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So yeah, it's a good one to have and I don't see myself getting rid of it anytime soon. From a tone standpoint to just what you get sound wise is also equally amazing. You don't have to worry about hauling around something bigger like the Kemper, I think the portability within itself is amazing. It's just so compact, it fits on your pedalboard nicely. I know it's hard to argue with the portability of it. But just in my experience from the different ones I've tried, I think the Iridium takes the award for me. I know there's definitely a ton of others out there right now like the HX Stomp and things like that. But I think for somebody who's really looking for just an option to either cut down on stage volume or to practice at home or to have something to take when they don't want to take their amp, I feel like the Iridium is in my opinion, the best option on the market. And also like being able to profile your own amp, if you have some boutique amp or whatever is a really cool thing, and then also if you do use all those onboard effects, it can be worth it, especially if that's like you're all in one rig. The Kemper was designed more of to be a completed unit, so it was designed to where you're getting all your effects from it, you're doing everything like within the Kemper. I think it's good to note that they're are two completely different workflows. We can even upload other IR samples to it, it's almost limitless its own way for being again, a fraction of the cost, which is absolutely amazing. But also, they've got their whole software, I think it's the impulse manager. We'll get into the detail here, but you can get that Fender sound, you can get that VOC sound, you can get that Marshall sound, obviously there are plenty of other things that you'd want to tap into, something that a Kemper would provide, but at the end of day this is going to meet 80 to 90% of your needs. And yeah, excited to talk about this one.įor sure, I wanted to get into this space, so I also was looking at the Kemper and then I was looking at this one and for a fraction of the price, you can pretty much do all the things that you want to do. I've used the done a ton of recordings, I've used it live a bunch and it's just been super convenient, it sounds really good. So for me, it just made the most sense to get the Iridium, and it's been great for me. It's one of those things where the Kemper sounds great, it's a great unit, but I wasn't using even close, half the functionalities of it. And so I got it and I used it for two days and I'm like, I'm selling the Kemper. I had just moved to Nashville and I bought a Kemper, the profiling amp, and I use that on things I was working on, and then when the Iridium came out, I'm like, Well, shoot for 400 bucks, which is $1,000 less than I paid for the Kemper.
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Yeah, I got the chance to buy the Iridium when it first came out. So really excited to be talking about this one today. If you're not familiar with the Iridium, it's basically an amp and IR cab pedal, so you can mimic all of your favorite amps that are out there, or at least a good chunk of them. I love this pedal, it's probably my favorite purchase of 2020, So, really excited to be talking about this one. Man, I wish I bought this thing a long time ago, but it's been an absolute joy having it over the last couple of days.
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We're going to be talking about the Strymon Iridium. This is a new one for me, I know Eric you've had this almost since day one of its release. Well, today we've got a really fun pedal.
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Hey guys, Scott Schwertly and Eric Wilson of Siren Pedals with you today. This one's a fun one and we can't wait to unpack it on the other side. For today's discussion, we have a pedal from another one of my favorite companies, this is Strymon and Specifically, we're going to be talking about these Strymon iridium amp and IR cab pedal. We're exploring Renegade pedals that have changed the music landscape. Hello and welcome to episode 54 of the Sonic Renegades Podcast.