Hi All,
Although this is my first post in quite some time I've used this forum extensively the last few years, so thank you for that!
I recently came across the Clean Console IR in Space Designer. Last night I tried strapping this across my master drum bus. My master drum bus has a bit of compression that the snare excites. The master drum bus peaks at -10 dB on the snare. Strapping the SD with Clean Console as my last insert definitely darkened the sound, and seemed to bring the body of the snare and kick out a bit more. I rather liked it.
However, I noticed that even though I lost a bit of volume, my drum bus started peaking at -4.4 dB instead of -10 dB. I'm a bit confused as to what is going on here. It's almost as if there is some dynamic range expansion going on here, but from my understanding the SD algorithm is completely linear so that can't be. Also, the volume, to my ears, was not so much different, in fact maybe a bit less.
I achieved a similar "effect" with a bit of high-end shelving EQ, but not quite the same. I'd be curious to know if anyone has an idea of what is happening. Maybe I have no idea what I'm doing with Space Designer. Thank you!