The church was built by its own perishoners over a period of two decades, starting in 1897, delayed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and finally completed in 1911, using stone salvaged from the ruined city itself. To honor the high strangeness that the space seems to evoke, we've enriched this library with a very wide selection of sound designed ambiences, leads, pads, drones and custom effect presets, delving deeply into psychoacoustic and metaphysical aesthetics. The entire hall seems to sing as if one great living instrument. Each time we've recorded there, we've experienced waves of strange synchronicities.

We feel that this space has extraordinary acoustic properties bordering on the mystical. Where the first organ - our “Alpha” Organ - is sweet and silky in its tone, the second - our “Omega” Organ - is thunderous and mighty in its body and energy, with a more powerful blower, larger console and many more pipes. It is arrayed high above the portcullis and Narthex in a mezzanine between the two bell towers. Shoenstein & Sons Organ company of San Francisco. The upper organ, far larger and more elaborate, was built by the Felix F. The console is in the south isle near the side entrance and its pipes are hidden behind the altar with the blower and machinery under the floor of the Apse, allowing the lowest pedal notes to resonate through the floor, seeming to shake the very foundation. The “lower” organ, built by Kilgen Church Organ Company of Saint Louis, MO, was originally water-powered, but has since been converted to an electric blower-driven system.

We’ve captured both instruments individually and together in unison, with multiple microphone types and positions to offer you a variety of aesthetic options.

Each organ offers a distinct contrast to the other and when the two are played simultaneously in unison, the sound is glorious. Alpha Organ features a beautifully sampled pair of pipe organs recorded individually and together at St.

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