Bruce Botnick comments on Impulse Responses from Ernest Cholakis
The Nov/Dec issue of TapeOp magazine includes an interview with Bruce Botnick. Among many other projects he worked on all of the Doors albums, Jerry Goldsmith, and the Beach Boys Pet Sounds Album. He was talking about having to recreated the sounds of the echo chambers they had used, for a surround release of their back catalogue. He uses Altiverb and had this to say:
"The best impulse responses I ever heard are from Pure Space [Classical and Mystical Reverberation Impulses]....Ernest Cholakis out of Canada is the genius/mad scientist who listens to music. He's mathematically figured a way to eliminate all of the electronics from the sample. They sound extraordinary. An acoustic room-it blooms. You make the sound and then it [snaps] responds and the room does it's thing. The majority of the digital reverbs are very linear and they die off, but Ernest's samples are extraordinary. I've got one that I think sounds super close to chamber four at Capitol, which is *the* chamber."
