Question about the POP Mode and Dry Solo functions

[Tchem]

I want to use MIR 3D only to introduce early reflections and will use another plugin to create the reverb tail. So, I have a couple of questions:

1. The POP Mode prevents the volume from changing when I move the instrument further back in the room, but does this also affect the early reflections, or do they change as I move the instrument around in the room?

2. Does the Dry Solo button remove the reverb tail from the room while leaving only the early reflections intact?

Depending on the answer, I think the best way to approach this is to use POP Mode, so I can control the volume affected by distance in the DAW mix, and activate Dry Solo to capture only the early reflections. That way, I’ll place all my libraries in Close MIC. I mostly use Cinematic Studio and Cinesamples libraries.

[Dietz]

@Tchem said:
The POP Mode prevents the volume from changing when I move the instrument further back in the room, but does this also affect the early reflections, or do they change as I move the instrument around in the room?

Of course different positions will trigger different IRs, so the sound of the early reflection will still change, but in Pop Mode there is no distance-dependant scaling of the instrument's volume.

@Tchem said:
Does the Dry Solo button remove the reverb tail from the room while leaving only the early reflections intact?

No, Dry Solo means just that: Dry. 😊 All positioning and pre-processing for the dry input signals will be applied (IOW: don't misunderstand it as Bypass!), but no IR will be added to them.

The only way to hear nothing but the early reflections is to use MIR's Reverb Scaling feature and to reduce the reverb to a meaningful value by ear - most likely something around 0.2 to 0.3 seconds:

HTH!