boyce89976
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Over the past few weeks I've been trying to convert my main presets to DynaCabs, while trying some different IR's for a makeshift Matchless ESD cab. I used my latest DynaCab preset live a couple weeks ago. Sounded great at home, felt great... noted I had to increase amp level about 2dB to match my other presets.
Get to the gig, and between sets our FOH guy came up to ask if I was running more compression than usual (he makes his living as a recording engineer... great ear/knows his stuff). I said, no, why? He said, "I'm having trouble controlling your dynamics out front. Usually, I can set your fader and hardly have to touch it, but today I'm having to push you more than usual and pull you back more... I'm riding your fader way more than usual. Normally, you control your dynamics and I don't really have to think about it".
The only change I'd made to that preset was going to DynaCabs. Since then I've noticed some perceived compression differences between stock IR's as I try to construct a Matchless ESD cab. For example, the 4x12 Beatle A51 IR's seem significantly less compressed than the 4x12 Beatle 414 IR's.
I figure it's the IR's impedance interaction with the amp, and the way the amp's speaker compression/speaker drive settings are interacting (none of which was changed when changing from IR's to DynaCabs). Would love to hear some thoughts on this, as I've always thought IR's themselves are immune to compression.
Over the past few weeks I've been trying to convert my main presets to DynaCabs, while trying some different IR's for a makeshift Matchless ESD cab. I used my latest DynaCab preset live a couple weeks ago. Sounded great at home, felt great... noted I had to increase amp level about 2dB to match my other presets.
Get to the gig, and between sets our FOH guy came up to ask if I was running more compression than usual (he makes his living as a recording engineer... great ear/knows his stuff). I said, no, why? He said, "I'm having trouble controlling your dynamics out front. Usually, I can set your fader and hardly have to touch it, but today I'm having to push you more than usual and pull you back more... I'm riding your fader way more than usual. Normally, you control your dynamics and I don't really have to think about it".
The only change I'd made to that preset was going to DynaCabs. Since then I've noticed some perceived compression differences between stock IR's as I try to construct a Matchless ESD cab. For example, the 4x12 Beatle A51 IR's seem significantly less compressed than the 4x12 Beatle 414 IR's.
I figure it's the IR's impedance interaction with the amp, and the way the amp's speaker compression/speaker drive settings are interacting (none of which was changed when changing from IR's to DynaCabs). Would love to hear some thoughts on this, as I've always thought IR's themselves are immune to compression.