page there are some you might find intersting that i haven't sent to noisevault yet
 
Thanks for the info guys! Good points about SIR! Has anyone had any experience with the other 3? I was told that SIR has a higher latency than some of the others? Would that be a problem for adding reverb at the end (post recording)?
 
Dickie..... I use sir for post recording of DI'd guitar tracks with some cab impulse files. I don't use it in real time. But yes, you still have to adjust all other tracks that you aren't using SIR on. The latency is 8960 samples, so adjust all the other tracks accordingly. Your DAW should have something that let's you adjust starting points of objects in samples. Unless of course you wanna use it on the master stereo track for a reverb on your project as a whole then you wouldn't have to adjust anything. Good luck with it. Its a pretty neat plugin.
 
Im pretty excited about SIR 2

about time, weve been waiting and waiting, its looking so awesome!
 
Convoboy Lite! I must be the only user on the planet, but I love it. It's stable (although Reaper is giving me some problems with it now) and it has a low CPU footprint. The audio quality is as good as any other convolution engine (meaning the quality is 99% dependent on the IR). It doesn't have a lot of functions, but it has the ones I need (wet/dry, tail cutoff, that's it basically).
 
Any free RTAS convolution reverbs? I found the JK one but my mac was intel so that fucked it up
 
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