Underwater, kind of.
Sounds take on strange shapes when you run them through impulse responses. They pick up the qualities of whatever space they meet. Usually that’s a room, a hall, a spring tank—something built to echo.
But water doesn’t behave like that.
Impulse responses usually give you the character of a space. But water doesn’t act like a space—it swallows sound instead of reflecting it.
It’s not resonant. It doesn’t decay the way air does. Sound gets filtered, muffled, warped. There’s movement, but it’s not what you'd expect.
For Loveland Frogman, I recorded impulse responses both under and above the surface—mics in the water, mics above the water—then sampled a bunch of things and ran them back through those IRs. Everything was reshaped by the water.
So it sounds kind of low-passed, smudged, amphibious.
40 patches total. Super simple interface: envelope, filters, cassette and bite.
What you need:
A full version of Kontakt 7 and up (not Kontakt Player).
155.7 mb of space on your drive.