CabOne

CabOne is a simple speaker cabinet and booth emulator based on an automated computational concept. Two, parametrized, acoustic models are systematically used to calculate a spectrum of impulse responses valid for various cabinet set-ups placed in different, small, rooms. The purpose of this numerical project is simply to get a kind of 'a cabinet in a booth' response by merging the results from the acoustic analyses based on these models:

• An acoustic near field model (based on a multi physics approach) represents the numerical counterpart simulating the recording process used to get the cabinet IRs.
• A corresponding far field model solves the room acoustic problem, i.e., calculating the transfer function connecting an acoustic source (a radiating cabinet somewhere in a room) and a stationary receiver of the sound.

The development of the models is relying on a pragmatic approach, and to keep it simple only a limited number of speaker cabinet and room related parameters are (initially) implemented.

The intention with CabOne is just to provide anyone who is interested in this kind of numerical exercises a possibility to evaluate the results achieved so far by this modelling concept. So, CabOne is a beta compilation (based on the development version) and should therefor be used accordingly.

The plugin is, from a DAW perspective, treated as any other cabinet simulator out there. As the far field model is a bit too dry and lacks a kind of dimensionality (a penalty for being too simple?), several cabs can be used to suppress this behaviour.

The bass/guitar tracks in the mixdowns are based solely on the output from the plugin; no signal conditioning processes are used to tweak or alter the sounds. The third track is more of a stress test, ten (10) cabs are engaged simultaneously.