Creating acoustic IRs the easy way with Vic's IR Generator

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We've talked about Acoustic IR pedals (like the Tonedexter, Fishman Aura, and Nux Optima Air) here before, and I personally use one for situations where I need a good amount of volume without feedback. But I recently found out that you actually DON'T need one of those fancy pedals, and really anything that can load an IRs does the job. There are plenty of cheaper solutions out there, like the TC Electronic Impulse IR Loader pedal or my personal new favorite, the $65 Sonicake Pocket Master.

That does leave the complication of having to record your own IR profiles on your computer to load on there, which the fancier pedals handle natively. Previously there was a very convoluted way of doing it yourself by recording them in a DAW and trying to figure out how to run Cuki's IR Generator. After a few run throughs of this draining process, I decided that someone should make a simple drag n drop web site to do this processing for you.

Visit this website: Vic’s IR Generator. Note that this site is hosted on a free tier on Render, so might take a bit to load for the first time (50 seconds or so). Once loaded, you can drag and drop your source wav files and it will spit out your IR file, along with a handy graph (see below) showing how accurate it is!

Hope this is useful to folks and let me know if you have any suggestions. See this for a more in-depth guide.