IK - New Mic Room Software

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/trmicroom/
 
Introducing Mic Room for T-RackS

Re-mike your recordings with a virtual collection of over 20 stunning studio microphones

Mic Room is a powerful microphone-modeling tool for T-RackS that puts a world-class collection of over 20 classic and contemporary microphones at your fingertips. It gives you the power to process and "re-mike" your physical microphones to sound and perform like some of the most coveted microphone models of all time from ribbons to dynamics to condensers and beyond. It also offers a plethora of inspiring tone-sculpting tools that are conveniently ready for use in your favorite DAW.

Top Sound quality

Mic Room offers an astonishing level of detail and accuracy, each of its virtual microphone models boasts the true frequency response, nuanced character and specific sound of its counterpart. That means you can tap into the harmonic complexity of tube condensers, the "in-your-face" tone of dynamics and velvety smoothness of ribbon types. You can even fuel your creativity with Mic Room's quirkier options, like tube and telephone microphones.

Endless possibilities

Mic Room lets you effortlessly change the sonic profile of recorded audio to match the signature of a chosen microphone. Want to transform a dynamic into a condenser? A condenser into a ribbon? Well, Mic Room is a T-RackS module, so you can slap it onto an individual track (either inside T-RackS or as a standalone plug-in) and then change recorded audio from vocals and miked instruments and amplifiers. Once on a track, Mic Room lets you choose the original source microphone and then a new microphone to re-mike it with, so you can harness a new level of nuance, color and tonal character.

Creative tone control

Beyond its high-fidelity sound, Mic Room also comes packed with a number of additional tone control features that have been designed to enhance your recording experience. The Proximity effect less you play with the "proximity effect" that naturally adds bass when a source is near a microphone. Dial it in for a rich and deep "FM radio vocals" sound. Or dial it down to scoop the low frequencies out. The Harmonic control effect gives you the full power and rich harmonic complexity of a tube condenser. This control lets you add saturation, character and texture to your recordings.

Plug and play

Though Mic Room for T-RackS can liven up the character of any microphone, it works best when paired with iRig Mic Studio, iRig Pro DUO, iRig PRO, iRig Mic HD, iRig Mic and other quality microphones and interfaces from IK Multimedia.

Pricing and availability

Mic Room is available now via the IK online store and T-RackS Custom Shop for just $/€69.99* (or just 70 Gear Credits).

I have Antares Mic Modeler and it does a fine job...

I was hoping for T-Racks 5.

cclarry

clintmartin
I was hoping for T-Racks 5.

Almost...this puts it at 4.9...LOL

Let's hope that doesn't become too irrational of a number before 5 is released :)

Lets examine those  "mic modelers" that have come before this one
the Antares, which Larry mentioned, all with all due respect to him, was snake oil
the Waves Kings Microphone really?
Slate has his mic modeler thing but it couples with a real mic..
 
so you can model a hardware compressor/eq/fx cause there is a certain amount of control over the  range 1s and 0s or AC fluctuating signals going thru said real hardware with relation to the modeling..
 
microphones, on the other hand .. so you model the frequency and plot of a highly prized German mic.
with what audio source?
 
I have an 18 y/o chick singer in the studio, or the Bass singer from the Oak Ridge Boys, or a mixed choir, yadda yadda yadda..so I engage the "model" hows it better with my particular source than the Bluebird mic I picked for the singer?
 
Just call me a grumpy old man who is jaundiced

Ham N Egz
Slate has his mic modeler thing but it couples with a real mic..

Mic Room for T-RackS couples with multiple real mics too.  You can use an affordable mic like iRig Mic Studio, or any of the modeled microphones' real-world counterparts (a couple/few are reasonably-priced home studio staples).  Even buying ours or one of the reasonably-priced mics we've modeled + Mic Room at $69.99 will set you back a lot less than the grand the option you mention would.
 
Of course many people would rather have a mic that costs thousands of dollars, and we're certainly not going to replace the massive mic lockers at studios across the world but Mic Room can be an excellent tone-shaping tool for a pretty reasonable price.

Just call me a grumpy old man who is jaundiced

If your skin is unnaturally yellow, you should really see a doctor about that! :)

IK_Multimedia

Ham N Egz
Slate has his mic modeler thing but it couples with a real mic..

Mic Room for T-RackS couples with multiple real mics too.  You can use an affordable mic like iRig Mic Studio, or any of the modeled microphones' real-world counterparts (a couple/few are reasonably-priced home studio staples).  Even buying ours or one of the reasonably-priced mics we've modeled + Mic Room at $69.99 will set you back a lot less than the grand the option you mention would.
 
Of course many people would rather have a mic that costs thousands of dollars, and we're certainly not going to replace the massive mic lockers at studios across the world but Mic Room can be an excellent tone-shaping tool for a pretty reasonable price.

Just call me a grumpy old man who is jaundiced

If your skin is unnaturally yellow, you should really see a doctor about that! :)

rather than Jaded? I guess green is prettier ....
 
I have an eye thingy mic I may look into this then ...
 

bitflipper
Some of you may be old enough to remember a wacky product that used to be hawked on late-night TV, a plastic magnifier you attached to the front of your television to make it look bigger.
 
That's what comes to mind when I think about "microphone modelers".

It's the Ron Popiel Pocket Mic Modeler. "It puts hair on your vocals". When you open up the box it's a can of that baldo, spray on hair. Now I'm just playing around ubiquitous IK guy, I have no reason to think yours isn't a fine product.

No..no...yor thankin of my cousin "Sorry" Buddy Riley. He ain't worth a bucket a spit.

Is it possible to save 70 bucks and get ballpark on plugs like this, by chaining an: impulse generator into a phase filter into a verb? Of course you would have to double the chain, split panning and adjust settings to attempt to emulate different mics and different distances. But just curious, as I can't see how they would be re-treating already captured audio with any kind of spectacular fairy dust?

yorolpal
One fellers snake oil is quite often just not being able to hear subtle differences.

I hear ya.  Or maybe I don't...   
A few weeks back, I was sitting in a friend's home studio, and he was badmouthing the upcoming Mic Modelling thingie from Slate, calling it ridiculous.  I pointed to his Focusrite Liquid Channel and asked him why he thought Focusrite's modelling was credible but Slate's wasn't?  He actually laughed, 'cause he didn't have an answer.