Using acoustic guitar IR's

[mark skinner 647]

 Hello , I'm trying to use a Taylor ac guitar IR on a great playing , but not stellar sounding (DI or Mic) thin bodied Washburn. My First time using IR's. I managed to get it loaded into the pro channel Rematrix reverb module. I transformed the sound to something Very usable , but with a Lot of processing. The trouble I'm having is that the IR is So quiet that after I get the tone I want , I have to use a Lot of gain to get the level back up. Is this typical of IR's ? One question I have is , since the IR just looks like a typical wav file , could it be imported to a track , boosted  then exported to an IR folder?  Since the reverb module only has the wet/dry slider it seems like I could get it done without so much volume loss.  I might be just going about this the wrong way .. ?    Thanks for any direction..       mark

[Tim Smith 480]

Have you tried putting the IR in a send channel and sending the guitar to it?

[mark skinner 647]

I just found a 2019 post from  @msmcleod loading an acoustic guitar body IR into TH3. He loaded 2 IR's in and still had to crank up the TH3 output. I'll give that a try also.      ms