I'm not Cliff, but I believe that a reference IR is the inverse of the signal chain minus the mic and cabinet thus removing things like the power amp which would influence the accuracy of the IR.
Of course I could be wrong because I am not Cliff Chase, but it sounds good to me.
Glad that sounds good to you, but it makes no sense to me.
Are you saying that after Cliff takes an IR of a signal chain that includes a cab + mic he then takes an IR of just the power amp that was used and has some way of subtracting that from the original IR in order to get a more accurate representation of the sound of the mic + cab alone?
So Cliff will supply these inverse power amp IRs with the IRs sold in future Fractal Cab Packs?
Is that the gist of it?
Will there also be inverse IRs of the mic pres?
And the new CabLab will have the ability to subtract IRs from each other as well?
So if shoot we our own IRs, we'll be able to take an IR of our power amp - and the new CabLab will allow us to subtract it from the original IR?
I've never really understood how to record an IR of a mic, because the mic's response is so dependent on proximity, but doesn't Cliff also have IRs of the various mics used in the mic sims in the Cab Block and if so, we should be able to subtract these as well in order to get an even less coloured speaker IR, no?
[How does one take an IR of a mic?]
Am I anywhere close with any of this or am I just making things up?