Using IRs for making that vinyl record sound?

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  1. fiction

    fiction Audiosexual

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    Has anyone ever tried to build impulse responses from a record player?

    We have the 'clean' source on CD
    We have a copy on vinyl
    Why shouldn't we able to calculate an IR from specific transient-rich samples?

    I would have tried myself if I still had my record player :unsure:
     
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    There is a great M4L devices builder who had the nice idea to create awesome cassette noise and IR ,electromagnetic filed recoding and the worlds most detailed vinyl record noise libraries I know. :wink:

    encoderaudio.com
     
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    Not that I'm aware of.

    I just roll-off some high-end and layer vinyl crackle/tape noise/hum instead. It's easier and faster.
    My bacon-, and hiss collection has gotten quite large over time.

    Edit: Diego Stocco created "rhythmic convolutions" which has rhythms in them, which can be used creatively within the music.
     
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    Thanks! A great inspiration.
     
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    fiction Audiosexual

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    Thanks, just before you wrote that I've found four IRs or samples from vinyl that could be used as such.
    I'm curious how they're gonna work out :bow:
     
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    Long live EQ-Matching!!!
     
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    'Almost 3000 samples, around 4 Gigabytes uncompressed!' :woot:
     
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    Holy cow! Even with all my IRs together (metal cabs, celestion mesa cabs, diezel, soldano metal cabs, one marshall for pussies) don't make half a Giga!!
     
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    :hahaha::hillbilly:
     
  12. 6ixcore

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    Try AlexB Vinylizer for Nebula its a kind of advanced IR thing, available on sister site.
     
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    That's right.
    In fact, Nebula's secret is the so-called non-linear convolution. Oversimplifying is using IRs for the most important harmonics besides the fundamental (that wuild be eq-matching).
    The other one is sampling at different input levels (gain staging) and to be able to interpolate smoothly between them without having a NASA-level computer.
     
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