Monday, August 3, 2026

IR LOADER- TC ELECTRONIC Impulse... a parachute if your amp dies ??? YES!!!

 tc electronic 
IMPULSE  IR LOADER
$110.00 USD
What is it? It crates the sound of a speaker cab and/or an amp 
pushing that cab with it. It can go direct to PA board at a gig 
replace a mic on your cab, It can go direct to a pro or home 
studio setup to do likewise. bit I am interested in it as a pedal 
guys alternative to a Modeler which has this built in. I recently 
had my rig go down. It is a Friedman IR-X tybe preamp. It goes 
into a straight studio type power amp into a single 12"celestion 
speaker cab. I simply used a pedal EQ pedal as a preamp going 
into a similar SHIFTLINE A+ Cab Zone IR box into my amp
and carried on, getting 
all sounds from my pedal board. No problem.
                    CONCLUSION __
This has a sonic spec as high as the best. Others 
equal have more features but WTF you do not need 
them to get shades of grey in the tone. The 12 key 
sounds in this were made by Celestion. If they can 
not get a good sound then who can. The BOSS IR 
2 pedal is twice the price and is good but not even 
close to being better.  
 

2 comments:

  1. Would you choose this one instead: Walrus Audio Mako ACS1 MKII

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  2. The Walrus is 4 times the money and certainly not 4 times better if indeed it is as good. In all probability the average guy finds one or 2 sounds they prefer and uses them all the time. As long as the sonic specs are good the detail comes out in the sound then as a piece of hardware a pedal is great. There are hundreds of companies selling new speaker software.

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