# Mercury & IR-1 users... Were you aware IR Live is a unique plugin?

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**Category:** Music Production\
**Created:** [June 25, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/mercury-ir-1-users-were-you-aware-ir-live-is-a-unique-plugin/5569 "2022-06-25T10:16:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![JunkyardSam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.waves.com/junkyardsam/32/2178_2.png) [@JunkyardSam](https://forum.waves.com/u/JunkyardSam)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/mercury-ir-1-users-were-you-aware-ir-live-is-a-unique-plugin/5569/1 "2022-06-25T10:16:44Z")

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I’m a big fan of Waves IR-1 ever since a YouTube interview with Andrew Scheps interview turned me onto it. However, the UI is more functional than fun, and it’s definitely one of Waves’s older UIs.

What I never noticed, though, was Waves IR LIVE. I assumed that was just a CPU/latency reduced version of IR-1 or IR-L but no! It’s a specific plugin intended for live use — with its own unique UI. Check it out if you’ve never seen it:

[https://www.waves.com/plugins/ir-live-convolution-reverb](https://www.waves.com/plugins/ir-live-convolution-reverb)

It’s a simplified version for sure, and it doesn’t have the “decorrelation” setting which Andrew Scheps was specifically a fan of — but it’s easier on the eyes and reduces the controls down to the basics. I love it, and it’s a goto reverb for me.

It also shows zero latency in my performance meter, so that’s a big plus for people who are sensitive to PDC latency and want to use the reverb during composition.

Anyhow, if you’re a Mercury owner it’s possible you have this installed and never tried it. Give it a spin and see if you like it.

PS. I may be pointing out the obvious, but Waves has a 4.5 gig impulse response library for IR-1, IR-L, and IR-Live and it has a ton of outstanding reverb convolutions. Definitely download & install it if you haven’t yet:

[https://www.waves.com/downloads/ir-convolution-reverb-library](https://www.waves.com/downloads/ir-convolution-reverb-library)