I find the room setting really does sound like what it says it does. What I like most about the Iridium is that it is dead easy to use. I've not found much use for the Plexi settings yet, but that's not really my voice. I can dial up a reasonable facsimile of my live amp tone on the Round setting and wound up recording mostly on the Chime and Blue setting. I've also used it once onstage in a direct to PA situation playing against drum machines and synthesizers. I've used it for demos by itself and in dual mono with other amps for keeper recordings. Nice also to not feel the need to buy a Marshall out of curiosity again unless I go all in there, which is more than a little unlikely). (I'd probably best be served by an Iridium Jr of just a "Fender" for half the price, but I understand why they didn't do it. Still just a few hours into using it, but it sounds way, way better than I'd expected. I'm considering trying it in conjunction with a real amp for stereo stuff live (Left = real amp, right = model, which is always on the other side of the stage anyway). In all of them, it also just sounds "good".
The "Fender" sounds like a Fender (even though I wish it were modelling one with a bit more heft), the "Vox" sounds voxy, and the "Marshall" sounds like me playing cruddy punk rock, just like when I (briefly) had a JCM800. I've only used it with headphones so far, but I'm really really impressed. (I figure if I can save some hours of studio time, it'll pay for itself eventually, after selling some stuff from the not-getting-used pedal pile, which will soon include the Tech21). I recently got one specifically to do some home recording (upgrading from the Tech21 blonde, especially since I'm leaning in to running in stereo) as well as potentially something useful to have on hand if we do any quick fly-in shows again or European train tours. Maybe one day I’ll decide to sell off a couple of amps or something, and move even closer to joining the Dark Side. I’m very curious to know what you think about it Larry, please do some posts about it. That would be really convenient for doing those, but I could only use it that way unless I got a separate powered speaker or whatever.
So the Iridium would only be for playing thru a pa, or recording direct. They’re about the same price, but I got the Yamaha to use as an outside and travel amp, which it works well for. I also have an Iconoclast cab emulator, but haven’t used it a whole lot.
I like my little Yamaha THR 10-C, which is somewhat similar, and I think can go direct thru usb to record, but I haven’t bothered with that. I like the idea of that, it seems really cool, and they’re doing such great things digitally now with amp modeling and cab sims. Newp, not having it - it all goes straight into the preamps. Some of my amps don’t have effects loops, and also it would require a second set of stereo routing cables to & from the pedalboard to the amp. I’m the same way, I don’t usually use effects in the effects loops of my amps.
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