Get the sound of an amp in a room for your pedalboard with Strymon’s take on amp modeling

Strymon Iridium is an amp and taxi modeler with added room reverb, intended to convey the sound of an amp through a taxi in a room.

While it very well may be an indispensable piece of your pedalboard, its job is to be associated straightforwardly with a PA for live use or to recording gear. It additionally has an earphone yield so you can utilize it for quiet practice.

What it furnishes are three displayed amps with drive and three-band EQ controls, every amp having a decision of three Impulse Response cupboards to be matched with, trailed by (discretionary) room reverb. Assuming you need various taxis, you can supplant those installed with your own utilizing Strymon’s (Strymon Iridium) Impulse Manager programming.

The amp and taxi segments can be autonomously wound down so you can simply utilize the amps with an alternate bureau modeler, or feed the Strymon Iridium’s taxis with another source. Connecting an articulation pedal offers volume control or transforming between handle positions and there’s a full MIDI controller of boundaries and admittance to 300 preset areas.

Sounds

The pedal can work in different mono and sound system mixes, its conspicuous position being toward the finish of your pedalboard signal chain, albeit some might wish to follow it with delay or reverb pedals. The simple JFET input presumably adds to the playing feel, which has a very amp-like push and pulls to it, everything tidying up normally with guitar volume.

The Round amp depends on a Fender Deluxe and gives exemplary Fender clean solid through to the combo’s normal drive. There’s viable apparent improving from the tone stack with the midrange change offering the kind of variety you’d hear between various Fender times: divert it up from a regular ‘dark board amp’ scoop towards to a greater extent a Tweed tone and drive.

Similarly, as with different amps, the A taxi is the one it’s most firmly connected with, and here it’s a 1×12, yet we were truly taken by the C taxi’s 2×10 for all the more a Super or Vibrolux flavor. The Iridium (Strymon Iridium) taxis are extremely top-notch, truth be told, highlighting a full 500ms IR at no other time found in a pedal.

The subsequent amp, Chime, is a Vox AC30 Top Boost with a mid control that works very much like the first’s Tone Cut for top-end roll-off. The full addition scope of the first amp is repeated however the upper ranges of the increased handle adds a bit extra with the taxi decision (counting a Mesa 4×12) adding greater flexibility.

Punch depends on a 100-watt Marshall Super Lead – the exemplary Plexi model. While a Plexi at full whack sounds sublime, it just goes up until this point, so Strymon has added extra whomp after two o’clock on the Gain handle, getting towards a high increase. On the off chance that you need more, the Iridium (Strymon Iridium) takes drive pedals all around well.

While the entirety of the amps/taxis sounds classily valid in any case, you can open the entire sound up to whatever degree you need with the feeling of sensible space given by the room reverb.

Verdict

This pedal is about the arrangement of the three most exemplary amp flavors with at least a fight. In contrast to the Kemper, Helix, and Fractal’s Ax-Fx where you can explore the menus for a gigantic selection of models, the Strymon Iridium is pointedly engaged: it has precisely what’s important and no more.

There’s straightforwardness and usability that have gigantic allure. You could essentially utilize it as a tabletop recording apparatus to in a split second give you the sound of an incredible amp recorded at a good working volume with proficient mics in a pleasant-sounding room (without the requirement for amp, mic, or room).

On the other hand, you could exploit its structure factor and coordinate it into your pedalboard, transforming that ‘board into a full apparatus for earphone practice, for gigging direct into the sound framework on the off chance that you don’t really want to utilize an amp or can’t go with one, or perhaps as a belt-and-supports reinforcement prepared for use if your amp goes down. Strymon Iridium has distinguished a need that guitarists didn’t realize they had – and has filled it splendidly.

Strymon Iridium Specifications

PRICE: $399, £399
ORIGIN: USA
TYPE: Amp modeller and IR cab pedal
FEATURES: Selectable true or buffered bypass, AMPS: Fender Deluxe Reverb, Vox AC30TB, Marshall Plexi (Super Lead model number 1959)
CABS: 1×12 Fender Deluxe Reverb, 1×12 Fender Blues Junior, 2×10 Fender Vibrolux, 2×12 Vox AC30-6 open back fawn, 1×12 Custom cab w/ Celestion Blue AlNiCo, 4×12 Mesa/Boogie Half-Back, 4×12 Marshall w/ Celestion G12M-25s, 2×12 Custom cab w/ Celestion Vintage 30s, 8×12 Marshall w/ Celestion T652s
CONTROLS: Drive, Level, Bass, Middle, Treble, Room, Amp selector switch, Cab selector switch, Audio input selector switch, On footswitch, Favorite footswitch
CONNECTIONS: Standard input, standard outputs (L, R), EXP/MIDI, USB, stereo minijack headphone output POWER: Supplied 9V DC adaptor, 500mA
DIMENSIONS: 102 (w) x 114 (d) x 44mm (h)