How To Run Your Pedalboard Direct 

Great info, even 2 years later. I feel like now days you’ll almost always get a great sound, it will come down to other preferences like size, options and price. What a great time we live in!

Great video, tons of insight! Proud to be a Lakeland native with companies like Blackbird around.

Best overview regarding this I've seen! And beautiful playing by Tomberlin. I will sub to his channel right now. :)

This is gold! Been trying to figure out how to use my stereo ambient effects without having to buy another amp! Thank you!

Great Content!! I love to use your pedalboard. Seems like the Iridium is a useful gear connecting my guitar into a op1.

I like the Iridium pedal, best sound I've heard

Was liking the iridium - especially for the rock and roll I like to play and write.

Great and simple video! thanka for help us to get the best sound!

Iridium sounded fantastic!

The HX Stomp is so compatible and versatile. Great Video!

Great clip. Really helped me with the various types of these devices. I have several of the Joyo amp series. Some of the old Digitech pedals have a cab sim d.i out for anyone looking for other pedals that do this.

Love the sound of Iridium.

I use the joyo cab box at the end of my pedalboard, what a good and affordable pedal 👌👌👌

Excelente información, gracias por este vídeo!!!! 👏🏼👍🏼 Yo uso en mi pedalboard el mooer preamp 006!

I currently run my pedals combining Option 1 and 3.

The video I've been looking for :')

The Iridium by far!!!

Thanks for all the great advise I’m using a mad professor super black as my preamp into my strymon flint into a radial direct drive cabs sim/di then to front of house .

Great video! Though I believe the AC Tone does have a built in cab sim. I used one to go direct at church for years!

I like how going direct from pedal/pedalboard just sounded like Black Keys tone!

The Iridium Really Sounded GREAT !!! stereo in and out is a PLUS PLUS for recording

I like the HX Stomp!

Newbie here. Did you plug your pedals straight to audio interface and daw?. Love your videos!

Great video! I'm new to direct recording so pardon the remedial questions... With the Neunaber Iconoclast, I see that you paired it with an overdrive (Blues Driver and Tumnus). - Are these overdrives used in addition to the Strymon overdrive at the beginning of the chain? - What is the purpose of the Blues Driver and Tumnus when you already have an overdrive in the chain? Thanks!

liked the chime the best

This is an excellent video to help lots of gigging guitarist who are great players but needs help on the tech side of things...hello everyone and welcome to the wonderful world of no amp direct connection/front of house 👍

Hey Great video top quality, I have a question kind of related, I'm thinking about buying a Pod go, What do I need to use it at home without an amplifier? Do I Need to have it connected to my laptop to make it work? I know it can be used without an Amp, but what do I need? Thank you before hand!!

Love the video :)

For the money, day tripper and radar is a can't miss.

Many thanks for this video. I own a Blackstar Amped1 (a complete amplifier in a pedal), and I'm satisfied with it when I use it at home with headphones. I tried two times to connect it to a mixer using the onboard cab simulation XLR output. When used in this way, the tone of the guitar is not bad, but the overall sound is thin, too soft, and there's no attack. The output is mono, but the mixer sends a sort of dual mono signal to all the speakers, resulting in something similar to a stereo sound, good for clean, but not so good for crunch and rock (the sound is very wide but thin). Using the provided Blackstar software I removed (from the cab rig simulation) the simulation of the room, and this contributed to having a less wide sound, with some minor improvements. On the mixer the EQ is flat, and the owner of the studio did not find anything strange (a part of the confirmation the signal is split in two mono signals sent to the two speakers), but he's not an expert in this kind of setup. Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong (I had the same feeling in the same studio also using a Torpedo CabM)? Thanks

I have been using the line out channel of my boss micro cube with my pedalboard then into the PA. I mean, it kind of sounded good.

Late to this party, but will share what works for me, for those direct times - my old BOSS DR880 ( yep, drum machine ), there's a "warm clean" 'Fender' amp model in there, tweakable, that takes all your (drive & otherwise) pedals really well, I know , I know, OLD TECH ( COSM ), but it works, just turn the drum vol., and bass vol. all the way down ( duh ), use the guitar input ( duh again ), maybe lower the input volume a bit ( avoid digital clipping ), 1/4" out to PA, mono or stereo. * you can add a touch of 300ms delay as an always on ambience ( sort of like Iridium's room, but different ), no need for a cab sim after the DR880 ( I tried the RedBox, didn't help ), I used this setup for church, soundguy loved it, and recently at a rock n roll jam session - I get all my tones from various drive pedals, set right, that "Warm Clean" preset in there, as said, is very friendly, believable Fender amp 'platform', if you will. I was amazed too.... COSM... who'da thunk it?

Yesss thank you so much! I wish i could record my amp with a microphone but my walls are razor thin and my neighbors would hate me 😭

Thank you guys ! Wich preamp would you consider for a jazz sound...something like Bill Frisels sound ? Merci from France

Nice think you!. But what can i do when i need a fx Loop?. I like the Sound of an Delay before an Drive Pedal also.But i want to have the options . Could you also use Delay after the amp sim? So the delay would not get distorted , right ?

I have an Iridium. I get awesome clean tones from it but I never can get any driven tones that inspire me to play anything. I hear good drive tones on RU-vid but I never have any luck with it. I just need mid gain lead tones for blues type solos and that sorta thing.

The HX Stomp is a clear winner for me

How to get that 65 Blackface Fender Princeton Reverb " Clean " - straight into the P..A.? ( Strymon, Walrus, Quilter, Two Notes, Humboldt Simplifier? ) Great comparison. Very informative. oNe LovE from NYC

So much cool information!

Iridium sounds beautiful! I also like the joyo for an affordable direct input! If i put my drive pedals before the joyo and my delay/reverb after the joyo then go from the reverb to my interface will this act like an fx loop on a real amp?

I haven't used an amp in years the pedal I can absolutely not do without is my boss eq it works on any sound source I plug into it pretty much acts as a preamp and colors mysound anyway I would like it when I was young my first guitar amp was my parents Panasonic stereo system

I noticed the Red Box is the only one that has an XLR out to feed into a mic in on an audio interface. How are you getting the signal from the other modelers into the audio interface? Inline direct box or 1/4 input on interface?

Iridium

The Iridium has enough options without being overly complex, just wish it had reverb instead of “room” knob. Maybe V2…with inflation prices.

Thank you so much for this. A long long time ago I had found on Ebay an old LINE 6 AMP MODELER that I bought mostly because it seemed so beautiful to me LOL!. I had it on my shelf sitting around.... I thought it was a gimmick.....but now I get it. I paired it with a small VALETON CORAL cab sim AND MY MIND IS BLOWN! I had no clue....really. Again thank you. I was told about this but only with your video I finally got it........QUESTION 1: Were do the time based fx go in the chain?....QUESTION 2: Especially if you take in consideration the interaction between the pre amp, power amp and the cab. how important is an effect loop for your time based fx in all in one sims, like the IRIDIUM....(that doesn't have one I think)

He sido siempre de amplis a válvulas de toda la vida, pero desde que tengo el Iridium, ni enciendo los amplis !!!

This answered almost all my direct guitar questions! But just for clarification, when running a cab sim to a mixer, you don’t need to use a di box? I’ve been having a hard time figuring that out.

JOYO's website says that the American Dream preamp also serves as a DI box and also has a cab sim. Does that mean you can plug it directly into a studio monitor and put pedals like OD before it? Although I guess delay and reverb is a problem since it doesn't have an fx loop.

I have the Strymon Iridium running into the Strymon Flint Into my interface and any OD, Fuzz or distortion in front of the Iridium. Simply on a pedalboard into my interface I have great versatility and sound quality.

For the HX stomp do you still have to use a DI box? how are you connecting it to mixer without XLR out? Also does it matter if phantom power is on or off when running direct? is it safe for your rig HX stomp and pedals, if the phantom power is on?

The iridium can go direct without changing your tone? I have an AD/A CabSim, shall i get rid of that and change it to strymon?

I’m a gigging musician and use the styrmon iridium almost exclusively now! the favorite switch lets me basically change amps on the fly. with that said, you can have the greatest set up on the planet and a sucky sound guy can ruin it.

Iconoclast and RedBox sound the warmest. Not sure how much of that is because they used different preamps, though...

Very useful! Can you clarify the chain? Is this the connection order: FX pedals (overdrive, reverb etc.) -> preamp -> IR loader -> DI box -> Audio Interface?

What DI would you recommend with the Strymon Iridium?

Where does the pedal have to go in regards to the chain - at the end? Thanks!

Iridium with Chime Amp sounded best to me!

I have an existential doubt, can I connect it to Seymour Duncan's Powerstage 170? I can tell that it is the amp that I use in conjunction with a 2x12 cabinet. I use analog pedals

so how would i run the moor radar direct out? i already use a revv g3 preamp pedal which i love. i saw the Radar has a 1/4 out....im confused lol

iridium on a 'punch' (marshal jtm45?) setting with Fender guitars... That's the tone.

Wait, I thought you said you were gonna keep the demos consistent across the board? Like using the same pedal board for all the demonstrations, but you switched between multiple different pedal setups throughout.

So for the Strymon Iridium do you still have to use a DI box? Or can I just plug it direct into the PA?

I put a multy effect board threw a line aray pa. & sounds Terrible. But threw the valve amp .of cause is great. Any ideas

all these TOYS are good for running direct yes, but wont give you any stage volume to hear your rig. If the venue has floor monitors in front of each musician (guitarist) AND they can pipe your guitar rig sound through those then yup direct is cool but still limited. Best is still old school with your guitar, an actual worthy amplifier, and a real speaker cabinet with a mic in front that is plugged into the main sound system pa. All this gear is created for alot of folks that dont wanna spend money on a real guitar rig and/or lug around heavy gear and have to actually take the time to set it all up on a real stage. I found this video because i was doing research on cab sim pedals for my studio rig so i watched this. Great information tho...i did learn some tricks !!! And also, I would just use a good effects amp/cab floor processor unit like a boss, line 6 or digitech or a zoom. Plug and play...

My question is to what does the red box house connected? In a home set up. Speakers?

Very great video guys, just one question please, i have the Mooer Two Stones and i use an IR loaded into the Nex Cerberus for the cab. sim. , i'm thinking about a DI BOX without cab. simulation, The point is that i read that an active DI is recommended for guitars with passive pick up but you are using a passive DI here. An active DI needs phantom power or battery, etc...more hassle. Do you think a passive DI vs an active makes all that difference with guitars with passive pick ups ? Thanks a lot.....

Great vid but would have love to hear more variety of tone like jazz, funk, even metal.

You aren't wearing headphones in the video. I presume we at home are hearing the units plugged straight into your DAW but there in the studio what hardware are you listening to the amp sounds on?

What are the foot switches on the HX Stomp at 16:13?

So will these work correctly with my JBL PA?

Buy Nux MG300 or Nux Solid studio.

If I use the daytripper I don't need a DI?

1. How does monitor size affect your tone? 2. Why wouldn't you want an amp? 3. Isn't that part of the whole appeal?

Hi are you using a DI box after your pedalboard?

My buddy uses a Di for his live Double Bass. Sounds better than using a mic amp setup. He uses a Behringer preamp Di.Very cheap. Under 40 bucks

The funny thing is that most of the audience wouldn't care if you went to the distortion pedal straight into the DI box

would have sworn the guy at the beginning of the video was running a Strymon big sky.

I was just wondering what kind of di box (passive or direct?) do you use if you’re gonna plug in your pedalboard straight into the di box without an amp?

I thought the Daytripper sounded the best, it’s a little darker than the rest, which I am always looking for in my guitar signal.

JOYO AC Tone

What are you running this pedal board directly into? Speaker? mixing board? computer interface? because we all know that you still need speakers and a driver for the speakers to deliver the sound, But you show neither. I would think that if I was able to ditch my amp you would show what takes it's place.

The HX was the only one that's sounds useable to me, but it's more expensive than some guys' whole rig ! Line 6 or another brand like SansAmp need to do the mini version of the HX stomp with half the options @ under half the price point. That would be much more valuable for the average gigging player or recording artist. PS : Most these direct options have that cold digital breakup that sounds harsh & ugly - especially in the high EQ. The average guitarist wants warmer sounds - that tube-like gooeyness is still lacking here as a believable option.

I genuinely think the JOYO sounded better than the Strymon!

Compren un afinador !!!

funny but really audience is there to have fun, they don't care about your tone unless they are fellow musicians

" at only $399.00 ...... . 🙄

Strymon should charge the same as the Stomp, then it wouldn't have the stigma of being a price-point lower. Better yet, it should be $100 more than the Stomp.

lol, and all this praise how good it was. Look, not everyone is savvy about DI boxes. THis was basically just an advertisement, DIdnt explain how an actual preamp (original amp head, hardware. not computerized digital, you said hardware, thats not what you were working with as a preamp ( so, maury Povich, that was a lie) ;) lol.... I work with original vintage gear. Shouldve been explained how to connect it. just sayin"

No wonder he uses so much ambience.... Gotta cover that pick swipage and inability to actually play... Sorry that mean but... What Do You Care?!?!