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Room feedback

By Marc Nostromo

There was a great post today at audio cookbook about room reverb feedback. Basically recording a click in a room, playback it back in the same room, re-record it and so on. In the end, the original sound is becoming a big smear and the successful iteration are pretty mesmerizing:

Since I don’t have a room nor the proper equipment, I thought I’d just give a try doing it by using VSTs and a feedback loop in ableton live. Here’s what I got:

Pretty nice although nowhere close to the beauty of the original. Of course, it will depends immensly of the type of reverb used (this is just a simple plate) and ultimately I wonder what it’d give using impulse response based reverbs like altiverb.

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