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yemski · Post by **yemski** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:41 pm

The subject is pretty much in the title. Does anybody know of cabinet impulses for keyboards? Electric Piano and Keyboard like Clavinets in particular, but also virtual analog synths, mono and poly. At the moment, I've been sending all these instruments through guitar amps, guitar cabinet impulses, as well as analog emulating comps like Kush's UBK and achieving some pretty good tones, that take off a lot of that high end sheen and give them a bit more of a classic sound. Obviously though, these are tailored for guitars and I'm looking for stuff that's more suited to these instruments. Are there any impulses responses for old rhodes amps? A few Google searches appear to indicate no, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:18 am

You might find some useful & more unique stuff here:

https://gumroad.com/pasttofuturereverbs

Obsolete462444 · Post by **Obsolete462444** » Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:24 am

Real Rhodes (and other EP keyboards) are often played through smaller, low-watt guitar amps, so a cabinet of for example a Fender Twin should work!

CapnLockheed · Post by **CapnLockheed** » Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:36 pm

Yeah, the Fender Rhodes/Twin combo is a classic. It worked for Ray Charles.

GRUMP · Post by **GRUMP** » Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:06 am

Cab-IRs: https://www.soundwoofer.se

pfonic · Post by **pfonic** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:21 pm

FWIW I found that a combination of bass amp/cabinet IRs and other subtle effects/reverbs can help to bring out that classic keys sound. I used this approach for my RootBass instrument:
http://pornofonic.com/rootbass.html

I've actually used empty recycling containers, garbage cans, and other random items as resonators when creating IRs for percussion, so I'd imagine you could get some interesting textures applying that to keys.

Cabinet Impulse Responses for Keys (Ep in particular)