Nothing reveals the essence of your guitar and your playing like a world-class tube amp driving a perfectly paired speaker cabinet in a pristine sounding space. Now there's a pedal that delivers that sound and feel. Simple controls make it easy to dial in the perfect amp tone directly. Discover the inspiring responsiveness of tube amps, the unparalleled realism of impulse response speaker cabinets, and the controllable, natural-sounding room ambience.
The Iridium offers three legendary amps and a total of 9 impulse response speaker cabinets to complement the amp's tone. Skip the hassle of carrying around and micing your amp. Place Iridium on your pedalboard and send gorgeous stereo amplifier tones, stunningly realistic cabs, and lush room ambience direct to a recording interface or PA system. With Iridium, it’s a snap to dial in a direct tone that will truly inspire and sound great whether you are monitoring through in-ears, floor wedges, reference monitors, or studio headphones.
Want to play live with the exact same tones that you use at home or in the studio? Or have access to multiple amp and cab setups without having to lug them on stage? Leave your amps at home, and connect Iridium directly to the house PA system. Alternatively, Iridium provides gorgeous, iconic amp tones, stunningly realistic stereo cabinet impulse responses, and natural room ambience—essential elements for recording guitar in the studio. Finally, you can’t always crank up an amplifier when you want to play in your living room or rehearse at home. Plug your favourite set of headphones into Iridium’s headphone jack and get immersed in the sounds of iconic amps and cabs in a natural sounding room or engage the bypass modes and use Iridium's amp or IR cabinets alone with a separate power or preamp.
Iridium features a hybrid room ambience design that combines 256ms impulse response captures of real rooms for realistic early reflections, with an algorithm for extended decay and modulation. This combination places your amp and cab in a natural sounding room, creating a real space for your amp to open up and breathe. In addition to controlling the amount of room ambience, you can also choose a small, medium, or large room.
Delivering the complete experience of playing into an amp through a miked cab in a room is a research and development project that has been years in the making. The amp development began in the tube emulation and cascading gain stage topography created for Riverside, and then majorly leveled up for the intense degree of real-time calculation Matrix Modeling™ required to create Iridium’s amps. Strymon aren't just talking about the perfectly recreated tone stacks, but also things like the treble bleed on the gain controls, multi-stage power supply sag, and preamp and power amp tube emulation. Their talented and tireless engineering team covered quite a bit of new ground on the way to recreating these classic amp designs with exact mathematical fidelity, and then expanded the capabilities of each amp in musically useful ways, giving you the full range of original amp sounds, and then some.
With these amazing amps and cabs, Strymon wanted to create amazing spaces for them to live and breathe in. When you are playing in a physical room, the first 80 milliseconds or so of early reflections are what really tell your brain what type of space you’re in. The complexity of those myriad early reflections are very difficult to simulate with an algorithm. That’s where impulse response technology is the perfect tool for the task. After a certain duration, however, impulse responses become computationally expensive, and that’s where the algorithm shines: on the long tail.
Features
- Strymon quality amp and cabinet modelling pedal
- Three amplifier models crafted using Matrix Modeling™
- Modeling capturing the subtleties and unique tonal qualities of each amp
- Nine Impulse Response speaker cabinets, 24bit / 96kHz 500ms Stereo (three per amp type)
- Load your own impulse responses using Strymon Impulse Manager software
- Hybrid IR/algorithmic Room control with selectable small, medium, and large rooms
- Simple, responsive amp-style controls for Drive, Level, Bass, Middle, and Treble
- Premium stereo high impedance discrete JFET analog front end with up to 22dB of pure analog gain
- Super high performance SHARC and ARM co-processors
- Operates at instrument and Line Level input sources
- USB jack for connecting to Strymon Impulse Manager software