Ownhammer off-menu delicacies

[Verne-Bunsen]

I found myself browsing through the Ownhammer website last night, as I often do, when I noticed that using the local search function was returning some results that were not "on the menu", so to speak. Specifically, I found these:

 

4x10 Bassman cab with Eminence Legend 1028P speakers

http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_143&products_id=343

 

1x12 Boogafunk Thiel cab with Electro Voice EVM-12L Classic speaker

http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_144&products_id=344

 

1x12 Boogafunk Thiel cab with Electro Voice EVM-12S speaker

http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_144&products_id=345

 

 

1x12 Boogafunk Thiel cab with Electro Voice SRO-12 speaker

http://www.ownhammer.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=104_127_144&products_id=346

 

$5 each. Perhaps there are more little nuggets in there to be found?

 

I was already putting in an order, so I snagged the Bassman pack to check it out. I'm away from home and I'm waiting on the arrival of my replacement Helix anyway (service issues with my old one...) so I haven't had the opportunity to hear them yet, but I'm looking forward to it. Digging through the file folders it's a different kind of offering from other Ownhammer stuff I have. There are far fewer IRs (75 total in this pack). Instead of the usual smorgasbord of individual mics, there are  just a handful. And instead of the usual OH1, OH2, SP2, etc... mixes, there are Modern and Vintage. Each mic and mix IR is offered as a "Precise" version with perfect phase alignment and a "Raw" version with some phase smearing. It seems to me that this IR pack was built around those mixes and the individual mic files are just the ingredients that went in to making them.

 

I hope someone else finds this as intriguing as I did!

 

[zooey]

I've read that Kevin pulled some older generation IRs off the front page and normal navigation, but it is interesting that search can find them. I bet that's why there are way fewer files. Let us know what you think of them!

[Verne-Bunsen]

I have several of his offerings that have since been discontinued, however none of them came up in a search. Just an error that "No products match your search criteria". So it isn't the case that all products removed still dwell in the background. Maybe he just forgot to un-check a box when he pulled these specifically?

[Guitarmaniac64]

I have several of his offerings that have since been discontinued, however none of them came up in a search. Just an error that "No products match your search criteria". So it isn't the case that all products removed still dwell in the background. Maybe he just forgot to un-check a box when he pulled these specifically?

Hmm some of the IR,s i purchased has ended up in a bundle like the Mesa Boogie 4x12 ST and if i remeber correctly some Marshall cab aswell

 

However i can't find the 1012 Gibson anymore only bought it as we have i Gibson amp in Helix

 

Maybe we should make a list of "missing" OH IR's?

 

I have some very old Ownhammers Nebula version they are also discontinued

Now that Nebula can be runned more "smoothly" than before i really which OH would port new librarys to the Nebula 4 standard.

[Verne-Bunsen]

Hmm some of the IR,s i purchased has ended up in a bundle like the Mesa Boogie 4x12 ST and if i remeber correctly some Marshall cab aswell

 

However i can't find the 1012 Gibson anymore only bought it as we have i Gibson amp in Helix

 

Maybe we should make a list of "missing" OH IR's?

 

I have some very old Ownhammers Nebula version they are also discontinued

Now that Nebula can be runned more "smoothly" than before i really which OH would port new librarys to the Nebula 4 standard.

 

Yeah, the Gibson GoldTone 1012 is one that's gone. Glad I nabbed it when it was around, 'cause I really like it! There is a new 1012 listed, based on a Tyler Amp Works cab with a couple of different speaker combinations. I've got it as well although I haven't spent much time with it as yet. The others I've got that have since been disappeared are the 112 DLXVRB (Deluxe Reverb, evidently superseded by the newer 112 DVRB collection), and the 212 VX30 and VXT (AC30 Top Boost and Extension cabs, presumably superseded by the new Class A Dynamic Duo collection?). None of those come up in a targeted search.

 

Regarding the Nebula stuff, I read this on his FAQ:

"New advancements in the sampling process since those libraries' releases and several excessive and potentially impossible maintenance requirements have rendered those projects not suitable for new sales. New Nebula sampling projects will potentially begin development in 2018 or 2019, depending on the development queue and interest in the platform at that time."

 

http://www.ownhammer.com/faq/

 

I don't know anything about Nebula myself, but it sounds like he hasn't abandoned the platform just yet...

[Verne-Bunsen]

I finally got my replacement Helix ready for action and loaded up a few of these IRs for a test drive. I made a Twin Reverb patch using the Bassman 410 (Raw/Vintage 05) and the Thiel EVM-12L (Raw/Vintage 05) in parallel and man they are tasty! They were both heavy on the low end, perhaps a characteristic of the "V3" series of captures that both of them are from? I rolled in a low cut at 60hz on each. Lots of punch in the cleans, nice and tight with some dirt, I like what they'e doing. Well worth my $5!

[zooey]

Try searching by price < 5 or < 10, some interesting stuff, smaller packages and/or older.