Re: Strymon Iridium
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:39 pm
You know, that's a really good point about having more than one kind of speaker available to a "multitude of amps". Hadn't thought about that.
Though to be honest, my interest in all the other amp sim pedals is to run direct and fool around with. For playing through an amp, I'm pretty much all in on the Hiwatt sound, and the tonkers are the most "fane" like speakers out there that are realistically available. Though I do also do Vox, having a pathfinder 15 (that I also ru n through a 112 a lot of the time) and an Ace Tone Rockey, which is an AC 15 mostly clone with reverb and tremolo. I have a generic OEM eminence 12 inch in that, which I'll put in a separate cab someday when I finally decide to bite the bullet and put an alnico blue in there for proper Voxy tonz. That amp needs some work, and when I get it done I'll just go the whole hog and retolex it and give it a nice speaker.
Meanwhile... Yeah I'm pretty stoked on this project. I am going to be a grownup, however and clear at least three projects off of my plate first before I take it on, though.
The scalability of it is really nice. I mean, if I were a gigging musician, I could take my little 112s, or use backline 412s, or whatever, and not have to really drag much around. There's one really great rig review video for deerhoof, and they're playing with quilter amps through 112s, because it's totally practical and entirely adequate. It's such a refreshing thing to see in contrast to these huge arena rock rigs they always show. Just people who can make the sounds they want to make using small but quality tools to do it. It was really cool to see, for the first time ever, a gigging band out there doing the same thing I've done for, shit, a decade at this point. I don't miss my big amps at all. If I gigged, I'm sure I'd miss them even less.
Though to be honest, my interest in all the other amp sim pedals is to run direct and fool around with. For playing through an amp, I'm pretty much all in on the Hiwatt sound, and the tonkers are the most "fane" like speakers out there that are realistically available. Though I do also do Vox, having a pathfinder 15 (that I also ru n through a 112 a lot of the time) and an Ace Tone Rockey, which is an AC 15 mostly clone with reverb and tremolo. I have a generic OEM eminence 12 inch in that, which I'll put in a separate cab someday when I finally decide to bite the bullet and put an alnico blue in there for proper Voxy tonz. That amp needs some work, and when I get it done I'll just go the whole hog and retolex it and give it a nice speaker.
Meanwhile... Yeah I'm pretty stoked on this project. I am going to be a grownup, however and clear at least three projects off of my plate first before I take it on, though.
The scalability of it is really nice. I mean, if I were a gigging musician, I could take my little 112s, or use backline 412s, or whatever, and not have to really drag much around. There's one really great rig review video for deerhoof, and they're playing with quilter amps through 112s, because it's totally practical and entirely adequate. It's such a refreshing thing to see in contrast to these huge arena rock rigs they always show. Just people who can make the sounds they want to make using small but quality tools to do it. It was really cool to see, for the first time ever, a gigging band out there doing the same thing I've done for, shit, a decade at this point. I don't miss my big amps at all. If I gigged, I'm sure I'd miss them even less.