Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany

Recording Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot and Aram Verwoest

A ferocious thunder falls down on you when you make some noise in this very impressive former German gas tank. We sampled these acoustics and you can now shout, play some drums or do whatever you like in this insane space.

The Gasometer Oberhausen is a former gas holder in Oberhausen, Germany, which has been converted into an exhibition space. It has hosted several large scale exhibitions, including two by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Gasometer is an industrial landmark, and an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage and the Industrial Heritage Trail. It was built in the 1920s, but largely reconstructed after World War II.

Please note: Altiverb 7 impulse responses come in an entirely new format, allowing single file downloads that include all channel configurations, spectral data, 360 surround movies, pictures, and textual tags for easier finding and sorting. This and future Audio Ease impulse response releases will be exclusively for Altiverb 7.

You can download this set directly from the IR browser in Altiverb 7.

Subway tunnel, Noordzuidlijn, Amsterdam

Recording Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot and Aram Verwoest

A subway tunnel under construction. No tracks are in here yet, so every angle looks identical. Very pretty, and a heavy, deep, satisfying reverb. Just run some low passed noise into it with the direct sound switched off for a nice and deep room tone.

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Please note: Altiverb 7 impulse responses come in an entirely new format, allowing single file downloads that include all channel configurations, spectral data, 360 surround movies, pictures, and textual tags for easier finding and sorting. This and future Audio Ease impulse response releases will be exclusively for Altiverb 7.

You can also download this set directly from the IR browser in Altiverb 7.

Gas holder, Sneek, The Netherlands

Recording Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot and Aram Verwoest

This former gas holder in Sneek has the longest reverb time that we have found so far (2013). Being in there and counting over 10 seconds of reverb to whispers was probably the most stunning experience in our career as reverb hunters.

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Please note: Altiverb 7 impulse responses come in an entirely new format, allowing single file downloads that include all channel configurations, spectral data, 360 surround movies, pictures, and textual tags for easier finding and sorting. This and future Audio Ease impulse response releases will be exclusively for Altiverb 7.

You can also download this set directly from the IR browser in Altiverb 7.

Alcatraz prison

Recording Engineer: Peter Steinbach

Peter Steinbach kindly shared the IR recordings he did in Alcatraz for all Altiverb users. Peter recorded three depths in the main cell block and some perspectives from the solitary confinement cell. He recorded using DPA 4006 omni mics and a Genelec 1031a speaker on a Deva 4 recorder.

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Please note: Altiverb 7 impulse responses come in an entirely new format, allowing single file downloads that include all channel configurations, spectral data, 360 surround movies, pictures, and textual tags for easier finding and sorting. This and future Audio Ease impulse response releases will be exclusively for Altiverb 7.

You can also download this set directly from the IR browser in Altiverb 7.

Next Door III
Coll's new place

This IR set for Altiverb 7 lets you place audio in the room next door, up stairs, close doors between rooms etc. We captured Coll Anderson's new house in 20 perspectives. Please put on headphones and listen to how this sounds.

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Satsop cooling tower

Recording Engineer: Bob Schwenkler

Bob Schwenkler recorded this IR set and kindly asked us to share it with you.

This set is recorded with a Schoeps CMC64 microphone pair in a modified spaced configuration. Angled apart at about 90 degrees and spaced about 1.75 feet at a height of about 6 inches. The mic configuration was looking upward rather then sideways.

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Please note: Altiverb 7 impulse responses come in an entirely new format, allowing single file downloads that include all channel configurations, spectral data, 360 surround movies, pictures, and textual tags for easier finding and sorting. This and future Audio Ease impulse response releases will be exclusively for Altiverb 7.

You can also download this set directly from the IR browser in Altiverb 7.

Environmental Aesthetics about the Satsop cooling tower:

In the late 1970's, the U.S. was more than 20 years into its nuclear power program. In Washington, a consortium of public utilities began what was to be the largest single nuclear power project in the country's history. Five reactors, divided between sites located near the cities of Hanford and Satsop, were intended to be a solution to projected energy demands of the rapidly growing region. Three years and several billion dollars into the endeavor, the remaining members of the Washington Public Power Supply System ceased construction of the nearly completed plants. Poor oversight, material miscalculations and the turning of public opinion with regards to nuclear power left the agency with no other option than to cut its losses, leaving the massive remnants of their futurist daydreaming to rest against the backdrop of rural Washington.

Today, a collection of warehouses and businesses occupy the buildings that were intended to house the administrative offices and support facilities of the Satsop plant. The cooling towers still loom over the industrial park. The towers, No. 4 and No. 5, are identical in appearance, both measuring 420 feet across at the base, and rising to a height of nearly 500 feet. No. 5, however, was never fully completed and remains free of the concrete and steel inner-structures of its twin. At its apex, the tower is open to the sky, leaving its interior exposed to the rains of the Pacific Northwest. Never having been used, the earthen floor of the tower has become overgrown with wild grasses, while the inner walls and support columns are now tinted green from the lichens and mosses that grow in the concrete's cracks and pores. The tower resembles the neck of an hourglass, tapering gradually from the base then widening again after reaching its narrowest point 400 feet above the ground. The design, meant to channel super-heated steam from the reactor's cooling system into the sky, has a similar, though unintended effect on sound. Within the tower, even the slightest sonic trigger becomes a dynamic acoustic event. Waveforms collide with the structure's walls, echoing throughout the space and unfolding in the air overhead.

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The Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM), was a shipbuilding and
repair company in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from 1902 to 1996.

This large industrial factory hall has been recorded with 4 DPA 4006 omni
microphones and the sine sweep has been played back through a powered
Genelec 1037 monitor.

A former shipyard on the northern banks of the IJ and larger than 10 football fields, the NDSM wharf is now a center for underground culture in Amsterdam. This huge area contains the NDSM hall, a hangar-like structure 20,000 sq. meters in area and 20 meters in height, and two historic ship slipways(Hellingen) housing workshops and artists’ studios.
The NDSM wharf offers facilities for a number of artistic disciplines and small crafts. The wharf has also become a sanctuary for individual artists and craftspeople as well as for independent organizations, both established and less known, to cooperate, inspire and create.
(ndsm.nl)

This set has been recorded using the PA installation for sine sweep playback
and two DPA 4006 omni microphones, a metric halo mobile i/o interface on
an apple laptop.

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Post pro set 7, St James Cavalier & 3 USA cars

Recording date: June 5, 2007
Engineers: Peter Bakker and Daniel Talma

St James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity first opened its doors to the public on the 22nd September 2000. As the Maltese Government's Millennium Project it has taken on the role of pushing forward Malta's cultural aspirations. With a strong commitment to supporting the contemporary creative scene, the Centre's philosophy is to also take in, reflect and support the country's traditional and historical heritage and culture.

The long entrance tunnel / stairwell, the picasso hall and then main stairwell (and elevator shaft) are included in this set.

Recording date cars: March 26, 2009
Engineer: Arjen van der Schoot & Coll Anderson

These cars were kindly lended by Coll Anderson.
For these recordings four DPA 4006 omni mics were used and for
for playing back the sine sweeps a Genelec 1031 was used.

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entrance - tunnel

musuem hall

stairs & elevator shaft

Gasometer, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam

Recording date: June 13, 2010
Engineer: Arjen van der Schoot

The Gashouder (Gasometer), built in 1903, is the most characteristic building in the Westergasfabriek and leaves an unforgettable impression on all visitors. The enormous cast iron ceiling construction is breathtaking and regularly used as a backdrop for film and photo shoots.

Until the 1960’s gas produced from coles was stored in this container.

We went here in June 2010 because there was a Holland Festival concert series in this structure, that, for BluRay production, needed some audio post production with original reverb.

Setup: Genelec 1037 and 4 DPA 4006's mounted on the spider

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Castle of Zuylen (set 2)

Adds 10 rooms from to the Castle of Zuylen set. More info, see below in the Zuylen set 1 part.

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Castle of Zuylen (set 1)

Recording date: February 2, 2008
Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot, Aram Verwoest

Magnificently restored, with a majority of original walls floors and ceilings, art and carpets, some dating back to the 13th century. Audio Ease was allowed to capture acoustics in this castle from top to bottom, 25 spaces in total, ranging from lush dining rooms through wooden beam attics to a dungeon. Hallways, bedrooms of all the castle’s famous inhabitants, music rooms, most with dimensions or materials that are hard to find in more modern spaces. Some large rooms completely carpeted, including the walls. Slot Zuylen is in regular use for concerts. Please feel free to browse around and try your recordings in some of it’s magnificent spaces while admiring the exceptionally pretty surround photographs (VR).

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Outdoor streets & alleys, Nieuwegein

Recording date: February 24, 2009
Engineers: Aram Verwoest & Arjen van der Schoot

This set of streets & alleys has been recorded on a cold Tuesday night in February. On a windless winter night like this there are no leaves on the trees that rustle, no animals around and no people since it's cold and late. We then go out to record acoustics. We did a fair amount of street atmospheres and found that most of the recordings are exremely powerful when you need to place some source 'outside'. You get slapbacks, and some dense reverb, make sure your input isn't too loud and also add some ambience noise (as these IR's are silent) and you'll have an instant outside sound. Browse through this set, there's a lot to discover.

A K&H battery operated speaker was used to playback the sine sweep.
Four DPA 4006 TL omni directional microphones mounted on a lightweight quad spider stand were used to capture these outside acoustics.

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this set includes all outdoor ir sets, including a forest, biz. parc culemborg, nieuwegein and the amsterdam bus tunnel.

Amsterdam bus tunnel

Recording date: June 8, 2009
Engineers: Peter Bakker & Aram Verwoest

This is one of the two tunnels, under the Amsterdam Central Station, that will connect city transportation busses to the new underground tube station. We were lucky to get in this tunnel at this stage (the construction was not completely finished yet). The 120 meters long tunnel sounds very clear and much richer then one might expect. In fact, give it a try on some music piece, it will sound different, but it could very well suit your needs. We used the 4 DPA 4006 mics for recording and the Genelec 1037 with a microtrack2 to play back the sine sweep signals.

This IR installer introduces a new main category in your impulse responses folder: Outdoor. For your convenience we have included some other outdoor samples (from Culemborg & the Austerlitz Forest) in this installer as well.

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Post production set 6

Recording date: Winter 2008-2009
Engineer: Arjen van der Schoot

This set adds 25 domestic small rooms to the Altiverb post production ir set. Closets, toilets, living rooms, bathrooms, etc.

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Train station

Recording date:Nov 8, 2005
Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot & Aram Verwoest

The Utrecht Maliebaan Station, a train station from the 19th century, has completely been renovated to its original state from the year 1874.
First and second class waiting rooms, a luxurous dinner hall and even toilets in 19th century style work like a time-traveling portal: taking you 2 centuries back in history.
The royal waiting room from 1892 origins from the State Railways from The Hague (The Netherlands) and have been transported to Utrecht and built in the Maliebaan train station to complete it.

Recorded using a Tannoy Reveal monitor Speaker, a Sony car radio, 4 DPA omni dimenrional microphones and a powerbook with Digital Performer and the Metric Halo Mobile I/O audio interface.

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Train station

Waiting room first & second class

Station hall

Royal waiting room

Seven Oceans, the inside of a reel from the pipe laying vessel

Date: June 12, 2007
Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot, Aram verwoest

On the evening of june 12, Aram and Arjen departed for Schiedam harbour 561, for the Merwede built Rigid reeled pipe laying vessel “Seven Oceans”, owned by Subsea 7 of Aberdeen. A pipe laying vessel winds 45 cm diameter pipe made of 3 cm thick steel on a reel and drops it to the bottom of the ocean, typically between offshore oil rigs and the continent. This reel, the largest of its kind at date of recording, can hold 17 km of this type of pipe, and Audio Ease went to sample the core of it.

It is an acoustic marvel really, perhaps of limited use to you, the audio producer. With over 20 seconds of reverb across the widest part of the frequency range one can softly whistle or sing an arpeggiated chord and listen to the sustaining chord washing away for over 15 seconds afterwards. The sweep was played back through a Tannoy reveal speaker, and recorded using DPA miniature omni capsules (DPA 4090). Apart from the sweep recording, some IR's were added that were made by exciting the hull of the reel's core directly.

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Inside the reel
 

The reel

On deck next to the reel

The vessel

Malta Underground, three caves from the islands of Malta

Engineer: Peter Bakker & Daniel Talma
Recording date: June 3-6, 2007

Three underground caves from Malta & Gozo. Hal Saflieni is the most prestigious of the three: A small cave with nice natural speleothems or stalactite and stalagmite formations. It is located below a residential building in a street that bears the cave's name in Xag?ra. The cave was discovered in 1924 by the owners' grandfather while he was digging a well. Hal Saflieni features a nice sounding acoustical area called the oracle room.

Ninu & Xerri are smaller caves. Listen and you'll find what you need when you're looking for small damped places.

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Hal Saflieni

Ninu's Cave

Hal Saflieni

Xerri's Grotto

The Cistern - Fort Worden, WA, USA

Engineer: Neville Pearsall
Recording date: October 3, 2006

The Cistern is a 2 million gallon underground water storage tank located in Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend WA U.S.A.. Made by the U.S. Army of concrete in 1907, it is located on top of a hill in the park. Its original purpose was fire suppression and backup water supply.

It is about 150 feet diameter and 14 feet high with 88 columns supporting the roof and a steel ladder in a small opening for access. There is no near source of AC power so all recording and lighting is by battery power. Access is difficult to obtain as the Cistern is closed by dragging a pair of very large steel tanks over the opening with a backhoe when not in use to keep vandals out and lessen liability concerns over the 14' ladder and air quality issues. Access is limited to about 3 uses per year.

Neville Pearsall says: "It is an acoustic wonder and has one of the best long reverb responses in the world with a time of more than 40 seconds. The low frequency characteristics are spectacular and very pleasing. If two people are on opposite sides and place their ears near the wall you can talk very quietly and hear each other; like the whispering gallery."

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Gozo Ferry Channel Line

Recording date: June 7 2007
Engineers: Peter Bakker & Daniel Talma

Gozo Channel Line provides a vital "Life Line" between the islands of Malta, the mainland, and Gozo. Its modern fleet includes three state of the art ferries. This is the smallest: M.V. Ta' Pinu (delivered March 2000). Samples were made of the empty loading deck using 4 DPA 4006 mics and a DynAudio monitor to play back the sweeps.

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This warehouse situated in the middle of Rotterdam, in one of the most beautiful parts of the ‘old city’. Captured between two rivers in the old harbor. This venue has been used as warehouse and also as exposition room. The place is like a parking garage, lots of concrete & pillars and large size spaces, as big as the entire floor. We sampled a big and a smaller room on the 2nd floor of this fantastic building.

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Cockpits and (passenger) cabins of 7 legendary aircraft.

F27 Friendship

F27 Friendship

DC3 Dakota

Lockhead Constellation

Antonov

Hawker Hunter

Mig

Sikorski Helicopter

Five trains dating between 1910 and 1950 were sampled in stereo and surround. Samples were made at various distances, sometimes with more than one cab in between the microphones and the speaker. You can combine these variants to create depth in the final mix. In addition some locomotive cabs were sampled.

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Samples where the speaker and microphones are in different rooms, separated by floors, doors and walls. Take the tour of Coll's house. No bugs inside. Enjoy.

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Aviodrome Museum in Lelystad NL made available to us a Boeing 747 Jumbo for one unforgettable recording afternoon.

Between 1978 and 2003 it was known as 747-206B(M)(SUD) PH-BUK, and it was in the air 17 hours a day on average.

Acoustic samples were made in the cockpit, the passenger cabins and the lavatory.

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Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot & Matt Snedecor

Howe Caverns is a living, limestone cave, carved by an underground river over the course of six million years, located 156-feet below the earth's surface. It is New Yorks State's second most-visited natural attraction (Niagara Falls is #1), and among the Top Five show caves (those open to the public) in the United States. The four microphones (4 DPA 4006) were set up all the way down the cave where it flattens out and the sound of streaming water is less of a problem. The speaker (Genelec 1032) was then retreated back into the cave and 4 different samples were made at distances between 25 m (82 ft) and 120 m (393 ft).

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Sports Stadium
Antwerp

Gelredome
Arnhem, NL

Festhalle
Frankfurt, Germany

TUI
Hannover, Germany

Indoor Arena
(D. Magger)

Stadium
(D. Magger)

Next Door

It's all in the name: with this set it is now possible to let your input audio sound as if it was played back from an other room in the building. The TV set from downstairs, shouting people in the backyard, a crying baby in the upstairs bedroom with the doors open...

This is a set that has been recorded in and around the audio ease post pro sampling house, all rooms of this house are already available in the Audio Ease Post Pro IR Bundles.

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A wide collection of European type of cars, ranging from the small Ford Ka & Volkswagen Beetle to mini-vans like Renault Kangoo & Peugeot Partner. Samples from front and back seats and also trunks are included. Almost all cars were recorded at “Autobedrijf Boon” in Culemborg, The Netherlands.

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Bij de Leij is a beautiful old fashioned stainless steel tank factory in the north of the Netherlands. The Impulse Responses were made simply by banging steel with hammers and mallets. We felt very much 'in charge' walking around in a place like this, authorized to smash whatever we preferred.

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The forest of Austerlitz is part of a big national park on the “Utrechtse Heuvelrug”. Napoleon decided over 200 years ago this was a good place to settle his army. The forest offers a large variety of trees and houses dears and birds of prey.

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Six outdoor Impulse Responses containing: Streets, alleys and a tunnel.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; living rooms, kitchens, staircases, fire trucks, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; attics, bathrooms, study rooms, postproduction studios, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; closets, bathrooms, study rooms, fire trucks, gyms, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; attics, bathrooms, study rooms, postproduction studios, etc.

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This set contains all kinds of rooms for post production purposes; kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, cars, therapist rooms, etc.

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