![]() I have used the Logic Pro impulse response utility, which is fantastic, if you have access to a Mac. Love the idea of someone walking in on you stuffing a balloon in your guitar so you can pop it and record the sound! Very interesting approach! Because you are trying to fake what happens at the piezo pickup and translate into what happens with the body resonating and getting recorded by mics, it seems like it would be the most accurate (though not necessarily the most pleasing?) way to translate that would be to tap near the piezo pickup, by the yes, I’d read too about using a starter pistol or balloon popping to fake what would happen if you were to play a single sample of audio into a physical space. The Fiddlicator IR app was originally intended to help electric violin players get a more natural said: What people often use for the impulse for getting guitar and violin IRS is to tap on the instrument.Įxperiment a lot with where you tap (use your fingernail or something hard to strike the instrument) and where you place the microphone. Keep in mind that an IR of your guitar will act like an eq and won’t do a lot of the things that guitar modelers do. I’ve found plenty of resources for doing this on PC’s but can’t find anything for iOS. ![]() ![]() I play a unique instrument called a Mohan Veena that is REALLY lost into a contact mic and while that Taylor IR helps immensely (super happy to have discovered this) I think it could really benefit from making my own IR for it. There’s tons of free cabinet IR’s out there, and I did find one set modeling an acoustic Taylor that is nice, but I’d love to try recording and using my own. Hey I’ve recently discovered how much an acoustic guitar IR improves the sound I’m getting out of a piezo contact pickup but I’m wondering how to create my own. If you don't like the resulting IR files whatever you try, then also consider editing your IR recordings with a wave editor and add equalization and a better level envelope to the file(s). Place one microphone (or better two at different positions) inside the guitar body, set the recording level manually to prevent overload and record the balloon bursting in front of the guitar body hole. Some use a signal gun, a bursting toy balloon is another option. The ideal source sound to record an IR is a very short impulse with very high energy, recorded with a microphone that can capture the sound pressure level without distortion. Where the frequencies exist in both, they are retained and where there's a frequency that only exists in one of the signals, the result is low or zero. Simply said, imagine the sound frequency spectrum of the IR and the sound frequency spectrum of your input signal and then multiply both. Recording an IR is rather easy but recording it in a way that you get a good-sounding IR is another thing.Ī little bit of theory: Processing your signal with Thafknar and an IR loaded is in fact the signal convolution of the IR with your input signal. Any suggestions/comments from some of you tone gurus out there would be much appreciated! Very interested to see how other people with more experience of piezo 6 strings respond, I'm starting to design one in my head as we speak for a future build.For now I’ve been using THAKFNAR for loading IR’s and I see in the standalone version the ability to record but it’s a bit mysterious to me how to create an IR to model the body of my instrument. I'm not saying all the above necessarily applies to 6 string guitars, but I would amazed if it didn't. On an electric bass if you want an 'upright' bass type sound then your technique is the most important thing - pluck the strings with the fleshy part of your fingers up towards the fingerboard and the second most important thing is your choice of strings, flatwound are best. It's an over-engineered equivalent of simply turning down the tone a touch. Chambering a body simply makes it less strong and more flexible which means that treble response is reduced. In my opinion there are good reasons for using piezo pickups (eg using non-metallic strings, less feedback, no ugly pickups ruing beautiful wood) but I'm not sure an 'acoustic' sound is one of them, for me anyway. The most non-musical person in the world though can tell the difference between an upright accoustic bass and an electric bass, and I'm pretty sure the same will be true of an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar.
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