The studio has a long list of big names who have recorded there. So, there’s a lot of music per capita going in Muscles Shoals, and it’s not surprising that they claim to have their own Muscle Shoals Sound. Muscle Shoals is also where the Alabama Music Hall of Fame resides. Muscle Shoals, home to multiple recording studios, probably has the highest ratio of studios to residents of any town in the world. Log into your account at IKM to see what’s on offer for you (or establish an account to get on the IKM mailing list). The list price for FSR is $150 USD, but since this is IKM, there will almost certainly be opportunities to acquire it at a discount if you are patient or you are already an owner of other IKM products. Authorization is done via an IKM online facility that requires no dongle offline authorization is also supported. It is 64-bit only and is available for both PC and Mac in formats compatible with all current mainstream DAWs. We’ll look at the details shortly.įAME Studio Reverb (hereafter FSR) is part of the IKM T-Racks collection.

The effort was a significant success and it’s good to see IKM back with another venture along the same lines: a combination of convolution and modelling that delivers is essential sound of two main studio rooms, five booths, a reverb chamber and a top-of-the-line plate. Two years prior to its release, IKM released an earlier collaboration, the Sunset Sound Studio Reverb (reviewed in SoundBytes Magazine here).

This is a review of IK Multimedia’s recently released reverb plug-in, FAME Studio Reverb, developed in collaboration with that renowned institution.

Sunset reverb