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Looks and sounds great, although I can't see anywhere actually selling it.... have heard it's $599 in the US, so will probably be around £600 here.
Think I might take the plunge....!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Not being flippant, I've just never used IRs and if I did can't see any scenario (in a function band set up) where I'd ever need more than 3 or 4 to cover the main cab types.
Could be interesting if it has all the 200/500 series stuff in it with some extra bits
It's a convenience thing - they don't want to hook up to their PC's to swap them around to audition them, they just want them available.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I'm not so far down the other end of the 'all you need is a Bandit/HRD and a HSS Strat to cover every gig' spectrum that I don't understand its nice to have the choice, but still.
Sorry to tag 3 of you - fancy merging this with the other GX100 thread - both posted within mins of each other. Thanks!
But - even if the live approach is very different that still needs the IRs to be auditioned at rehearsals at gig volume before a choice can be made.
An IR is really just another variable setting. You don't pick where your treble control is going to be at home and assume it will work without adjustment at rehearsal at full volume or at every different venue.
So you buy a modest IR pack of a 4x12 loaded with V30 speakers.
That IR pack will probably come with over a hundred different actual IR files
It will have a dozen or so different mic options. Then for each of those mics there will be close medium and far mic distances, and maybe really far room mic as well. Then for each of those, on axis and varying degrees of being off-axis. Sometimes there will be a blend of mics as well - again with an individual file for every permutation.
And this is just for a 4x12 with V30s in it.
Even if you already know your favourite mic for this 4x12 is the good old SM57, you'll still have far more than 16 IRs to audition.
Do you really want to have to take your PC with you just to swap them round rather than just twisting a knob to A/B them?
I think everyone calms down and does end up picking some favourites, but then there are some in big covers bands who have a patch per song and within that patch have a different IR for clean and dirty sounds.
16 really isn't a lot.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd