TC Electronic IMPULSE IR Loader | Deep Dive 

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I love that you have a Captor 8 in your chain because this setup is damn near exactly what I'll be using, signal chain-wise. Thank you!

The fact that this has snake on it and is a pretty cool speaker emulator sells it for me.

This is the video that sold me. Far better than the TC release video!!! Thank you so much bro!!

I like it. Small and simple. It seems to have everything on board I would need. I really like what it does for acoustic guitar too. Sounded spectacular. Great review.

A very good review, simple, clear, no boring long playing. All informations that are needed to understand. I would buy at once - but not avaible at the moment.

I just bought this pedal. I can't wait to test it out this weekend.

Your content is a gift! I love T C products you have enlightened me about so many aspects of my plethora X5;-) I ordered it when it was first announced and waited forever. So much potential and you have opened the way. Thank you

Excellent video explaining the features 🔥 I was going to use the pedal to create mixes with a blend of guitar plugins and distortion pedal + IR tracks.

Thanks for your review, really good!

Thanks for a great review. I've got a pedalboard that I use live. Usually, it is sent to a PowerStage 170 > 4x12 cabinet. But I'd like to be able to go direct to the house board at clubs when needed, or to a flat response powered speaker, so I don't have to carry a heavy 4x12 every time. I think this pedal is what I'm looking for to make it work.

Great presentation!

Game is most important !!!! great rev.

Great, as always ... 👍

Great Review my friend. I subscribed!

Good video nice work !!

Please do this vs Mooer Radar. Many thanks man.

Great vid. Straight into the info. No yada yada yada!

thank you , this was verry usefull for me

good vid m8 , Bang on

amazing thanks for sharing😀

Thanks for the extensive demo 🙌 !! And now: goodbye to a truckful of cabs...?? 🤔😵🚚🔇

I'd love to see how this works in the effects loop of the plethora. Then one could map the effects loop to a spot on the board using any desired effect pedals. In this rig set up, it might be smarter to use a distortion at the beginning of the chain rather than in the effects loop with the IR loader.

Well.... What a cut pedal.... Great video, again 😊

Its also exactly the same enclose and interface as the new Ditto+ Looper just with a red paint job.

Emily Hopkins needs to try this pedal!

Does someone know about the latency of this pedal?

I'm so impressed, and don't even know what an Impulse Response is. Must research.

... if only for your sense of humor (wish more reviews were done this way!).

With the software, can you blend/mix the raw signal and IR signal? Say I want 50% of my original acoustic pickup signal to come through and 50% IR signal processing?

I'm looking forward to trying it out with some 3 Sigma Acoustic IR's... they have versions that are 'tuned' for using an electric guitar (Humbuckers, Singlecoils, etc.) as the source for the IR's.... no need to take the acoustic for that *one acoustic song* anymore 🙂

GameChanger pedal and video! Enjoyed it a lot! Instant like and sub. So it's not just for cab IR's I hope, right? Can I load my fave guitar tone?

Great review.! Is it possible to adjust the level of the IR? Ex. 70% IR and 30% raw input?

This video was so helpful. Thank you for making. I am going to be using this to play Worship music at my church. My pedal rig is as follows. Martin D-15 into Boss Tuner, SP Compressor, MXR Analog chorus, Oceans 11 then to Amumu Glorifier Acoustic pre/DI. Where do you think the placement of the Impulse needs to be?

Question for you. So maybe 2 or 3 drive , preamp, etc pedals before the TC IR pedal but then do you put delay and reverb or modulation pedals after it before going to your audio interface or FOH ?

Hey. Great review! Could this device be placed in an effects loop on a Quilter Superblock US pedal amp , setting the Cab Sim to FRFR? Seems like it would be a great way to expand that amp. - Thank you!

I had no idea Daniel Lanois had a twin! 😉

Great video man ! What is the signal chain when recording exactly? Can you just plug your head directly into the pedal then the pedal directly into your audio interface? Or do you need some kind of di loadbox? Can't seem to find the answer nowhere

Hi, thx for the video! In the 1st example, I see it works fine and that's how I ' d like to use it.. But the output of the Captor is balanced and the input of TC is unbalanced,right?? Are you going straight into the DI of the interface??

Excellent video. I am looking for a cab simulator, mainly for recording into a DAW (likely using an analog mixer patched between the IR pedal and the DAW). Are there any other IR Cab Pedals I should consider before buying one? Again, very detailed excellent video. Thanks. Phil NYC Area

This looks great! I've been using IRs for years. Good to see TC doing it! I have nerdy technical questions. What processor is this using? Only 100ma and 200mS of processing is awesome! I have learned that IRs work best with a reactive load after an amp. When using IRs without an amp, a really specific EQ is required to emulate the response of an amp interacting with the cabinet- a narrow (high q) 6dB-8dB boost around 100Hz and a broad 6dB shelf around 8khz, sloping gently down. Can Impulse do that? It makes a HUGE difference. It sounds like that's what some of the "amp" IRs are doing, but it would be nice to have a tweakable way to do that, like on the Mooer Radar. Anyway, looks great, thanks!

Another fantastic video!!! Can you confirm the power requirements for this thing? I've got the Mooer Radar now and it's fine but it needs a 12V 1A (1000mA) power supply. So I've split the incoming power on my board and stuffed the Mooer wallwart under there. It's not cool. I'd far prefer something that can easily use my existing pedal power supplies (TrueTone, VooDoo labs, etc)

Is this TonePrint compatible, and are there any 10s and 15s for bass?

Hello there Thanks for the nice review? My question is I am using a Input and output Buffer pedal, should i put this pedal before the output Buffer or after the output Buffer pedal? Thanks

For acoustic guitar, this is a small fraction of the price of say a LR Baggs Voiceprint or NUX Air, although you would have to perhaps download some IR files. There are a ton of acoustic IR files out there. For instance search youtube for "acoustic IR files"

This is super helpful! What PC OS is the software compatible with? I have some acoustic IRs I'm partial to. I could conceivably use this instead of my Plethora with a couple choice analog pedals for an even smaller footprint.

Hi there! Ik would like to use the impulse to record at home or do rehearsals on a behringer xr18. Is this good enough to replace a real amplifier or do I need to have a preamp pedal also on the pedalboard? Thanks

I have the Mooer Radar which can go up to 44.1 KhZ on the sampling rate, what does the Impulse go up to? Is that related to what level of the MS of the IR that the pedal can reproduce? Trying to figure out if this would be an upgrade or if I should just hold out for an Iridium down the line.

hi! the tc electronic IR loader can mix/blend between the original signal and the IR or it's only can "on/off" the IR? thanks you!

Thanks for the video. Could I use this pedal and bypass the pre amp section of a Boss ME-80 to go straight into a PA?

So I’m looking to get a pedal to load some IRs I have of the Midiverb II since they’ve gone up in price recently and I’m curious to see how it would sound, however since this pedal doesn’t really have a on/off or bypass mode, would it be possible to load a “blank” IR to bypass it in my chain? Any advice welcome

the pedal must to be with a 9v power supply to load impulses or just the usb cable?

Thanks. Isn't it strange to put the IR simu (= the cab) before the amp in the JOYO example ? I am lost in this virtual world where I can over virtualize everything and play music in my 2x3x2 home box ;)

very nice demo.what is the use of torpedo captor 8 in here?

Is this something that might show up in a firmware update for the plethora X5?🤔

Does it has any srv IRs? Srv speakers simulations

Would also be nice to hear the pedal platform settings without any pedals. Are these useful as a clean sound, adding dirt via pedals?

I'm a little confused. Is there different amp models in this pedal or only speaker ir models? Do we still need a amp modeler to go into this? Thanks!

Thanks for the awesome video! The tones from your LES PAUL sounded a little thin. Is that just my computer or does this thing sound really amazing?

I' not expert and don't fully understand : I'd like to use my amp and my pedalboard with my PC. Can I go : guitar > pedalboard > amp head > TC Impulse > my PC (I usually use Reaper and BIAS FX) ?

One thing I missed in your otherwise great review is an explanation of how you choose which IRs to store in the A and B slot?

Amazing pedal, whats the latency reate at?

So I plug this to line out of my amp and then I can record it to audio interface?

Do i need preamp pedal for this?

Question… what about clean tone? Seems like not many companies making clean preamp products. I mean there’re so many guitarist not just play rock… thank you for the video!

Do you put it in front of the amp, like an overdrive ?

Nice video, but I just didn't want to know what it could do. I wanted to know if it was of good quality. Even an ugly phone can have a lot of functions :-)

Is it possible to put it in between the Amp and the cabinet?

Where does this plug into on the audio interface? Inst in? Or mic preamp?

Can you plug headphones straight to the out jack and use it with headphones

How is this powered? 9 volt battery? AC adapter only? Thanks.

I have Cinders overdrive and Wire Tap recorder of tc electronic. If I put Impulse after the Cinders and before the Wire Tap, do I have a good recording?

Can I plug this into my combo amp or is it a dumb idea ?

It's easy to use but how do you store an Impulse to the A slot or to the B slot? (so I can use it in A/B mode with the two I want to use?)

I allows you to play Snake? I'm getting the pedal!

Can you load ir's into this from android? And can I use its own amp head similar with my impulse responses?

6:33 it’s 24-bits uncompressed. 32 bits will be compressed to 24-bits. Correct me if I am wrong.

The only thing is lacking for me is the xlr out

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I feel like I could achieve all this with a 10 band EQ pedal...no?

would a short reverb IR fit in it?

Can WAVs also be copied to pedal as USB drive?

How do you do a factory reset on the impulse?

Is it useful with the plethora x5?

Can I ask a probably dumb question? What about reverb IR's? If it doesn't have any preloaded ones .....I can load my own right?

Top end sounded raspy and cold. I like the Mooer Radar better.

Can it load reverb IRs?

How much is the latency of this ir pedal?

HI! I would like to ask. I am not sure I am clear with the benefits what it offers. Does IR also mean that I dont need an amp&cab sim pedal if I just want to go straight to a PA, or to an interface? For electric guitars: I place it at the end my chain (on a regular pedalboard) and that it is, or I miss sg and I always need need an amp sim somewhere in the chain. Thx!

Could I put this on my board running my pedals into an orange terror stamp out of the terror stamp into the impulse out to FOH?

Is there anyway to plug headphones into this?

I hope it sounds better IRL.

pity the didn't make it stereo...

Sample rate?

TC Electronics "ME TOO!!!" ... kinda late to the game. Mooer Radar has been great for almost 3 years now

100Hz and 10kHz? Pretty useless for bassists. Thanks TC, you almost nailed it.

its nice but really it appears to be different EQ curves... that would end up endlessly tweaking and comparing and wasting time.. im sure its great but what is the RIGHT sound? hard to tell once your ears start to compare such small differences in tone. endless tweaking

Good video except for 1 thing......The best way of assessing these IR pedals, and IR plugins, is to A/B them against the real speakers in cabs. That cannot be done on youtube cos youtube makes everything sound the same and is useless for any tone comparisons. You have to do it live yourself. I have not A/B'ed actual cabs against the Impulse but I have for Captor X, and some IR plugins. Outcome for all my A/Bs has been always poor for the IRs. Real cabs poo on IR and it gets worse as you increase volume. With the Impluse, when you start adding more digital conversions with a Captor X in the chain also, you're degrading the original analog tone with each new device you add to the chain. For this reason I avoid all IRs and a-d-a conversions. I stay analog as much as possible and mic real cabs :)

If this had MIDI input I would buy it. But it doesn't 😑

"How do you talk about a pedal that doesn't have a sound" A digital device with AD / DA converters also has a sound. It comes with nonlinearities and a delay aka latency. These can be measured and - to a degree - heard which should be part of a thorough review of such a device.

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