Just delivered: St Rock React IR

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Looking forward to diving into this thing. Hard as shit to find these days.

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This seems to be pretty well regarded. Are they out of business? Why so hard to find?
 
The best load/IR option available. The thing is awesome. Decent attenuator too. I use some of my own IR blends and also @easstudios IRs who offers compensated IRs for the St Rock. Looking forward to hearing some amp demos with it!
 
joafink2 said:
The best load/IR option available. The thing is awesome. Decent attenuator too. I use some of my own IR blends and also @easstudios IRs who offers compensated IRs for the St Rock. Looking forward to hearing some amp demos with it!
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I honestly have no complaints with the Suhr I use but been wanting to see what’s up with these. Came all the way from Switzerland. Bought it from Euge V.
 
Bxlxaxkxe said:
I honestly have no complaints with the Suhr I use but been wanting to see what’s up with these. Came all the way from Switzerland. Bought it from Euge V.
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I was wondering who would've had one for sale...I've watched his videos on them before seems like a great unit. I wanted to try one of these against my Torpedo Live but haven't been able to find a used one. St. Rock still wasn't able to make/ship any when I emailed them in April.



 
Best loadbox I've tried so far... congrats on a great find!

Hope St Rock can get up and running with producing these again soon.
 
Bxlxaxkxe said:
I honestly have no complaints with the Suhr I use but been wanting to see what’s up with these. Came all the way from Switzerland. Bought it from Euge V.
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Very cool that this one came from Euge. Big fan of his channel. Hope you dig it.
 
I've got one of these, as well as a Suhr, Fryette and Driftwood. They're all cool. Changing the impedance response can be just the ticket on some tones. I think its definitely the best option as far as a load box with a built in IR loader (because the St Rock one supports longer IR's that preserve the sound of the IR). You can also load impedance compensation curves into the "Pre-IR" slot, and it has other cool features (that I admittedly never really use).

Looking forward to your clips with it.
 
easstudios said:
I've got one of these, as well as a Suhr, Fryette and Driftwood. They're all cool. Changing the impedance response can be just the ticket on some tones. I think its definitely the best option as far as a load box with a built in IR loader (because the St Rock one supports longer IR's that preserve the sound of the IR). You can also load impedance compensation curves into the "Pre-IR" slot, and it has other cool features (that I admittedly never really use).

Looking forward to your clips with it.
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As a pure loadbox, how do you rank the St. Rock, Fryette, and Driftwood? I assume the Fryette is a Powerstation?
 
So for those not in the know, what’s so good about the st rock?
 
Chronic Narnia said:
As a pure loadbox, how do you rank the St. Rock, Fryette, and Driftwood? I assume the Fryette is a Powerstation?
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The Driftwood hasn’t arrived yet, should have it in a day or two. They’re all slightly different sounding, depending on the amp you can get a slightly different response. I wouldn’t say one is better than another but it just opens up the possibility for more tones. Amps with no (or low) NFB are more reactive to the load so it’ll make more of a difference. Amps with more NFB are less fussy. Fryette is definitely a bit flatter than the others, so guess because it’s designed to go through another poweramp. React IR is a bit smoother and less hyped than the Suhr. I wouldn’t say one sounds better than another, it totally depends what you’re using and trying to do.

They do all have slightly different feature sets so if you can only have one, that may be a factor.
denialist said:
So for those not in the know, what’s so good about the st rock?
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The impedance curve sounds good, the IR software is decent (supports longer IR’s than the competition, can make IR’s, has power amp modelling, reverbs, good stock IR’s, supports impedance curves), it has an attenuator, a through, SPDIF, headphones etc

For the money that’s a lot of good features.
 
easstudios said:
The Driftwood hasn’t arrived yet, should have it in a day or two. They’re all slightly different sounding, depending on the amp you can get a slightly different response. I wouldn’t say one is better than another but it just opens up the possibility for more tones. Amps with no (or low) NFB are more reactive to the load so it’ll make more of a difference. Amps with more NFB are less fussy. Fryette is definitely a bit flatter than the others, so guess because it’s designed to go through another poweramp. React IR is a bit smoother and less hyped than the Suhr. I wouldn’t say one sounds better than another, it totally depends what you’re using and trying to do.

They do all have slightly different feature sets so if you can only have one, that may be a factor.

The impedance curve sounds good, the IR software is decent (supports longer IR’s than the competition, can make IR’s, has power amp modelling, reverbs, good stock IR’s, supports impedance curves), it has an attenuator, a through, SPDIF, headphones etc

For the money that’s a lot of good features.
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I’ll be interested to see what you think of the Driftwood then. In general, I’m looking at it from the perspective of high gain amps…5150, Dual Rectifier, etc.
 
Just spent some time comparing the St Rock and the Suhr. I really like the St Rock- seems to have more controlled lows and highs and consequently more midrange. For more modern amps that have a lot of gain and low end, this is a good thing. With my marshalls, the Suhr makes them sound a bit bigger than the St Rock but has a little less midrange bite so it’s all a trade off. I could see myself using the st rock for modern amps, and the Suhr for anything classic marshally.

I’m glad I got the St Rock. I’ve been happy with the Suhr and was worried the value add from the st rock would be minimal but I’m really digging it. I wish the Suhr was a 1 space rack unit so I could tidy them both up
 
There is not too much to complain about St.Rock. What annoys me a lot is that 3.5mm headphone jack, as I use headphones really often. Studio device equipped with 3.5 mm jack is from another world (walkman world). In addition, I would welcome manual switching of the input signal source.

Soundwise, yes, it is pretty good. Apart from St.Rock, I also have Torpedo Live and St.Rock is noticeably better. I once measured the impedance curves and made a comparison video, maybe someone will be interested. Classic lab measurement. Generator, 8Ohm resistor, scope.

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