Reverb impulse. Anyone know about this?

Found this. I'm on track now...
 
http://www.dailymail.co.u...rlds-longest-echo.html

Altiverb has a few that were done in various places; prisons, tanks...

When I read gas tanks I immediately thought of this vid-
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AsIplUJbdE&feature=share&list=PL6uqON-thyrbF_7Ak2Hu0Zw_he3vBIo59
 
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_us

Interesting video...
 
When I was a kid up in Alaska, there were two super giant oil storage units long empty. They were on the coast and we would throw rocks at them to listen to the seemingly endless ring.
 
The earthquale of '63 shredded us up quite badly. After the tsunami hit, a lot of coastal villages were just gone without a trace. Nobody knew about tsunamis so unknown number of lives lost. The other things that disappeared never to be found were the two giant steel oil containers.

Captured the sound and put it on swoopshare at this link. 6.2 meg download cut after around 35 sec because it was just too long. Captures a slight echo effect of the area as well.  Hard to believe that this is a real impulse.
 
http://www.swoopshare.com/file/8e5d674fcfbae932cf81278d3e319787/Scotland.wav.html
 
John

I'd recorded in a large ceramic bathroom in Turkey and thought that was cool. My wish list would be able to drag an acoustic guitar around the world to some of these places. Looks like Bit is just north of the river from me so might be able to do the cistern.
 
My daughter gave me a collection of DVD's a few years ago from the "Planet Earth" series. One was on newly discovered underground caverns in the eastern US with incredible acoustics and some that resonate and vibrate like glass on their own from energies deep in the earth. Can only dream for now.
 
Been playing with the Scotland oil drum impulse in Reverberate. The file itself is too long to be of nuch practical use, but manipulating the length, decay etc comes up with some excellent effects. Only wish the original file was stereo.
 
John

Sounds pretty cool. Don't know how you'd ever fit it into a mix, though. Of course, that's the problem with 80% of the presets in Valhalla UberMod - they're useless unless it's a solo instrument, but still fun to play with.

I tired two instances of it with Perfect Space...panning hard L/R and slightly altering the predelay, EQ, etc from each other and made for a pretty nice pseudo stereo effect.  This will go next to my Taj impulses!

JohnKenn
Realize this impulse is far too long to be usefull in real life application.

Well isn't that a bummer??   Sure it is... I wash my clothes in reverb.. cause it's nice and wet...  For ambient sound scapes, this could be useful.  ....think... ONE pan flute (Zamphir)..... note....   fading into total ambient bliss....  lol!

Thanks Jim for the gate possibility, and to mixmkr for a gentle reminder that branding a file useless doesn't mean it's useless for everyone... Got to get back to the Zen of things, my bad...
 
This link is to a permutation of the oil can file. Still only at 35 sec, about half of the original. Much longer rendering brings in destructive mic artifacts. May or may not be useful, but a good education out here... Learned a few things.
 
Used two blasphemous programs that everyone loves to hate. Warped the decay slope with the "R" word to get a consistent level. Then used (gasp!!) Cake's Boost to level out inconsistencies fed through from Reaper... oh crap,  meant from the "R" word... Hope the censor police don't delete this.
 
Couple points I learned to forward my microcosmic understanding. First, was trying to cut off the initial steep slope so I could get a more gradual decay to normalize the file. No matter where I cut the beginning off, the same math asymptote rule applied. Beauty in nature that only digital tech could kick back in my face.
 
Then the frequency decay. The file is normalized quite well, but the hi's die off leaving deeper frequencies skewed in the mix. Means this file is progressively darker and can overload the track. Clipping will be a problem in not rolled back as the low tones take over..
 
Here it is, best I can do. May ultimately be best not to fork with mother nature 'cause don't know if this was an improvement or not.. Check it out anyway...
 
http://en.swoopshare.com/file/4818e2e300abe30dc6f2ab37d0e1bf5e/Scotland2.wav.html
 
John