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What IRs is everyone using, out of interest...?
Mostly the Mesa 2x12 pack, Marshall 1960 with Greenback, Heavy Hitters 1 and 2 packs... but I have a lot of them tbh! I highly rate them in terms of quality, price, and ease of use
they are of the same tonal family so they blend well
then I'll choose the IR..
another thing I found is context is important..
in isolation you can come up with great tones.. then pop them in the mix and they just vanish..
So far I only use IRs for recording, and what I do is pull up an amp that should work (for me 6505/Rectifer etc) and a cab that should work (probably a Mesa or a Marshall, V30s or Greenbacks)
Usually start with SM57 or SM57+MD421 mix
Get the gain and feel right (so if it needs a boost to tighten or whatever)
And then scroll IRs from 00 to 10 (usually lower numbers for me)
I'm looking for the closest possible starting point before I start more detailed amp EQing. If something sounds close I'll nudge EQ around quickly but if I find it's still not playing ball I try a different IR again.
I do all my post amp EQ in my DAW, so I've always got the raw starting point later if I need to change it. I also apply the IR in the DAW, so that I can easily switch that later without doing a full reamp, but most of the time I don't end up doing so as some EQ can.
Drums would already exist and be of a rough mix before I'd start looking to dial in the tone, agree it is all about context.
For my own playing at home tones I've just dialled them in to where I think they sound cool for just noodling about.
One of the 'problems' with modellers is you have so many options, with an amp you just lug in and live with it, or let the sound guy deal with making it sound good with the band.
Play it with a band or even another guitarist - good grief! It's perfect.
Update on my monster of rock patch.
Kept Clarky's idea, basically using one amp and scene automation for the gain and also adding in filters etc but switched back to the JCM800 model.
Clean sound took a bit of tweaking but all sounds amazing and very happy.
Then got creative - set the 'Y' cab to be an acoustic guitar IR, and added a scene with no amp, just the cab and compressor plus delay and chorus and it's a very passable 12 string acoustic sound in a band/mix situation from a front single coil.
But still have one amp not used!
So stuck in a Rec 1 Red Mode, which sounds thick as you like.
So in one patch - I have:
Acoustic Guitar
Clean Electric Guitar
Crunch
Rock chords
Solo
Boogie scooped.
Plus the two drives, two phasers, two chorus(s), two delays and a wah
Only thing I had to do to squeeze this in was turn the IR quality to normal - down from ultra, then I can use a non-spring reverb.
I have to say this is impressive.
I've messed about with stereo cabs, but like the Overhammer ones so much on their own - I don't think I'm getting anything from the complication
If anyone else has recommendations for acoustic sounding patches, I'd be interested.
wonderful in isolation.. thin and brittle in the mix..
add a gnats of drive to them.. and rather than sounding unclean, they'll have a bit more body and the highs will sparkle..
I actually add an very gently driven channel in parallel for my acoustic tracks
https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/ax8-v9-01-public-beta.132015/
Nice touch in the speaker compression, definitely adds something