Real Life Arts Acoustic Reverb samples?

[PaulG]

Anyone done anything with this yet? The significant thing I'm looking for is a rock snare but the site mp3's are in context of the whole kit.

Other apps, too, but this is the primary app.

Anyone done anything they're willing to post to help me make a decision? I don't really want to go with the IR stuff...

Thanks,

- Paul

[greendoor]

Why, why, why (why???) don't you get the freakin demo? AAR is far too deep to judge by samples. It's just so easy to get the demo and hear exactly for yourself. Spend a lot of time with it - for a start, it's like having 7 different flavour of reverb - so spend at least 7 times the normal time you spend on any demo. Seriously - this is a reverb you can lose yourself in. And the GUI is SO good, you won't mind one little bit ...

[PaulG]

I DID get the demo, thanks, and I DID play/tweak it. However, due to my focus of the last 23 years on both writing/composition and performance, I am unable to simply "dial-in" a quick tone the way a professional producer or engineer would.

So my question dealt more with and for them, I suppose rather than just hobby-est users.

My music is being recorded in a high-end project studio and there is already significant interest - the "extra" hours in a 24 hour day apart from writing/performing I'm looking to somehow "magically appear".

Thanks, though.

[markroom]

wot

wots the question are u looking for a patch for this effect for a snare

wot

[Inukshuk]

There'sno way out of it. A patch isn't any good since not one audio sample or track is the same.
Get it
learn it
use it.
I tried the demo and love. I'm getting it.
asap
Can't wait.

[nick at artsacoustic]

Anyone done anything with this yet? The significant thing I'm looking for is a rock snare but the site mp3's are in context of the whole kit.

Other apps, too, but this is the primary app.

Anyone done anything they're willing to post to help me make a decision? I don't really want to go with the IR stuff...

Thanks,

- Paul

hi paulG,
could you be a bit more precise?
what exactly is it that you`re after?
like the others say, you should really
try the demo, and tweak a lot.
unlike other effects a reverb allways needs
tweakment according to the very specific needs
of a komplex mix. there mostly is no "perfect"
preset. maybe it`s a good idea to listen to the
drum presets that the reverb comes with, too.
this might get you an idea how to start off with
our reverb. but again:
it is really a good idea to tweak it as much as you can,
that only for learning our reverb.
even if tweaking a reverb in general should be very obvious,
ours is a bit different in it`s behave, as the parameter actually
do what they are labeled with, unlike we all assume by knowing
from other reverb units (i.e. density > full, diffusion > full
actually is normally the first thing that users do, but our reverb does
also sound good without theese typical settings, etc.)
after a while of tweaking you sure will find out if our reverb forfills _your_ taste,
and that is the judge, your own, personal taste.

[greendoor]

I DID get the demo, thanks, and I DID play/tweak it. However, due to my focus of the last 23 years on both writing/composition and performance, I am unable to simply "dial-in" a quick tone the way a professional producer or engineer would.

So my question dealt more with and for them, I suppose rather than just hobby-est users.

My music is being recorded in a high-end project studio and there is already significant interest - the "extra" hours in a 24 hour day apart from writing/performing I'm looking to somehow "magically appear".

Thanks, though.

So what you are saying is that you have no skills to mix your music - you just want to write and perform? There's nothing wrong with that. You need to get yourself an engineer or producer who is into all of the small details that are essential for mixing.

Playing devil's advocate ... let's say you heard a sample of AAR on a snare that you really loved: Unless your dry snare - and all other instruments in the mix - were exactly the same - it may or may not sound good on your snare. Simply changing the tempo or key of the track could change the relationship of the snare reverb to the total mix.

If you trust your own ears to judge a "sample" - why can't you trust your own ears to tweak a reverb to your own liking?

I think you are being honest and realistic when you say you don't have the time (or interest?) to tweak a reverb. For the sake of your art, you probably should be working with other people. If you look at all the credits on a great album, good music is rarely produced by individuals but by teamwork.

[PaulG]

Please don't misconstrue the question, which was referring to a marketability issue, rather thatn a personal skill-level. The "problem" with sample mp3.s that put a "whole patch" on a single drum kit, as far as my, and every other pro's "mixing skills" go, thank you, Greendoor, that you will obviously NEVER use the same reverb depth, etc on a kick as you do a snare.

The key issue that I was asking has nothing to do with ability, but rather the idea that some other pro-revberb plug-ins DO have "mixed" samples of their mp3'w instead of a "whole patch" wash.

For those that music is nothing more than a hobby your points are 100% perfectly accurate. For those of us who do make serious money making music, spending 5 minutes "tweaking" something we may not even purchase that could be spent making, or at least contributing, to the next sale or contract, are simply asking if there is something that would save us that time in the context of how we work.

That's all. Bill Gates wouldn't save the couple of hundred bucks cleaning his own house when those few hours he's lose a few million in developing a new product.

Anyway, that's the last rant I'll ever do here. I'll "tweak" up the AAR when I do get a chance, but the answers to a question that question motivation rather than providing a direction, other than Nick's statements, who has always been helpful, aren't at all helpful, but thank you for the input anyway. It let's me know where I have to go from here.

[bduffy]

Didn't Nick basically say exactly what everyone else is saying; "try it out"?

I find this very interesting as the AAR has presets laid out by Input, like "Snare", "Bassdrum", etc...what could be easier to try out than that? I guess I just don't get it. You don't have any drum tracks at hand? If that's the case, I'd be glad to post something.

[greendoor]

Prima donna.