The volume of the compressed and uncompressed file

  1. The 2 files ‘should’ be the same volume ? are you recording mono on the studio side ? I don’t see how one could be distorted and the one not ?

  2. The reverb in Performer is local to the performer ONLY - personally I’d like to see some improvements to the way FX are monitored. If you need to hear reverb you could use the inserts in the performer app ? Obviously reverb would be recorded. As you are using “pro” you could set up multiple recording buses on the performer and record DRY on the performer end whilst monitoring WET on the stereo ‘compressed’ feed back to nuendo/cubase (if that makes sense ?)