PastToFutureReverbs Alesis 3630 Compressor IR's! Impulse Responses (IRs) WAV

Dry and wet tests, in which the levels were strictly aligned and compared, showed that the change can be enjoyed with an extremely natural sound.

There is no way to know what kind of changes will occur without actually inputting the material. However, there are common areas where it is useful to remove the "digital smell" of the material and to calm the RMS of material that has been unnecessarily squashed and lost dynamics, which amateurs are prone to do.

Also, if you check the hardware’s manual, you will see that you can switch between stereo and independent mono, and between peak and RMS modes, each of which would have made an even better IR library if they had been sampled as IRs as well.

Even in the case of the spatial reverb IR, you know that there is a change in the dynamics of the input source. That change is 100% different from the processing process that the compressor goes through, but it certainly causes a change in dynamics, tone and more.

In other words, such an IR that captures the dynamics and tonal changes that pass through the hardware can be thought of as a "reverb IR with no reverb component".

This is true of any hardware, and even expensive IR-based guitar amp heads utilize essentially the same mechanism. If you input a clean guitar, dynamics, saturation, tone, distortion, etc. will all change.

Whether you consider the sound you get from it to be worthwhile is another matter, but I myself have found some interesting and valuable effects from some IR packs that can make up for certain deficiencies I have felt in the past.