Discover the amazing flexibility of cabinet and mic IR’s when tracking or mixing guitars. In this video, Chris shows the impact they make on your tone, and why knowing how to actually mic a cabinet, will make your choices easier to make. Also, how using the fantastic MixIR3 plugin from Redwirez, can make this process a lot more streamlined. If you’re curious, the guitar track in this video, was recorded with an Ernie Ball Luke with EMG pickups, DI’d into an Apogee Duet.
What are Impulse Responses, How to Use Them, and What is the Best Software for Implementing IRs in a mix?
Chris and Jody take in a listener’s request to talk about IRs. Those pesky things known as Impulse Responses. What is an impulse response? Why would we want to use one or more of them? How do we use them? Who makes them? All of this and more gets unpacked in this episode. Plus our Friday Finds. It’s also not unlikely that there will be some nonsense discussed.