Re: [LAU] placement.

Fons Adriaensen wrote: goes to show to always craft your words very, very carefully if math guys are near.... what i meant is: if you get a standard IR file, it will always include both the early reflections and the reverb tail. i had a feeling that alex was being led on the wrong track by these terms. there are no mythical "long" and "short" IR files. only complete (with tail) and incomplete ones (ideally cut off at some meaningful point, such as before the onset of the purely diffuse tail - which of course isn't precisely defined...) true if the final product is going to be surround. for something that will end up as plain old stereo, i'd maintain that it doesn't make much of a difference. but then again, for POS, the whole exercise is probably overkill. i agree that b-format reverb tails are nice. what i should have said is: reverb tails do not provide localisation cues and will not warrant separate handling for each source.... another problem that might come up is to obtain anechoic instrument samples. i find that a mixture of small-room early reflections created by the room used for sampling and the large target room IR screws up the illusion quite effectively...