IR Software to Capture Instruments & Mix Speakers

[Create12]

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Hi, sorry for the long title. Just a lot of questions.

I want to capture a couple of acoustic guitars and Uke IR's to put in to my Helix floor.

I have been searching for the past few weeks for software and I have seem to have narrowed it down to a few.

To capture instruments I seem to be leaning to MFreeFormEQ from https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeformEqualizer (https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeformEqualizer) (https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeformEqualizer (https://www.meldaproduction.com/MFreeformEqualizer))

It seems easy. Has anyone used this or can recommend something better??

Also looking at blending speakers/making speaker IR's.

I have landed on two for now.

MCabinet speaker IR. It seems to do what I want. Has anyone used this or can recommend something better??https://www.meldaproduction.com/MCabinet (https://www.meldaproduction.com/MCabinet) (https://www.meldaproduction.com/MCabinet (https://www.meldaproduction.com/MCabinet))

Celestion Speaker Mix Pro. I like the GUI and how things are presented in a logical form. I think it is limited on mixing speakers and using your own IR's. Instructions not really clear and I may have to contact them for details. Has anyone used this or can recommend something better?

Imix.https://www.celestionplus.com/produc...peakermix-pro/ (https://www.celestionplus.com/produc...peakermix-pro/) (https://www.celestionplus.com/produc...peakermix-pro/ (https://www.celestionplus.com/produc...peakermix-pro/))
I have not tried any of the software. Only watched videos.

I hope this is the right forum. If not please move it.

Thanks for your input, recommendations and time.

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[MeldaProduction]

MFreeformEqualizer is probably what you want indeed . But it generally depends on what you want exactly, capturing may mean quite anything

[78deluxe]

MFreeformEqualizer is probably what you want indeed . But it generally depends on what you want exactly, capturing may mean quite anything

It seems this user wants to create IRs of instruments. This is getting to be a common practice.

Yes there are a few variations on what capture means, but I'd tend to assume the version he is looking for is:

Record your direct tone with a built-in acoustic guitar pickup and also a traditional microphone at the same time. Create and load an IR with such a setup. You want the IR to sound like the recorded microphone when you play with a guitar pickup direct to board.

I'm not sure how you would do this with the freeformeq but I'm all ears. I'm betting some Melda tool can do it, I'm also curious how to approach this, as I'd like to create my own as well.


http://acousticir.free.fr/spip.php?id_r ... e=rubrique

[ElVincente]

I'd love something that would create quickly an IR to reproduce en eq/phase shift of a vst/room/instrument.
I use the mfreeformeq method, but it's long to set up and unless I made a mistake, it will only reproduce the eq right, not the phase shift of the thing we want to capture.

[Chandlerhimself]

What you want can be done with MFreeformEqualizer or MAutodynamicEQ. MFE is better at this IMO, but MADEQ is more useful in general.

If you want to create an IR for an acoustic guitar like was said above. Get things setup, so you have a great mic'd tone on your acoustic. Then record the mic'd version and the piezo from your acoustic at the same time. Go into MFE and set the mic'd sound as the target and the piezo as the source. Hit match and then click the IR button at the bottom right. Now you have an IR. Of course you might want to check and edit the match to make sure it sounds how you want it to, but it isn't that difficult.