The most prestigious classical music concert hall in the world is captured in stereo and quadraphonic impulse responses.

This magnificent orchestral studio is built in 1952/53 as a box in box construction, where the inner 'box' is suspended from chains from the outer box. It is extremely silent and served The purposes of both communist propaganda and recording of classic music, pop music, big band for the Broadcast of German Democratic Republic.

Mechanics Hall is heralded as one of the four finest concert halls in North America. Internationally regarded by performance artists for its superb acoustics, the Hall also houses a complete recording studio.

The large concert hall of Sydney Opera House is the largest interior venue at the Sydney Opera House. With its high vaulted ceiling and interior finishes of brush box and white birch timber, it is designed primarily for acoustic performances.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Utrecht the Netherlands based popular CD recording venue for Baroque orchestras. The eight sided arena features lots of wood combined with concrete details. Stereo and quadraphonic impulse responses are available, recorded with both omnidirectional and directional microphones.

Here you will find no segregation of ‘producers’ and ‘consumers’, but rather a community of listeners grouped around an orchestra in the most natural of seating arrangements.”

(text (c) Bridget Shield, Trevor Cox 1999/2000)

Festspielhaus Baden Baden - Germany

This is one of the largest classical music venues in Europe. It seats 2500 and it's celebrated acoustics were designed by Karlheinz Mueller. Even without government subsidies, the Festspielhaus has become a regular stop for all the classical music superstars, and has grown to be one of the foremost classical music hotspots in central Europe.

Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden's main concert hall.
The 1300 seat Berwald Concert Hall, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir, is one of the most important cultural institutions in the country, reaching far beyond the borders of Sweden.

Auditorium de Dijon

The hall's acoustics are among the most beautiful of Europe, in part designed by renowned ARTEC from New York, the company that was responsible for excellent sounding Birmingham Opera and Auditorium de Lucerne.

Palau da Musica, Barcelona

The concert hall of Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana is a magical space, conceived and designed as an enormous glass box crowned with a large central skylight. The unorthodox application of surface materials, for instance the tiled floor, sets this hall apart acoustically from other concert halls.

Situated on the Zand, the largest square in Bruges, the Concertgebouw's stunning structure complements the surrounding architecture, lending a spacious element to the city's landscape. The world-class Concertgebouw is a triumph of creativity, form and functionality, offereng two superb auditoria.

Muziekgebouw aan het IJ

A new music building was built on the banks on the river IJ in Amsterdam and was inaugurated by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on 15 June 2005.

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Hardenbergstrasse, UDK concert hall, Berlin

The hall at Hardenbergstrasse has been the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker (under Von Karajan) in the 1960's. Now home of the symphonic Orchestra of the Universitaet Der Kuenste of Berlin, this futuristic looking hall is a fine example of 1950's architecture in Berlin.

Konserthuset Stora Salen

Home of the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, this is the principal place to hear classical music in Sweden. The Nobel Prizes are awarded here. Constructed in 1920, the hall seats 1,600 and is best suited to major orchestras. Besides local orchestras, the hall features visiting ensembles, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Joseph Joachim, UDK concert hall, Berlin

A beautiful intimate brick and plaster chamber music hall in the heart of one of the buildings of the Universitaet Der Kuenste of Berlin, Germany. The room is flooded with daylight in its most wet setting, and becomes significantly dryer when the curtains are lowered.

Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht

The Original Vredenburg Concert Hall is being rebuilt until the year 2012. In the mean time symphonic concerts in Utrecht the Netherlands are held in this completely new Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn hall, also known as the Red Box. The large hall sounds open, warm and balanced, and surprisingly loud for its size and appearance.

Teatru Manoel - Malta

Built in 1731 by Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vihea as a public theatre. In 1950 started a 10 year restauration, and the theatre has been in operation again since 1960.

Opera of Antwerp

This Opera theatre opened in 1907, and was restored in 2007.
The hall seats 1081. For an Opera theater, the reverb time is exceptionally long and therefore the applications for this impulse response include symphonic material.

Theatre le Capitole, Toulouse, France

Le Théâtre du Capitole is one of the most famous operas of France. Operas, ballets, operettas, recitals, chamber music, it's an eclectic place of creativity. With four centuries of history, it is today one of the large international scenes of many art forms.

Halle Aux Grains - Toulouse, France

This majestic building was formerly a market hall for the grain market. In 1974, the place acquires a new use: it becomes the official residence of the Orchestra of Capitole, thanks to the acoustic quality of the building it hosts a broad array of performances: orchestral pieces, operas, ballets, and, occasionally, variety shows.

La Salle de Musique - Chaux-de-Fonds, CH

Over the past 6 decades the major classical labels have turned to this hall as a recording venue many hundreds of times.

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Among recording engineers the modern Philips Hall is known as the finest small auditorium available in the Netherlands. Impulse Responses were recorded with a variety of microphones and microphone setups, including quadraphonic configurations.

This particular room has often been credited as the best chamber music recording venue in the world. It is a top favorite with leading ensembles and soloists - as well as a popular venue for recordings. The perfect setting for all types of chamber music, an ideal size in which to experience the intimacy of chamber music and recital performances.

1913 Schubert Saal (Hall) is the smallest of the three world class concert halls in the Vienna Konzerthaus (http://www.konzerthaus.at). It is intended for small chamber music ensembles, also used in many piano recital recordings.

The interior features an optimum of reflective surfaces to allow for a small gap between direct and early reflections at any listening position. It causes a desirable combination of intimacy and sufficient reverb length in mid frequencies.

Lully Hall, Ghent

The Lully Hall of 1840 is a performance room in the Opera building of Ghent in Belgium. Due to hard flooring and many plaster details the reverb is rich and long.

The Castle of de Haar (http://www.kasteeldehaar.nl) is the largest and most luxurious of Netherlands many castles. The central Main Hall features a large, high damping carpet and lots of ornaments. A beautiful complex, open and asymmetric reverb.

Het Beaufort Huis is a former Gothic church built in 1861 and is located in the forests of Austerlitz in The Netherlands. The ‘church room’ has been rebuilt in order to function as a small theatre and because of its nice acoustics and unique location this venue is very popular.

The Empire Hall samples are of exceptional acoustic quality, and among the engineers favorite of the complete set. They are intimate, reverberant in a smooth manner, and reveal little resonances in the low frequencies.

It's hard to imagine a recording environment more physically beautiful than Allaire. The place is the epitome of the residential studio, in that it offers the best of all worlds technologically and acoustically: a huge Neve tracking/mixing room (the Neve Room) and an even bigger SSL studio (the Great Hall).

Hansa Studios, Berlin - Meistersaal & Live Room

Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located in Berlin and it ranks among the most wanted studios in europe. The spacious Meistersaal and the tight sounding live room have witnessed many legendary recordings throughout the decades by a.o. David Bowie, Depeche mode, Iggy Pop and U2.

Cello Studios, at 6000 sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, is fortunate to have what many people consider to be some of the best sounding large live rooms ever built. Live Room 1 is the large bright room.

Cello Studios, at 6000 sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, is fortunate to have what many people consider to be some of the best sounding large live rooms ever built. Live Room 2 is the tight and mellow room.

Echo chambers 2 4 and 5 at Cello Studios (LA, USA) are legendary ‘artificial’ reverberators built by Bill Putnam. They were used extensively on Beach Boys and Sinatra recordings.

Sound Kitchen - Nashville USA

Sound Kitchen, the Southeast's most prestigious recording and production facility, had two recording spaces to offer to Altiverb's library of acoustics.

Big boy and Studio A are both included.

This is one of those rare places that has produced records in everyone's collection. Samples were made of the spacious, open sounding live room, known from the Live Aid video. And also from studio 2 and 3, read more here...

The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen is the name of the recording studio that Frank Zappa built and used extensively at his home for many of his recordings. The studio was completed on September 1, 1979 and the recording of several songs that were eventually released on the album You Are What You Is began in July, 1980...(more)

Omnisound, Nashville

Among the top of Nashville recording studios is well know name Omnisound. I went there to record their most precious main tracking room one busy sunday to record this set of impulse responses with George Massenburg's Genelec 1032 and our trusted DPA 4006's mounted on the spider.

For over 30 years Westlake Audio (http://westlakeaudio.com/Studios/studios.html), at 7265 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, has been the home of top artists. Studio D is Westlake Audio's signature studio. It features an expansive control room, a lounge and a 1120 square feet tracking room.

Fox Scoring Stage, Los Angeles, USA

The contributions of Fox Music over the last seventy years transcend the field of film and television music. ntroduced by this department are such monuments of culture as "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", "On the Good Ship Lollipop", the score from "Laura" and the "Theme from M*A*S*H". The history...more

The Tracking Room

The tracking room was constructed in the mid-1990’s under the supervision of famed studio architect Tom Hidley.
Hidley’s impressive implementation of German-built “floating floors,” literally created a building within a building and made for impeccable sound quality, drawing some of the world’s most famous artists and musicians.

For many decades the present Teldex Studio Berlin was the home of recording teams from Telefunken and later from Teldec Classics. The studio was also the venue for hundreds of legendary recordings, from classic to pop, as well as the place where revolutionary technical developments, like DMM and DVD-Audio, were accomplished.

Clubhouse is a Word class residential recording facility in a beautiful tranquil region. Apart from the relaxed atmosphere at clubhouse, emphasis lies on the 31 by 29 feet central tracking room. It sounds spacious and lively, and was recorded for this session with minimal damping, resulting in an open, wooden drum sound.

This magnificent orchestral studio is built in 1952/53. This is the smaller of two orchestral radio studios from the former East German Broadcast. For 40 years this was the home base for two symphony orchestras, one string-dance orchestra, one Big Band and one radio choir.

Edison recording, right in the heart of Manhattan is a spacious room that has quite a contained, flat, and evenly distributed room sound. The room has a rich history, but has closed its door as a commercial studio. Right now it is a studio for the private use of the owners amongst which is Lenny Kravitz.

Paramount stage m, Los Angeles

The 4,500-square-foot stage was especially good for 20–65 musicians. Paramount recordist Paul Wertheimer added that he heard some composers describe the room as "warm and controllable," and that musicians liked the fact that, unlike larger scoring stages, "they could hear each other clearly so that they could play (more effectively) with each other."

Ferber studio A and B, Paris France

This is the famous room of Ferber, designed by René Ameline in 1973.
Over the last 40 years close to all famous French artists and also international (like recently Franz Ferdinand, Jamiroquai, Muse, Feist) came here to record and mix.

Todd-AO, Studio City - CA, USA

The Todd-AO stage is historic and is on a short-list of such large facilities in the U.S. Original owner Republic Pictures was awarded a special Oscar in 1945 for building "an outstanding musical scoring auditorium which provides optimum recording conditions.” The Stage earned its position in the 1959 printing of the Audio Cyclopedia. More...

Studio A is one of the largest tracking rooms we have come across in Europe. A massive area with superb accoustics, four isolation booths and a gallery. The history of tis place is staggering. Studio C is the facilities echo chamber.

JET Studio is located in Brussels, right in the heart of Europe. Founded by DECCA RECORDS in 1942, it is the oldest studio in Belgium and one of the oldest studios in Europe. This set contains not only the live room and two iso booths but also the echo chamber and lobby (also used for adding more ambient to recordings).

Fattoria Musica Recording Studios is a residential recording studio facility in Osnabruck, Germany. It is located on a beautiful old farm and is considered to be one of the leading facilities for music production in Germany and beyond.

One of the most prestigious live rooms in the region of Northwest Europe.

Sound On sound Recording, on Manhattans 45th Street, Houses the popular multipurpose larger tracking room Studio A, which caters to top clients ranging from 50 cent to Eric Clapton. The medium to lively sounding 30 by 26 feet studio is supplemented by several iso booths.

Until 1990, the chapel of this national monument was still used as a place of worship. In 1991, the Technical University of Eindhoven carried out an acoustic concept, transforming there premises into a recording studio. It was the birth of Chapel Studio.

Concerts at Tivoli have a capacity of 1000 people. It is considered one of the foremost venues for alternative live music in the Netherlands.
The concert hall was captured in surround using Audio Eases trusted DPA 4006's and Genelec 1037 studio monitor, as well as with Tivoli's own PA system for extra authenticity.

Netherlands Broadcast studio MCO 1

MCO1 is the second largest studio of the Netherlands Broadcasting Music Center and home of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. It is famous for its acoustic qualities and suitable for rehearsals and recordings of ensembles that may vary from a few people to a complete symphony orchestra.

Tonic, NYC, USA

Avant garde and experimental music club Tonic ( 107 Norfolk Street, lower east Side, Manhattan) operates on a curatorial system. Each month, different musicians program Tonic's New Music, Songwriter & Klezmer series. Its performance space was captured in surround using Audio Eases trusted DPA 4006's and Tonic's own PA system for extra authenticity.

Netherlands Broadcast studio MCO 3 & MCO 10

MCO 3 was designed especially to accommodate the Metropole Orchestra. It has been equipped to a very high standard which ensures an optimal performance by the musicians. The Metropole Orchestra both rehearses and records here.
MCO 10 is ideal for solo or group rehearsal. This is the smallest studio of the MCO.

Netherlands Broadcast studio MCO 4

MCO4 is the home of the Netherlands Radio Choir. This studio has been fitted with several acoustically well-balanced panels to enable the best possible acoustics for vocal music.

Trackdown Scoring Stage - Built in 2003, TSC features the latest in acoustic design resulting in one of the finest rooms available for orchestral scoring anywhere in the world.