Recabinet Computer Speaker Emulator
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General Information
Original Author: Staffay
Weapon: Computer Cabinet Simulation/Impulses
Make: Recabinet
Model: VIntage/Modern
Price: 14.99$ (normal prize 75$)
Introduction
Recabinet is a very unusal product, since it's actually is no software in itself. It consists of impulses sampled from guitar speaker cabinets, that can be loaded in different host applications like Peavey Revalver, Guitar Rig 4, Studio Devil, Overloud TH1 and others. (these are software guitar amp simulators ed.note) There are also some free host applications one can use for hosting the emulations, which can also be used together with the line-out of Your favourite amp.
Product Description
As stated above Recabinet is a set of speaker impulses, taken from a lot of cabinets with different microphones. In order to understand what a speaker impulse is, the following applies:
When a cabinet impulse is made, the first thing that is done is setting up a guitar cabinet, microphone, and room acoustics to achieve a good tone, just like you would if you were about to record a real track, in a real studio. Then, once things are sounding just right, a short tick, or pop, is played through the cabinet to record the way in which that particular setup responds to a short electrical burst. The recorded response to this short tick is known as the “impulse response” for that particular setup. Every setup has a different impulse response, if you move the mic, change the speaker, do it in another room, change anything at all... then you have a different impulse response, just like a fingerprint, unique to that particular setup.
The impulse response is basically just a recorded audio file, typically saved in WAV or AIFF format, and it’s usually pretty short. After all, it’s just the recording of a short tick played though a speaker in a room. They can be mono, or stereo, depending on how many mics were used in the setup, and they usually don’t run more than 1 second, with lengths of 2000 to 4000 samples being more common for short impulses from guitar cabinets. Before these WAV / AIFF impulse files are saved, they are carefully trimmed and sliced so that there is no leading or trailing silence, much in the same way that loops are cut down with sample accuracy to their start and end points. This is done so that the impulses can be used without introducing unwanted latency and to be kept as short as possible to keep CPU usage down. Large impulses take more CPU power to use than smaller ones, so keeping them as small as possible is always a good thing.''
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