Ambisonic Reverb is INSANE! 

Btw: I've attended concerts in sea caves, and the reverb was nuts, because it would modulate with the rise and fall of incoming waves

Imagine deciding to take a bike ride one sleepless night. You ride through a vast wilderness when you suddenly arrive at a tunnel. To your amazement you realise that The Flashbulb is playing a guitar in the middle of the tunnel. Yes, I like to daydream about things like this.

4:15 is an absolutely beautiful shot. Get that framed.

This is officially my favorite RU-vid channel related to music.

You know what, every time you upload a video, I feel genuinely happy and proud to be part of your patreons making all this possible. Thank you for making all of this great stuff.

The reverb trail on your finger snap was incredibly long ! Thank you for this video. The scene of you at the keyboards reminded me of photos from the late 60s early 70s of music creators trying out sounds on Moogs, patch cords every which way.

You're a braver man than I going out cycling deep in the woods in the middle of the night. Very spooky!

oh my god that reverb is INSANE, make a whole album on that tunnel plz

Damn, this is a whole lot of cool stuff all wrapped up into one. Shout out to math for allowing us to pretty much capture the reverb of a space from some clap clips. Also for allowing for ambisonic recording. The bit where you spun the virtual mic around 180 and emulated a shotgun mic was too cool.

Didn't realize that ambisonic microphones were this readily available. Beamforming (not just hard beamforming, but softer applications of it) is actually an excellent use case, especially when filming or recording live events. I'm going to take a crack at doing some interesting stuff with this, when I get some free time again.

Man I absolutely love these videos. This whole idea of having a connection between a physical place you've been and the sounds you create after is awesome.

The NT-SF1 is one of the best field recording purchases I’ve made. Will be recording IRs in an abandoned mine next week 🛠️

That has to be one of the best reverbs I've ever heard. WOW!

Near the end of the documentary BAM (Builders of ancient mysteries) they show some very old cavern with peculiar sonic attributes. Anyone who is into room acoustics/reverbs should find these caverns in India very interesting.

Great Video as always, and that tunnel sounded amazing.

Incredible as always, and honestly so underrated.

Great video man, always inspiring to hear you talk about production

So many thanks for all these videos! Los of love and health to everybody

Just found this amazing channel and enjoying the fall down the beautiful sounding rabbit hole! 💜👾

Dude, i'm fascinated with your high quality audio content. It's incredible, hartelijk dank!

Thanks for creating these reverberating videos .

Awesome stuff man!

Yes, record the trees screaming at you! *Bloody cicadas...* Ambisonic recordings... Now there's something I don't think about every day! Absolutely brilliant video. Absolutely brilliant. Going to have to try and make my own reverb impulses one day, maybe. Not went that far into sound synthesis, most I've done is what I did in Andrew Huang's course.

No jokes that reverb, if u branded it on a pedal guys would prob buy, it's gorgeous man well done.

That reverb is gorgeous!!!

Just came back to comment on how awesome this is! This whole series is so great! Videos like this is a rare sight in the mass of quantity over quality RU-vid. Love it! And that tunnel reverb! Holy moly!

tremendous tremendous video, Ben! I really enjoyed every sec. of it. Damn that tunnel.....wowwww!!!!

You live near some cool places. I like that jazz ballad at the end. Lovely.

I’m studying VR for my Msc, and every time I learn about something new that’s associated with VR I’m so happy I picked it as my focus.

This dude actually "teleported" our ears into that tunnel for a few moments there.

man I m in love with sound editing

I love convolution verbs. It's a great technology. It's also way easier to capture a complex and layered verb like that tunnel. Sounds great! And of course ambisonic tech is awesome. Great vid as always

Not gonna lie, I love the biking crossover content.

Wow, surprised to see you getting into ambisonics! I started using it when I worked in a University Planetarium with a 10.2 system. This was around 2006 using a coresound tetramic - and about the only tools I had were built into Ardour or Plogue Bidule - it feels like ambisonics is finally getting the recognition it always deserved - and now there are so many decent playback devices [BTW it's not *that* new Michael Gerzon at the University of York around 1970]

5:05 - to be a bit pedantic - it was invented in the early 1970s, Soundfield mics have been around since 1978 (according to wikipedia). Otherwise nice vid!

Love this!

Holy sounds in that tunnel!

This is absolutely insane! I'm hoping this becomes a little more user friendly in the future!

That was excellent, very inspiring. Now to actually find a quiet spot around where I live...

DOOOOOOD that Vahalla Plugin is just nuts.

...just love your work

I suspected you where going to be doing something with ambisonics when I seen the tweet of you in the tunnel. The funky windscreen kind of gave away what type of mic was being used. Also congrats you know officially know more about ambisonics than some of the sound engineers I've talked to in the past.

killed it. that was a great video man! Tell Bill to do that Fl video haha

I was looking into getting one of these but I found a Sennheiser Ambeo ambisonic mic for $800 which I definitely couldn’t pass up. I was hoping you’d do something like this, thanks for the great video!

That Improvised tunnel jazz ballad... oooooooh baby!!

damn, this guy is an incredible human being!

Amazing video and super inspiring. I was looking for the Sennheiser, but the software coming with the Rode looks amazing and it's cheaper.

Holy shit that tunnel sounds amazing

This brought tears to my eyes.

Wait, so if I understand correctly, you recorded many clap impulses and their reverberation, picked one in the DAW, and used it to define a convolution that creates that reverb, which you then use on your instrument?

I did some Voice Acting for a few computer game Modders, and they wanted my recordings in mono. In the game the mono sound of my voice would be placed in the surround sound environment by the game program in real time. That lets the player move around the spot the non-player's voice is located, and have the sound in the player's Surround Sound Headset realistically move around the player as it would in a real life setting. Also all the sounds in the environment would be moved as the player moved, or turned. The crazy thing to think about is On-Line games, where there can be hundreds of players playing in the same environment at the same time, and each player hears their own sound environment with all the individual sounds placed in the sounds location as the player, and all the other players move, all of that in Real Time, without any noticeable lag in time. Yep, you can lose your touch on reality while playing a good computer game.

It's so very bizarre to see my favorite breakcore artist since middle school recording not even five miles from my house. I literally live in Braswell, a small town of around 350-400 people. And he's there. Not to mention I remember this exact tunnel when me and my family would go fishing. There used to be a loooot more mud! Wow.

Thanks! You reminded me that I still want to turn my recordings of Bach fugues (preferably in 4 voices) on digital piano into surround sound by separating the voices. With what you got here there is more to play with it. :) Ah but i do realize how different it is from actual natural recordings, not quite sure now how to use sophisticated spatial reverb VSTs for 4chan haha.

Thank you for sharing this information. I had a hard time following you in the sections with background music

the tunnel reverb on the guitar is sooooooo awesome!!! 5:00

I use that mix for 2 years

well if you use Reaper, to combine 4 mono signals into the a-format, requires not more than a couple of minutes. Then you can easily convert it to b-format. I did it several times when I begun with Ambisonics.

This is best music-related youtube channel. Very mind-stimulating content. BTW do you know of round-robin techniques for convolution reverbs? Its a sample, so it should be possible, isn't it? Just come up with interpolation technique between two samples.

Amazing you can make your own reverb. I'm still using hardware effects.

I've been involved into Ambisonic and Binaural as well as soon I've got Zoom F6. Great Episode. Much appreciate In terms of reverb , please, please, please Mooer Ocean Machine.. Greetings

14:57 Kettel vibes

hmm I imagine this is amazing for VR, or will be at least, very cool!

damn, that's cool.

Man, that's an awesome reverb! If you ever get the chance to visit Berlin you should definitely go to Teufelsberg. There's an abandoned American listening station from the cold war on top of the hill. Google it. The top dome is completely intact and you can go inside to find the craziest reverb. Natural decay time of nearly a minute. It's a completely surreal experience. Due to recent fire hazard law changes you aren't officially allowed to go to the top anymore (eventhough it's just concrete, go figure...), but since the place is pretty much run by stoned hippies it's easy enough to break away from the 'tour' and sneak up the stairs. This also means that there aren't a lot of people up there.

could you use 2 stereo field recorders instead and combine them in post? actually a video of you trying that and comparing the results would be great!

@6:21 We're just going to gloss over that subtle 4chan reference? OK, good idea, actually.

yaaaaaaaay surprise video! fantastic I shall make a cheese sandwich and watch.. Thank u good Sir..

If you want ambiances you need to go at different times of day. Certain birds and insects are only vocal at certain times, and the game Horizon Zero Dawn actually takes this into account with the day/night cycle, along with geographical location to get accurate bird sounds. Pretty nuts.

I like how when I google "gypsy jazz" - RU-vid reminds me that "your video is here! Wow! Go and see!" But I didn't have ANYTHING about your previous video that you made 2 weeks ago! How? Why?!

Fabulous journey, as always! How do I find a link to the Rhodes instrument you played in the video? I don’t see a link in the description. Thank you so much.

Long rambling question: Per the sinesweep: isn't that to make sure that frequency and standing-wave dependent shorter and longer reverb times, plus louder and softer frequencies? I'm asking as a IR noob. I always imagined that was the idea behind that. I'm a classical singer in my day job, and in some singing spaces I have ended up obsessing over the complexity and unevenness of the sound response, depending not only on where I turn my mouth to, but also how some some notes ring out longer, and how some notes give a fundamental frequency rumble, while other sung notes will amplify the "squillo" of the voice. I've gotten so atuned to that, that hardly any artificial reverb I've put on a classical voice has made sense to my ears, and I can instantly hear it on classical recordings (a lot of classical recordings are post-produced up the wazoo). I don't have a problem with artificial reverb for "normal" singing, becauae we all grow up with that, but I've tried researching how to get a true-to-life reverb on classical singing, and the only thing that sounded promising was sinesweeped IRs. Do you have more in-depth knowledge of that?

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Oh man did you ever share that impulse of the tunnel? it sounds insane. Just pure tail.

4:52 take that Valhalla

Just a small comment. I am currently writting my bachelor degree project in ambisonics (YES, IM CRAZY ENOUGH TO TAKE ON THIS BEAST AT BACHELOR). Anyways, so, the technology itself is not all that new, it dates back to the 70s when the actual idea started forming and a little later gave birth to the exact type of ambisonic microphone that you are using in the video. Its a tetrahedral array of cardioids which produces 1st order ambisonic recordings fairly well, and its well commercialized at this point, but I must stress that ambisonics have gone a long way in academic development - up to 7th order (64 channel audio). While Ive seen microphones up to 3rd order, there are audio systems around the world capable of reproducing up to 7th for sure. Although you are not completely wrong - this technology has only been started to use for costumer purposes, marketing and what not fairly recently, and mostly in its simplest form - 1st order, 4 capsules (the minimal requirement to record 3d audio properly). And mostly for binaural monitoring purposes such as headphones, VR sets and what not, since those are the easiest to commercialize because most customers own them and use them every day, but we are able to render these recordings for any system: binaural, stereo, 5.1/7.1, Atmos or even huge arrays of square or sphere shaped systems. Ive had the pleasure of listening to mixes in a hemisphere system an hour drive from my city and it was quite the experience - the system completely took me out of the environment I was in and made me feel like I was in a forest cabin, savanna or concrete tunnels. Its a powerful tech and Im hopeful to see where it goes.

If you want to record an IR in an absolutely insane environment, go to an indoor squash court with no sound baffling in it. You’ll find there are echoes for days.

Have you ever done a vid on tinnitus and how to mask it?

Great content and playing! The long reverb sounds amazing - is it available for download for Patreon $10 members? Couldn't find it when I joined your Patreon. Thanks!

"Recording with balls of steel alone in the dark."

oh god the moment you pulled out SoX... bad dreams... BAD DREAMS...

What about using ambisonics for an internal volume? Such as contact microphones. Is it cold enough to have those old steam radiators that bang and click and gurgle endlessly and conduct sound throughout the building?

Wait, did I miss it? It seemed like you made a stereo IR. Is there a way to make an ambisonic IR??

You can monitor in and encode to binaural .that is what i do for easy translation to everyday use.

i forget the name of it but, some smart cookies in a university created a real-time sound engine (retrofitted to quake 3) which does for in game world sound as raytracing does for synthetic world lights. much more accurate game world sound rendering.

14:25 - correct me if i'm wrong but the "springness" comes from the filtering, doesn't it?

Did you have any problem with match level gain on h8 because you have to set gain individually one every channel?

I'm having trouble with the impulse responses I recorded on the NT-SF1, did you merge the responses into a single mono file or did you focus your rotation to the impulse source and then render that or what did you do exactly?

Have you checked out the Ambeo from Sennheiser?, one pair of headphones and an Apple device, doesn’t get much smaller..

I love the video otherwise tho ❤

Dude you are blowing my mind. (Don't get eaten by wildlife!)

I would love to cross with my car that tunnel at 2:30 AM and suddenly encounter you touching the guitar hahahahaha Someone doesn't know you...

What guitar is that?

100% agree on claps for IR. You likely brought some hands with you and they're not gonna run out of battery. Stomping and slapping flat surfaces works great too.

I wonder what it would sound like if you played the guitar and clapped at one end of the tunnel and then had the mic at the other end... 100% wet ??

Great idea making yourself semi-transparent

Conversion easy with Zoom Ambisonics player.

I did spatial audio on this video, which works with an iPad, if you want to get the effect without needing a VR headset. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DA0hgtIgAEY.html

I sure feel like a dumbass right now. I've been using FL for like 12 years and never once realized Fruity Convolver existed or that it does this. What the hell.

Always a good reference channel , but a bit too much product placement to my liking , a bike , a mic and some Fruits ;)

I´m a great fan- thank you! BUT...if I may... please don´t put lounge-elevator-music (sorry) under your talking! ;) Finding quiet places is something very beautiful though!