Will Aftermarket IRs help Iridium?

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A couple months back I put out a video comparing Iridium, ACS1 and the Universal Audio Ruby and Dream. All four of these products are amp and cab simulators.
In short, Ruby and Dream did very well. Iridium, not so much.
Very quickly I received comments about using Iridium with aftermarket IRs (something I did not do in the first comparison video).
So today, I've purchased some shiny new IRs from Tone Factor and we're going to see if they make a difference.
"A" is a stock strymon IR with an alnico blue speaker
"B" is a Tonefactor IR (aftermarket) with a G12M and 545 mic.
"C" is a Tonefactor IR with a G12M and SM57 mic.
Video Content
00:00 - Intro / Background
02:05 - Purchasing IRs
02:30 - Amps and cabs
03:37 - A
03:50 - B
04:01 - C
04:17 - A
04:25 - B
04:33 - C
04:40 - A
04:50 - B
04:57 - C
05:07 - C
05:18 - B
05:29 - A
05:40 - Overview / choosing IRs
06:45 - Loading IRs on Iridium
07:59 - Closing
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@benwilson-cw4su 5 месяцев назад

It’s either york audio IRs or an amp for me. I mostly use the Marshall with some of the others sprinkled in. Their IRs turn the iridium from a toy to something you can confidently use for small tours where space is limited, people are close to the stage (and their face to your amp) and you need a consistent sound no matter who the audio engineer is.

@rudals1281 4 месяца назад

No one told him about York IRs?!

@therealone1288 8 месяцев назад

Its definitely a large rabbit hole to go down

@Cambodia69 Месяц назад

The York Audio KW 412 M25-SH IR, for my taste, does everything from clean to crunchy better than any other IR that I've heard in person or demonstrated on RU-vid -- with headphones. It's like they got the mic placement in the sweet spot and all of the other variables right.

@GoodwoodAudio Месяц назад

ya Ive heard a few people talk very positively about the York stuff! I need to get into it.

@rcdubya Год назад

I’m strictly an amateur and still diving into the Iridium, and admittedly haven’t tried any of the UA pedals; however, in my opinion, each of the UA, Ruby, etc, are -to the best of my knowledge - modeling a specific amp platform…Vox, Fender, etc, while the Iridium offers three. There are plenty of other videos that compare these pedals with the Iridium using other IRs, and to my untrained ear, the Iridium - with its flexibility to shift between Fender, Vox and Marshall - and the ease of adding IRs - does just fine. But, horses for courses…a one-trick pony (although a thoroughbred) vs a quarter horse. I’ll take the flexibility of the Iridium by a nose. YMMV.

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

nice. good thoughts for sure.

@therealone1288 8 месяцев назад

Had some preamps i wanted to use with iridium as just a cab sim. None of the stock cabs really worked with them (rev g4 and a 5150 clone). Definitely rocking now with some new IRs

@itchyvinyl Год назад

Ruby sounds more “accurate” when soloed. But in the mix of a song, the Iridium just fits more happily and more easily. At that point “accuracy” is less relevant.

@Cambodia69 Месяц назад

I've found the same phenomenon with real amps and speakers as well. They'll sound great soloed but disappear in a recording mix/live band setting. Conversely, an amp that may sound harsh/abrasive soloed often ends up being perfect within the context of a recording/live band setting.

@brianmueller5483 Год назад

I’ve been using an Iridium for the last 2 years or more. I have purchased a few IR packs from David Hislop & Michael Westbrook and I run a different speaker/mic on each side to get a wider stereo spread. They definitely make a big improvement in the sounds I was looking for out of the Iridium, but i spent hours & hours of time to go through the massive amount of options to get there… I am totally content with the tone and see no need to spend the money on buying 2 UA pedals to achieve the same stereo setup I have now, even though I’m sure the may sound better. Plus, I use the Marshall amp set clean and have an absolute pile of great drive pedals to get the dirt I’m looking for. If UA ever releases a Marshall style amp I may have to try it out though.

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

nice! Ya... so far it seems like you NEED IRs to get the most out of Iridium... I almost never hear feedback contrary to that.

@BopKitBill Год назад

@@GoodwoodAudio Yup, the Iridium needs those pesky IRs, whereas the UA pedals don't need those IR thingys....that's great!

@BopKitBill Год назад

"Sounds better" I love it! It's very descriptive and tells me alot....about the reviewer.

@arendbouwmeester3924 Год назад

Nice test! Did you try to use the reverb after the iridium? My experience: is sounds much better and also tremolo after iridium .(I guess same like with fenderamps with tremolo/reverb where they sit (after eachother) between your pre-amp and master-amp section

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

on my board when I ran Iridium it was after drives and before mod/delay/verb. In this test though it was last as that seems to be the most common way people run it - especially to retain use of the headphone jack.

@therealone1288 8 месяцев назад

Yep they should have put an fx loop but running it this way isn't bad. I have to practice with headphones and I don't want to be tied to my computer where my mixer is

@jeffreyyeh9589 Год назад

I am currently using an Iridium for recording. I did not love the stock IRs. After lots of experimentation, I found some Ownhammer IRs that work well for the tone I'm trying to achieve. I mostly use the Chime on a low gain setting, with a Boss Blues Driver set to edge of breakup in front. I was originally running a cable from the Iridium into the DI input of my UA Volt audio interface, but I switched to adding a Neve DI box in-between and found a huge jump in audio quality. This was all before the UA pedals came out, so I was invested into making the Iridium work and I did eventually bond with it.

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

good tip on the Neve!

@mofateam1 11 месяцев назад

Strymon really need to step up their game asap. The more the gain , the lo end of Iridium almost disappears. Buying a 400€ pedal I expect to get the best speaker simulation IRs...

@rottalmusik6563 Год назад

I mixed the Stock 412 in the Iridium with an Celestion 35 w pulssonic in an 112, an its a great Balance between clean and dirty Tones. Def better than the Stock alone.

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

nice! I like that.

@johnpaulpatton9786 Год назад

The Celestion Blue IRs greatly improved the sound of both the Deluxe and AC30 for me.

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

awesome!

@TerrenceC90 Год назад

Did you get the tone match irs from tonefactor? If so did you match the eq settings that hislop recommended? I use the vox tonematch irs for the ACS1 with his settings and it took it to a whole nother level.

@GoodwoodAudio Год назад

I did! I just ran everything dual mono (exact same IR on both outputs) Didn't know he had a recommended EQ setting though!

@1970sman Месяц назад

Punch with stock cab A is best. Don't throw your money down some rabbit hole. Sorted.

@seanbatterberry 5 месяцев назад

You should do this again with Tone Factor’s XR IRs. They’re far better than the old IRs. Also, why is your gain so low? Is that really how you run your amps?

@GoodwoodAudio 4 месяца назад

the B-roll settings were not the actual settings I ended up using, no. I agree - this needs to be redone now.