Can You Feel It in the Air?

Hot on the heels of its AIR STUDIOS REVERB convolution reverb, Spitfire Audio has released AIR STUDIOS REVERB ESSENTIALS — effectively streamlining its elder software sibling as an easy-to-use follow-up again created in close collaboration with the talented team at London’s legendary AIR Studios.

AIR STUDIOS REVERB ESSENTIALS is essentially anchored around 64 carefully curated presets based on real-life mixing practices catering to various instruments, moods, and setups, and to create a selection of standard reverb modes and spaces. Spitfire Audio has taken the concept of Impulse Response (IR) to new heights by capturing an unprecedented 67,000 IRs to recreate any position and configuration in Lyndhurst Hall — one of the world’s largest recording rooms with a live area capable of accommodating a full symphony orchestra and choir simultaneously, its inspiring acoustic adored by musicians since (pre-eminent producer of The Beatles, Oscar-nominated composer, and AIR Studios founder) opened by Sir George Martin in 1992 as a flexible space suited to film scoring, orchestral recordings, and live performances.

AIR STUDIOS REVERB ESSENTIALS goes beyond traditional IRs, leveraging Spitfire Audio’s proprietary Virtual Positioning Technology (VPT) to effectively allow anyone to drag and drop mono or stereo sounds and musicians anywhere within AIR Studios’ Lyndhurst Hall, capturing the precise ambience of its unique acoustic spaces. Working in Lyndhurst Hall, musicians traditionally face the control room, which creates a distinct reverb character, although a lesser-known, yet equally endearing, sound is achieved with musicians facing the organ — a setup synonymous with the AIR Studios-recorded scores of Hans Zimmer. As such, Spitfire Audio’s talented team mirrored microphone placements on the hall floor to recreate both of those signatures sounds within AIR STUDIOS REVERB ESSENTIALS, courtesy of its HALL LAYOUT feature that switches the orientation of the player and microphone positions in the hall, changing the characteristic of captured ambience. And combined with dedicated speaker positioning, this allows users to position their virtual sound source facing in either direction, duly capturing the essence of those renowned recordings.

Years of meticulous research and development has led to AIR STUDIOS REVERB ESSENTIALS continuing to break new ground in sonic authenticity and making it available to a wider audience.

The 9.73 GB download-sized AIR STUDIOS REVERB ESSENTIALS is available as a dedicated plugin in all popular formats.

More information at Spitfire Audio www.spitfireaudio.com