BluGuitar Amp1 products
Modus_Operandi
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Big fan of the Iridium edition after picking one up instead of a FM3.
The clean channel is fantastic, and might be a little picky about which pedals it likes, and the Vintage and Classic work great with my baritone in B/A standard tuning - just keep the OD master down.
The EQ is where it really shines, combined with the side tone controls, you have so much ground to cover. Hats off to Thomas for creating such a great product with a small footprint - pairs great with HX Stomp.
The clean channel is fantastic, and might be a little picky about which pedals it likes, and the Vintage and Classic work great with my baritone in B/A standard tuning - just keep the OD master down.
The EQ is where it really shines, combined with the side tone controls, you have so much ground to cover. Hats off to Thomas for creating such a great product with a small footprint - pairs great with HX Stomp.
lewis
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My boss sd1 anniversary turned up as did my Donner Sophgate.
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Since, Keith Merrow's YouTube videos are back, did anybody see that episode where Leon (the death metal dude in his vids) has a rig rundown of his Iridium board? I can't seem to find it and Im pretty sure it was posted here at some point.
lewis
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Had a quick scan through his vids and can't find it either. I remember watching it so I know it's in one of them haha
HeHasTheJazzHands
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The clean channel was a blessing and a curse. Blessing because it does sound really really great, but didn't take pedals nearly as well as other things Ive tried.
Aha! Now I recognize you from the Blug FB group!My boss sd1 anniversary turned up as did my Donner Sophgate.
My Stomp XL is on the way to replace the HX Effects. The big aesthetics question now is whether I should get a textured black or white skin for it ... most of the rest of the pedalboard is black and blue, except for my little Seafoam Micro Expression controller.
Good point. I'm pretty sure the discussion ITT has been completely about the Iridium Edition.
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Modern is supposedly more like an ENGL Savage on one side of the tone control. The other side leans more toward Victory Kraken.
Yeah and then with the Stomp you can go super in-depth tone shaping with putting a graphic EQ in the loop as well. I have a Stomp XL on the way ... do you also put preamp blocks into your effects loop?
devastone
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Got the Iridium in last night and had a little time to play with it at lower levels. Plenty of gain, but not as over the top as I was afraid it would be. The gain channels are nice, really like the vintage and classic channels. I'm sure I'll play with the Modern some. Initial impression of the clean channel is I wish it were a little squisher and warmer, but I know this one is designed to be tight.
Hope to get some more time to play with it and try the DI this weekend, definitely need to spend more time with it.
Hope to get some more time to play with it and try the DI this weekend, definitely need to spend more time with it.
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lewis
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Good to hear its so far so good.
You using the stock cab sim or an IR?
Either way, don't forget to do the dummy load trick at the same time to get a better tone.
(Dummy load is to plug a cable into one of the speaker outputs that doesn't go anywhere. I used a 1/4 headphone adapter for neatness when I utilised this trick)
devastone
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Plugged into an Avatar 1-12 with a Classic Lead 80, haven't tried DI yet but it will be with the built in cab sim, need to make sure I can use it DI out of the house. And yep, got the dummy trick, thanks, I have some George Ls ends laying around that should work nicely.
lewis
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Nice new video -
Classic channel sounding fantastic and the SD1 does pair amazing with this amp. Can attest to that myself.
Classic channel sounding fantastic and the SD1 does pair amazing with this amp. Can attest to that myself.
devastone
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Yep, was watching (well, listening) that video at work yesterday. I have a stock SD-1 and a modded one, the stock one has less gain and isn't as fat, actually works better, at least for now.
lewis
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Anyone know exactly how the OD master works?
This entire time I've had it on 10. Presumably that's wrong haha?
This entire time I've had it on 10. Presumably that's wrong haha?
devastone
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It's so you can balance the volume with the clean channel, should you care about the clean channel...
lewis
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Isn't that what the small side controls are for though?
- The clean volume sets the clean channel input gain. Think of this as the volume control on Fender Twin or something.
- OD master sets the volume of the OD channel which you can use to balance it with the clean volume. This would be like channel volume on some multi-channel amps.
- Main master sets the overall volume level. Above 5 starts to introduce powertube distortion that smooths and compresses the tone a bit.
- Volume knobs on the side set the volume balance for the Classic and Modern overdrive channels. Set these so that when you switch to these channels they are not louder or quieter than the rest. Or don't if you want to use say the Modern channel for a lead volume boost or something.
lewis
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Ah thanks for this. Was using it wrong haha.
youngthrasher9
Ur Mom Is Too Much Gain
This video gave me another reason to like Euge’s channel. He didn’t nitpick the iridium to death to try to justify his love for his 800. He was humble enough to say that it sounded almost identical.
