Like with the main live rooms, you can’t move virtual microphones around to change the inherent characteristics of each reverb.

Rather than attempting to model virtually moving the microphones around within each main room by the user-à la Universal Audio’s Ocean Way Studios-mic positions for each room were chosen based on studio notes for historic sessions and the experience of the veteran engineers involved in the plug-in’s creation.Įach of the three Sunset Sound studio rooms has its own isolation booth and dedicated echo chamber, which are included in SSSR. Impulse responses for the live rooms of Studios 1 and 3 were captured from a single position in the room, while Studio 2’s main room gives you the option of three different positions. The SSSR plug-in is actually a suite of twelve different reverbs. The Sunset Sound Studios complex consists of three different rooms.

The studio’s console preamps and signal paths for each room were meticulously modeled so that the end results are practically “indistinguishable from recordings made in the actual rooms,” according to IK Multimedia. The impulse responses (IRs) were captured through the Sunset Sound’s own microphone collection. Complete with models of the studio’s consoles and preamps, the results are as close as you can get to actually recording in the historic spaces where some of the world’s most famous recordings were made.

Sunset Sound Studio Reverb (SSSR) is a reverb plug-in that gives you access to all of the venerated studio’s live rooms, chambers, and isolation booths, and several of their mechanical reverbs. Could a reverb plug-in really capture the sound of a world-class recording studio? You bet it could.

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