Analog signal paths, not digital shortcuts.
Every impulse response in our archive was recorded through the analog signal path of the original hardware. We do not bypass the converters or take digital taps. The character of a Lexicon 480L comes as much from its D/A and A/D converters as from its DSP algorithms, and capturing that character means recording it the way a musician would hear it.
This approach takes longer. The Lexicon 224XL library took two months to record and process. The EMT 252 library contains 2,112 stereo impulses, each one individually checked and cleaned. We think the results speak for themselves.
Hardware, spaces, and techniques.
Our work falls into three categories. First, hardware reverb libraries: we locate vintage units in mint condition, design custom stimulus signals, and capture every usable preset and algorithm. Second, acoustic spaces: cathedrals, concert halls, chambers, and rooms with distinctive reverberant character, captured with sine sweep techniques and deconvolved to pristine stereo IRs.
Third, we write. Technical articles on convolution reverb theory, impulse response capture techniques, acoustic treatment, and the science of reverberation. We believe knowledge should travel with the libraries.
Works with your DAW.
Every IR library is compatible with any convolution reverb that reads WAV files. We also provide proprietary preset support for Altiverb, Waves IR1 and IRL, McDSP Revolver, TL-Space, Logic Space Designer, Structure, and Kontakt 2/3. No import needed for supported plugins: the IRs load directly.
Pro Tools and Logic users receive modulation delay presets that recreate the chorusing effect of the original hardware. Users of other DAWs get screenshots and instructions to recreate the modulation in their preferred plugin.
