Hear TG Spaces

One piece of music, put into eight different places. Choose a space, choose whether the sound going in is mono or stereo, and press play.

Every clip starts with a few spoken words naming the space, so this can be worked through by ear without reading the page.

The music is "A Beautiful Soul" from the album Drifter, and none of these rooms were recorded — each one was built from a model of its acoustics.

What to listen for

Dry against anything else. The dry clip is the music with no plugin on it at all. Everything else is the same twelve seconds through a room.

Mono against stereo. The mono setting sums the music to one channel before it goes in, which is what happens to a vocal, a bass or a single mic. The room still comes back in stereo, because a room is not a mono thing — that widening is the room, not the source.

Open field. Almost nothing comes back. There is a ground reflection and then silence, because a field has no walls. Most reverb plugins cannot do this at all, since there is no room to have recorded.

PA in a bar. Not a room around the music — a loudspeaker playing it, on a bracket, aimed across a room, with the speaker's own response in the way.

Cathedral. Eight seconds of stone. Listen past the end of the music.

Get it

TG Spaces is free for Windows, as a VST3, tested in Reaper.

Download it and read the details