Impulse cabs can lose some of the live feel no matter what equipment you use or how you place a mic. It will always be that way; it is a simple matter of physics. The aim of Cab Enhancer is to return the that live feel to your impulses.

In Terms of Cab IR

To Illustrate how the CabShaper will help out, we’ll use the example of a snare drum. When you hit a snare drum hard or soft the sound of that snare drum changes with the velocity of the strike. These tonal changes occur with speakers too, albeit to a lesser degree. So, it is these tonal/resonant changes that are missing from an IR file. Use of our new EAR (Enhanced Audio Resonance) technology puts them right back in.

This loss, on the other hand, does not occur when you are recording with mic’d amps. EAR Reads how hard or soft you are playing and resonates certain frequencies based on speaker type. Unfortunately, we are still defining speaker sizes with it, but in future versions of EAR you will be able to select your speaker type and size from a list. So for this version, we’ll ask that you simply turn the dials until you like the sound…

In Terms of Live Mic’d Cabs

You could use a small amount of EAR to enhance the punchiness, but using too much of it in this scenario will not help. What CabEnhancer does in this regard is allow you access to an extra EQ and 2 filters, plus a widener – so it doesn’t perform any type of “magic” but does contain the tools required to better craft your sound, including a noise gate. One of the filters could also be used as a hiss eliminator, and then you could use the EQ to boost the high end that was removed from the Filter.

As a Cab Emulator

This is almost identical to the previous version of CabShaper, but with enhanced low end rumble. The EAR and Filters can also be used with this as you would when using Cab Enhancer with an Impulse Response file.

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System Requirements

These requirements are what we've found to be a 'usable' environment for our plugins. By 'usable' we mean they run fine with low latency and acceptable CPU usage. Anything higher than these requirements will hopefully have you running things smoother than a sanded-down P. Diddy. Covered in silk. Or something …

• Pentium 4 Single Core 3GHz Processor or above
• 1GB RAM or above
• 100MB Free Disk Space
• Windows XP SP3
• WDM Capable sound card with ASIO4ALL, Or a Sound Card that natively supports ASIO