Cab Lab 4

Powerful IR Mixer and Tools – Now FREE!

Cab-Lab 4 with DynaCab™ makes it quicker, easier, more intuitive, and more fun to achieve great tone, allowing you to customize and mix cabs, mics, and more. An Impulse Response, or “IR” can be thought of as a sonic “capture” — essentially the “fingerprint” of a tone over time. Fractal Audio is known for industry-leading amp modeling, but was also the first to allow installable Impulse Responses in a guitar product. This set a new industry standard. Suddenly, guitarists could to recreate the sound of their favorite mic’d speaker cabs in a portable format, for both studio recording and live performance.

CAB-LAB is FREE. Download Below!

Standalone and Plugin Versions
Cab-Lab 4 comes with both Standalone and Plugin Versions. The Standalone uses your Axe-Fx III, FM9, FM3, or another audio interface so you can select, position, and mix mics while listening in real-time.  The plugin version processes audio in your compatible DAW or host and can be used both to “re-cab” raw amp recordings. Features include a 4-channel IR mixer, plus tools to EQ, align, and more. Cab-Lab can export IRs for your Fractal Audio hardware product, save files to your computer.

DynaCab™ Technology
For decades, artists, producers, and engineers have carefully positioned and mixed mics on guitar speaker cabs in the pursuit of great tone. DynaCab™ replicates this process in a revolutionary way, allowing you to hear results in real-time while moving a virtual mic on a virtual speaker. Compared to previous techniques, DynaCab™ makes it faster, easier, and more intuitive to find the tone you’re looking for without sifting through so many  individual IRs. In fact, the DynaCab system in Cab-Lab 4 offers even more resolution and flexibility than our hardware products, with 360° of placement at variable distances, the possibility of additional microphone choices, and more.

DynaCab Packs
DynaCab Packs are like plugins for Cab-Lab. Each pack contains a “3D” set of speaker IR captures made with multiple microphones. For example, packs might be based on a vintage 4×12, modern 2×12 or boutique 1×12. With a DynaCab Pack installed, you have complete access to the vast array of tones that the captured speaker and available microphones are able to produce.

Find DynaCab Packs at shop.fractalaudio.com

Downloads

Cab-Lab 4 is now FREE! The Standalone/Plugin bundles for Mac OS and Windows are available below.

Cab-Lab 4 for OS X

Standalone and Plugin Bundle
Version 1.00.03 – February 27, 2024 – (.dmg file)
Requires OS X Version 10.13 or newer

Cab-Lab 4 for Windows

Version 1.00.03 – February 27, 2024 – (.exe file)
Requires Windows 10 or newer.
(32-bit version for Windows 10 or newer: Version 1.00.03)

Cab-Lab 4 Manual

Version 1.0 – Oct 10, 2023 (.pdf file) Requires Acrobat Reader or equivalent.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How do I use DynaCab Packs?

After you purchase a DynaCab pack in our store and your order is processed by our team, it becomes available automatically inside the Cab Pack Manager of Cab-Lab 4 when you enter your username and password from our store or the email address and order number. Each purchase may be authorized on up to two computers. Once the pack is authorized it will appear in the top dropdown of each Cab-Lab channel.

Q: What about previously released Fractal Audio cab packs or third party IRs?

Cab-Lab 4 is fully compatible with every Cab-Pack ever sold in our store, and any 3rd party IRs in Fractal Audio or .wav formats. These “legacy” cab packs do NOT appear in Cab Pack Manager, however. To load an IR from one of these packs, simply set the Cab-Lab 4 channel to “Single IR Mode” and then drag your file into the “IR” field or click the Browse button to locate it manually.

Q: Can Cab-Lab 4 load “Factory” Cab IRs directly from a connected Fractal Audio device?
No, factory IRs cannot be loaded into Cab-Lab. However, many of the factory cabs are available for sale in the Legacy Cab Packs section of our store.

Q: Are there more DynaCab packs coming?
YES! We will be releasing many DynaCab packs over time and have also begun to work with 3rd party producers.

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