The Perfect Pedal for a Gigging Musician! Boss IR-2 Amp & Cabinet Pedal! 

Even ten years ago when I still had a band the options were much more limited 🥲

20 odd years ago buying my second ever guitar. A les Paul knock off from Japan seemingly made of plywood 🤣

But at least now you aren’t a broke teen anymore lol

Wish I could switch place with anyone who had the chance to be a guitar player in the 80s...

Yes. It is a little sad that these types of advanced devices weren't available when I was learning in the 1970s, but at least there were paying gigs available.

I personally love Boss, the DS-1 was my first pedal, I have 50 or 60 pedals now, most of them are Boss.

just bought 3 MXR Fet Driver pedals in one week, secondhandmint 120e/pedal: abs fab Jazz pedal for strat, and blew away 2 pedals( for nice bass..), DISCONTINUED, hence I acted quickly, like my Mad Prof Simble(3 of) those 2 are my keepers 4ever, funnily i think they were first made about the same time 2012....and GREET PEDALS!! funny how the technology moves on , not much discussion how much it buries older thingies on its parade, soon therell be no analog sounds to model after, and after is the very right term! Gramophone > LP > CD > DIGIDIGItally re?Masterd?..... as a teen I tried to play Dire straits, with atape recorder... ( better but no visual, to see his fingerstyling, ha ha!!!, and the 1980s commercial music tone with Floyd Rose/Baywatch...!!!!!!! as a floyd guitar sounds metallic with both metal nut and metal bridge, add chorus........................... I think Ive seen or heard a floydroseguitarist talk about guitarwood affecting his tone: for me ears if you JAM a Floyd Rose nut with 2 bbolts thru the neck, and the heavymetal bridge in the other end, the fine fibers of a vintage Fender wood might be quivering/relapsing/nicely responding??? respectFULLY aging?, as I, 58 years NOW... Kimmo ..., Cheers from Finland!!!! P.S. digi or not: better sound analog!!!! better...!!!!and it doesnt end there even for me: I play with Solid state amps! Imagine that! actually the MXR Fet Driver pedal has a slight reputation being partial to ss amps!! HA HA! The tone of a guitar developes and envelopes in our BRAINS: our brains are dynamic, butt up to a point: it truly might be a 40 year old tubemanguitarists brain cant really handle this modelling thingy BUSINESS, Im Lucky at 58 with no tinnitus( I think i do have a slight at times...), well: I like my digital modeller ZOOM G2: it has Fender Twin ( with no amp modelling not a world, but my ears do like it: I have 7 ZOOM G2s, you can still get them for a50 bucks or so! I guess thats my Fender Twin 65( with those 10 valves, whatwhat? my ZOOM G2 cost 100€ brannew at one time, this BOSS 200€? looks cheap pricewise, and I already heard its TWIN version is baad, so maybe Im good, maybe I am... Cheers Twistedlefty, Kimmo ,Finland, birth town... the Universe : )

weird it doesn't get Spring reverb!

​@danielebazzani Yeah, that is kinda weird. Glad I have an FRV-1 '63 Fender Reverb pedal to put in the FX loop.

I mean just put your fav reverb in the fx loop, there you go

That's kinda how I feel about my Boss GT1000. For a couple years I was just using it as a pedalboard with my Mesa Mark V, then I borrowed a FRFR from my niece who was using it with her electric drumkit. I was impressed enough that I sold my Mesa and other amps. It's not 100% there, but it's 90% there if I'm willing to take the time to tweak things for each guitar/patch.

This is great start no doubt! deff gonna be something they have to integrate in the ME-50 as time progresses

"dude in the pink shirt"...smh...

@@TheGoldenTubaright? He must be new here… 😂

​@@TheGoldenTubaHis name is Pete and he's an amazing player ✌️

I ordered it yesterday

lol

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It’s almost like that’s what they’re trying to do

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@QuickSticks8771ikr. they’re really doing a great job coz i have already run out of pedalboard real estate

😂

To be fair, a large chunk of bands I produce and engineer use software amps, so no hardware whatsoever besides the guitar itself. From my ears, absolutely no cons to it

Of course it doesn’t sound like an amp in a room! This is completely negated when using IEMs though. Will be a great practice and backup rig for my Axe III.

I had a Dream '65 for about 2 months, sold it to buy a NuX Amp Academy. Loaded new IR's and got close enough to the Dream' 65 to fool non-cork-sniffing guitar players and feel just right. The UAFX stuff is a really good one trick pony, no XLR out. Not worth the price tag to me.

I had a TC Ampworks DeLuxe for about 3 weeks... nice reverb but harsh.... sold it, had Zoom G6 for a year.. Good IR loader and not bad.... sold. I'll go with Boss IR-2. I regularly do sessions and live gigs with a Tech 21 Blonde, I like it because it is 100% analog. Have considered a 'Simplifier' or UA but will give the Boss a go. The clean sounded good and the Twin slightly overdriven sounded not too bad. I'll not use it for live although keen to hear it with a FRFR cab.

Yup. Might consider one now they have them with headstocks the right way round.

Hence their name

Yes! I still have Boss pedals in my rig that I bought in 1981.

For practicing without a pedal board and traveling I would prefer Boss WAZA Air headphones

Even more than the metalzone?

Just wrote the same thing b4 seeing ur comment!👌🏾💯🤣

What's the feedback after using it onstage?

Very good point re a backup amp on the road

Hi mark ! Have You tried it on stage ? What was your experience?

@@user-vk7bl7td9yhe hasn't replied. I imagine it sounded quite shit on stage.

@eddyvnhln Hard to tell, since I haven't had a chance to check out the IR-2, apart from what I heard in these new videos. What I like about it is that they managed to squeeze most of the hardware specs of the ir-200 in a 'standard' Boss pedal.

The real amps never sound the same as their digital counterparts but digital has come such a long way that most people (musicians included) couldn’t hear the difference really

when i see it i see more durable cheaper and sounds g..nuff. nonblind look

@@bernifitzsimmons176 There's also a huge difference if it's in the room or recorded/on speakers. I personally sold all my tube amps, pedals and cabs and replaced them with modelers, amp sims, IRs.. just digital stuff. In my living room where I play guitar I just connect it to my active studio monitors which I also use on my TV. Would I like to have a wall of amps and cabs and 30 pedals? Of course. Do i miss fiddling with all the knobs? Hell yeah. Do I have much more money to buy more guitars I don't need? Yes, oh yes I do. Do I have much more space in my living room? No, because my new couch is gigantic. And most important: If I make 5 recordings with similar style of amps/cabs, one tube amp and real cab and 4 sims/IRs can anyone tell which recording is the real tube amp if played back? Normally the answer would be no, but probably the most shitty sound would be the amateurish miked up cab while you can't make much mistakes with a DAW. Well I went a bit over board, what I wanted to say: digital stuff is a lot more convenient and affordable and the only one who knows the difference will be the musician and not the audience.

@@tostrmofo6686 you’re absolutely right man. I love the Neural DSP stuff. I’d love to have a kemper or something but I’m broke as hell unfortunately.

@@tostrmofo6686Why not have both Nothing beats the feeling or inspiration of a real tube amp, if you’re playing with gain at least lol

well you can use a converter.

Strymon Iridium has one

The simplifier dlx has one.

97% of guitar players cant play well enough for a listener to notice the tiny differences anyway.

@@danielmiller2886that part!👊🏾😂😂

Same

Yeah in NZ it costs $450!!! , so that rules out the other units anyway!

If it works for you it’s the best rig! I could never afford a tube amp and have nowhere I could use it to its optimum as much as I’d like one!

These days, tube amps can be had for pretty cheap. You aren't going to get a dual rec head and cab for $500 but still, there's tons of options. Haven't y'all ever looked at craigslist?

@@IamtheFerryMan Your point is valid, and I have bought many used musical products over the years. Indeed, that hybrid amp came to me from a pawn shop. It just doesn't make sense to acquire amps at this point, at least for me. No sweat, though -- I really dig my hybrid and my digital modelers.

@@edwinstovall3334 That makes sense. What are you using currently?

@@IamtheFerryMan Well, the hybrid is a Fender Performer 650 1x12 combo. The usual output is 65 watts, but this one is an anniversary model; I think it got bumped up to 70 watts. Great clean tones and decent distortion live here. After that, I have no less than FIVE modellers. Three of them are DigiTech units -- an RP350, an RP355 and a BP355 for bass guitar. I also have a Zoom G9.2tt Guitar Effects Console -- that's what they actually called it. This one is a hybrid, too, with TWO tubes. The "tt" in the name stands for "twin tube." All these were bought used. Last, and the only unit bought new, is the Donner Arena 2000. All these machines are capable of amazing sounds, and of course their powers can be enhanced with plugins in a DAW. I've got TOO much power!😁

Thank you for not saying "price point."

@@AlexSosaBolivia 😂

Agreed. Bought my first Boss in 81 as well and still have 4 Boss pedals on my board today. They just work and work well.

My first pedal when I started playing guitar at 14 years old with my Harmony Strat copy was actually a Pro Co.Rat ( Damn thing still sounds awesome all on its own with just a hint of BOSS DD3 Delay to this day ! ) I bought my first BOSS pedal ( a Hyper Metal HM3 ) in about 1988 I think and I have at least 10 different various Boss pedals now and a couple of MXR’s ( EVH Phase 90 and a Super Comp compressor) and a Dunlop Cry Baby From Hell -Dimebag signature Wha pedal. My favourite pedal is the BOSS MT2 Metal Zone! 🤘🏻🎸and the DD3 Digital Delay. I’ve got a 2 Marshall’s , Peavy, Fender and an Orange amp already so as far as replacing those … that’s not what I myself would buy this pedal for ( but many others very well might want it just for that reason alone) as I truly just love real amps and cabinets! Over anything else amps and modellers wise that’s come out in the last few years. I do understand why some guys like using them versus lugging around a Marshall stack etc. but this pedal would be cool just to take and use over at your buddies place or when you’re travelling and want to practice in the headphones 🎧 in a hotel or something like that. I’ve got a number of other tiny amps and plug in things but something tells me that this will just sound way better than any of that other stuff as it’s just built way better and by a trusted company whose products always kick ass! 🎸🤘🏻 even after 38 years of playing BOSS is definitely my favourite brand of pedals. I still definitely prefer the individual pedals as I just never liked the multi effects board style set ups as it’s just too much fiddling around with multiple banks of sounds I’ll never end up using for my liking! I do also like the MXR stuff a lot as well. I would also like to try out some of the more bizarre ones that Electro Harmonics puts out just for fun. 🤔Honorary Mention that I want to try out is the Ocean Machine Delay- Devon Townsend signature pedal. The demos Devon did with that sound insane 😮 and I’d love to take it for a test drive. 😄

Combine that with your Roland GO Mixer and your phone and you can have massive sound on your livestream from the beach or the top of your mountain.

I’m still using my Sansamp Tri-AC.

@@Jamman610 yeah the only real issue I have is hitting the button accurately while singing, plus it would be nice to have a second channel clean sound instead of just the raw guitar to the PA. I actually preordered one of these from Andertons for that reason. Still love my GT2 though!

I use a Strymon Iridium with two Headrush FRFR 108 speakers (for stereo). They would work great with this. My amps gather dust mostly these days. I play live direct to PA and sometimes use the Headrush speaker(s) as monitors.