Using only the factory IRs (144 Boss + 10 Celesion) there would be 11,935 combinations of any two in stereo (its the sum 154+153+152...etc). Plus any of the 154 individually in mono = 12,089 IR combinations x 8 amps = 96,712 total possible amp and IR combinations in either mono or stereo. If you played each one for one minute, for 8 hours a day, it would take 202 days to get through all of them.
@@veerchasm1 LOL_ Nope, he just understands 8th grade math. You learned this in the 8th grade or somewhere near abouts yourself- if you graduated high school in the US anyway- but like most ppl, you probably don't remember.
Bea wtf?! How do you make EVERYTHING sound so good?!?! You are by far my favorite guitarist and I have spent many a dollar on your recommendations. Well done sir!
I’ve watched pretty much all the IR-200 reviews on RU-vid and am stunned at the features. I’d love to see a video(s) on using it as an audio interface, a cab/mic only solution for a physical amp, and maybe even how to make your own IR.
I got the feeling that cab spread thing could be a great studio feature from a productivity standpoint. To me it seemed like it had the potential to replace double tracking rhythm tracks and then may be used to get the lead to sit perfectly in the mix. I imagine any professional producer would hate it but I can definitely see some use cases there.
Bought one of these because of this awesome tutorial and love it! One thing to keep in mind if you’re using this with headphones, go into the menus and turn off “Surround” on the headphones output. It baffled me for a half hour that when I turned the ambience down or off why I still heard it. Apparently the knob for that doesn’t doing anything if the headphone surround is engaged. If you’re plugged into a board it’s fine but headphones it’s active. Weird…
There are many IR products on the market, but I think DYNAX IR has the best sound. As stated in their product description, DYNAX IR is really fast. When using IRs, the pick attack is sometimes delayed, and it is difficult to add picking nuances, but their IR prevents all of that. It's revolutionary!
Great vid, Bea! Thanks. Would love someone do a video of using this pedal like a real amp....pedals in front. I know you put a fuzz, but I'd like to hear clean channel with a pedal in front or how are the dynamics of the Amps in it. Thank you very much. Loved the video as always!
Any audio product that has an EQ or something that allows you to change the sound, I'd say it demands that you tweak it! IMO it makes it a bit more personal I think... so powerful eq coupled with 100+ cab presets AND the ability to add more if you choose? Hell yes!
Excellent review, great features and I really liked the natural IR. I was almost ready to pre order one, but the high gain settings put me off a bit as were a bit to compressed and lacked a bit of low end warmth. I look forward to hearing some more user reviews once it’s released.
Lots of options to this. With just the cab IRs (282) and amp models (11), you're looking at over 3000 combinations, double that if you go stereo. How many of those 3000+ combos work together is another story to tell.
Rabea - my wife and I are about to start learning guitar and I want to get a decent little modeler for our initial setup. The IR-200 seems ideal for it but it isn’t available until January and I think the demand plus the chip shortages worldwide will squeeze supply pretty hard. BUT, for not so much more money the GT-1000Core is available now. I watched your review of it recently and love it. Question: is the GT-1000Core and IR-200 approximately the same or is the IR-200 better, or is it not better? Thanks
Why the IRs are lacking and have no bottom end is because for whatever reason nobody figured out yet that you also need to have a speaker impedance curve impulse response loader along with the cab ir loader. they should have 2 slots for loading these separate impulse responses. It's what Fractal does and why Fractal feel like a real amp and sounds 10 times better than any competitor out there. We can however do this into a DAW with two instances of Wall Of Sound running one for cab IR and one for speaker impedance IR and it sounds massive
From a Nita Strauss review of it the GT-1000 and GT-1000Core have what you’re describing and she says it makes the unit feel and sound much better than traditional modelers. Boss pulled a rabbit out of their hat with the GT-1000 series. I wonder if the IR-200 is as good.
I’m going with the UA OX Stomp, it’s not a IR loader. It sounds a LOT better, richer & well beyond static IRs, which gave me, almost always, a ‘sterile touch’; I just can’t cope w/IRs, since the days of ‘all in one recreations’ of my L6 POD HD days!
Yes with a TRS loop and the 1 footswitch for toggling between clean/dirty amp. So a pedal that's always on a soon as you plug it in because there's no reason you would want to footswitch it off while playing. And the clean/dirty footswitch would save you the need of an additional drive pedal on a very small board (e.g. nano+ pedalboard). However, I believe such a simple pedal could be done with a fully analog signalpath, just filters and gain. I hope one day Boss does that because why go digital when you don't need to to sound great.
It's interesting how many pedals they've made for the 200 series compared to the 500. I wonder if they've stopped development of 500 series? Also curious as to why they haven't done an RV-200 yet either. The Cab Spread Feature was very cool. Sounded better with the adjust perimeter up.
Been looking forward to your review of this. Have you tried running it with the Kraken Pre-amp and disabling the built-in amps, just using it as an IR loader?
It's not a review, it's a paid showcase. It's very important to understand the difference. I think the problem with using it as an IR box is you would still need a load box between the amp and the IR-200 as I did not see anything mentioned saying this could also function as a load box and it wouldn't make sense since Boss already has a load box IR loader.
@@TheAmberRealm Fair enough, for some reason I forgot the preamp pedal exists. It would be nice to see the result of that as it actually sounds like a cool rig and you just helped me realise the Kraken might be the missing pedal for another pedal rig I've been thinking about, with the main issue being size unfortunately.
The outputs are high impedance so a DI box would be the safe way of doing that. Designed to go into an audio interface. I’ve been trying to dig up the answers to this same question.
This could be really good paired up with one of Boss's DD-200 Delay and MD-200 Modulation Pedals in the loop, a midi controller footswitch and an overdrive or two plus a compressor in front. For a compact pedalboard rig with a huge selection of tones and effects.
It is nice to see more of this type of unit in the $500 range....Headrush has a unit....Humbolt .....and Strymon Iridium.....each has its pluses and minuses.....I am waiting for sound comparison between this boss unit and the Headrush MX5.....both have stereo effects loop....both have aux in and headphones ....if i had to guess....boss will be more "audiophile" sound with the ease of use going to the MX5....but let's see
Yes , great sounding pedal.. I have had two so far!! However Paying £350 for a pedal where the controls are not isolated and you get ground noise issues whenever you use the controls is not on! Imagine if you are not even plugged into this pedal at all.. but its plugged in and the controls are touched and you get noise in your signal. Really incredible that this is not being talked about.
@@thetruthexperiment I think the important point is that other pedals have controls that are isolated so this issue of noise when using controls does not happen. I have probably 30 guitar pedals and its only this IR 200 that causes an issue.
hi, can you please tell me how do normally amplify this pedal? frfr or something like that?does it work with classic amp and cabs, even with amp sims on? thanks
I'm going to replace my GT-100 real soon (been thinking about this for years). Now I have to choose whether I'd get a Helix or just get one of these and put it on my pedal board instead.
updates: I've got a Helix now :). I might also buy this later as a part of my mobile pedal board (both Helix and GT-100 are too heavy for my rehearsal uses).
Probably been said before, but this is clearly built to a price point, and size forms factor. The GT Core has XLR out, and many more bells and whistles. This is for the player that doesn't need that.
Hi Rab... smashed my nose on this video just now (yeah i know is 2 y.o.) ... wanna askyou just one thing: when you start to mess with the "stereo field/spread" in my headphones i hear the "main" guitar sound slightly more on the left side (say about 10/11o.c.) even when you go over noon with the setting (my headphone listening is dead center). Do you noted this?... and if yes... is something about the different cabs selected for the L and R (i.e: one cab on the L is more strong in volume than the R) or about the different L & R mics? I mean... when you say "more large stereo" i imagine something like from dead center to 10% L and 10% R and so on to say 50/50... but it sounds more like a pan pot.
Hi Bea, from Italy! I was curious if in the near future you'll review the Mezzabarba amp, i live near the "factory" so i'm really intrigued on what you think of it. As always great video and tones, Cheers!
Your reviews are always helpful to me! You play "real" music on your guitar. Not some meaningless pentatonic blues thing or anything. Meaningful, musical phrases come from you, even if you are browsing presets. Thanks for the music and reviews.
could this be combined with a victory v4 power amp ? 1)could i use only the preamp of the boss connected to the victory? 2)could i use the cab sim of the boss into the preamp of the victory ? i need to mention that all of those would be connected to a pedal switcher using the 4 cable method so i could have my other pedals in pre or post depending on the patch i select ? and if all that is possible what would be the connections ? the goal would be to use the pedal switcher and for example bypass the boss and only have the victory v4 with some effects (pre or post) and then on another patch bypass the victory pre amp and have one selected from the boss with some of the effects in pre or post too.
Can you get stereo in (pedalboard) and stereo out from the ir-200? Before potentially getting this I would like to make sure I can get the wet effects before this go stereo 👐🏼
Hi Rabea. How do you rate this compared to using a real amplifier and using an attenuator/ speaker sim such as two notes captor? I know you liked the later.
Can you set it up to run the preamp of a model only? As in, pre-amp in a box for a GCX type of rig if you have a high gain amp and dont like the clean channel on it, run this in the amp's effects loop instead for your clean channel.
Can any of the two output be set to "thru" to bypass the pedal to pass the signal to amp(to front, not fx return) ? I'd like to know how to set 1 direct 1 amp output scenario on this pedal.
Not bad, not great… if you want to twiddle knobs all day go for it. As for live nope no way, without midi it’s useless unless you like to tap dance. Since you ask thought I’d give my honest opinion. Thanks for the review. PS I did some more research and found out that it does have midi input/output which wasn’t mentioned in the review. Might be worth a try.
Hi I'd like to know what effects the Ir200 has exactly. I read it has modulation effects such as flanger, reverb and chorus. But what else? I couldn't find this info anywhere!
Im a new user and kind a bit confuse to how to run stereo. Where is ur output A and B goes in this video?? Is it the ir 200 make ur stereo rigs or the time based fx??
To my ears sounds different and more to my liking than the GT-1000. I guess it really is totally different technology. If I already have a favorite pedal board and want a solution that could both easily go direct to front of house or to an FRFR monitor this could serve that purpose I guess.
I am using: FX > preamp > stereo FX > poweramp > cab. Problem is micing it in a live situation (too much other stuff comes bleeding through the mic). I am wondering if I can put the IR-200 in between the FX and the poweramp. What are thoughts on that?
Hey there - great video. I still just wonder: could I use it like an ir loader only and feed it with a line out of a tube amp? Or even send the speaker out of a tube amp through and end in a dummy load?
For live shows would I be able to put this on a pedal board with some basic pedals and go direct into front of house? If I’m using the house backline could I get all my sounds from this? Trying to decide between this and a torpedo cab m
