Small Bathroom.flac

This is a collection of "Small Room Reverb" Impulse Responses that I sampled in a New England home known as Butternut Lodge, built and owned by actress Bette Davis back in 1940. It consists of all wooden rooms with many non-parallel surfaces, rugs and furniture and includes 3 round-shaped "silo" rooms! These rooms sound clean and do NOT have the irritating "ping" of many rectangular rooms.

Short history/pictures of Butternut (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/24692769?source_impression_id=p3_1659215694_LIUAsyFxOceAb5fn)

Although these round shapes (and some of the other very small rooms) could potentially wreak havoc with phase at specific frequencies when summed to mono, I recorded this using the MID/SIDE mic technique; therefore, the "side" channels fully cancel out, leaving a clean monaural reverb signal.

These IRs are stored as FLAC files. They can be used directly by any DAW without conversion and have the added feature of being ID3 tagged with a photo of the room each IR is taken from. After downloading, select VIEW -> LARGE ICONS in the folder to view the rooms.

I sampled each room using a Swept Sine Wave into a JBL Flip 6 Bluetooth speaker; recorded through a Tascam TM-ST1 M/S stereo microphone, feeding a Tascam DR-07 recorder @ 24-Bits 44.1 kHz and deconvolved using Reaper.

As of this post, I've been using these rooms for about 2 weeks. So far, I've found the "Garage" to sound fantastic on drums! THE drum sound! Also, many of the other smaller rooms have a great effect on guitars, keys, and hand percussion. Each room varies in tone and brightness, so I've found that selecting/tuning the reverb send works well if approached like an EQ. Increase the effect send until the instrument "feels" right (then perhaps back off slightly). A close-miked acoustic guitar, for instance, will take on a nice brightness and 3-D quality; not particularly reverberant, just BIG. At that point, I recommend applying any EQ, compression, and bigger-sounding reverb effects.

Hopefully you enjoy this. Please let me know how you like it and if you have any suggestions.

Cheers!

Ken