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MIR 3D RoomPack 7 – Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Overview
Ambience
Reverb Times
Manuals

List

€ 295

List

€ 295

Festival Time

The Grosses Festpielhaus is a significant venue of the Salzburg Festival, one of the world’s most eminent festivals of music and drama. It was built in the 1950s on the site of the former archiepiscopal princely stables according to plans of Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister, with suggestions on the building’s design from famed conductor Herbert von Karajan. MIR 3D RoomPack 7 features not only the fantastic acoustics of its main hall, but also the nearby Karl Böhm Hall, which is set into the rock face of Salzburg’s Mönchsberg.

Overview

Multi-Impulse Convolution Pack for Vienna MIR Pro 3D
Grosses Festspielhaus, Main Hall
Karl Böhm Hall
4 microphone positions each
Augmented directional resolution for third-order Ambisonics

Wide view of a large, empty modern concert hall or auditorium with rows of burgundy seats, a stage with a black Steinway & Sons grand piano, and illuminated acoustic ceiling panels.

Panoramic view of a modern theater auditorium with rows of empty wooden seats, a stage set with music stands and instruments, and sophisticated acoustic paneling and lighting.

Spacious opera house auditorium with rows of elegant red seats, ornate wooden walls, bright overhead lights, and a grand piano centered on the stage with a textured golden backdrop.

Empty theater with rows of purple seats and wood paneling, lit by warm lights.

Grand hall with ornate wooden paneling, a large parquet floor, two-tiered stone staircase leading to a decorative archway, illuminated by multiple chandeliers and natural light from tall windows, featuring a painted ceiling mural.

Grand hall with parquet floor, dark wood paneled walls, two prominent wooden staircases, three large chandeliers, and a high ceiling.

3D audio software interface showing a detailed virtual concert hall with interactive instrument placement and mixing controls.

3D acoustic simulation of the Salzburg Festspielhaus concert hall, showing instrument placements as glowing spheres on stage and audience seating, with software interface controls for mixing and spatialization.

Vienna MIR PRO 3D music production software interface illustrating 3D acoustic modeling of the Salzburg Festspielhaus Karl Böhm Hall, showing instrument placement, microphone configuration, and audio effect controls.

Vienna MIR PRO 3D software interface showing instrument list, 3D venue map of Salzburg Festspielhaus - Karl Böhm Hall with spatialized Drums instrument, and audio mixing controls.

The auditorium of Grosses Festspielhaus with 2,158 seats has an almost square floor plan with a side length of about 35 meters (115 ft.). With a regular front width of 22 meters (72 ft.) and a total width of 100 meters (328 ft.) including side stages, this stage is one of the widest in the world. The reflecting surfaces near the stage are arranged in a funnel-like fashion, resulting in an optimized acoustic “coupling” of the stage house to the hall. Orchestras sound elegant, wide and warm, engulfing the listener in a very natural and balanced way, with instruments still clearly locatable.

RoomPack 7 recreates this hall using an unprecedented amount of 6,400 impulse responses. They were captured with four Ambisonics microphones, alternatively placed in a height of approx. 2 and 4 meters above the ground for a true 3D rendition with spaced layers, and can be used in pairs: front and front elevated, back and back elevated. In addition to the large stage, virtual instruments or any audio signal can be placed on the wings of the stage and even behind the wooden lamellas on each side for creating distant voices.

Roompack 7

3 Tracks

20 Years VSL Anniversary - Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Guy Bacos

Cat and Mouse - Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Guy Bacos

Sacre Excerpt - Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

Jay Bacal

Acknowledgement

This RoomPack contains room responses with augmented directional resolution, improving their spatial mapping in direction and depth. Our first-order measurements were augmented to third-order Ambisonics by Franz Zotter, Matthias Frank and Elias Hoffbauer (University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics) in 2022.

Reverb Times

Grosses Festspielhaus: 1.6 seconds
Karl Böhm Hall: 2.6 seconds

System requirements

MIR 3D RoomPacks require Vienna MIR Pro 3D or Vienna MIR Pro 3D (24). For further details on system requirements, please refer to those of Vienna MIR Pro or Vienna MIR Pro 24.