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	With the Speakerbox series we set out to capture the raw sound of some legendary speaker and mic combinations with just a dash of color. To that end, we housed our speakers in a solid mahogany, open-backed cabinet. The cab's lightweight, resonant shell is designed to fill a room with 3 dimensional, lively tone rather than box it in and project it forward. A great setup for coaxing the essential character from our vintage and modern speaker collection. Features Sampled with 12+ industry-standard microphones each with their own special sound Up to 9 mic positions to dial in the right tone for your amp 9 different mic distances for different amounts of proximity effect and room ambience Minimum of 450 IRs per speaker* so you'll find the perfect match for your sound Edited for better phase coherence allowing you to more easily mix multiple IRs Clean, uncompromising signal chain that won't add undesirable color to your sound Speaker powered with Bryston 2B/4B, known for a flat freq. response and low distortion Recorded with Lavry Blue converters for top quality AD/DA conversion Sampled with a Neve 1073, a highly regarded preamp for recording guitar Compatible with a wide range of recording software and convolution plug-ins (see Compatible Software) including Axe-Fx ready sysex files** * Take a look at the speaker's IR Matrix for a listing of captured impulse responses. Check out Speakerbox Series under Products for the full scoop on the speakers, mics, and mic positions. **Axe-Fx sysex files are truncated to 1024 samples to conform to its cabinet IR size limits, thus removing room reflections
	When you're looking to augment your sound with the tone-shaping capabilities of some of the world's most well-loved speaker cabinets, then the BIGBox series is for you. Using the same uncompromising signal chain used in our Speakerbox series, we've set out to capture the magic of giant wooden boxes, with strategically placed holes, stuffed with insanely loud cone-shaped bits of mayhem, and glued together with the blood, sweat and tears of three generations of rock gods, grunts, and goram contenders... or something to that effect. Features Cabs sampled with 14 industry-standard microphones, each with their own special sound Up to 8 mic positions to dial in the right tone for your amp 9 different mic distances for different amounts of proximity effect, cabinet and room sound Minimum of 550 IRs per cabinet* so you'll find the perfect match for your sound Edited for better phase coherence allowing you to more easily mix multiple IRs Clean, uncompromising signal chain that won't add undesirable color to your sound Cabs powered w/ Bryston 4B, known for flat freq. response, ample power and low distortion Recorded with Prism Sound Orpheus converters for top quality AD/DA conversion Sampled with a Neve 1073 and a pair of 1084s, highly regarded preamps for recording guitar Compatible with a wide range of recording software and convolution plug-ins (see Compatible Software) including Axe-Fx ready sysex files * Take a look at the speaker's IR Matrix for a listing of captured impulse responses. Check out BIGBox Series under Products for the full scoop on the speakers, mics, and mic positions.
	Ok, you probably have some questions. Well we've got answers. Can I try them? Yes! You can. Folks have been asking for a demo cab for a while now. So, in honor of our one year "birthday" we're releasing a free version of our celebrated Marshall 1960A with Celestion G12Ms. Of course, the paid version has a several more mics and some extra goodies, but this is the real deal, not some crippled demo. We really want you to hear what people are raving about. Cabinet IRs! If you want to hear how different cabinet IRs will sound on some raw guitar clips, you can use our Cabinet Preview feature. You pick the clip, the cabinet, the mic, position and distance. You can mix several different IRs, too, if that's what you want. These are raw clips with no EQ, no reverb, compression or any other post-production, so keep that in mind. Preview the Cabinet IRs! And one more thing. Yeah, it may sound like a cheesy infomercial pitch, but we offer a money-back guarantee We think it's better than offering a crippled demo, primarily because one of the benefits of the our IR library, besides the quality, is the sheer number of choices you have to dial in the sound you want. A scaled back demo simply would not reflect that. So, if you buy one of our libraries and try them for 14 days and don't want to use them any more, then delete them and shoot us an email (the address is on the Support page) with your paypal receipt (we have to have that for record keeping purposes) and we will give you a full refund. We think once you try them you won't want to give them up. Who are you guys? At Red Wire, we're unabashed audio geeks and our life's mission besides watching old Farscape reruns and playing the "Live from Abbey Road Drinking Game" every third Friday (ok, maybe we're just plain geeks) is to bring our extensive collection of gear and our giant pulsating brains (we named them Paul and Ringo and keep them in a jar by the door), to bear on improving the recordings of home and project studios everywhere. What do y'all do? First stop on the road to affordable audio nirvana -- we've captured the essence of some classic speaker, cabinet, and mic combinations run through some legendary gear and made it available to you as an ever growing collection of high-quality impulse responses for use in your own recordings. What's an impulse response? "What's an impulse response?", you ask. Only your key to unleashing killer guitar tones at any volume. Finally, you can give the neighbors some other reason to call the cops. For the technical among us, an impulse response (or "IR") realistically captures the characteristics, both in frequency and time, of an entire signal chain, including the sampled speaker, the microphone, the room it's in, the power amp, preamp -- even the A/D converters. Put another way, it'll capture the unique frequency curve of the speaker, any phase smearing inherent in the mechanical operation of the speaker, any cabinet resonance, the frequency response and resonance of the mic, the sound of the room, and any frequency or phase related coloration introduced by the power amp, preamp, and converters and apply that captured sound to any audio you pass through it... or so our even geekier friends tell us. How do I use an impulse response? Basically, you load one of our impulse responses into a convolution plugin (there's a bunch available, even some pretty good ones for free) or hardware device that can load IRs and route your guitar signal through it. The signal can come from your amp's preamp, the line out on your amp, a guitar DI box, or a dummy load box with a line out to safely get the direct signal from the power amp. And voila, out comes the sound of your guitar played through a well-mic'ed speaker cabinet, in an acoustically treated live room, run through a Neve 1073, a preamp expensive enough that your wife will probably divorce you if you buy one yourself -- and all without disturbing the neighbors. Will it sound exactly the same as the actual setup captured by the impulse response? Not completely. It'll be missing some distortion from things like speaker breakup, but it's really, REALLY close. Check out our Tutorials section for a more detail on the topic of using our IRs. Can I use them with [ Insert amp modeler here ]? Yes. Just bypass the cabinet simulation and put a convolution plugin with one of our IRs in the effects chain right after the amp sim plugin, or on the input track in the case of hardware modelers (see the Tutorials section for details). Some sims, like Revalver allow you to load your own IRs. Using our IRs will give you a more varied sonic pallette to choose from when dialing in your unique tone and in the case of some well-known hardware units, it will give your sound a more realistic sense of space and lots more options. Did your momma drop you on your head as a child? Uh... no... well, just that once. Why do you ask? Ok, I'm sold, whatcha got for me? We've taken our efforts to compile the universe's most flexible and complete library of speaker impulses in two different directions, so we've created a couple collections to reflect that. Our Speakerbox series takes a minimalist approach to capturing the sound of some classic speaker/mic combinations, while the BIGBox series captures the tone shaping aspects of some legendary speaker cabinets. Check 'em out. Thanks for your time and patronage. THE FINE PRINT: All product names used in this webpage are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Red Wire Impulses. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were sampled during impulse response capture. All web site design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof are Copyright 2008-2009 by Red 5 Group, LLC dba Red Wire Impulses. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Any use of materials on this web site, including reproduction, modification, distribution or republication, without the prior written consent of Red 5 Group, LLC, is strictly prohibited. Thanks and have a nice day. 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