Rock-Box IR Libraries • Feature Set Information

CABINETS AND VOICINGS

The OwnHammer Rock-Box cabinets are proprietary enclosures, designed and built in-house singularly for impulse response
capture and towards multiple sound design goals: to maximize fidelity and musicality for use in a broad range of styles and
applications, to provide a tone that is both something familiar and something new, and to exude a neutrality that allows the
individuality of different speakers, guitars, pickups, amps, and playing nuances to shine through unencumbered. Various
unique construction choices were implemented to accomplish this complex requirement set to outstanding result, providing
a tone with clean low end, magical midrange, smooth high end, and incredible note clarity across the entire spectrum.

Included are IR’s of three individual cabinet options, the Classic, Modern, and Tall Vintage, as well as a 50/50 mix of the
Classic and Modern cabinets dubbed the “Blend”:

Each of the cabinets were captured with multiple microphones, and rendered into various mic blends.
The Classic (CLSC) cabinet – the primary sound the Rock-Box tone was built around – contains five such multi-mic mixes.
These are labeled as A, B, C, D, and E, with “A” being the tightest and most forward sounding, and “E” being the fattest and
most laid back. In addition to accommodating various potential use cases and personal tastes, these microphone inclusion
based voicings can also help balance out various pickup types and amp tones. All five mix types are included in the “Extended
Classic” folder, whereas only the “C” mix is included with the other cabinet types.

The Modern (MDRN) cabinet contains a singular multi-mic mix set. This cabinet provides a more scooped sound, with slightly
more information in the low and high end, and slightly less in the midrange.

The Tall Vintage (TALL) cabinet contains a singular multi-mic mix set. This cabinet provides a significant increase in low end
information and overall reverberant resonance by comparison, and is the thickest/chunkiest sounding of the group.

As aforementioned, the Blend (BLEND) cabinet is the result of a 50/50 mix between the CLSC-C voicing and MDRN voicing.

MIC POSITIONS

Included for each voicing are five mic position locations: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. These represent different mic placements swept
across the sweet spot area of the speaker, with position “1” being brightest, and position “5” being darkest. The use of
numeric notations are arbitrary, and do not represent any unit of measure or specific placement location.

SUMMARY FILE

Included in the Summary folder is a copy/paste of the “BLEND-3” IR for convenience, especially when comparing numerous
Rock-Box speaker options within one directory location.

AUDITIONING TIPS

The easiest method for quickly exploring the contents of a Rock-Box library is to first start out comparing all seven of the
position “3” files. This will give a general representation of the speaker specimen, the difference in character and overall
frequency response of each voicing, and how all that will pair with the source instrument, amp configuration, and use
application. From there, different mic placement positions within the voicing of choice can provide small shifts in the overall
brightness or darkness of the sound within that overall signature.

INCLUDED FILE FORMAT

OwnHammer Rock-Box libraries contain impulse response (IR) files in wave audio (.wav) format for use in any convolution
reverb loader, be it plug-ins in DAW based hosts or external hardware devices/modelers. These files are formatted in 44.1
kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, and 96 kHz sample rates, with all subsequent files universally provided in mono channel count, 24-bit
depth, and 208 ms in length.

All files have been minimum phase transformed, which is a mathematical process that allows for impulse responses to be
universally time, phase, and polarity aligned, no matter the source. To this end, these IR’s can be used in parallel alongside
any IR that has also been properly minimum phase transformed.
 WHICH FILES TO USE

When using impulse response files in recording software or standalone applications, it is often best to select the sample rate
that matches that of the DAW session and/or audio card/device settings. This can save on resource utilization, as well as
prevent severe processing artifacts if the loading platform the files are imported into does not have automated real time
sample rate conversion to correct for such manual errors.

For the loading of IR’s into OEM hardware/modeling platforms, look to those platforms’ provided documentation to discover
their native operating sample rate, as well as any needed instruction on file loading/import procedure. OwnHammer is not
responsible for providing this information, nor supporting third party systems and products.

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