Boudoir Guitar
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There are degrees and professional projects you would recognize on Jay’s resume. The rest of us at best read a white paper one time at band camp.
IRs made with tube amps (ML Sound Lab claims)
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Chocol8
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Jarick
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Mikko has a pretty lengthy history of producing really good cab packs. He partnered with Fractal on several of them about a decade ago. He has very solid credentials in making IR's.
Now with this particular video I'm honestly not sure he's claiming his IR's are superior because he uses tube amps. He mostly shows the different sounds that different power amps may have. That "color calibration" - I think most bigger name IR makers will account for this as part of their process.
However the free cab IR he provides as part of the video sounds awesome to me. I'd recommend downloading that, seems like an excellent IR that could work for just about anything.
Also playing around with the IR length is interesting. If I switch from Max resolution in Fractal to 512 samples, it seems to clear up some midrange in his IR. Guessing that's the room reverberation at play.
Now with this particular video I'm honestly not sure he's claiming his IR's are superior because he uses tube amps. He mostly shows the different sounds that different power amps may have. That "color calibration" - I think most bigger name IR makers will account for this as part of their process.
However the free cab IR he provides as part of the video sounds awesome to me. I'd recommend downloading that, seems like an excellent IR that could work for just about anything.
Also playing around with the IR length is interesting. If I switch from Max resolution in Fractal to 512 samples, it seems to clear up some midrange in his IR. Guessing that's the room reverberation at play.
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For me, it works for just about everything, but my main jam is either chugga-chugga modern metal (for which the mids in that IR are excellent) or big cleans. But the IR works very well with mid-gain tones, especially with clang-y Marshall rock tones.
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lots of blather and relatively little substance. Also of making false technical assertions and then levelling personal attacks against those who point them out.
He acquires IRs and sells them, and some people like them. None of that amounts to credentials of any sort, certainly not "very solid" credentials.
Of course not. He's just saying that "99% of IRs suck." What are the odds that he's including his IRs in that 99%? (That's a rhetorical question, BTW. We all know the answer.)
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He has experience, but I would not say he has any real credentials. While he obviously knows how to make an IR, he clearly doesn't understand them very well. That's an important difference.
jay mitchell
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That is an incredibly low bar to clear these days. A 12yo kid can make IRs.
HotRats
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While is true and relevante in this case, since he makes calims and acts like he undersand everything about what he's doing, is not necesseraly relevant if ones only shoot good sounding IRs and sell them. Being appreciated by the customer are real credentials too. A different kind of credential, of course.
I tell you a true story to clarifty and expand my point.
I knew a sound engineer, now retired, that owned a pretty famous recording studio in the jazz scene in Milan, a studio I was interested to buy back then.
Well, this man made some of the finest sounding jazz recordings ever made in the town, lots of big artists and so on.
He basically recorded only live combos, most of the times he mixed them directly to 1/2 inche tape (or dat) on the fly, using the studer multitracks as a backup, just in case.
He had small console, a studer tape machine, an 1/2 inch tape machine, an ams rmx reverb, a couple of outboard eqs and compressors and a nice collection of micfophones.
He did evertything always in the same way.
Same mics, same positions, same spots in the room, same everyrthing and, as he told me, he learned evertyhing from the previous owner and that's it.
He never turned on the compressors and never moved the eq knobs and never changed the algo in the amx reverb. I'm not kidding.
He new nothing about gear or audio techinology, he learend a formula, had a great sensibility and love for jazz music and was a really nice man.
Those things has been enough to keep the business alive for decades but not forever. The fact he knew nothing about the technology is what killed his buisness in the long run.
At some point, clinents started to ask him for a more modern approach, he asked for help and me and my associate helped him to add a daw into his workflow but it was to late. The studio slowly died and closed.
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Yeah, I have no problem with someone, a monkey, or an even dog making IR's and selling them, even if their success was nothing more than random luck. I do have a problem with people spewing BS in order to sell something.
Chocol8
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I definitely did not mean to imply that he has cleared anything but the lowest of bars.
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Jay’s brain is full of wrinkles.
Chocol8
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I think he is old enough, the wrinkles may be spreading.
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It happens to all of us. If you're lucky.
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Bunch of forum guys talking out of their asses...
Go to your Fractal cab page and search "ML". Over 100 of his IR's are in the Factory and Legacy section.
Go to the Fractal store and look at the Legacy cab packs. He's produced a bunch of them.
Go to the Fractal forum and search for any number of his free cab downloads. A ton of people with positive comments.
Go to your Fractal cab page and search "ML". Over 100 of his IR's are in the Factory and Legacy section.
Go to the Fractal store and look at the Legacy cab packs. He's produced a bunch of them.
Go to the Fractal forum and search for any number of his free cab downloads. A ton of people with positive comments.
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I have bought some IRs from him and think they're good. Not world beating or anything, but fine. Matter of taste of course. These IRs are quite old and made years ago.
The ones I dislike come with the capture pack he recently made, when used with the amp captures especially. Don't understand how they're so muddy.
But I wouldn't doubt the fact that he has experience and market share. I remember when he was the "EQ matching guy" on fractal forum, and now ML makes all kind of stuff.
The drum stuff works very nice for me as well.
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His IR's aren't any better than the ones I've captured. Pfffft.
HotRats
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Well I agree.
I don't like his style and I am critical about it but he is a guy that seems to know how to run and develop a buisness, somenthing that is not a given.
He started from shooting IRs and now sells plugins, irs and captures.
Kudos to him.
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I'm a big fan of the MIKKO 2 and MIKKO Reflex plugins. Both sound great, and are easy to use. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of them and used the mixes I've made in various modelers.
I think his own IR mixes tend to be on the darker side. Maybe that's his preference, maybe that's what sounds best where he's doing them.
I think his own IR mixes tend to be on the darker side. Maybe that's his preference, maybe that's what sounds best where he's doing them.
Boudoir Guitar
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I'm sure Mason what's his face at Vertex effects makes a good sounding tube screamer clone. That isn't evidence that he knows fuck all, or is sufficient reason for me to want to use his good sounding tube screamer over the 500,000 other good sounding tube screamer clones available to me.
I mean, some cabs are darker by nature, and since (he claims) is IRs are raw captures, you have to apply low cuts to make them sound good
