Impulse Response Cab Sims Explained Better

Great video, thanks

Thanks for making this so easy to understand. Sometimes, although googles is said to be your best encyclopedia, but often the answer there are harder than rocket science.

what about the IR's in the simplifier and simplifier mk2? are they analog or digital?

I bought an MX5 and don't know how to use it. Been playing Bass for 6 months.

I'd like to hear what it sounds like from my neighbor's house like across the street and back I can't believe people waste their time with this bullshit.

😂😂

I like analog for live. It's tweakable to each room, which is important as a bass player. Plus, I'm less likely to need/want reverb characteristics, so that nullifies a bit of the advantage of an IR.

thanks Brian 4 your another episode

Excellent! Thank you

Math says you can make a single IR that sounds exactly like the four stacked in parallel. Math also say that an IR can only capture a linear, time invariant system. Meaning no IR's of distortion, compression or modulation pedals. It also means that it will not capture speaker breakup or compression, only the linear part. But the idea of swapping out speakers with the click of a button is easy for marketing to sell, even if not entirely true.

My IR's don't sound good to me.

96k gives more headroom when in a mix

Great video -- good explanation wrapped in some cool examples - well done!

The Marshall Origin 20c, like many other amps, has an emulated cab sim output. Could one use an IR on an emulated out? Or would they not play together nicely for some reason beyond my present understanding?

Its like watching paint dry!

i got the cab m , have not been able to figure how to use it . kind of ok without it.

This is likely how the plugin reviews sound so good, and is kind of misleading, when you actually get it, and play it, and it sounds nowhere near as good.

Are you saying that, whatever space a cab is in gives the air in that space it’s pneumatic attributes? Further, the air acting as a “weak spring” pushes back on the cone with a “durometer” and depth of potential travel determined by those attributes? Or something else/in addition to?

Interesting video and well done.
Phil
NYC Area

Keep coming back to your channel for the fellow midwesterner vibes! Rock on 🤘

Isn't it pronounced "new ex"?

Are the Cab Sim plugins good?

Very interesting. I'm completely new to using Impulse Response's. I use a Boss TAE with my Fender Princeton, which has the ability to load third party IR's. The few that come with the Boss TAE do sound very good through the Princeton's 12 inch speaker. Must try loading some after market IR's.

I dont see an amp sim. Just reverb used incorrectly... what are you loading your IR into?

I think SRV and Hendrix would give you a blank stare.

Sorry for the dumb question as i am new to this.....but can i use this for a live rig?? It sucks that i have to bring my amp and cab to a gig all the time...gets way to heavy LOL

I just googled "what do IR pedals do?" and Brian comes up again. Your stuff is so useful. I'm interested for recording

Okay I think the reason I was confused about IRS is I didn't even know what they went on. So I am still using my original sans amp from the 80s with the toggle switches I have it about three settings that I use depending on which amp I plug it into. The super reverb deluxe has its settings the 1985 Peavey musician 3 has its own settings and I always play my guitar clean to get the best clean sound and then I know when I overdrive it with that pedal I'll get what I want and then I just use other pedals to give me anything else I need from Carson to reverb or whatever so I kind of like use it as a pre-channel input if that's a thing. But I never thought about that in terms of like the terminology. I bought a VTEC about 15 years ago or 10 years ago or so and it didn't sound as good as I wanted to until I put an mxr EQ in front of it 10 band. But this did help me understand what all this IR is about in the first place. I'm 60 so I don't really like to talk to technical but obviously with everything getting smaller and smaller and smaller in more digital guys like me are going to be a buried soon so it won't matter

Thank you Brian!

That mic'd amp in the room sounded amazing. Tight. Crunchy. Loud.
The IRs sounded a bit...eh...in comparison.
I need an IR and attenuator and load box. Does such a thing exist? If it can be used to record with that'd be ideal.
Idk anything about this stuff

I'm using a Humboldt Simplifier. It's analog and doesn't confuse me.

Really good thanks!

Any IR's with line 6 spyder into a gamer headset mic?

This is a HUGE help, sir; thank you, AGAIN!

I am a Fender Princeton Reverb player/owner, do you recommend the DSM Humboldt Simplifier Amp for nice cleans for an amp sim? (for situations where I cannot bring my amp onstage)

Thanks for this. I had no idea what an IR was

Thank you

I’m a bit confused. What preamp are you using? Or, are you using an amp mic’d to DAW then modifying the signal using IR’s? Just a bit confused on signal path here!

Is there a way to make a custom blended IR for the Iridium? I have the V2 Fred pack from Valhallir. Their IR are just one mic. They also have separate Room mic files as well. Can I stack the Two files and combine it some how and then use it in stereo on the iridium. Instead of just having two single Mics or one mic on the L and the room on the R which sounds a bit weird.

Funny and impressive how several distinctive and very bad sounding components (or computer recording tracks in this case) add up to make a really great sound. The overall result is awesome, but not repliable with classic tape or HD recording. You need to have a DAW for this, and a lot of patience and knowledge as well. Hats off to you, Brian. You are definitely a master builder and sound expert.

On the topic at the end of different IR loaders sounding different due to circuitry... It's true for software too. I've tried nearly a dozen, maybe more honestly, IR loading VSTs, and found they all vary in sound and quality. The best sounding one I've found is the MeldaProduction MCabinet honestly... and lets you go a bit further in altering the sound and trying to get it to sound even more real (or fake).

Hi, thank you for the vid! I have a DV Mark amp head for guitar, I want to run it into my audio interface to get a studio quality sound.The amp has a pre out connection at the back. Can I use a cab Impulse response to make the amp sound better? I be tried to run an amp directly into the interface before and it really sounded bad

When I use IRs they all sound trash, well it’s not them sounding bad, it’s me ...

I understand why the comments in this video are the way they are. I just want to point something out.

This video has some fuckin KILLER guitar sounds!!!! Holy crap!!!

“New X”

Great explanation

ffffffffinally!!! thanks ;)

Could I use an Ir loader to emulate something like the tonedexter(400$) Basically making my acoustic piezo pickup sound like a mic’ed acoustic?

I have a pedal board I have built. I plan on running both my Tele and my acoustic (with under saddle mic ) thru it. As far as acoustic goes, it had sounded phenomenal thru my Fishman amp, and also when I used the Fishman as a stage monitor with the DI going to a PA. Now, I have recently added a Tube Amp modeler pedal, and playing the electric thru it sounds nice clean...but the Fishman doesn't sound great when I turn up the distortion. I have decided to go with a A/B Y box sending my 'monitor' signal to a powered speaker... and the other is for the PA. My question is this, should I be looking at CAB sims, for when I have the electric... (the modeler has tweed, marshall, and calif) going....? And...is there, and should I be interested in an Acoustic CAB SIM for when I am playing that ?
thanks

Two Notes recommends to put IR device before modulation effects (chorus, reverb etc). Do you agree with that?