Leave Your Amp At Home And Go Direct With Gorgeous Tone - The Strymon Iridium Amp & IR Cab Guitar Pedal
Nothing reveals the true nature of your guitar and your playing like a world-class tube amp driving a perfectly matched speaker cabinet in a great sounding room. Now there is a pedal that truly delivers that sound and feel, with simple controls for effortlessly dialing in the perfect amp tone when going direct. Discover inspiring tube amp responsiveness, unprecedented impulse response speaker cabinet realism, and controllable natural sounding room ambience. Play out live with the exact same tones that you use at home or in the studio and access your multiple amp and cab setups by connecting Iridium directly to the house PA system.
Iridium gives you three iconic amplifiers, with a total of nine impulse response speaker cabinets that complement the tonality of the amp. Skip the hassle of lugging around or microphoning amps. Place Iridium on your pedalboard and send gorgeous stereo amplifier tones, stunningly realistic cabs, and lush room ambience direct to a recording interface or PA system. With Iridium, it’s a snap to dial in a direct tone that will truly inspire and sound great whether you are monitoring through in-ears, floor wedges, reference monitors, or studio headphones.
Three Iconic Tube Amplifiers - Chime, Round And Punch
Strymon's Matrix Modeling process captures all the subtleties and unique tonal qualities of each amplifier. Strymon has taken three iconic tube amps with distinct characters and mathematically modeled every aspect of their circuitry with absolute precision to deliver the response, feel, and inspiring experience of playing through the original amps at their best. Taking the process a step further, Strymon has hot-rodded each amp to provide an extended range of tonal options beyond what was available from the original designs.
Chime Amp (Based on the Brilliant Channel of a Vox AC30TB)
The amp that defined the guitar sound of the British Invasion. The model of the AC30TB Brilliant channel is jangly, bright, and chimey, providing air for subtle passages with a light touch, and bite when you want to dig in. For this amp, the Middle knob acts a Tone Cut knob, providing high-end roll-off just before the power tubes, per the original AC30 design. In addition to the full available gain of the original amp, toward the top end of the Drive knob's range of travel, we've added a frequency-shaped front end boost to tighten the low end while driving the amp further into saturation.
Round Amp (Based on a Fender Deluxe Reverb)
The Deluxe is one of the most recorded amps in history for good reason. This amp is clean, bright, and mid-scooped, with plenty of headroom. At higher Drive settings it delivers an overdriven sound unique to its architecture. We chose the Deluxe's Normal channel for its round tone that plays well with pedals. While preserving access to all the tones originally available with this channel, this model gives you something extra: a midrange control. With the midrange at noon, you get the original fixed-resistor value and standard tonal characteristics of the Deluxe. Turn down the midrange for a more scooped sound, or turn it up for tweed-era tones.
Punch Amp - Based on a Marshall Plexi (Super Lead Model 1959)
This powerful amp is meatier, with higher gain than the other two amps, and has a powerful midrange response. This amp features a buttery, smooth overdrive. At higher Drive settings it will deliver all the high gain distortion and growl this amp is known for, and then some. Setting the Drive control at around 2 o'clock gets you the maximum gain the original Plexi design allowed. Beyond that, this model has some additional gain on tap, giving you access to custom hot-rodded Plexi high gain tones.
Nine Stunningly Realistic Cabs
Iridium delivers full stereo 24bit 96kHz resolution for the entire 500 milliseconds of its speaker cabinet impulse responses. Until now, IRs of this resolution have only been available for use within studio recording software. Iridium’s breakthrough technology means you can use the very best impulse responses available, bringing maximum realism to your pedalboard. Iridium’s speaker cabinets offer a level of realism and responsiveness unprecedented in outboard effects, with nine premium Stereo IR Cabinets from OwnHammer, Celestion, cabIR and Valhallir (or else you can add your own).
- Deluxe Reverb 1×12" by OwnHammer: Vintage Fender Deluxe Reverb 1×12" open back combo with a 1978 Fender CTS ceramic 12" speaker
- Blues Junior 1×12" by cabIR: 1×12" Blues Junior cabinet with a Jensen C12N speaker
- Vibrolux 2×10" by cabIR: 1965 Fender Vibrolux 2×10" with Jensen C10NS speakers
- AC30 2×12" AlNiCo by OwnHammer: Vox AC30/6 open back 2×12" combo with 2001 Celestion T0530 Blue AlNiCo speakers
- 1×12" AlNiCo by Celestion: Celestion Blue AlNiCo speaker in a closed back 1×12" cab
- Mesa 4×12" by Valhallir: 4×12" Mesa Boogie halfback with two Celestion Black Shadow MC-90 and two ElectroVoice Black Shadow EVM12-L speakers
- GNR 4×12" by OwnHammer: 1971 Marshall 1960B “basketweave” 4×12" cabinet with 1971 Celestion T1221 G12M-25 speakers
- 2×12" Vintage 30 by Celestion
- Celestion Vintage 30 in an open back 2×12" cab
- Marshall 8×12" AlNiCo by cabIR: 1965 Marshall 8×12" re-issue full stack cabinet, with Celestion T652 AlNiCo speakers
SPECIFICATIONS
Ins, Outs, and Switches
- Stereo Input: (requires TRS adapter cable)
- Stereo Output: Operates at instrument and Line Level input sources; also includes a discrete transistor headphone amplifier
- Expression Pedal Input: Provides seamless morphing between knob positions (Expression mode), or a smooth pre/post volume control with logarithmic taper (Volume mode)
- USB Jack: for connecting to Strymon Impulse Manager software to add and edit your own speaker cabinet IRs; also compatible with Strymon MultiSwitch Plus for remote selection of up to 4 preset
- MIDI control: accessible via EXP Jack for remote parameter control and access to 300 preset locations (requires Strymon MIDI EXP cable or MIDI to TRS interface)
Audio Quality
- Ultra-low noise, high performance 24-bit 96kHz A/D and D/A
- converters provide uncompromising audio quality
- Super high performance SHARC and ARM co-processors
- 32-bit floating point processing
More
- Transparent Analog Buffered Bypass
- Strong and lightweight anodized black aluminum chassis
- 9V DC power supply included
- Power requirements: maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 500mA of current
- Dimensions: 4.5″ deep x 4″ wide x 1.75″ tall (11.4 cm deep x 10.2 cm wide x 4.4 cm tall)
- Designed and built in the USA
Manufacturer: Strymon
Model: Z12A-IRID
SKU: I629323-3-WHXA
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