Audio Ease is giving away perhaps the coolest IR’s so far, namely of the tracking room and echo chamber at Frank Zappa’s studio the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.

From the Audio Ease press release:

Frank Zappa: “One reason we use the echo chamber is that certain types of percussive sounds, when introduced into a digital reverb program that may be a long program, don’t sound right. That program may be good for everything else in the composition that is not so spikey. But the spikey stuff in there tends to sound bogus. So what we do is use live echo quite often for the percussion-type things, and use echo programs with more harmonic content on the strings or brass or things whose duration you want to increase.”

Arjen: “So 22 years later, when I saw a tech support email from Dweezil in the Audio Ease mail box I took the opportunity to ask him about that room. A couple of months later Aram and I took the day before the NAMM show and went up to the house to team up with Dweezil and Richard. We recorded the studio live room with our DPA 4006 TL’s and the adjoining echo chamber using the speaker and microphones that were in there. Luckily they were set up exactly the way Frank had left them, showcasing Dweezil’s dedication to authenticity.”

So now Altiverb users can get a little Zappa flavor in their compositions. Very cool of Audio Ease and Dweezil for making this happen.

Go grab it at Audio Ease

Read more about it at Dweezil’s blog