Version II of the popular reverb plugin has arrived as a standalone product with dual reverb engines, 3D source positioning, and 336 stereo impulse responses captured from one of music's most storied studios.
If you’ve ever wanted to mix inside the iconic Hollywood studio of the same name, this is about as close as it gets. IK Multimedia has launched Sunset Sound Studio Reverb II – a significantly expanded standalone version of its T-RackS plugin that goes well beyond a simple update.
The headline feature is IK’s proprietary Volumetric Response Modelling technology, or VRM. Rather than static convolution, the approach most reverb plugins rely on, VRM captures how a room actually responds to position, direction, and acoustic setup. The result is a reverb that moves and breathes rather than sitting passively behind your mix.
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Version II covers all three of Sunset Sound’s legendary studios, with up to 27 distinct live room source positions per studio. Crucially, each position was captured as a unique acoustic event rather than being mathematically interpolated, which preserves early reflections and spatial perspective in a way that interpolated IR libraries typically can’t. Studios 1 and 3 also feature variable dampening modelling, letting engineers adjust absorption characteristics and reshape decay, which mimics the studio’s own adjustable acoustic panels.
Two fully independent reverb engines run in parallel, which opens things up considerably. You can combine live rooms, chambers, iso booths, EMT plates, and AKG spring reverbs, each with its own EQ, stereo control, and routing, giving the plugin a range that goes well beyond room emulation into spatial production territory.
When it comes to size control, rather than simply scaling decay time, Sunset Sound dynamically stretches or compresses the impulse response from 0% to 200% while preserving the original capture’s tonal character and spatial behaviour. Tightening a large room or expanding a smaller space into something cinematic can be done without losing early reflection detail.
Rounding things out, two console signal path emulations are included – the API/DeMedio Sunset Sound Custom and the Class-A Discrete NEVE 8880 – adding harmonic depth and tonal character drawn from the studio’s own vintage gear. The library itself comprises 336 stereo impulse responses from the live rooms alone, a dramatic step up from the original version.
Existing T-RackS Sunset Sound Studio Reverb users receive an automatic discount at checkout. For more information, head to ikmultimedia.com.
