How I Set Up the Strymon Iridium - David Hislop IR's
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- In this video I cover how I approach dialing in this pedal to feel like an amp.
Check out my Amp Sim Tone Series that goes in to far more depth on production online:
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This video and examples are in STEREO, but it might not appear that way because I'm running stereo out of the headphone input through an 8th inch cable splitting to dual mono TS cable to my interface. I have found that the headphone jack provides more level and bass response.
The gear I'm using here is:
-Fender Jazzmaster with Lindy Fralin PAF's
-"Light gain stage" is my Benson PreAmp
-"Heavy gain stage" is my Kilt V2
-"Boost" is a Broken Arrow using its blue side boost.
-Compressor is a Tone Press
I have been using the Strymon Iridium as a little quiet apartment means of practice and demo tracking for the past few months. I've found a spot with it that works for me to feel about 70-80% of what I would hope to hear when playing in a live situation with amps.
There are definite drawbacks compared to real amps, but for a quiet set up, it's working for me.
The biggest hitter is using David Hislop's IR's. Grab them here:
www.davidhislo...
These IR's make the biggest difference for me because of their break up qualities, I like them a lot.
Enjoy!
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This video needs more views and attention, I’m blown away of how much better the iridium gets from these IR’s !!! Great tone
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please do more of these! So awesome! Loving the tone so much especially when the Kilt's red side was on.
Malcolm Tay 👌🏻🖤
This was perfectly what I needed. Thank you.
Please do a pedalboard rundown if you have time. Would love to see what and how you're using things with the iridium.
Thank you, this was very helpful! Hadn‘t payed much attention to the round setting, but with your idea of boosting mids and lowend and cutting the highs it became very usable for my sound!
I actually love the headphone out of iridium. Been connecting to our church soundsytem via headphone out for two years now i hear more lowend via hp out. I only wish strymon add an FX LOOP features via EXP in on top. I love the drives im getting out of the iridium.
Great tips! It’s amazing how much darker the round setting is with the stock IR’s. I’ve had some great results with some other IR’s but I may have to grab this Hislop one! If I had the controls set up this way on the stock ones though it would be so dark as to be unusable.
Yeah definitely set it according to what makes sense with your guitar specifically!
Regarding your point at minute 1:48 , I just want to say thank you so much for making the point about the "treble" frequencies in amp simulators. I've had a love/hate relationship with the Iridium. I don't think the "Round" setting sounds good on it's own but with the RevivalDrive it sounds AMAZING, however, I've been fighting that fizz and was hesitant to move the treble knob below 12 o'clock but saw your vid, did it and viola, now a SUPER AMAZING SOUND! Thanks again, cheers!
Love it! So glad
Your tone is better than worship tutorials guys
This video is gold! Thank you!
Thanks for content, hope to see videos of settings you're using now)))
If the Strymon guys are to be believed, the models are component level emulations... the mid control on the round model will render the bass and treble controls less effective as you turn it up and more effective as you turn it down... in other words, cranking the midrange makes your bass and treble adjustments surprisingly subtle.
Joshua Grammon that would make sense. And while true that I could probably lower the mids to cause the bass to be more apparent, I personally experience the mids and break up quality to suffer a little bit when I turn it down. But it’s still worth experimenting further. That’s what I’ve noticed though is with amp sims is they can feel a little tucked back in the mix and wanted to push the mids to help it feel more forward and amp like.
Nothing against mids, I personally keep the mids wide open... I prefer the tweedy-ness of the tonal character.
Really interesting to watch! Thank you
I’d love a video where you do this on the chime setting!
Josh Firlotte I’ll take a look in to that! That’ll probably be a good thing to get me to branch off of what I’m comfortable with and works for me and try something new 😄👌🏻
I will love that too, chime settings from you! Your taste is perfect!
Dude! I love your tone. Could you do a rig rundown? Also could you go over how you got the tone for the David Funk vid “Touch of Heaven”?
Thank you for this. I did pretty much everything you did and I really am blown away by the results. Really nice job.
I’m stoked to hear that! Thank you!
I did the same exact thing as well and the results were staggering. Nothing I tried even got close to this method in my book.
super helpful thank you🙏❤️🤙
Please do a chime side PLEASEEE
To my ear your over-compressed 12-20 percent. When you took it off my ears sighed in relief. Easy to get your ears overwashed and fatigued just like with reverb. Let your dynamics have a say so too! Or not, great video either way, thank you .
18:25 any tips on using fuzz with the Iridium? Seems I always have to set very little Drive on the Iridium to play well with fuzz.
wow! this is a greeeat video!🔥
The low end response that you focused on is a game changer! What kind of approach would you take with the Chime model?
James Ransom thanks man! In any scenario I would take the same approach with EQ. The focus in my opinion is getting the EQ flat and full. And then it’s a matter of setting up the break up amount in the proper place like described in the video. If these qualities are met, any amp usually works and then it’s just about the difference in break up quality.
Is it better to run your iridium straight into your audio interface? Or is it better to go stereo out from the iridium to a pinstripe line isolator and XLR out into the audio interface?
So the mid knob is for the fender changes the amp from blackface to tweed. Doesn’t change the mid range.
Love the tone! So are these pedals just going straight into your interface? No amp used at all? Just IR's?
Sorry, just seeing this. Yes straight in to my interface, no amp. Which is the helpful part of using these from time to time.
This sound is just amazing to my ears, crystal clear. Did you update a new settings with other IR's like York, do you want to share it ?
I haven't really messed with any other IR's at the moment besides Davids, they just work great for me.
thanks
Great Video, thanks!
How do you connect your Iridium with your audio interface through the headphone output? Which cable do you use therefor?
Thanks!! I’m just using an 8th inch cable out of the headphone jack that splits to two mono TS cable which goes to my interface
Do you use the headphone jack with split ts into DI into house? Or do you use the two outputs to DI? I seem to have full output and full mix into my headphone jack but don’t get the same result on my iridium output
@@bryceman944 the headphone out jack has additional power in the output and is active since most headphones don’t have amplifiers in them. The outputs are passive since usb interfaces and FOH consoles have power and more clean headroom. So the headphone out is just louder, which is perceived by our ears as “better”.
good job dude! sounds great!
Great video thank you so much! I am running my pedalboard in mono, so for your advice which IR configuration I should take G10 or Greenback G12M ?
That’s a tough call. It honestly depends on the way your guitar translates on them. Try your exact same set up on both speakers and see which one simply accomplishes the tones and frequencies your wanting and feels the best under your fingers.
Subscribed! Which Lindy Fralin PAFs are you using?
Modern PAF! I love them
Great Video! Curious, when you downloaded David Hislop's IR it gives you choice for different sample rates (I did 96KHz) and length (I did 500ms). What sample rates and length did you use for the downloaded IRs in the video
I’d have to double check, but I did the highest quality which I believe is what you listed there!
Is the Iridium last in your chain? Or do you run verb after it? Sounds killer!
Jay Pittard it is lady in the chain, similar to if you were plugging in to amps. I run verb before it just like if it were plugged in to amps. I’m a huge fan of wet effects going in to amps or amp sims because of the way the effects break up and scream with the amp when it’s driven.
Hey. So I saw on Instagram that you have also now messed around the the Walrus ACS1. Any chance you’d be willing to make a video just like this for that pedal???? 🙏🏻😎🎸
Just seeing your comment, I actually just released an in depth walk through and tone dial for both the Iridium and ACS1 to my current standards. Also, check out my latest youtube I just uploaded today comparing the two pedals.
classes.productiononline.com/p/amp-sim-tone
Is this pedal before or after your pedal chain?
What kind of cable is that you are using on the output?? like how are you getting the sound of the iridium into your computer to record? When I plug mine into an interface so I can record video, it sounds awful.
Michael Breach the cable is a simple 8th inch cable (aux/m, or headphone cable) that converts to two TS mono cables (a left and right typical TS cable). I found that cable on amazon for 8$. That then plugs in to my interface in input 1 and 2, left and right. So the questions is what sounds awful? Is it distorting? It’s probably clipping. Turn down the input gain on your interface. Or you can lower the level from the pedal.
Kenyon Reed thanks for the reply, it’s not exactly clipping... I’ve tried everything, even lowering the volume output of the iridium.. are you saying you plug into your interface using the headphone out jack? I’m using a scarlet focusrite solo so it only has one 1/4 inch input and one XLR. I have been running my pedalboard mono into the iridium and then just using the left out to go into the input if my scarlet focusrite solo.. is this the wrong way to go about it?
Michael Breach gotcha. Ya I’ve got a interface that has two 1/4 inch cable inputs. I’m going out of my iridium through the headphone jack that splits to dual 1/4 inch cable so I can run stereo. The way I’m running my pedal board stereo is by using a dual 1/4 Inch cable that turns to one TRS plug. So you can plug in to the one input of the iridium but it’ll be stereo
Hi! Which DH IRs do you use? G10 or G12? Or other ones?
Usually using G10!
Interesting that you keep it totally dry and don't any verb on the Iridium? Any specific reason for keeping that dialed down?
I don’t use any reverb on the pedal because I’m using stereo reverb from my Strymon Bigsky. I prefer to have an isolated, strong, dry signal and then have full control of my wet effects by my pedal board effects
Would this exact stereo IR setup work just as well in a mono setup?
Also, if run in stereo, how would it sum if our FOH is mono but our livestream broadcast is stereo?
Erik Hartley for the most part yes. It depends on what way you would be setting it up as mono. If you just pull one of the quarter inch cables out of your interface or DI box, then what you’ll have is just one side, one speaker. You’ll also only be capturing the one side of your wet effects. There are things I’ve seen that can sum a stereo image in to mono, and I notice it makes the effects not sit so directly on top of your tone. |||| If you run in stereo but FOH is mono it all depends on if they are summing your stereo image to mono or can only take one input from you. Either way, the results should be similar and I wouldn’t worry too much, but I would encourage them to start making their FOH mix stereo. 😄 and if your broadcast is Stereo, then you should be good to be stereo on broadcast unless your signal is first going to the FOH board, being summed to and then sent to broadcast.
Kenyon Reed thanks so much for the detailed response! I guess my main question, I’m summing everything to mono with my Source Audio Collider last in the chain, will I still get both cabs if I’m running a stereo tone with a different IR on each side, summed to mono? From what I understand with our church, the livestream is completely separate and it DOES NOT go to FOH first before it’s processed for broadcast. We’re currently working on getting setup for stereo on livestream but in the meantime, I just run a stereo rig that is summed to mono via the Collider by running one cable out. Livestream then uses a stereo spread plugin to give it the space. One I do go stereo, I do understand I’ll be using two channels. Thanks again!
Erik Hartley gotcha ok. Yeah it all depends on how that collider works. If it really is summing you’re stereo left in right in to mono and isn’t just grabbing one side and sending that, then it could still be somewhat capturing the different speakers on either side even though it’s mashed together
Where did you get that input cable? I'd love one like that
I got something made custom for me! It was a dual mono ts to stereo trs cable. Kind of like this:
TISINO 1/4 inch TRS Stereo to Dual 1/4 inch TS Mono Insert Cable Y-Splitter Stereo Breakout Cable Patch Cord - 3.3 feet www.amazon.com/dp/B07K59P692/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_w.8HFbT2TJVJE
What guitar is this? Pickups?
This was a Fender Jazzmaster with Lindy Fralin Modern PAF’s