Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:03 am
Hello Leo and Luke,
I am happy to benefit from the experience of people using truncated wet samples.
For a decade, I use the Hauptwerk software in two churches .When these churches are empty, the reverberation times are about 2,5 s and 4s and respectively 0.5s and 1.5s when the churches are full of people.
Every time I acquired a new sampled set, I tried truncated versions. I now own a good thirty organs and I have always found the truncated versions detestable, whatever the cut-off time.
I have found several view points on the forum. Some recommend not too short decay time (1s to 2s) .Others advocate short decay time (120ms to 250 ms).
My experience, in these churches, with my setup, is that the shorter the reverb tails cut is, the more convincing the organ is, with no trebles deficit. My english is not enough good to explain exactly what I feel. However, curiously, cutting reverb tails seems to induce a cut off in frequencies. In addition, the true reverberation is always there in sustained notes, even with a strong truncation to 120 ms.
I am not discussing here, how the pseudo dry sample set obtained after truncation is like the original organ or not, nor if the stops are well balanced, but just how what I hear is convincing.
The Caen extended surround is very beautiful at home. Of course, in my churches, I have tried to load it with many different truncation times. Very disappointing. I always returned to the Caen dry version.
That is why I would like an extended dry version of the Caen.
Unfortunately, I have no experience in sound recording in churches and even I do not own good microphones. Otherwise I would have uploaded some tests on the website contrebombarde to show you the sounds. I would be very interested if someone can do that tests to convince me that may be my hardware profile or my organ settings are inappropriate.
Hardware profile :
- 2 x 300 W speakers (from the installed AHLBORN 350 organ). They are installed at mid - height on the wall of the transept. The console is about ten meters from speakers.
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP.
Best regards.
Paul