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Sound File Experiments
Recently I got a new computer (thanks Mike Shapiro and Michael Strickland), and along with that we are now running Adobe Audition 3.0 (versus 2.0), Wavosaur as our VST host for Altiverb 6.3.1, and generally can do just about anything recording-wise. Altiverb is a convolution reverb that allows you to add sonic signatures of world-class halls, cathedrals, holes in the ground, even 747 cockpits to your recordings, and it's amazing.
For examples of what Altiverb can do--check these files below (with descriptions). The first of each file has no effects: the second has only been washed through noise floor reduction in Audition, then placed in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with DPA Omnis at 6 meters (10% wet).
Watch for a new podcast this summer when I take other things and place them into some of the funkiest sound spaces in the world!
Shostakovich 9 flat (Live in Opperman Music Hall)
This first example is from a recent USO recording at Florida State under Dr. Alex Jimenez. Chain is DPA Omnis into Samplitude (Opperman facilities).
Shostakovich-9-flat.aiff 11.37 MB
Shostakovich 9 with Altiverb
This one is with the FSU Wind Orchestra and placed in the same hall. Rick Clary is the conductor; same chain.
Shostakovich-9-with-Altiverb.aiff 11.26 MB
Theofanidis with Altiverb
This is a recording we made in our percussion studio (Dan Shelkofsky on marimba) on an Adams Artist Custom Classic 5.0 with IP Fords. The hall signature is from the Schubert Hall in Vienna. I've posted it with mp3 encoding just to save some space. Chain is Earthworks TC-20 Omnis into a MOTU 8-pre, hard-panned, into 32-bit mixing in Audition 3.0.
Theofanidis-with-Altiverb.aiff 6.73 MB
Bach A Minor Lute Suite flat
recorded in the Percussion Studio
Bach-A-Minor-Lute-Suite-flat.mp3 875.94 kB
Canyon Experiment
Here's a fun one I did by mistake--Brian Baldauff, one of my amazing DM candidates, was doing a run-through of Canyon (by Kevin Puts) in his lesson (fifth movement). Then we washed it through noise-floor reduction and put it in one of the Schubert halls via Altiverb. For fun, I took that file with the Schubert reverb on it and put it in Mechanics Hall, with some panning to the right. Mallets are Zivkovic IP on the Adams 5.0. So it's a double-reverb!
Canyon-Experiment.aiff 5.56 MB
