MistaGuitah
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Man I love this thing. The IRs sound great, reactive load is great, the headphone and aux are very handy. I'm so glad I didn't get the UOAX.
blackba":3q4pvh2r said:Loving my Suhr RLIR, have downloaded a few Celestion IRs to expand what I want for all my amps.
For me its been a game changer. On Sundays I went from a mic'ed cab to the Suhr RLIR, we use IEMs. The mic'ed cab was in the back , but we still had to be mindful of volume. With the Suhr RLIR, I can set the volume to where the amp sounds the best. On my mark IVA, I ran it at 3 on the master volume, rarely been able to get it that loud. Was interesting for me was that it was the sweet spot for what I wanted and going louder wasn't better.
I am redoing my music room, so having to deal with a bedroom setup and now using the Suhr RLIR for a headphone rig.
So far the Suhr RLIR is one of the best purchases I have made in a while. Using an old laptop bag as a case, which works great for transport.
Wow I guess my issue wasn't an isolated issue it sounds like. I'm wondering if the electronics/IR loader fails from too much heat. The waza is pretty clear about having distance and space. It came with rack ears and needs a minimal 1u above and below to dissipate heat.Manxmusicman":32hguu00 said:I’ve had the SuhrIr and now have the torpedo live. The Suhr was my first venture into irs and I was a bit disappointed. I found the stock ir’s too fizzy and within one evening while I was experimenting with some ownhammer ir’s the display stopped working giving me no idea what cab I was on. In addition to that I have to say the mechanism for loading them onto the rlir is very clunky compared to the slick software with the two notes.
errrrrl":2yww4aod said:I had my Suhr RL IR since December and used it almost every night since hehe. It crapped out on me during the end of May. Started with the display sometimes locking up and not being able to switch IRs. Powercycling fixed it. Right around the same week the Waza tube amp expanders were going to ship the display stopped working completely. I was able to still switch IRs but not see the numbers. Then the next day it was stuck on an IR with no display. I then preordered the Waza. Contacted Suhr and the day I shipped it back for warranty I got the Waza.
Anyway I have both and if I disable all the bells and whistles on the waza they are very similar sounding, except the waza can change its reactive load types and get a different feel. Not a huge difference but I can hear it, changes the pick attack a bit. The waza's headphone amp is definitely way stronger than the Suhr. Playing with headphones on the waza sounds full and thick and the suhr sounded a bit thin but in recordings they are similar so not a huge deal. To me the Suhr has more high's than the waza but also has less low end which is something that always bugged me even with v1. It's not so noticeable if you play clean or rock but if high gain and palm mutes are a thing for you it is noticeable. I first noticed this when my buddy picked up a Torpedo captor. I couldn't replicated the lowend he was getting without drastically changing my amp settings. Anyway i'm going to hold on to it for now I still think its great and way more smaller and lighter than the waza.
shredhead7":3eerorty said:blackba":3eerorty said:Loving my Suhr RLIR, have downloaded a few Celestion IRs to expand what I want for all my amps.
For me its been a game changer. On Sundays I went from a mic'ed cab to the Suhr RLIR, we use IEMs. The mic'ed cab was in the back , but we still had to be mindful of volume. With the Suhr RLIR, I can set the volume to where the amp sounds the best. On my mark IVA, I ran it at 3 on the master volume, rarely been able to get it that loud. Was interesting for me was that it was the sweet spot for what I wanted and going louder wasn't better.
I am redoing my music room, so having to deal with a bedroom setup and now using the Suhr RLIR for a headphone rig.
So far the Suhr RLIR is one of the best purchases I have made in a while. Using an old laptop bag as a case, which works great for transport.
What does your signal chain look like? What you described sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. In the past I tried an attenuator and it just made the sound so fuzzy and fizzy, it was not the same. Currently, I run an effects processor in the loop and use that to control the volume so that I can keep it down for the kids, but when they aren't around and crank it up, the amp comes to life. I would love to be able to have close to that sound, but at a reasonable volume (and not going digital).
The waza tube amp expander is a Swiss army knife of a load box, sort of like a Suhr rl ir + Powerstation 2 + UA ox in one. And a usb interface built in. There is two Z knobs on the front with 4 selections each that control the type of reactive load you want (16 total rl types). It's also an amazing attenuator that doesn't color your sound. Has a 100 watt solid state amp built in and can also be used to crank up lower wattage amps. Has stereo XLR outs and a FOH out. Has built in delays, reverbs, equalizers, its own cab modeling with mics and room and can load up to 4 third party IRs. Can take up to I think a 150 watt head, rack mountable, heaphone out etc. Also has an fx loop that can be set for parallel or series. It's got a lot going on.MistaGuitah":1pbje9xf said:So someone please tell me with some qualification to separate things: First, the general word on the Internet is that Ownhammer has the best IRs, but shouldn't Celestion IRs just as good? Second question pertains to the Waza Expader thing somebody mentioned. I did not know it served the same functions as the Suhr IR.... Well, I've known about it since it came out but never learned anything about it. I'm intrigued even though I'm very satisfied with my Suhr IR because all the Waza stuff I've used has been superb.What is that device all about in a nutshell?
Literally just got mine today and I'm liking it so far, but the amp control jack being only TS is a bummer. I would love to be able to use it to switch my BE50 and Wildwood Smallbox.zuel69":1t4vliqd said:I picked up the Boss TAE and it sounds great as do the effects. I have run into 2 issues with the unit, the parameters on the effects can not be midi controlled..Dammit! I want to be able to control the Delay mix with a midi CC# and an expression pedal..the other is the amp CTRL, is only TS instead of TRS which kind of kills it for complete control of my Friedmans.
Haven't tried the IR's yet but I have updated it to the latest firmware and it worked but was definitely not as slick as the Fractal updater.
I really do think it's great tho, looking forward to dialing it in with a pa system.
marshall2553":35bkm2l1 said:Literally just got mine today and I'm liking it so far, but the amp control jack being only TS is a bummer. I would love to be able to use it to switch my BE50 and Wildwood Smallbox.zuel69":35bkm2l1 said:I picked up the Boss TAE and it sounds great as do the effects. I have run into 2 issues with the unit, the parameters on the effects can not be midi controlled..Dammit! I want to be able to control the Delay mix with a midi CC# and an expression pedal..the other is the amp CTRL, is only TS instead of TRS which kind of kills it for complete control of my Friedmans.
Haven't tried the IR's yet but I have updated it to the latest firmware and it worked but was definitely not as slick as the Fractal updater.
I really do think it's great tho, looking forward to dialing it in with a pa system.
Could you run a TRS/dual TS cable like you would use on a channel insert on a mixer?marshall2553":18mxf0i3 said:Literally just got mine today and I'm liking it so far, but the amp control jack being only TS is a bummer. I would love to be able to use it to switch my BE50 and Wildwood Smallbox.zuel69":18mxf0i3 said:I picked up the Boss TAE and it sounds great as do the effects. I have run into 2 issues with the unit, the parameters on the effects can not be midi controlled..Dammit! I want to be able to control the Delay mix with a midi CC# and an expression pedal..the other is the amp CTRL, is only TS instead of TRS which kind of kills it for complete control of my Friedmans.
Haven't tried the IR's yet but I have updated it to the latest firmware and it worked but was definitely not as slick as the Fractal updater.
I really do think it's great tho, looking forward to dialing it in with a pa system.