{"id":1884,"date":"2023-10-19T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=1884"},"modified":"2023-12-05T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:25:09","slug":"audiothings-audio-things-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/audiothings-audio-things-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"AudioThing’s audio things \ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bit of a oddity due to renovations – currently living in an alternate space, reviewing things that make alternate spaces. With most of my equipment wrapped up in body bags it’s all a bit virtual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve owned AudioThing’s<\/a> Fog Convolver<\/em> for some time. It’s essentially the same as the convolution reverb that comes with most DAWs, but tuned and equipped to a range of unusual ‘stages’. These ‘stages’ are generally environments in which an impulse signal (e.g. a balloon pop) has been sounded and the results recorded (halls, churches, cars etc.) Some vendors also send impulses through guitar amps and similar to capture their tonality. Fog Convolver <\/em>also includes ‘stages’ like a glass full of old cigarette butts or a cheese sandwich. In case you need your music inside a sandwich. You might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since I last looked they’ve added a whole bunch of effects which, in general, seem to me to be relatives of Fog Convolver<\/em>. For example Gong Amp<\/em> is a quite specific and impressively weird combination of amp, chains, Chinese gong and pillow that will ready your piano for an ambient Asiatic remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea<\/em>. It’s not a made up thing – it’s a historical thing that you may now enjoy. As is Wires<\/em> – an emulation of a wire recorder of a vintage long before cassettes ruined music. Wires<\/em> will make anything you throw at it sound like shit – very specific historically accurate cold war shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really it’s about the value of authenticity and history – you are buying souvenirs from a museum of sound – in many cases the artworks owned by the artist Hainbach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But listening to the results without any regard to the origin story you are freed from the ideas and images that impose a way of listening. One thing is a ‘phono line tester’. That’s cool, but how does that work for my music? Does it really matter where the drones in Noises<\/em> come from? In my specific case, working on a project set in the 1930’s I need the convolution from an Edison cylinder – I might try the wire recorder to get the same psychological result. Not accurate but creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Give all of them a trial, but if you’re not ready to go souvenir shopping you’ll find Fog Convolver<\/em> is still the main tool. If desperately poor have a look at the convolution reverb plugin in Reaper<\/em> which can be used in other DAWs for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bit of a oddity due to renovations – currently living in an alternate space, reviewing things that make alternate spaces. With most of my equipment wrapped up in body bags it’s all a bit virtual. I’ve owned AudioThing’s Fog Convolver for some time. It’s essentially the same as the convolution reverb that comes with most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[7,4],"class_list":["post-1884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-sampler","tag-virtual-analogue"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}