Space designer help

space designer always sounds ****** once ive bounced out of logic. for one, the reverb is a ton stronger on the final product, and for another, the quality has gone down the toilet- really it sounds awful until i turn it down enough so that its out of the way, but i need it blaring for backups vocals on an r&b song. i think this might have something to do with the dithering but im not sure. i usually set it to pow-r 2. for some reason i dont have this problem when i use the other reverbs, but they dont sound as good in logic. does anyone else have this problem? does anyone know of a way to get better results out of space designer?

i suspect david is right - that it is a summing/phase issue. some of those IRs are very out of phase without giving much stereo width (strange) yet they don't sound too different when you put a dirmixer plug-in on and narrow the stereo field (even stranger).
don't limit yourself to the logic presets. check out the noisevault IRs which you can use with SD. some of these are simply fantastic. here's the link to the lexicon reverbs:
http://noisevault.com/nv/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=29&func=selectca t&cat=7
the PCM91 reverbs are fan-tastic. don't forget to chain reverbs - ie put your source into a studio (logics wooden studio is great) or into a short length plate (such as the EMT250 plates), and then feed that to a deeper reverb for warmth.
your issues sound like a problem you are having elsewhere in your system rather than artistic use of the IR's. i would take david r's advice and check if you are having phase problems somewhere in your outboard gear - or if you have fed something somewhere within logic you shouldn't have.
incidentally - you can check for phase problems by using the correlation meter or the ganiometer.

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