New Boss IR-2

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I've had one since launch. It's a great pedal for the price. I use it a lot to practice while the kids are sleeping. It records pretty well, but I still have to boost (and often double boost) to get any satisfactory gain structure. The tweed, 1959 and recto Sims are the only ones I've found any real use for. Running it through the powerstation or an fx loop is much the same. It needs a bit of persuading for some sounds, but it works well enough. It interacts with other pedals great too.

You can defeat the amp or cab sims which came in handy after I got the powerstation and wondered why it sounded like shit recorded line out (no IR, d'oh). You can load your own IR into it, but I'm pretty far behind my time with all that stuff... lol

RaceU4her said:
Can it load nam profiles?
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Again, I'm a bit of a technological dinosaur... but I hope so! I've been wanting to try some. I've heard a few guys using @2dor profiles and they sound killer.
 
romanianreaper said:
I got one probably a year or so ago. I did not like it at all but not sure what I was doing wrong. Maybe I didn't have a great setup for it or something else.
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SgtThump said:
I play one venue that's a silent stage with in-ears maybe once or twice a year. I didn't have any other modelling stuff, so I bought the IR-2 to use for those gigs. I made a little pedalboard with it. I think it sounded just fine. I'm not a modelling expert, but it didn't sound horrible or anything. I used it for 2 or 3 gigs. It was '90s rock.

I still keep it in my backpack as a backup.
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Al Chapo said:
I've had one since launch. It's a great pedal for the price. I use it a lot to practice while the kids are sleeping. It records pretty well, but I still have to boost (and often double boost) to get any satisfactory gain structure. The tweed, 1959 and recto Sims are the only ones I've found any real use for. Running it through the powerstation or an fx loop is much the same. It needs a bit of persuading for some sounds, but it works well enough. It interacts with other pedals great too.

You can defeat the amp or cab sims which came in handy after I got the powerstation and wondered why it sounded like shit recorded line out (no IR, d'oh). You can load your own IR into it, but I'm pretty far behind my time with all that stuff... lol


Again, I'm a bit of a technological dinosaur... but I hope so! I've been wanting to try some. I've heard a few guys using @2dor profiles and they sound killer.
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Mmmm so looks like a decent device for ampless rig. Has to be expected considering the price I guess. Unfortunately with modelers and digital stuff in general you gotta be cautious with youtube demos due to the massive post production, and in fact in more than a few it sounds great for metal no stomp added. But then again, even in the Ola review (where it sounds quite convincing) he says it's just "Ok for the price", and in that demo the best sounding higain model is the recto with mids dimed anyway, so yeah. It's a shame cause looks comfy, no frills, no menu, fine with other stomps and you can load your own IR but if amp models are mostly meh then it's hardly gonna replace a tube amp for giggin, especially if FOH is not a slice of miracle. A good backup maybe, but might find even cheaper options there.
 
NAM (Neural Amp Modeler) is a free open source AI plug in that digitally captures. There is free software available. You can buy hardware that uses it.

I have not tried it. The reviews I have seen rate it better than everything for sound and feel other than ToneX rated equal.

Near as I can tell either the rest of them are going to incorporate it or be very limited.

Being free and better has it's advantages.
 
It's gonna be a big deal for digital players, and messy for those modelers that wont be able to include NAM even with firmware updates.

Which is one of my gripes about modelers in general, one may think it's a good compromise/cheaper way compared to tube amps, but you really are always chasing a moving train, and if you don't want your gear get outdated/unsupported very soon you need to keep yourself on track. And it's not always free.
 
NAM is a capture format that's being compared to the IR situation: nearly every modeler adopted a consistent format to load impulse responses, even if they also have their own proprietary cabinet simulation.

It seems like the momentum is for modelers to also adopt the NAM format to at least allow users to load in NAM profiles, even if they have their own proprietary capture algorithms or none at all (ie, Fractal just does modeling, but apparently the next gen product will have a block to load NAM profiles).

I think at least the biggest issue is that NAM profiles are resource hungry, but the latest version has a "lite" setting that's easier to handle. (But that also begs the question of what happens if/when the powers that be decide to update the NAM "standard" again.)
 
Zado said:
It's gonna be a big deal for digital players, and messy for those modelers that wont be able to include NAM even with firmware updates.

Which is one of my gripes about modelers in general, one may think it's a good compromise/cheaper way compared to tube amps, but you really are always chasing a moving train, and if you don't want your gear get outdated/unsupported very soon you need to keep yourself on track. And it's not always free.
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Yep, exactly. I think that is why a lot of folks struggle. It is this situation where you can have every amp in your imagination but you have to stay on top of updates, you have to spin knobs, and tweak, etc, etc. Meanwhile you can plug into one amp you like at your settings and just play.
 
On the IR pedal, how much latency is there when going into a computer?

I don’t fear the future, but I am not getting rid of tubes. I have a Tonex One and captured/moduled my Plexi with it. Not an exact 1:1 obviously, but it is pretty close and more tweakable/easier w/effects. It’s a cool sound. Don’t really care too much about the other available tones.
 
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