You can have the power of three classic Fender, Vox and Marshall amps, tweak their tones accordingly, and match them with a cab sim of your choice, in a small compact enclosure. You don’t even have to have it in a pedalboard. The layout is reassuringly amp-like, unlikely to give anyone the heebie-geebies if using a modelling platform such as this for the first time. One of the strengths of the Iridium’s design is that it presents these amp models and cab sims with a mininum of fuss. The reverb gives the Iridium a nice three-dimensional quality that serves each of its amp models well.
Just stack ‘em as you would with a regular amp. While there was plenty of cut in those amps, there wasn’t that much gain, and perhaps with one eye towards the contemporary player there is a little more juice as you turn the gain past two o’ clock.Īgain, this is a pedalboard amp it will happily take some gain in front of it. (Image credit: Strymon)Īs for Punch, well, you know what you are in for here – a total Marshall wallop with a classic Plexi midrage that could blacken your high. Use the USB connection for loading IR files via Strymon's Impulse Manager software. The Iridium's rear panel has switches for audio input you can choose mono or stereo, or Sum, which sees a stereo input summed to a mono output. Again, as with the Round amp, your choice of cab sim offers a great degree of versatility, with the Chime voiced to have a little bit more gain that the amp it is modelling. The Chime works much like an AC30’s Top Boost channel, with its mids control serving as the original amp’s Tone Cut, rolls off high-end on your command. The cab simulation is of the highest quality with is a 500ms IR housed in a pedal format, the Iridium is breaking new ground. The Iridium is a great, straightforward amp in a pedal as others said the sounds you get are amazing and you dont get overwhelmed immediately with too many. The programmed C cab partnered the amp with a 2x10 cabinet which gives that wider tone and vibe, reminiscent of a Super or Vibroluxe. But experimenting brings some excellent results.
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If you want a traditional combo experience, the “A” cab sim will give you that 1x12 voicing. Strymon Engineering Iridium Amp and IR Cab Simulator Guitar Effects Pedal image. As you dial more in you can go from a sort of bass and treble-forward voicings of the ‘black-panel’ era right through Tweed tones, and that characteristic drive.Īdjusting the mids and you can get a number of Fender tones through the ages Adjusting the mids and you can get a number of Fender tones through the ages. Here you can expect all those classic Fender cleans, which will break up nicely to that American drive tone that is so addictive, so musical, and the bedrock of so many great records. In the secular context of guitar amplification, most might believe this to be a divine trinity, indeed. The Iridium’s three amp models are Round, Chime and Punch, and these are based respectively on Fender Deluxe, a Vox AC30 and a 100-watt Marshall Super Lead.
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