INT-Spaces
Pick a space by looking at it, and your sound is in that room.
Hear it
Before and after
The same take, with and without the plugin. Switch between them while it plays: nothing cuts and you do not lose your place.
It is a generated test voice, not a recording: that way you hear exactly what the plugin does and nothing else.
What it looks like
What it looks like
How to use it, in a minute
Pick it by looking
Other reverbs give you a list of cryptic names. Here every space is a drawing you recognise at a glance, ordered from smallest to biggest.
What it really does
If you clap once in a cathedral and record what happens next, that's its sound fingerprint. This applies that fingerprint to your audio - so it doesn't sound like a generic reverb, it sounds like that place.
Where to put it
In a mixer slot. On a single track it puts that instrument in the room; on the master bus it puts the whole mix there.
One control is enough
Amount is how much of the space you hear. A little (15-30 %) puts the sound in the room; a lot makes it an effect. At 0 nothing is touched.
If the mix gets muddy
A big space adds bass that piles up. In More options there's a low cut that trims the bass out of the space only - your original sound keeps all of it.
What it does, in one sentence
It puts your sound inside a place: a booth, a bathroom, a wood room, a chapel, a cathedral or a stadium. You choose by looking at a drawing, not by reading cryptic names.
Why it isn't a list of cryptic names
Every other plugin of this kind hands you a list of cryptic names: "Hall 3 Large B", "Plate 2 Bright". To choose, you have to audition them one by one and remember.
Here every space is a drawing, and they're ordered from smallest to biggest. Nothing to learn: look and pick.
What it does under the hood
If you clap once in a cathedral and record what happens next (the echo, the tail, how it fades): that's the sound fingerprint of that cathedral. Applying that fingerprint to your vocal makes it sound as if you'd sung it there.
That's why it doesn't sound like a generic reverb: it sounds like that place.
Where to put it
It's an effect: it goes in a mixer slot.
- On a single track: puts that instrument in the room. This is the usual case.
- On the master bus: puts the whole mix in the same place. Use a small amount (10-20 %) or everything turns to mud.
Put it last in the chain, after your compressor and EQ.
The only control you need
Amount: how much of the space you hear.
| Value | What happens |
|---|---|
| 0 % | The audio comes out exactly as it went in. |
| 15-30 % | The sound sits "in the room" without anyone noticing an effect. |
| 50-100 % | Now it's an effect: the sound is far away, wrapped in the space. |
The six spaces
| Space | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Booth | Just a little air. Stops a very dry vocal sounding like a demo. |
| Bathroom | Short and bright, with that tiled slap. Good for percussion and vocals with attitude. |
| Wood room | The most versatile. A medium wooden room: works on almost anything. |
| Chapel | Long, soft tail. For sustained vocals and things that breathe. |
| Cathedral | Huge and dark. For pads, beds and endings. |
| Stadium | Very spread out with a distant slap. For effects and big moments. |
More options
Low cut: trims the bass out of the space, not out of your sound.
A big space adds bass that piles up and muddies the mix. Raise this and the space gets lighter and clearer, while your original sound keeps all of its bass.
If the mix clogs up when you add space, this is the fix: push it to 200-300 Hz.
Tips
- Vocal up front but not dry: Wood room, Amount at 18 %, Low cut at 180 Hz.
- Distant backing vocals: Cathedral with Amount at 60 %.
- So it doesn't fight the lead: put the space only on the backing vocals and leave the lead dry. The contrast makes the lead sound closer.
- With the other plugins: INT-Tidy → INT-Even → INT-Whisper → INT-Spaces. Space always goes last.
About latency
This plugin needs about 43 milliseconds to work, and it tells your DAW, which lines the track up automatically. You don't have to do anything, and you won't notice it while mixing.
That latency isn't an oversight: it's what lets it do the maths in big blocks instead of tiny pieces. Without it the plugin would burn five times the CPU: 23 % of a core instead of 4 %. For a space that trade is free; for a compressor it wouldn't be.
The one thing to watch: if you sing while monitoring through the plugin, you'll hear the delay. Take it off (or bypass it) to track, and put it back to mix.
If your DAW has delay compensation switched off, turn it on.
Download
Get it with the pack
The six plugins come in a single installer, and you can untick the ones you do not want.
Download the packVersion 0.9.1 · 9.4 MB · Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
FAQ
If something isn't working
It doesn't show up in my DAW.
Rescan your plugins. Look for "INT-Spaces" in the effects list.
I can't hear the space.
Check that Amount isn't at 0.
The mix got muddy.
Raise Low cut, or lower Amount.
The tail gets cut off at the end of the song.
Leave a couple of extra bars at the end of the project: the cathedral tail runs for several seconds.