Did you post the results anywhere? My favorite in order, with my guesses in parenthesis: Option B (York) Option C (GGD) Neural Stock IR Option A (OwnHammer) I’m not sure which mics were being used for each capture, but Option A had a lot of the whistling frequencies that stand out from captures with a 421. Option C was the most “open” sounding with a pleasing top end but Option B was more balanced and wasn’t so prominent in the mids like Option C was, and it definitely sounded the best in solo.
Hey mate, Thanks for the comment.. No results given out so far but i can let you know now.. All IR's were using a SM57 generally located on the end of cone match location on the stock ir. Clean Examples Option A - York Audio - Vox VX30 2X12 BLUE (Alnico Blue Speaker) Option B - Ownhammer - Vox 2X12 VC30 - M25 (Celestion G12M-25 Speaker) Option C - GGD Zilla - Ported Cab - (G12 Creamback) Rhythm Examples Option A - OwnHammer - Marshall Mode 4 - 4X12 Cab - V30 (Celestion Vintage 30MF speakers) Option B - GGD Cali - Mesa 4x12 - Smooth Cab - V30 Option C - York Audio - Orange 2006 4X12 - ORNG 412 V30 (Celestion Vintage 30) Hopefully this helps (ive tried to keep the names similar to products names so they can easily be found) - My take on them was really that the GGD Ported Cab had a lot of unwanted whistling frequencies but had the largest range of High and Lows. York Audio was my favourite Vox. For the Rhythms, the Orange Cab just had that unique magic to it that suited the tone the best. You cant go wrong with any of the IR's for the Rhythms though, more so just a choice of flavour. Overall - York Audio seem to be the IR's id start with.
Thank you for the in depth answer. Admittedly, I was referring to only the rhythm tones and completely skipped over the cleans. Happy to see I wasn’t too far off with my guesses in that context. I really like how easy it is to blend different cabs with GGD, even across different packs or with other ir’s like the Catharsis ones.
i would suggest playing the in the mix options back to back without pauses and then the isolated options back to back. when you go from one that's isolated to another one in the mix it makes it very hard to compare because they didn't vary greatly enough for a lot of consideration.
Appreciate the feedback. After I made the video I definitely thought about this. Part of what I wanted to show was how little it mattered between all of them in a mix (because they are all high quality IR’s) But yeah back to back isolated and mix versions would have been more telling. Cheers!!
