Strymon Iridium Amp & Cab Modeller Demo
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Chappers & Cap sit down with Strymon's take on the amp modeller / IR cab simulator - introducing the Iridium. 3 Matrix-Modelled amp models onboard, 9 built-in cabinet IRs (you can also load your own), 24 bit/96kHz specification - Strymon don't mess about!
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If you're looking for the ultimate pedalboard-based guitar amp and cab simulator - the Strymon Iridium is the answer. Delivering the sound of a world class tube amp with a perfectly matched stereo speaker cab in a great-sounding room, this innovative pedal packs all of that functionality and more into a compact Strymon stompbox enclosure.
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For anyone whose curious, Iâve 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 doesnât 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 wouldnât sound very good either.
How much is the Kemper vs the Stomp?
Rizzaxc yeah you can but it wonât 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 .
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. Iâve already recorded with the IR from the Deluxe and I was surprised that it actually sounded plenty good, so Iâm pretty sure this setup will end up working out.
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
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 , Iâm 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.
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.
On point with the editing again guys!
Top notch editing as ever.
We were waiting for a review with an overdrive pedal, thanks andertons!
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The demos of this pedal keep getting better!
Luke Robinett then watch Sweetwaterâs.
I used to do telephone tech support and I'll never forget the elderly woman referring to her modem and her "Imodium".
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 âtrickâ that makes them viable against their bigger brothers.
Man, the production is off the charts... That 'stache bit was so good.
Kudos, guys
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 ?
Amazing sounds!
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 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
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.
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 canât afford them and doesnât wanna move them this is wonderful. And a headphone jack!
Iâve 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. Iâll keep my old amps but I basically go direct every where I play. Just guitar and pedal board.
You missed the three âroomâ 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). Itâs in the manual.
Incredible guys ⊠i like this demo ...
The faux ending at 44 seconds was awesome. I love your guys channels.
Love the Strymon stuff!
Those pedals are amazing
This is amazing. Game changer.
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
Iâm talking about Strymon, no problem with Andertons. Great shop.
You guys never fail to make me laugh, keep up the good work
Now I have something to get myself for Christmas
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.
Strymon doesnât 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 :)
Ugh, now I need one!
Fantastic invention. I would also be interested in a strymon multi effects which included the iridium
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? đ
yea... i dont know.. deja vu...man i got confused tbh đ
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.
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...
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 love how these videos are edited.
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
How about a review of the full Fender new pedal lineup (or, based on the marketing mail I'm getting - Peddle lineup)?
Great options and combinations. How does the Radial Direct Drive compare to this new gadget?
I'm torn between buying this, an HX stomp, or both...
a fantastic video! I have a doubt. Would it be possible to make intentional couplings with Iridium? Thank you.
Sweet vid Dudes đđ€đ
Rory is on đ„
I watch on the iPad and am always dropping it on my chest! It really wakes you up when start to fall asleep!
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.
Dream gig rig is Iridium + Sunset + Bigsky + Volante đđ»đ¶âđ»
I think it could be cool, to here the full strymon rig, like the kinden of board that you talked about... so all the stymon pedals in a sensible order and se what that board coukd produce..! Everyone of them i a chain đ€đ
Love - from Denmark đ
Lee's playing has really improved!
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?
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 weâll 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
Honestly sounds good! If the HX Stomp wasnât a thing Iâd get this in a heartbeat!
Finally a product that i would consider buying....but still not available in Canada...come on Strymon get those units out.
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 hope you guys do a blindfold challenge with this one!
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!
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
âNot badâ. Ringing endorsement.
8:58 "I like things". Me too!
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.
whats the signal chain? Running direct into line in, instrument in, di box?
Was this video all recorded direct? Sounded great!
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 thatâs a really interesting idea
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
Next song for The Andertones album - 20p in The Jar(rrrooo)
The sound of a really cranked amp without the really cranked amp is exactly what I'm after.
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
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?
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.
Very Cool
So where does the mods and delay go?
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.
Iridium is also the name of Les Paul's jazz club in New York,
To bad it doesnt have xlr input....what DI box did u guys using???
That old timey moustache bit lololol đđđđđ
Your video editor is irreplaceable. I hope he/she gets the appreciation and pay he/she deserves :)
Whatâs 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?
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.
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).
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
Reminds me of the old Amoy adverts. Go straight to wok, with Amoy.
What were you hearing in the room and what were you using? Monitors?
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!
i had forgotten that danish pete was behind the scenes during the chappers era!
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.
what is the output from the iridium going to? pa? cab? sounds great, but curious!
We are hearing the direct recording of the output, they probably have something like studio monitors
How do you hear what your playing with a cabinet?
Shane Deel inears monitor
Thanks was hoping you would review this - Danish Pete Iridium Vs the real thing blindfold challenge please!
How did NuX manage to make their knockoff (solid Studio) before the Strymon came out?
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 ÂŁ450 and this pedal costs ÂŁ400. would be very interesting...
I'd like to see a comparison using the same IRs.
Cap'n Lee NEEDS that 'stache!
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.
The mystery gear under that loud hat up front.
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.
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 donât want to mess around with midi, or the need to have a midi controller on my pedalboard.
Blindfold challenge!!
Bluguitar amp one just released iridium and have the mercury edition too. This has a power amp in for you chappers and 4 channels.
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 donât 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 Iâm just now seeing this comment, Iâve just ordered the iridium and the headrush 112
Love me some PIUNCH!!!! 3:38