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PastToFutureReverbs 1176 Blue Stripe Compressor IR'S! Impulse Responses (IRs) WAV screenshot
Impulse Responses (IRs) WAV | AudioZ Exclusive | 672.64 KB
One of the best compressors ever made!

It has been considered for a long time by many professionals as the best vocal compressor out there!

We have sampled an amazing sounding vintage late 60s blue stripe 1176 for you!

These are one of the best compressors IR’s ever made.

You will get 36 IR’s in a different input, output, ratio, attack, and release settings

We have also named the files that way:

input 24, output 24, ratio 4, attack 4, release 4

Inclusive all buttons mode

96kHz/24Bit Wav Files

Check out the demos!

Vocal demo:



Drum demo:



And please use at least headphones when you check out the demos

You will not regret it!

Try also this chain: 1176 IR + your regular software compressor + 1176 IR again + a bit limiter

We are very proud to bring you sounds you can’t find anywhere else!

This exclusive release was generously supplied to us by our member trae_hym
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comments

  Resident 30.11.2020 1 45
+158
Is it just me or do (classic) IRs make no sense for compressors?
Emulating a box-tone regarding frequency response, sure, but that could easily be an EQ preset.
Capturing non-linearities with IRs, really? How is that supposed to work at all?
iirc you put in a single sample spike and get out a file with some ringing from filters, but there's practically no time for the compressor to react to that and "shape" this single spike.. right?
Odd.
  Resident 25.09.2010 310
+118
It's probably just adding the character of the blue stripe 76. Just running a signal through a hardware 1176 - with it doing nothing - makes anything sound better.
  Resident 30.11.2020 1 45
+158
Define what you mean by "character". Is it the box-tone/EQ curve of the hardware, or the saturation it impairs on the signal? Or something else?
When running signals through hardware I believe it's mostly a combination of both EQ and saturation that is looked for, but the latter (more important one) can't be captured via IR.
  Resident 4.02.2012 690
+222
Input- and output transformers, mostly (which the signal goes through even "when doing nothing"). But this is mostly slight saturation.
  Resident 29.11.2020 29 2593
+2678
wait, are you saying saturation can be captured using IR ?
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.” You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
  Resident 29.11.2020 29 2593
+2678
Acustica built the whole company based on this idea and they have a really strong base of following and customers. It's the only thing that sets them apart from other plugin emulation. Not saying it's better or the best, (even I forgot the last time I used my Acustica plugins lol) but they know some stuff you cant just replicate with a simple EQ, and it's part of the hardware sound be it 1% or 2%, and a lot of people share the thought. Especially the transformer response. Most plugins ignore this stuff completely by just including the saturation even Plugin Alliance only recently just implemented them (Harris Doyle EQ), none whatsoever in ALL their previous plugins.

So this IR basically offering what common 1176 plugin (all of them except the Acustica version) didn't include in the emulation and clearly suggested the recommended chain of processing using your fav 1176 plugin. The EQ curve looks like this and clearly looks like input/output transformer EQ response and no way you could replicate that with Pro-Q3.

I tested it roughly and it does something but didn't properly test them in whole context of a mix, will do so in the next one.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.” You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
  Resident 24.03.2013 536
+193
I just think allot of this is just about the idea you are using the hardware, a bit like GUIs that look similar. How many producers site an IR pre-set as the 'magic'? This is just another money mill in the audio industry.
I had tons of Acustica stuff & the whole idea of it being better than IR because it could vary over time just more marketing.
I deleted it all because it was very impractical. Probably better these days.
I imagine AI may go a similar way.
At the end of the day audio is just harmonics & dynamics including special.
I personally think you would get a better result if in the box from a good saturation & Eq plugins. Reduce the aliasing if needed its surely a much better way.
  Member 19.03.2014 378
+120
It does work, but without the saturation it doesn't sound much like an 1176, I use airwindows desk, after it, and i have preset that matches the 1176, sounds amazing now, on its own, very odd though.
  Member 20.05.2021 10
+3
how can you use this? where to put those wav files?
  Resident 29.11.2020 29 2593
+2678
reverberate CM is free and easy to use
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it. It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.” You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
  Member 2.03.2019 198
+52
Wtihout a "before" sound the demo is useless.
  Member 23.11.2021 132
+38
Time by time i see some comments saying stuff like "The IR from an EQ?"; "An IR from compressor, tape, console?"

As @Stevie Dude said, Acustica Audio started their stuff with something like this, but also emulating nonlinearities and the same controls of the hardware device, so it's sofisticated in front of a common IR. But the IR's by themselves add something that most plugins don't really care, since most are two dimensional with controls and saturation. If you build a chain with those hardware IR's and some regular plugins you can archieve something "different" and good on it's own.

An good example it's a null test: it won't null and the differences are pretty audible just by puting an "Flat API IR" on the same source. Download and try it by yourself, and try the suggestions made by the dev or just be creative while listening to the sound to build your own chain

Thanks trae_hym by supporting the community with those beautiful IR's

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