Vocs 2x12 AlnBlue

Vocs 2x12 AlnBlue is the Choptones Supercab IR Library created by capturing a Vox BNX 2x12 with Celestion Alnico Blue speakers.

It is an extensive and systematic capture created with 12 microphones, 8 to 16 positions each microphone, and multiple Mic preamps, for more than 300 IRs globally.

The cabinet is a straight front, open back, solid Birch construction, perfect extension cabinet for AC30 combos. The speaker, it will be nice to know that this speaker, voice of almost every British class A amplifier, started its life as a radio speaker, lately modified for electric guitar use. Warmth and mellow mids are its trademarks, a great choice for blues and clean tones.
Captures are performed with a motorized mic stand in order to have consistent measurements across libraries.

The library is created for the TH-U SuperCabinet, which allows to:

• graphically browse the IRs in the library.
• blend them together.
• craft new cabinet tones with the unique Multiband mode.
• use the IR in the software.
• export the IRs in .wav, compatible with the software IR loaders and all the major hardware modelers.

The microphones used during the capturing session are:

• AKG C414.
• Audio Technica 2035.
• Audix i5.
• Beyerdynamic M160.
• Electrovoice RE20.
• Neumann U87.
• Royer 121.
• Sennheiser MD21.
• Sennheiser MD421.
• Sennheiser MD441.
• Shure SM7.
• Shure SM57.

Every microphone has been moved to 4 different horizontal positions (Cap, Cap Edge, Cone, and Cone Edge) and two distances, for a total of 8 IRs each.

For some microphones, the set of 8 measurements has been repeated with the microphone off-axis (45 deg).

All the measurement set has been repeated twice, with two different Mic preamps: a Neve 1073 and a German preamp.

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