| I have a Motherload and a Palmer PDI-03. I've never played with the SPL Transducer, so I can't comment on that.
Along with the speaker response, IRs capture reverb, cabinet resonance, bleed and comb filtering from the unmic'ed speakers, edge reflections, and lots of other nuances that the Palmer and Motherload were not designed to reproduce.
You have a much wider range of possibilities with IRs. Plus, they sound like the cabs and mics you're familiar with because they are sampled using the cabs and mics studios and players use everyday. |