Big Man Labs Big Loader v1.0.0BIG LOADER | An All-In-One Reverb IR Loader. Big Loader convolution reverb, showing the impulse waveform, shape controls, reverb EQ and the wet and dry faders

Big Loader is an all-in-one reverb IR loader. Load a plate, a spring, a hall or a room you captured yourself, then shape it into the space your mix needs without leaving the plugin. Trim the impulse, stretch it, set its decay and damping, and balance the early reflections against the tail, then finish the reverb with width, a four band EQ, chorus, drive, ducking and a gate. A built-in browser keeps your whole IR library a click away.

Convolution reverb features
What Big Loader does with an impulse once it is loaded.

Any impulse, at the same level
WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG and MP3 at any sample rate, in mono, stereo or four channel true stereo. Every IR is matched in level as it loads, so you can audition a whole folder without riding the fader.

Reshape the space itself
DECAY lengthens or shortens the reverb relative to the impulse’s own decay without changing its tone. HI DECAY damps the top end the way soft furnishings do in a real room. STRETCH resizes the whole space, with pitch following the way it would on varispeed tape.

Early reflections and the tail, apart
SPLIT sets where the early reflections end and the tail begins. EARLY and LATE then set each one’s level, so a hall can become a tight ambience, or a room can lose its walls and simply bloom.

Trim, delay, reverse
Drag the tabs on the waveform to trim the start or the tail of the impulse. PRE DELAY holds the reverb back by up to half a second to keep the source clear, and REV plays the impulse backwards for reverse swells.
Width and EQ on the reverb alone

WIDTH narrows the reverb all the way to mono or spreads it wider, and a four band EQ with bell, shelf and cut shapes keeps the mud and the fizz out of the tail. Neither one ever touches the dry signal.

Chorus and drive, before or after
A multi-voice chorus that wanders rather than sweeps, and a tube-style drive that goes from warm to openly distorted. Put either one before the IR to feed the reverb a moving or saturated source, or after it to work on the reverb itself.

Ducking and the gate
DUCK pulls the reverb down while the dry signal is playing and lets it swell back in the gaps. The gate opens on the dry input and holds for as long as you set, for the classic gated drum sound from any impulse.

Zero latency when you need it
LOW LAT runs with no latency at all, for tracking and playing live through the reverb. HI-QUAL is the efficient engine for mixing, and reports its latency to the host so everything stays aligned.

Your library, one click away
The built-in browser keeps your IR folders beside the plugin with search, tags and favorites, plus four factory IRs to get started. The impulse is saved inside your session, so projects open with the right reverb on any computer.