Post by zpilot on May 9, 2020 1:02:17 GMT -7
My Strymon Iridium arrived from Sweetwater. I'm impressed. The cabinet IR choices are limited but they are classic ones and I found two that worked fine for me. A Greenback loaded 4x12 for the Marshall and 2x10 Jensens for the Deluxe Reverb instead of the standard 1x12. You can tweak the room size. The real star of the item is the amp simulations. I have only listened to them through headphones. It sounds like what I would expect a mic'd cab to sound like through headphones with a touch of compression at the attack. Actually a good thing. I would expect it to set well in a mix. I played more today than I have in a long time because it was fun sounding like I was actually pushing the amp AND speakers. No need for a transparent pedal to make the amp sound like it was turned up because it really was turned up to the point where it sounded best.
Like some other Strymon pedals you can save a setting as a "Favorite" and A/B between it and the current setting on the knobs so, like my example, I switch from the DR to the Plexi. The only downside is it is cumbersome to tweak the Favorite setting on the fly. After a couple of live performances I would expect to have that dialed in so it wouldn't be necessary. Especially on something like a DR where you don't have that much variation anyway.
The front ends of the amps are FET's so those are not digital models. Even when I have a chance to play a real tube amp I am going to carry this in my gig bag as a backup. You can also use a tube preamp to drive the cab IR's instead of the amp sims. You won't be using your power amp section so I don't know how well that will work. They are going to sell a ton of these.
Like some other Strymon pedals you can save a setting as a "Favorite" and A/B between it and the current setting on the knobs so, like my example, I switch from the DR to the Plexi. The only downside is it is cumbersome to tweak the Favorite setting on the fly. After a couple of live performances I would expect to have that dialed in so it wouldn't be necessary. Especially on something like a DR where you don't have that much variation anyway.
The front ends of the amps are FET's so those are not digital models. Even when I have a chance to play a real tube amp I am going to carry this in my gig bag as a backup. You can also use a tube preamp to drive the cab IR's instead of the amp sims. You won't be using your power amp section so I don't know how well that will work. They are going to sell a ton of these.