IR loaders

IMPULSE RESPONSE LOADERS

LECAB 2 - NADIR - Mix IR 2

A cabinet simulator is made of 2 things:
- An IR loader, which is a plugin with various options,
- An IR, which is an audio file. This audio file is the sound print of the gear you wish to emulate. The IR is what will allow you to simulate the sound of the chosen cabinet, so its quality is essential if you want a good result. In fact, your cabinet simulator is merely an IR loader. Then you choose what type of cabinet you want to emulate.

How to use it?
That's simple. You pick one of the plugins below, for example LeCab 2, then you place it after your amplifier simulator, and you load an IR in it.

The cabinet simulators you can download below are provided without any IRs, so you have to find or buy them and load them in your cab simulator.
You may download free IRs, below, find some on the Internet (free or not), or make them yourself...

LECAB 2

LePou gives us access to no less than 6 IR slots simultaneously! For each one of them, you can invert the phase if needed, set the delay time, configure a lowpass and a highpass filter, and of course you can set the pan and volume. You can also solo each slot, link the loaded IRs of 2 slots (but other controls remain independant). You can also control the latency. The lower it is, the more CPU-consuming it becomes and vice-versa. Last but not least, the graphic interface is nice and clean!

But why would I use 6 cabs at the same time?
Well, with only one guitar take, you can get six differents sounds, which allows you to get a bigger sound, or to obtain sounds that are impossible to achieve with only one cab, by using various IRs, modifying the panning or the other settings... You don't have to use all six available slots, but if you wish to experiment, you can. I usually use two IRs of the same cab but with different microphones, so it will simulate the sound of a real cab recorded with two microphones. And if I want a bigger sound, I can add more IRs. Very convenient.

One nice improvement over the previous version of the plugin, it now remembers the IRs' folders of origin. So you don't need to scratch your head anymore if you don't remember what IR was used when the IR name is not explicit.

Download: LeCab 2 (Rev1)
(Poulin_LeCab2_Rev1.rar, 849 KB)

NADIR (web site)

NadIR is a free plugin from Ignite Amps. This Italian company makes and sells real guitar amplifiers, and they develop excellent amp simulations (demos on this page). NadIR allows you to load an IR in either available slots and modify the settings as you see fit. You can pick a mono, double mono or stereo signal, set the processing quality depending on your computer ressources, use high-pass and low-pass filters, set the delay and panning of your IRs.

Downloads

Please use the (official web site) to download the latest version, or download the older versions below.

PC VST 32 bits (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 VST PC x86.zip, 3.41 MB)
PC VST 64 bits (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 VST PC x64.zip, 3.45 MB)

Mac VST (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 VST Mac Universal Binary.zip, 6.65 MB)
Mac AU (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 AU Mac Universal Binary.zip, 6.73 MB)

MIX IR 2 (web site)

This plugin was offered to anyone who bought the complete collection of Redwirez impulses. It's now been replaced by Mix IR3 that you can buy for US$ 52.95.
Please also note that Redwirez Impulse Responses are among the best on the market. Not free, but excellent.

MESSAGES

Crowned Warrior
le 05/04/2021 à 22h25

Hi,

I wanted to thank you for these instructions!

I tried this today and did a few iterations of trying to capture my cab. It worked pretty well. The sound of the IR is pretty close to my cab.

If I spend some more effort to set things up better, I will get a better result.

But without your instructions, this wouldn't have even happened. So thanks again!

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Glad to be of help! Enjoy your IRs!
Grebz

Gratte26
le 05/04/2021 à 20h26

Ce site semble être une petite pépite tant il regorge de conseils et d'infos pratiques. Merci à son auteur.

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Et merci de votre visite !
Grebz

Mastercodeon
le 25/03/2021 à 08h07

First off id just like to say that this entire site is an absolute GEM for vst guitar amp sims, ive been using plugins like lepou's le456 and LeCab and many others you host here on this site since i was 13 way back in 2013, ive always used fl studio and as such i am using 12 64 bit with an i5 and 8gb of ram hp laptop. Here soon i will be upgrading to the latest version of fl, with an i7, 12gb of ram lenovo laptop, all my setups are running windows 10. im getting a usb interface for my guitar tomorrow so im finding all the plugins im going to need, and this site by far has literally everything i need for amp sims. I have never even found a copy of the Revolution Z plugin, the sites been dead since i was a kid. I wish you and this entire site the best of luck, wishes and prosperity, i would love to see this site last for the years to come, so much of this software is really hard to find, amazing archive :)

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Thanks a lot for your kind words, I'm glad the site allowed you to find what you were looking for. Cheers and keep on making music!
Grebz

Trainko
le 12/03/2021 à 19h30

Merci pour ce site que je viens tout juste de découvrir et qui regroupe pas mal de recherches que j'ai pu effectuer depuis un lonnnng moment…..
Je débute en MAO et je pense que je viens de trouver la perle qui va me faire progresser rapidement dans le domaine !
Des belles heures devant moi ;)
Un grand bravo et merci beaucoup :)

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Merci à vous de venir sur mon site ! Si les infos qui s'y trouvent permettent d'aider, je suis ravi !
Bonne continuation !
Grebz

Aleg
le 24/01/2021 à 23h46

Bonjour ;

Tout d'abord, merci pour cet excellent article. Il va me servir très prochainement.

J'aurais aimé savoir s'il est également possible de créer une impulsion d'un son en particulier (et non pas d'une enceinte ou d'un lieu) avec ses caractéristiques. Par exemple, le timbre de tel ou tel instrument de musique, ou de quoi que ce soit d'autre. Si oui, comment fait-on et quels outils sont nécessaires ?

Merci d'avance pour votre réponse et en attendant, je vais lire le reste de votre site. :)

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Bonjour Aleg,

Merci d'avoir visité mon site.

Malheureusement, je ne pense pas que ce soit possible, en tout cas pas avec la méthode permettant de créer des IR de lieux ou d'enceintes.

Les instruments virtuels qui reproduisent des instruments existants sont soit à base de samples (chaque note possible de l'instrument réel est enregistrée, avec ses variations), soit reproduits à l'aide d'algorithmes complexes, que je serais bien incapable d'expliquer.

Je ne suis pas assez calé techniquement pour répondre, mais je pense que si c'était possible, ça aurait déjà été fait. À ma connaissance (mais je peux me tromper) ce n'est pas le cas.

Désolé de ne pas pouvoir répondre plus précisément.

Grebz