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I found this good collection of Impulse response:

Custom Made Impulse Responses

Years ago I remembering seeing a news story on the Sony 777 sampling reverb.  I though it was a great idea but it was expensive and a lot of work to get more than the presets that came with the machine.  Thank goodness for software.  Entry into the virtual world made these convolution effects available to many more people.

I think I have mentioned it before but you can find more impulse responses at the noise vault & echochamber (use google translate if you don’t speak German. ) I have found these reverbs(and other effects using impulses) dependant of the impulses and having enough CPU to do the really big math problems.  Any new impulses are welcome because that really determines the effect you can have.  You can’t have a hall reverb with out a hall impulse.

The odd thing is convolutions produce the most convincing realistic reverbs and room sims out there but I like best that it can mimic gear that doesn’t sound like a real spaces but might sound good.  Like an old revrb unit that may sound artificial but in a good away.  But that is just me.  And you can get an impulse from anything almost.  Speakers cabs, stairwell, silos or whatever.  It is way to have a all kinds of spaces and gear in stored on your hard drive.  It can really open up creative avenues.

If you own Altverb or Waves IR you know what I am talking about(and I can’t believe you are reading this blog it is about getting by on a shoestring half the time. Kidding.)  If you have not experimented with this type of thing you can try out SIR 1 for free and if you like that you might consider the more reasonable SIR 2 or other commercial apps.