The latest additions of sampled acoustics for Altiverb http://www.audioease.com/IR/ en-us Copyright 2008 Audio Ease http://www.audioease.com/IR/fox/20th-Century-Fox.jpg http://www.audioease.com/IR/ Recording date: July 10, 2007 Engineers: Aram Verwoerst Peter Bakker and Jurriaan Balhuizen, Pieter Brouwer. The venue is inside an old church, which has been transformed into a temple of music. It is located on de Weteringschans, bordering the Leidseplein, one of the nightlife and tourism centers of the city. Outside, the building is somewhat dark and forbidding. The main venue in the former church interior has high ceilings and a balcony overlooking the stage area, with three large illuminated church windows above the stage. The acoustics are rather echoey, but improvements have been made over the years. In addition to the main venue, there is a smaller cafe stage on an upper floor and a cafe in the basement. Recorded using 4 DPA 4006 Omnidirectional microphones and a Genelec 1032 monitor to play back the sweeps. Paradiso was opened by the city in 1968. On May 26-27, 1995, the Rolling Stones played two semi-acoustic concerts at the Paradiso. Scalped tickets reportedly sold for many thousands of dollars. Recorded tracks from these concerts were released on the Stones Stripped album later that year. Keith Richards said that the Paradiso concerts were the best live shows the Stones ever did. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/paradiso.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/paradiso.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro-subsea7.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMT Engineer: Peter Bakker and Daniel Talma. Recording date: June 3-6, 2007. Three underground caves from Malta and 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 caves name in Xaghra. 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 and Xerri are smaller caves. Listen and you will find what you need when you are looking for small damped places. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro-maltaundergrounds.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:44:00 GMT Recording date: January 15, 2007. Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot, Max Frick. The contributions of Fox Music over the last seventy years transcend the field of film and television music. Introduced by this department are such monuments of culture as "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", "On the Good Ship Lollipop", the score from "Laura" and the "Theme from M*A*S*H". The history of the department is inextricably linked to the family history of its creator, Alfred Newman, and is legacy. Alfred, the first head of Fox Music, arrived in Hollywood in 1930. Continuing with the next generation of Newmans, Thom and David, the Newman family has been nominated for more than 70 Academy Awards. To celebrate the Newman Legaccy and their past, preset and (no doubt) future contributions to film music, Fox Music recently dedicated its scoring stage to the Newmans. Recorded using the Quad Spider consisting of 4 DPA 4006 Omnidirectional microphones and a Genelec 1032 monitor to play back the sweeps. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/fox.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/fox.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:54:00 GMT Recording date: October 29, 2006. Engineers: Arjen van der Schoot, Johannes Mollo-Christensen and Lars Ardal. Possibly the smallest church in the Altiverb IR Library to date: Gol Stave Church at Norsk Folkemuseum - the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. The Open-Air Museum features 155 authentic buildings from different national regions, i.e. Gol Stave Chuch, from the 13th century. Gol Stave is one of the few stave churches left in Norway. Recorded using the Quad Spider consisting of 4 DPA 4006 Omnidirectional microphones and a Genelec monitor to play back the sweeps. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/gol-stave.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/gol-stave.html Mon, 26 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT Engineer: Neville Pearsall - Recording date: Octover 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. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro-cistern.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:46:00 GMT The castle, which is located about 28 km west of Vilnius, was founded during the 13th Century. It is completely surrounded by the water of five lakes in this national park. During winter the entire lake is frozen and you can walk right to and around the castle. In 1905 the Russians started with the restoration of this castle. They had to stop due to the WO I but eventually the upper castle was reconstructed in 1961. The lower part was completed later in the early 1990s. Four rooms have been sampled in this castle, the chapel, two small rooms (so called dungeons) and the inner court yard. The chapel is not big for a castle chapel (it is only bout 3 meters high) but all the hard bricks from the floor to ceiling make it an interesting and useful room. The dungeons are even smaller then the chapel but also, like the chapel hard with lots of bricks. The inner court yard is unique, a three story high place in the heart of the upper castle, just give it a try. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/trakai.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/trakai.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:46:00 GMT SARM studios Hook End facility west of London competes with Allaire studios (upstate New York) as the absolute ultimate of residential studios. Hook End Manor, a 14-bedroom Elizabethan mansion house with numerous barns, converted outbuildings, paddocks and stabling, set in about 150 Checkendon acres, is not merely the home of Trevor Horn and his family - it is a join-the-dots of the celebrities and producers who have lived and made music there. Gilmour recorded parts of the Pink Floyd 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason in a studio at the house. The bands inflatable pig, first used to promote their Animals album a decade earlier, was stored in one of the outbuildings. Gilmour sold Hook End Manor to Clive Langer and Winstanley Productions, who produced the British icons Madness and Morrissey. Then, in the early 1990s, Horn bought them out and set out to transform the place into a family home for himself. The snooker room, with its ornately detailed Tudor panelling and stone fireplace, became one of Horn his favourites after the three months he spent working with Seal in the 1990s on his second, self-titled album. We had such a laugh together, Horn recalls. And we got really good at snooker. These samples were made in the spacious but acoustically contained live room, the wonderful brick drum iso booth, and a smaller iso booth that is more damped. We were using 4 DPA 4006 omnidirectional microphones and a Genelec 1037 to play back the sweeps. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/hookend.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/hookend.html Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:33:00 GMT Le Theatre du Capitole is one of the most famous operas of France. Operas, ballets, operettas, recitals, chamber music, it's an eclectic place of creativity. With four centuries of history, it is today one of the large international scenes of many art forms. A Genelec 1037 was used to play back the sweep, 4 DPA 4006 OMni's were used to record it, into a MH Labs Mobile IO Interface. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/capitole.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/capitole.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:12:00 GMT This majestic building was formerly a market hall for the grain market. In 1974, the place acquires a new use: it becomes the official residence of the Orchestra of Capitole, thanks to the acoustic quality of the building it hosts a broad array of performances: orchestral pieces, operas, ballets, and, occasionally, variety shows. A Genelec 1037 was used to play back the sweep, 4 DPA 4006 OMni's were used to record it, into a MH Labs Mobile IO Interface. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/halleauxgrains.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/halleauxgrains.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:10:00 GMT The Todd-AO stage is historic and is on a short-list of such large facilities in the U.S. Original owner Republic Pictures was awarded a special Oscar in 1945 for building an outstanding musical scoring auditorium which provides optimum recording conditions. The Stage earned its position in the 1959 printing of the Audio Cyclopedia. The stage has had a 60 plus year film scoring career, matched by no other. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/todd-ao.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/todd-ao.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:12:00 GMT Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located on Koethener Strasse in Berlin, Germany. It was known as 'Hansa Studio By The Wall', because it was close to the Berlin Wall, and it ranks among the most wanted studios in europe. Apart from the carpeted, low ceiling and very wide live room, there is a connection to the second live space: the meistersaal. Special wall treatment makes this space very silent. The spacious Meistersaal and the tight sounding live room have witnessed many legendary recordings throughout the decades by a.o. David Bowie, Depeche mode, Iggy Pop and U2. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/hansa.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/hansa.html Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:38:00 GMT Emanuel Vigeland Museum at Slemdal is one of Oslo's best kept secrets. The museum's main attraction is a dark, barrel-vaulted room, completely covered with fresco paintings. The 800 sq.m. fresco Vita depicts human life from conception till death, in dramatic and often explicitly erotic scenes. Large groups of bronze figures reiterate the dedication to the mystery of procreation. Entering the museum is a unique experience. The impression of the dimly lit frescoes with multitudes of naked figures is reinforced by the unusual and overwhelming acoustics of the room. In the entire Altiverb IR Library this room’s size to reverb time ration is unmatched. The museum is a private foundation and was opened to the public in 1958. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/vigeland.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/vigeland.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:38:00 GMT "If you walk into the place the internal size of it is humbling, but you soon forget because you'll be taken by the acoustics as soon as you start making sound. The reverb in Gol Gumbaz is so staggering that Indian people travel for days just to hear it. It took us two years to get the proper permissions and clearing the place for a couple of hours." http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/golgumbaz.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/golgumbaz.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT Samples were made of the empty loading deck of this Ferry. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html#ferry http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html#ferry Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:00:00 GMT Uranienborg Kirke is located at Frogner in Oslo. It was built in 1886 and is well known for its warm acoustics. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/Uranienborg.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/Uranienborg.html Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:00:00 GMT 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 and 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. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html#laspalmas http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html#laspalmas Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:00:00 GMT The old opera was demolished in 1892 to give way to the construction of a new Opera by Axel Johan Anderberg. It is a majestic neo-classical building with a magnificent gold foyer and elegant marble grand staircase leading to a three-tiered auditorium somewhat smaller than the old theatre. It presently seats 1,200. http://www.audioease.com/IR/audioeaseirs.html#opera http://www.audioease.com/IR/audioeaseirs.html#opera Fri, 25 May 2007 10:00:00 GMT This is the smaller of two orchestral radio studios from the former East German Broadcast. In 1949 all journalist from the four Berlin sectors (American,French,British,Russian) took place in the old broadcast building Masurenalle. After the splitting of Germany into two separate states the journalists from the Russian sector had to leave the Masurenalle. So the government of the GDR decided to built a new broadcast house. The area of the Nalepastrasse was the right place. At first they founded some new radio stations for there political propaganda, then they added a new music production complex. For 40 years this was the home base for two symphony orchestras, one string-dance orchestra, one Big Band and one radio choir. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/filmorcester-2.html http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/filmorcester-2.html Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT Cockpits and (passenger) cabins of 7 legendary aircraft. http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html#planes http://www.audioease.com/IR/VenuePages/postpro.html#planes Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:00:00 GMT