Barefoot Recording Impulse Response Project

Barefoot Recording was Eric Valentine’s audio playground for over 20 years. He has since moved onto greener pastures (literally) and the studio as we know it will likely never be the same. While Barefoot was filled with with an endless list of sonic toys, some of the real magic was in the various rooms used for recording. Prior to the sale of the building, I managed to take IR measurements for use future audio endeavors. I’ve included instructions for installation in Avid’s Space Plugin (formerly TL Space), but these should install into any modern convolution reverb plugin.

Special thanks to Eric Valentine for being a pretty-good record maker and all around cool dude for letting me do this. Also thanks to Brad Cook & Tim Jones for their help in capturing the sweeps.

Enjoy!

Installation Instructions (Avid Space):

  • Download the IR files here.

  • If you want to keep the files with other impulse responses, move them to this directory here: /Users/Shared/Avid/Space — otherwise, just put them wherever makes sense for you, just don’t leave them in your downloads folder, you silly goose.

  • Within Space plugin, import the IR library:

  • Select the main folder directory:

  • Enjoy the sonic goodness!

 

Technical Info:

  • The goal was to capture the position in each room that was most used for recording, with various useful microphone positions.

  • I specifically did not use a measurement microphone because I would never use that to record a space for use in music production.

  • 20s sweeps were run from Fuzz Measure out of an ATC SCM25a monitor and recorded with a stereo pair of Neumann KM184 microphones going into an RME interface.

 

The Rooms!

Sound Room A:

Drumbrella:

Sound Room B:

Iso Booth A:

Echo Chambers:

Lounge A:

Hallway A:

Hallway B:

This software is provided to the community for free. Use it, share it, fuck with it, have fun! Just don’t re-package for re-sale.

Questions, thoughts, concerns: criordan@gmail.com