To better answer your question, please include the info on the impulse file: SIR is just the simulator.
For starters, I recommend the small church lexicon impulse at a ratio of 8-12 percent, with a decay of 2.4 seconds. The industry standard is closer to 3 seconds, which I personally find awful, but what can you do. Lute recordings are often in the range of 3.5 to 4.2 seconds reverb which is really gilding the lily. John Buckman and I modelled a bunch of impulses last year, and out of all of them we preferred the Waves IR for lute. It is a bit pricey, though. A lexicon 500 is almost as good and can be used as a digital converter as well. I mostly use the Lexicon impulses, however, in addition to custom made impulses from several churches and halls in the Netherlands. On the last CD I made, I used 7 percent reverb on half of the tracks at 2.4 seconds simply to even out the differences between the tracks, half of the tracks have no reverb at all. The reverb is really not audible. However, the recording was made in a very good acoutic. You can listen to that CD here for free: http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/voicesofmusic-bach/ The reason that the tracks needed to be evened out is that in that space, the larger ensembles move a lot more air than the smaller ones. The lautenwerk track was not recorded in the hall, it was recorded in a small room. The room simulator was used to try and minimize the difference in sound: not completely successful, but better than nothing, and we were not able to move the instrument into the church. The church has naturally a 3 second decay. The lautenwerk, btw, takes a VERY long time to tune :) You can also make your own impulses based on halls that you like. dt At 04:55 AM 7/9/2007, you wrote: >My experiments with SIR reverb this weekend have resulted in a little piece >I recorded in my dry study this morning (you can hear my wife in the >background making lunch and outside it's raining). Then I've added reverb. >Both files are on my website, it's Tarleton's Ressurection: > >http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/david/homerecordings_f.html > >I like the warmth of the sound, but have some misgivings about the musical >effect: too grand for the small playing. I suppose less is better, but for >the contrast I thought I'd give you this version first. Tell me what you >think. > >David > >**************************** >David van Ooijen >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.davidvanooijen.nl >**************************** > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
