Just got an iridium this week and very impressed with it.
Currently set as an edge of breakup clean fender tone and mid gain marshall or vox sound - haven't decided which I prefer yet.
Running some drive pedals into - bb preamp, jan ray sound great and add gain to the iridium nicely, but I need to add a volume lift for solos as well so wondered what people are using?
I'm using a keeley compressor at the moment with low ratio and adding output gain but I'd prefer to put that back at the start of the chain so I'll probably add a clean boost. I'm tempted to try a gladio or unit67 as I could use them when I'm running into a regular amp and bypassing the iridium.
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I'm using both a Klon clone and A Way Huge Green Rhino (tube screamer) for boost and a little more drive. They work great with it.
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I can that sounding great - iirc you play a lot of function gigs - what did you do for a clean sound? roll back the guitar volume or bypass with iridium?
Helix boost/drive - iridium loop-delay-reverb, then I went tinkering and tried pedals into the iridium Jhs @+ , Raff of tone and my favourite a boss SD1, just fabulous stacking gives you everything.
for my money the strymon is way more amp like than the Helix, just wish it had a loop.
I have pre ordered a Quad cortex but won’t be selling the above set up until I have had a few days with the QC
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I can only play through headphones at home so I have spent a lot of time and money trying to get a set up I’m happy with.
I have a Friedman 3 channel Small Box for live work,
Do you use a PA or FRFR for your rig?
Live these days I'm pretty much always going straight into the PA with in-ear monitoring. Sometimes with a valve amp instead but still in ears.
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