For anyone whose curious, I’ve now owned the HX Stomp, Kemper, and Iridium all at the same time. The HX Stomp was the worst of the three in dialing in a good amp tone. Kemper was the second, and Iridium was the easiest to get a great amp tone. Effects, the HX Stomp wins, Kemper is second, iridium is third but doesn’t have any really. For people who are looking for a great, direct option to use with your full pedalboard and only use Fender to Vox amps, get the iridium. For people who are looking for every amp possible, get the Kemper. For people who want to have a bunch of stuff in a small platform, get the HX Stomp. In strictly amp tone when comparing Vox and Fender amps, Iridium and Kemper tied, HX Stomp lost. In other non-Fender or Vox amps, Kemper wins obviously.
do you know if this thing can work with run of the mill bookshelf speakers? I plan on buying an amp and a set of speakers for my PC, and the IR can be 2 birds with 1 stone if it can use with the speakers
I realized reading users post most times are better than the demo video. Ive been looking for user comparisons as opposed to videos only displaying crunch / overdrive sounds. Any of those line 6 or helix or whatever all have that same ole distorted tones good and bad. Your statement is the deciding factor and aided me in my theory on all these too. Can you tell me how the iridium works pedal board to a direct input to a P.A. Head ? Does it require another type of pre amp maybe ? Thank you .
Tried one at a shop, after trying a helix , and the Strymon feels like a real amp, the simplicity of it is incredible , bought it immediately , I’m a real amp kinda player and this is a great option for fly gigs and things where an amp is not possible .
Status report: I purchased an Iridium back in 2020, for those times (more often than not) where the gig preference was low -> no stage volume. Churches, clubs, even larger venues. The Iridium has not only held up beautifully, but it's become my solution to volume requests. Nothing beats feeling the air push behind you w/ an amp.... but because the Iridium takes pedals so well, I can gig anywhere with my preferred pedalboard and get 99.9999999% of my "feel" and tone compared to my amps. I hate interfaces, it's quite literally an amp in a box that goes on your board. Get you one.
What a great sounding pedal in a small footprint and seemingly very easy to dial in tones. The main deterrent of digital stuff is all the tweaking and menus and apps etc. just give me some simple knobs - this nails it. As someone who wants these amps but can’t afford them and doesn’t wanna move them this is wonderful. And a headphone jack!
You missed the three ‘room’ modes - small/medium/large. It really opens up the versatility of the pedal. You just hold down the right-hand footswitch and turn the rom knob till it changes colour (three different colours). It’s in the manual.
Like Lee, I love the simplicity of this as far as editing... same reason I ended up buying a Fender Deluxe Reverb Tonemaster... fantastic modelling and easy, quick ways to find your sound.
I also got the deluxe reverb tone master, and just ordered the iridium. My idea is to split my signal before my delay and reverb, and send the split dry signal to the Deluxe Reverb, then use the Iridium to add a stereo wet signal to it. I’ve already recorded with the IR from the Deluxe and I was surprised that it actually sounded plenty good, so I’m pretty sure this setup will end up working out.
Best review on YT of this thing. The only thing stopping me from pulling the trigger now is that I know it'll be obsolete in 9 months when Strymon releases a full size modeller.
I gig this pedal. It's incredible to carry in my guitar over my shoulder and my pedal board...that's it. Set up is a line in to the Iridium and line to my guitar. And I sound good (at least the gear, not my playing). In a mix and over a PA, absolutely indistinguishable from a tube amp.
Thanks to the Strymon Iridium I can now get the Train to band rehearsals and most gigs. I only need to take a Nano+ pedaltrain and a guitar case. Strymon ftw
I’ve been playing since 1974 and have had every amp in the book. I love old amps, but the new IR technology and the Iridium pedal is amazing. I’ll keep my old amps but I basically go direct every where I play. Just guitar and pedal board.
I try to not be a Strymon fan boy. But everything they make sounds awesome. And the other thing about their pedals is they sound good on every setting.
Great stuff. Sounds great. I've been working as a technician for over 20 years on fairly sizable bands (not mentioning any names, but ones that can sell a good few thousand tickets a night) and so many of them use amp simulation. Whether it be Fractal, Line 6 etc... We spend the load-in building walls of empty cabinets each day on stages just for eye candy. The guitars are usually going straight into a module behind the wall of speakers and then into the mixer. The sound is always better as the engineer has complete control and none of the "officianados" in the crowd are any the wiser. Personally I love these kind of products. They are the future. Valves sound great, but mainly in small spaces or recording studios in my opinion.
@@0megalul309 idk their competitors are surpassing them in terms of price lately. I think that if they offered a simpler IR rig, say a Sunset/Blue Sky/Iridium that would be more than anyone needs to do a straight to front of house gig
@@PerryCodes This right here. I'm not going to bitch, I have three Strymon pedals, but I could get 98% of the sound I'm hearing for a third of the price now. When they came out they were offering features nobody else could compete with, but now everybody has stepped up their game.
The ax8 gives you the best of both worlds. It has the physical knobs for all the basic amp settings, and you you can do a deep dive into all the other settings via an iPad app if you want...
I bought an HX Stomp recently to expand my pedalboard and as backup for gigs should an amp fail. Tried it straight into the desk at rehearsal and the rest of the band liked it. I prefer a live amp on the floor, but the band levels were more manageable, the mix better and likely to suit smaller venues we play where I can't get the amp to sing without being too loud. Interesting process.
I bought a Torpedo Captor to run my amp into my iD14 interface and DAW. I do not use it though, even though I prefer its sound. No point putting wear and tear on my amp just for playing at home. Amp modelling is near enough for that I find. I use a free Le Pou Brit amp plugin with Two Notes. Then add reverb and delay etc in DAW. I have been thinking about getting an outboard unit for amp modelling, so I can use it with pedals. This thing sounds legit, although there is stiff competition out there. p.s. I like that little blues acoustic thing at the end.
Everything sounds good on youtube! Wait to see it when you play live in a gig! Sound's like bullshit! Digital shit except Kemper is not worth. You better save another 750 and buy the Kemper for the double price but you have so much more stuff and so much more versatility!
yes 12:50 was Captain. As President bush would have elegantly said, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.' Good playing once again.
I think it's because this is how many people will treat there iridium in post. At a venue, with direct in signals, it's likely that some reverb will get added through the mixing console, and in a recording setting almost everyone will add a reverb chain. The room knob is more to simulate the response the "microphone" would be picking up from the room. Turning it up all the way is more like using a ribbon mic about 4 feet or so from the cab (this measurement could be way off) where the figure of 8 pattern is picking up the response of the room. This isn't really the same application that regular reverbs would be used for on a signal.
just ordered this. I'm not into the endless knobs of a kemper or some pedal i have to program using a mobile app. This is is way easier with three trusted presets that kinda cover most sounds that guitar users need.
Strymon should definitely make their own version of the Helix or POD. EVERYONE would probably want to buy it. OR make a pedalboard switcher the size of the MultiSwitch. I would buy that.
doesn't sound bad, but with the price they are asking, you aren't far from being able to get an HX Stomp, which sounds just as good, and has WAY more options to it.
Strymon doesn’t seem to be interested in competing with the super expensive kemper or axe fx processors. I like their approach. Not every guitar player wants/needs a super computer and access to all amps in the world. Waiting for my iridium :)
In my opinion it should have been a bigger format pedal, like the big sky. Have a send/return option, and have 100 presets, and a boost. I don’t want to mess around with midi, or the need to have a midi controller on my pedalboard.
The HX Stomp is indeed way more versatile. Sound quality aside (i.e. which one "sounds better") the reason this makes sense for some people is the simplicity. No interface needed, just turn some knobs like you would on an amp and flip the switch to the chosen IR. It also doesn't have weird power requirements.
@@bonchie1 oh yeah! I totally agree. im trying to talk my other guitarist into it because he uses a kinda bunk DI/sim. so this is like a super charted version. its just hard for me to want to leave all the extra stuff on the table that the HX offers and pay ALMOST the same. but I have no doubt that this is a killer product for the right players.
Has anyone tried this against the new Friedman IRX? I recently bought one and might return it for this instead because it’s more versatile…but…if the Friedman sounds better because of the real tubes….ill keep it
I almost pulled the trigger on this, but the price point is an issue. 3 amps and 9 cabinets. £399 Helix Stomp: 0ver 300 amps and effects including looper, 3 footswitches, gapless switching, LCD screen, software editor etc etc: £429 I love the simplicity of this, but are the sims so good that it's worth saving £30 and not getting the Helix Stomp? If they made a smaller, simpler one with just the chime amp model and cabs for example, and the room verb, i'd be into that for £150.
MB821 The Stomp is great if you want all of those features. Personally I’d rather the Iridium because I don’t like menus and LCD screens. I also don’t use many effects. If the Iridium is instead of an amp, the price is very good, £399 for 3 amps and 9 cabinets vs say Fender Blues Junior or Vox Ac15 for £500+
Just got mine today. As soon as i got done with 20 minutes of noodling around, I ordered an ES-5. Took my two-notes le clean, REVV G2, soul food and Binary Cab sim pedal and a couple others I had laying around to Guitar Center and walked out with enough to pay for it. Just cleared up more room than the ES-5 will take, and now I'll be able to control a DD-500, RV-500, EQ-200 & the Iridium and it's 200 Presets via MIDI. I'll run all of those mentioned through channel 1, leaving 4 channels for whatever, probably my boost pedal, comp pedal and this little Tone City Sweet Cream that never seems to leave my board because it's so awesome and useful. I've seen one write-up on the ES-5 that suggest using a channel on the es-5 for a volume pedal. I dunno. I'll see. My volume pedal is the Thru-Tone Ernie Ball Jr mod & has my boards buffer in it. I dunno. We'll see. Anyway, this thing blew away my already lofty expectations. Just using it as another pedal seems a waste. If you haven't gone down the midi road, this pedal should send you there. 200 presets? Beyond a game changer. This is like BC vs AD from a pedal board musical perspective.
Is it possible to have the cab sim on for one output and off for the other on all settings? I'd like to use this for bass, sending the amped signal to my old solid state amp and the cabsimmed signal to the PA
would have been nice to hear Pete demo this. Rob is a nice chap, but he plays like the a kid sat in his bedroom. Noodling about, strumming a few out of tune chords chopping and changing. Its all over the place.
Anyone know if this can be plugged into a powered cab? My worry is using this is a live setting or practice setting where you don’t have the option of going direct into a PA
Actually , since you mention it.. my first question is exactly that.... Iridium vs Kemper? especially if I don't want to model my own amps with it at first. My second question is, how do you do wet dry with modeling, or is it even worth it? You just put two of them on the board? Or two kempers? Does wet dry work as well with digital as it does with analog?
One thing you can do is place a mono 'null cab' IR as one of the IR's of the cab slots, but leave a standard IR cab on the other side. This will allow you to send the amp and cab signal to one side (PA) and just amp modeling to the other ('wet' amp).
These 2 pedals are the dream, ultimate pedalboard of many guitar players right now. I'm going to sell my engl invader and torpedo live, buy those 2 and use excess money for synthesizers.
these 2 pedals are pure shit m8! for this price you get a tube amp! This is nothing but a shitty digital modeling that will never sound good when it's loud! Headrush Pedalboard makes so much more for about the same price! And the modeling for the amps are so much better. This soundslike shit! They just hype for shit here so convince you it's awesome! However they will never use this shit! And cab modeling??? you find better cab simulators for 250! not 330! And you don't really need it! For 650 you can get the BluGuitar AMP 1 for example which is a tube amp in a bedalboard size. 18:30 "that's great man". I'm so sick and tired of their bullshit! "It's my new favored thing!" my ass!
So - Chappers wants a Sunset+Blue Sky+Iridium+amp in one unit. Nearest answer = powered Kemper. or H&K Black Spirit Combo - get the speaker too! or Boss TAE/CabM, given the right input. The market is missing the right box - the one that has enough knobs to twiddle, but not too many, and can be powered, be in a full range cab or in it's own box or on the floor - essentially the Kemper range + a speaker option and more user friendly. Boss/Roland can churn out half decent combos these days - as HP42 pointed out recently Boss are great at hardware but their software interfaces suck. If they can collaborate with JHS on the AngryDriver why not Strymon for a Strymon box or combo? Call it a Waza, make it a 150W class AB 2*12 and charge 1.5-2k for it (with the guts of a Blue Sky/Timeline etc).
No, because what would be the point? Effects loops in amps are a necessary compromise because it's not possible to run the effects totally post the speaker like in a studio. Preference is typically to have your effects clean in a loop, not affected by breakup. Putting everything after the IR accomplishes that to it's highest level.
@@bonchie1 Not sure about what you're saying there however an fx loop runs between the pre and power stages and definitely gets affected by PT break up.
Just out of interest i thought this sounds great but i have a helix stomp and wondered how close i can get with just one amp and cab block plexi normal. Gets pretty dam close far as im concerned with my prs ce 24 listening through a Yamaha hs5. Using a 4x12 greenback 25 stock cab 121 ribbon mic some early reflections in the cab section act as the 'room' on this pedal. Dialed in some similar setting as to this video bearing in mind 2oclock on the iridium is a maxed out gained plexi (after that is modded marshal territory) and its sounds close enough to me. The crazy feature set of the stomp makes me think the iridium is just outclassed. But hey i would reserve that definitive judgement till a side by side comparison. @andertons please do a test between this and the stomp just amp and cab, as i got my stomp for about £450 and this pedal costs £400. would be very interesting...
@@arbitermatt Unbalanced = quarter inch which is what the Iridium offers. Balanced = 3 pins which for the Iridium a DI box would be required to change quarter inch in to 3 pin out.
@@PieIX Plenty of devices like this feature a balanced DI out - better for long cable runs, for example feeding mixing desks without any interference. However what this device has is a line out for a jack lead only, which is fine for short cable runs but is also succeptable to noise on a large stage where cable runs will be longer... fair enough you could just line into a separate DI box, but at this price and for this sort of unit it's a basic feature that I'd like to be included.
Who wants a pedal that replaces buying more gear? I want more amps/heads and cabs and don't need a pedal that makes me question buying more stuff. Should call these modellers GASX.
For anyone whose curious, I’ve now owned the HX Stomp, Kemper, and Iridium all at the same time. The HX Stomp was the worst of the three in dialing in a good amp tone. Kemper was the second, and Iridium was the easiest to get a great amp tone. Effects, the HX Stomp wins, Kemper is second, iridium is third but doesn’t have any really.
For people who are looking for a great, direct option to use with your full pedalboard and only use Fender to Vox amps, get the iridium.
For people who are looking for every amp possible, get the Kemper.
For people who want to have a bunch of stuff in a small platform, get the HX Stomp.
In strictly amp tone when comparing Vox and Fender amps, Iridium and Kemper tied, HX Stomp lost.
In other non-Fender or Vox amps, Kemper wins obviously.
do you know if this thing can work with run of the mill bookshelf speakers? I plan on buying an amp and a set of speakers for my PC, and the IR can be 2 birds with 1 stone if it can use with the speakers
Thach Tran idk about regular computer speakers, that wouldn’t sound very good either.
How much is the Kemper vs the Stomp?
Rizzaxc yeah you can but it won’t sound very good
I realized reading users post most times are better than the demo video. Ive been looking for user comparisons as opposed to videos only displaying crunch / overdrive sounds. Any of those line 6 or helix or whatever all have that same ole distorted tones good and bad. Your statement is the deciding factor and aided me in my theory on all these too. Can you tell me how the iridium works pedal board to a direct input to a P.A. Head ? Does it require another type of pre amp maybe ? Thank you .
Tried one at a shop, after trying a helix , and the Strymon feels like a real amp, the simplicity of it is incredible , bought it immediately , I’m a real amp kinda player and this is a great option for fly gigs and things where an amp is not possible .
All the effects would go after the preamp/drives and before the Cab Sim.
Status report:
I purchased an Iridium back in 2020, for those times (more often than not) where the gig preference was low -> no stage volume. Churches, clubs, even larger venues.
The Iridium has not only held up beautifully, but it's become my solution to volume requests. Nothing beats feeling the air push behind you w/ an amp.... but because the Iridium takes pedals so well, I can gig anywhere with my preferred pedalboard and get 99.9999999% of my "feel" and tone compared to my amps. I hate interfaces, it's quite literally an amp in a box that goes on your board. Get you one.
Thanks for the Status Report!
hey, just order mine for exactly reasons like yours... do you use any d.i to connect it with mixing desk ?
What a great sounding pedal in a small footprint and seemingly very easy to dial in tones. The main deterrent of digital stuff is all the tweaking and menus and apps etc. just give me some simple knobs - this nails it. As someone who wants these amps but can’t afford them and doesn’t wanna move them this is wonderful. And a headphone jack!
Man I've been watching Anderton's videos for YEARS and I just have to say Lee's guitar skills have increased EXPONENTIALLY!!! Excellent work Capt'n!!!
watch there marshall astoria review best playing ive ever heard
You missed the three ‘room’ modes - small/medium/large. It really opens up the versatility of the pedal. You just hold down the right-hand footswitch and turn the rom knob till it changes colour (three different colours). It’s in the manual.
Like Lee, I love the simplicity of this as far as editing... same reason I ended up buying a Fender Deluxe Reverb Tonemaster... fantastic modelling and easy, quick ways to find your sound.
I also got the deluxe reverb tone master, and just ordered the iridium. My idea is to split my signal before my delay and reverb, and send the split dry signal to the Deluxe Reverb, then use the Iridium to add a stereo wet signal to it. I’ve already recorded with the IR from the Deluxe and I was surprised that it actually sounded plenty good, so I’m pretty sure this setup will end up working out.
Best review on YT of this thing. The only thing stopping me from pulling the trigger now is that I know it'll be obsolete in 9 months when Strymon releases a full size modeller.
Heph333 Strymon small box units almost always have a “trick” that makes them viable against their bigger brothers.
I gig this pedal. It's incredible to carry in my guitar over my shoulder and my pedal board...that's it. Set up is a line in to the Iridium and line to my guitar. And I sound good (at least the gear, not my playing). In a mix and over a PA, absolutely indistinguishable from a tube amp.
i was skeptical of of the iridium at first but man the more demos ive seen the better it sounds. That "room" control sounds killer too.
That's the biggest draw for me. If you play it with headphones it sounds like you're in the room with a cranked amp. It's insane.
@@ZackSeifMusic what about without headphones ?
@@grunntalll sounds great! I literally just put out a full length review on my channel on dialing it in for live use with monitors.
@@ZackSeifMusic great thanks, ill check it out
Thanks to the Strymon Iridium I can now get the Train to band rehearsals and most gigs.
I only need to take a Nano+ pedaltrain and a guitar case.
Strymon ftw
I used to do telephone tech support and I'll never forget the elderly woman referring to her modem and her "Imodium".
It should be an always on pedal imho, change the on/off and add a clean boost that can be set pre or post gain for soloing.
100% agree.
I’ve been playing since 1974 and have had every amp in the book. I love old amps, but the new IR technology and the Iridium pedal is amazing. I’ll keep my old amps but I basically go direct every where I play. Just guitar and pedal board.
I try to not be a Strymon fan boy. But everything they make sounds awesome. And the other thing about their pedals is they sound good on every setting.
I feel you man. Its embarrassing how good their gear sounds and how much of my timbre is "activate Strymon".
Well Anderton's didn't accomplish that. There were some bad sounds coming out of that Strymon.
I'm considering joining the club
Great stuff. Sounds great. I've been working as a technician for over 20 years on fairly sizable bands (not mentioning any names, but ones that can sell a good few thousand tickets a night) and so many of them use amp simulation. Whether it be Fractal, Line 6 etc... We spend the load-in building walls of empty cabinets each day on stages just for eye candy. The guitars are usually going straight into a module behind the wall of speakers and then into the mixer. The sound is always better as the engineer has complete control and none of the "officianados" in the crowd are any the wiser.
Personally I love these kind of products. They are the future. Valves sound great, but mainly in small spaces or recording studios in my opinion.
Shaky Blues are you always commenting this in any strymon irridium contents?
@@rizkyyudhistira8669 have I said this before? 😂
yea... i dont know.. deja vu...man i got confused tbh 😂
Not many bands these days have the cash to carry a crew just for amp maintenance etc.
Running loud amps onstage is archaic. Small amps or modelers.
I would really love it if Danish Pete would review this pedal! I always enjoy is take on gear!
Agreed especially with very bluesy amps the vox and fender . Didn't really like Chapman on the guitar for this one
I'm torn between buying this, an HX stomp, or both...
Strymon is always awesome. A bit pricey, but very good as well. A good size multi effects from strymon would be certainly a go to for me.
Strymon make your own guitar processor already.
@@0megalul309 idk their competitors are surpassing them in terms of price lately. I think that if they offered a simpler IR rig, say a Sunset/Blue Sky/Iridium that would be more than anyone needs to do a straight to front of house gig
Not gonna happen when they can charge these prices for packaging roughly the same hardware in different color boxes with different software.
People are currently paying almost $1500 for three pedals. Regularly... Until the idiots stop doing that, I doubt we’ll see a combined unit.
@@PerryCodes This right here. I'm not going to bitch, I have three Strymon pedals, but I could get 98% of the sound I'm hearing for a third of the price now. When they came out they were offering features nobody else could compete with, but now everybody has stepped up their game.
Just buy HX Stomp and forget about Strymon
The demos of this pedal keep getting better!
Luke Robinett then watch Sweetwater’s.
As a Helix-owner I'd go for a Strymon-based pedal-board tomorrow.
This is pure shit! two shit pedals for 760! do they think we are stupid?
@@UnknownHumanoid why?
Now I have something to get myself for Christmas
Someone at Andertons has upped their video editing. You guys were always good, this video was great to listen to, and a joy to watch.
The ax8 gives you the best of both worlds. It has the physical knobs for all the basic amp settings, and you you can do a deep dive into all the other settings via an iPad app if you want...
I bought an HX Stomp recently to expand my pedalboard and as backup for gigs should an amp fail. Tried it straight into the desk at rehearsal and the rest of the band liked it. I prefer a live amp on the floor, but the band levels were more manageable, the mix better and likely to suit smaller venues we play where I can't get the amp to sing without being too loud. Interesting process.
Iridium is dope. Nashville in a box. Combined with a Flint, and damn....
Slap a compressor and basic boost of somekind you'd have an entire rig that could cover 90% of everything a gigging person may need.
Lee's playing has really improved!
I bought a Torpedo Captor to run my amp into my iD14 interface and DAW. I do not use it though, even though I prefer its sound. No point putting wear and tear on my amp just for playing at home. Amp modelling is near enough for that I find. I use a free Le Pou Brit amp plugin with Two Notes. Then add reverb and delay etc in DAW. I have been thinking about getting an outboard unit for amp modelling, so I can use it with pedals. This thing sounds legit, although there is stiff competition out there.
p.s. I like that little blues acoustic thing at the end.
Sounds good, not the best I've heard not the worst.
Everything sounds good on youtube! Wait to see it when you play live in a gig! Sound's like bullshit! Digital shit except Kemper is not worth. You better save another 750 and buy the Kemper for the double price but you have so much more stuff and so much more versatility!
Sounds great, not sure, if it can keep up with a Kemper; the question is, how it "feels", when you play with it
Captain didn't like the way it felt and he said so.
I’m talking about Strymon, no problem with Andertons. Great shop.
We were waiting for a review with an overdrive pedal, thanks andertons!
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Top notch editing as ever.
How about a review of the full Fender new pedal lineup (or, based on the marketing mail I'm getting - Peddle lineup)?
yes 12:50 was Captain.
As President bush would have elegantly said, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.'
Good playing once again.
Soooooo, do I sell my kemper? Please do an Irridium vs Kemper vs Helix stomp!
No please don't! That's a light weight getting in the ring with a heavy weight.(Kemper) and really it's apples to oranges anyway/
Yes! Please do this andertons
Man, the production is off the charts... That 'stache bit was so good.
Kudos, guys
Why are you adding Logic reverb effects when the pedal you're supposed to be demo'ing has that handy room knob?
I think it's because this is how many people will treat there iridium in post. At a venue, with direct in signals, it's likely that some reverb will get added through the mixing console, and in a recording setting almost everyone will add a reverb chain. The room knob is more to simulate the response the "microphone" would be picking up from the room. Turning it up all the way is more like using a ribbon mic about 4 feet or so from the cab (this measurement could be way off) where the figure of 8 pattern is picking up the response of the room. This isn't really the same application that regular reverbs would be used for on a signal.
just ordered this. I'm not into the endless knobs of a kemper or some pedal i have to program using a mobile app. This is is way easier with three trusted presets that kinda cover most sounds that guitar users need.
Can't say I'm really impressed... Especially with all the great solid state and floor board gear coming out lately.
agreed, was expecting more for that price ...
Watch other demos. They made it sound like everything else. Quite meh
Strymon should definitely make their own version of the Helix or POD.
EVERYONE would probably want to buy it.
OR make a pedalboard switcher the size of the MultiSwitch. I would buy that.
Ryan Lauderdale it would cost $13,000. Nobody could afford it haha
On point with the editing again guys!
I love how these videos are edited.
i had forgotten that danish pete was behind the scenes during the chappers era!
8:58 "I like things". Me too!
Dream gig rig is Iridium + Sunset + Bigsky + Volante 👌🏻🕶✌🏻
doesn't sound bad, but with the price they are asking, you aren't far from being able to get an HX Stomp, which sounds just as good, and has WAY more options to it.
Id love to see a head to head because from all the clips Ive heard, this sounds so much more realistic than current offerings to me.
Finally a product that i would consider buying....but still not available in Canada...come on Strymon get those units out.
Was this video all recorded direct? Sounded great!
Sooo close, needs a jcm 800 setting for us hard rock guys. This is a classic rock/ country gain pedal. Even with a boost pedal it will sound mushy.
The sound of a really cranked amp without the really cranked amp is exactly what I'm after.
What’s the signal path from the Iridium here? What do folks recommend as a suitable power amp to pair with it? Pedal baby? Seymour Duncan?
whats the signal chain? Running direct into line in, instrument in, di box?
Strymon doesn’t seem to be interested in competing with the super expensive kemper or axe fx processors. I like their approach. Not every guitar player wants/needs a super computer and access to all amps in the world. Waiting for my iridium :)
I hope you guys do a blindfold challenge with this one!
The faux ending at 44 seconds was awesome. I love your guys channels.
Why use any reverb from Logic Pro? We are here to hear the pedal
Iridium is also the name of Les Paul's jazz club in New York,
In my opinion it should have been a bigger format pedal, like the big sky. Have a send/return option, and have 100 presets, and a boost. I don’t want to mess around with midi, or the need to have a midi controller on my pedalboard.
“Not bad”. Ringing endorsement.
Incredible guys … i like this demo ...
Those pedals are amazing
The interface seems to me to be influenced by the old Tech 21 boxes with the three-way switches. Wonder how they compare sound-wise?
So where does the mods and delay go?
Honestly sounds good! If the HX Stomp wasn’t a thing I’d get this in a heartbeat!
I’m sure this this is killer, but I have to imagine the HX Stomp is WAY more versatile for just a bit more coin. How’s it sound vs the GFI I wonder?
The HX Stomp is indeed way more versatile. Sound quality aside (i.e. which one "sounds better") the reason this makes sense for some people is the simplicity. No interface needed, just turn some knobs like you would on an amp and flip the switch to the chosen IR. It also doesn't have weird power requirements.
@@bonchie1 oh yeah! I totally agree. im trying to talk my other guitarist into it because he uses a kinda bunk DI/sim. so this is like a super charted version. its just hard for me to want to leave all the extra stuff on the table that the HX offers and pay ALMOST the same. but I have no doubt that this is a killer product for the right players.
Fantastic invention. I would also be interested in a strymon multi effects which included the iridium
How did NuX manage to make their knockoff (solid Studio) before the Strymon came out?
What’s the best way for me to sit on the floor and play this as my amp? Have it go through and amp or get a good speaker?
Reminds me of the old Amoy adverts. Go straight to wok, with Amoy.
Has anyone tried this against the new Friedman IRX? I recently bought one and might return it for this instead because it’s more versatile…but…if the Friedman sounds better because of the real tubes….ill keep it
I almost pulled the trigger on this, but the price point is an issue.
3 amps and 9 cabinets. £399
Helix Stomp: 0ver 300 amps and effects including looper, 3 footswitches, gapless switching, LCD screen, software editor etc etc: £429
I love the simplicity of this, but are the sims so good that it's worth saving £30 and not getting the Helix Stomp?
If they made a smaller, simpler one with just the chime amp model and cabs for example, and the room verb, i'd be into that for £150.
MB821 The Stomp is great if you want all of those features. Personally I’d rather the Iridium because I don’t like menus and LCD screens. I also don’t use many effects. If the Iridium is instead of an amp, the price is very good, £399 for 3 amps and 9 cabinets vs say Fender Blues Junior or Vox Ac15 for £500+
Just got mine today. As soon as i got done with 20 minutes of noodling around, I ordered an ES-5. Took my two-notes le clean, REVV G2, soul food and Binary Cab sim pedal and a couple others I had laying around to Guitar Center and walked out with enough to pay for it. Just cleared up more room than the ES-5 will take, and now I'll be able to control a DD-500, RV-500, EQ-200 & the Iridium and it's 200 Presets via MIDI. I'll run all of those mentioned through channel 1, leaving 4 channels for whatever, probably my boost pedal, comp pedal and this little Tone City Sweet Cream that never seems to leave my board because it's so awesome and useful. I've seen one write-up on the ES-5 that suggest using a channel on the es-5 for a volume pedal. I dunno. I'll see. My volume pedal is the Thru-Tone Ernie Ball Jr mod & has my boards buffer in it. I dunno. We'll see. Anyway, this thing blew away my already lofty expectations. Just using it as another pedal seems a waste. If you haven't gone down the midi road, this pedal should send you there. 200 presets? Beyond a game changer. This is like BC vs AD from a pedal board musical perspective.
Sorry..what's an ES-5 ?
Its actually 300 presets on the Iridium with midi.
Confused as to how one would power a cabinet with one of these as the Captain mentioned near the end?
You can turn off the cab, plug the pedal into a full range, flat response solid state amplifier (Powerstage 170, for example), ant then to a cab.
Is it possible to have the cab sim on for one output and off for the other on all settings? I'd like to use this for bass, sending the amped signal to my old solid state amp and the cabsimmed signal to the PA
you guys really need to check out the taurus stompboard line
would have been nice to hear Pete demo this. Rob is a nice chap, but he plays like the a kid sat in his bedroom. Noodling about, strumming a few out of tune chords chopping and changing. Its all over the place.
Can I use an expression pedal to pan between two amp sims like pearl jam used to do between fender and marshall and anything between?
Elad Besserglik that’s a really interesting idea
Would have been better, if you'd left the external reverb off. Came to hear the pedal not the pedal into a logic patch
You know Rob was just chomping at the bit to get to the part of the demo that happens at 17:37
JFC, it almost doesn't need the Sunset in front. This thing goes from Malcolm Young to George Lynch all on its own.
This is amazing. Game changer.
Amazing sounds!
Stereo output will only works with an stereo cable coming from the last pedal on the chain.
What were you hearing in the room and what were you using? Monitors?
Anyone know if this can be plugged into a powered cab? My worry is using this is a live setting or practice setting where you don’t have the option of going direct into a PA
Ryan Flinn get something like I have which is the headrush frfr 108! Very loud and easy to transport
Faithaven I’m just now seeing this comment, I’ve just ordered the iridium and the headrush 112
Great options and combinations. How does the Radial Direct Drive compare to this new gadget?
Actually , since you mention it.. my first question is exactly that.... Iridium vs Kemper? especially if I don't want to model my own amps with it at first. My second question is, how do you do wet dry with modeling, or is it even worth it? You just put two of them on the board? Or two kempers? Does wet dry work as well with digital as it does with analog?
One thing you can do is place a mono 'null cab' IR as one of the IR's of the cab slots, but leave a standard IR cab on the other side. This will allow you to send the amp and cab signal to one side (PA) and just amp modeling to the other ('wet' amp).
To bad it doesnt have xlr input....what DI box did u guys using???
These 2 pedals are the dream, ultimate pedalboard of many guitar players right now. I'm going to sell my engl invader and torpedo live, buy those 2 and use excess money for synthesizers.
these 2 pedals are pure shit m8! for this price you get a tube amp! This is nothing but a shitty digital modeling that will never sound good when it's loud! Headrush Pedalboard makes so much more for about the same price! And the modeling for the amps are so much better.
This soundslike shit! They just hype for shit here so convince you it's awesome! However they will never use this shit!
And cab modeling??? you find better cab simulators for 250! not 330! And you don't really need it!
For 650 you can get the BluGuitar AMP 1 for example which is a tube amp in a bedalboard size.
18:30 "that's great man". I'm so sick and tired of their bullshit! "It's my new favored thing!" my ass!
a fantastic video! I have a doubt. Would it be possible to make intentional couplings with Iridium? Thank you.
So - Chappers wants a Sunset+Blue Sky+Iridium+amp in one unit.
Nearest answer = powered Kemper.
or
H&K Black Spirit Combo - get the speaker too!
or
Boss TAE/CabM, given the right input.
The market is missing the right box - the one that has enough knobs to twiddle, but not too many, and can be powered, be in a full range cab or in it's own box or on the floor - essentially the Kemper range + a speaker option and more user friendly.
Boss/Roland can churn out half decent combos these days - as HP42 pointed out recently Boss are great at hardware but their software interfaces suck. If they can collaborate with JHS on the AngryDriver why not Strymon for a Strymon box or combo?
Call it a Waza, make it a 150W class AB 2*12 and charge 1.5-2k for it (with the guts of a Blue Sky/Timeline etc).
Does it bother anyone else that it doesn't have an "effects loop" between the virutal amp and cab?
No, because what would be the point? Effects loops in amps are a necessary compromise because it's not possible to run the effects totally post the speaker like in a studio. Preference is typically to have your effects clean in a loop, not affected by breakup. Putting everything after the IR accomplishes that to it's highest level.
@@bonchie1 You're right... I think I forgot that the output is still line level!
@@bonchie1 Not sure about what you're saying there however an fx loop runs between the pre and power stages and definitely gets affected by PT break up.
Marshall with 8 x 12 sounds great,,, everything else is just a bit flat?
Vox on low gain setting is fantastic bro
Deluxe with Vibrolux cab is my favourite
Just out of interest i thought this sounds great but i have a helix stomp and wondered how close i can get with just one amp and cab block plexi normal. Gets pretty dam close far as im concerned with my prs ce 24 listening through a Yamaha hs5. Using a 4x12 greenback 25 stock cab 121 ribbon mic some early reflections in the cab section act as the 'room' on this pedal. Dialed in some similar setting as to this video bearing in mind 2oclock on the iridium is a maxed out gained plexi (after that is modded marshal territory) and its sounds close enough to me. The crazy feature set of the stomp makes me think the iridium is just outclassed. But hey i would reserve that definitive judgement till a side by side comparison.
@andertons please do a test between this and the stomp just amp and cab, as i got my stomp for about £450 and this pedal costs £400. would be very interesting...
I'd like to see a comparison using the same IRs.
Cap'n Lee NEEDS that 'stache!
I thought it's also gonna be with two channels. The 'Fav' function fills a bit in that role, but it's not the same. Also, why there's no FX loop?
This is a pre-amp. The FX loop goes between the pre-amp and the amp. So just treat the output of this as the send of the FX loop.
Cool concept, but sounds a little harsh and fizzy in the top end on all drive settings. Also, no DI out?!
Of course there's a DI out!!
Nope, there's a line output, but no balanced DI out (uses XLR, the connector you sometimes see with 3 pins instead of jack)
@@arbitermatt Unbalanced = quarter inch which is what the Iridium offers.
Balanced = 3 pins which for the Iridium a DI box would be required to change quarter inch in to 3 pin out.
@@PieIX Plenty of devices like this feature a balanced DI out - better for long cable runs, for example feeding mixing desks without any interference.
However what this device has is a line out for a jack lead only, which is fine for short cable runs but is also succeptable to noise on a large stage where cable runs will be longer... fair enough you could just line into a separate DI box, but at this price and for this sort of unit it's a basic feature that I'd like to be included.
@@arbitermatt Agreed for the price that should have been a basic.
Was this all recorded direct?
Who wants a pedal that replaces buying more gear? I want more amps/heads and cabs and don't need a pedal that makes me question buying more stuff. Should call these modellers GASX.