Thanks much for putting this up. It really showcases real life situations. Of course you are hitting some tones which I personally like, but that shows what the IR X can do in my "world". Good job, dude! And fabulous playing!
I have watched multiple demos on this thing and no one else did what you did at the end. The way you showed us how dynamic the dirt channel is once you rolled the volume down was pure 🔥....thanks again for the demo...and what HSS 🎸 is that ? I love it 😎👊🏻💯
I try to do some dry tones in every video 👍 Not for the whole video though, I never play totally dry myself so I don’t find tones particularly inspiring without a touch of verb or delay.
Great vid dude. The unit sounds absolutely amazing. Another outstanding piece of work from Dave Friedman!! I need a 'gig saver' that travels easily, this could be it!!
Is there a Friedman product out there that isn’t just pure awesome? I think not… that company puts out consistently sweet sounding amps and sims… incredible sounds from this tube pedal… just incredible 👍🏻👍🏻
Agreed! I’ve said before on this channel, it often sounds like I’m being bias but there is just something about the voicing and design of Friedman products that just does it for me. Thanks for watching 👍
Greetings from South Africa, and a rather embarrassed person who thought he was seeing you on stage in a Tina Guo Facebook post, and asked “is that Dan?” I must have scrolled from her post to yours without realising it… This is the third review I have seen for this unit today and must say, it’s consistent in all areas. Ticks all the boxes. But I doubt we will see one on our shores. We don’t seem to have a local importer/distributor. Too small a market. Still, I think the Kemper’s new Liquid profiling allows one to do an improved level of changes on the fly. Cheers and keep well.
Hey Dan...great review, mu question is: the sound we hear is just your guitar plugged in the Pedal or...did u recorded and then apply something on the DAW?? lemme know, thanks in advance
Hi Dan, great video as always. I think if I was still doing live gigs I would be looking very closely at this. How does it feel being a younger version of Davy Johnston? That guy makes the Elton John band for me. One of the very best underrated guitarists of all time. Great to have you back on my screen.🎸🍻😀
Thanks for watching Ray! I’ll be honest, that gig was way harder than I gave it credit for! Davey is the man! Incredible parts and feel. New levels of respect from me 🙏
I understand that you also have the Kemper. How does it compare tone and feel wise? There's something a bit spiky in the kemper high end that I don't like. Does this get a more organic sound and feel. A little warmer and realistic? By the way very nice review and great playing!
Can a footswitch be plugged into it, in lieu of those on the unit? I'd like the unit up high and the switches on the floor. I guess I could take a hack saw to it. 😁 Frankly, maybe the switch part should be detachable. That's a nice Tom Anderson, BTW. Even better playing.
Nothing yet but hoping to film ‘a loud day’ at a rehearsal space soon. I’ve been on the road a lot lately but home most of October so I’m going to try and stockpile some content 👍
It sounds great Dan, your playing is great too. Is it possible to use other analog preamps into its send and completely bypass the Friedman pre but use its IRs?
Can you go into more detail about how you programmed your patches with the loop switcher and midi? Also, I’d love to know the details on that flashback mod
Sure man. The Friedman is so easy to program by midi. Just send a midi program change into it, select what you want via the footswitches and hold the boost to save. The only loops I’m using on the switcher is for the compressor and Zoom fx unit. Very easy to program anything if I need to change it. The flashback mod - the flashback switch is momentary. If you have a switcher that can send out momentary relay commands (like for amp switching) you can tap the 2 contacts from the switch and add a jack that will also activate the bypass in the flashback. The beauty of the mod is that it lets the spillover of delay when bypassed and the switch on the unit also still works.
Sounds great mate! I know it’s a bit more space on the board but I love the Victory V4 amps and preamps, have you tried them before, thoughts?? Cheers!
Cheers! I haven’t tried the Victory stuff yet but I’m normally a fan of Martin Kidds work. I’d like to give them a blast when the opportunity presents itself. Which ones have you tried or owned?
@@DanLeggatt thanks for the response! I’ve got the V4 Sheriff amp at the moment and it sounds killer. I’ve also used the Copper and Kraken preamps in 4cm with the V4 and the tones are sick!
Dumb question😂. Besides the ir and tubes, what's the difference than this and the be deluxe pedal if using a tube poweramp into a cab? Love the channel
Not a dumb question at all mate. From what I know, the BE deluxe is voiced to be used into the input of an amp. The output level and EQ is for that sole purpose. Although you could use the BE deluxe into a power amp, I don’t imagine it would sound all that great and you would have to crank the level. The IRX is designed to hit a power amp or go direct. It is a tube preamp, very much like the one found in the Smallbox head from what I’ve heard. While I think it’s possible to use this in front of an amp, the pedals like the BE deluxe, DS, SB & BE would be a better option in that role.
I would love to try this into the effects loop of my Peavey Classic 50. I bet it would sound great at band practice. Would you have any idea how it would sound at lower bedroom practicing levels? Thank you for the video!
Should sound absolutely fine. Just like your classic 50 generally, it will open up more at higher volumes, perhaps ‘smooth out’ a bit like most tube amps but it should still sound great 👍
i see the problem with live play you would have to bend over and change settings as you play not good:) im sure it sounds ,but you need more presets for live play.
Totally depends on your use. This pretty much has 4 channels or tones instantly recallable. That’s more than most amps. If you need more than that you are already in the digital modelling world, which this isn’t.
Exactly. This is not yet another multix fx/ modeller. This is an amp replacement. An amp. Singular. For those people who can still remember concerts with real amps. You would have to adjust the amp settings as well "back in the day"! And people just don't get it. They keep comparing this to fully fledged, programmable modellers.
Hey dude, thanks for putting this together. I just ordered one and am trying to get an idea of how the IR-X is used with a loop switcher if the IR-X is supposed to be used in the effects loop of a tube amp? The manual says that the IR-X return should go into the return loop of the tube amp, but if you do, how do you connect the loop switcher to where it can control the IR-X? Did you have to get a splitter in order to do your setup? I'd basically like to have my guitar go into my tuner, then have the IR-X in the effects loop of the amp with the loops of the ES-5 having reverb/delay/modulation pedals in them and the IR-X channels being controlled via midi.
Hey man! The best way to think about the IRX is as a replacement preamp for your amp. It won’t be ‘in the fx loop’, you are using the fx return to use your amp as a power amp. So even though it may be in a loop, you wouldn’t want it bypassed. Signal path would be something like guitar > front end pedals > IRX > fx loop pedals > amp return. If you are running into an FX loop or amp make sure you run from the IRX output and bypass IRs or come out of the IRX send as your output as that is pre IR. With a loop switcher, you could still utilise your amps pre amp and switch between the two but that’s a bit more complex. Hope that helps 👍
@@DanLeggatt Awesome, thanks! So I basically want to do the first part of what you're saying and use the IR-X as a replacement preamp so I can use the controls on the IR-X as effectively my amp head. Per the manual though, it says you're supposed to hook up the IR-X Return to the FX Return of the amp head. If I do this, how am I supposed to run the IR-X into the Boss ES-5 loop switcher? Would I have to run my guitar into the input of the IR-X, and then run a cable out from the send of the IR-X to the input of the ES-5?
@JJDon5150 I'm taking an educated guess & thinking in Dans rig in this video, the output of his loop switcher (which only has fx in it that you would run into the FRONT of an amp) is going into the input of the IR-X. The channels of IR-X itself are being controlled from the loop switcher via midi but is not in a loop. He has the reverb & delay in the loop of the IR-X. The fx loop in the IR-X can be turned on / off via midi but Dan is not doing that here. He is leaving the IR-X loop on all the time & has modded his delay to switched on/off from a relay switch on the Musicomlab unit. Hope this helps.
@@Ottophil there is a much different routing flow you have to use when you use the IR-X with a loop switcher like the Boss IR-X and want to use direct to PA and amp return at the same time. Its not just "plugging it in." I got it figured out after asking some people on a forum. I'll basically need a buffered splitter. Next time you want to comment, at least add something positive instead of complaining/trolling.
I imagine it’ll work, not sure you’ll get the best results but I haven’t tried it myself. I would come out of the send jack if you were going to try it, I believe the FX loop level is quite controlled.
This one!!! I had V4 and sold it. I have a demo on my channel. V4 cannot get clean, doesn't have tight function, does not have IRs, has shared EQ that you cannot balance to use both channels.
Would this be worth getting to use it just as an or loader so be able to use the fractal with no ir and then into this. And why are people so lazy to have global controls right on your fractal that has a high cut low cut and and then low mids and highs. And bam you have knob and a fractal that’s literally the best piece of equipment for guitar They sound better then the original tunes amps. But hey to each their own
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The best video so far for this unit. And yes, ive seen all the other guys. The compressed clean sound with chorus is to die for 👍, thanks!
Thanks so much 🙏
So far the best video on RUclips about the Friedman IRX.
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Thanks much for putting this up. It really showcases real life situations. Of course you are hitting some tones which I personally like, but that shows what the IR X can do in my "world". Good job, dude! And fabulous playing!
I have watched multiple demos on this thing and no one else did what you did at the end. The way you showed us how dynamic the dirt channel is once you rolled the volume down was pure 🔥....thanks again for the demo...and what HSS 🎸 is that ? I love it 😎👊🏻💯
Thank you so much for not putting any effects on it. Almost every review gets so colored that you can’t heat the real sound.
I try to do some dry tones in every video 👍 Not for the whole video though, I never play totally dry myself so I don’t find tones particularly inspiring without a touch of verb or delay.
Hey Dan. Is an audio interface necessary when performing at a venue? Can I put this pedal straight a pa?
@@ThesummerinstinctYep, it can be plugged right into a PA 👍
@@DanLeggatt Hello , I jump on the question, what kind of cable is used to plug it to PA ? Is it a regular amp to cab jack or something else ?
Great vid dude. The unit sounds absolutely amazing. Another outstanding piece of work from Dave Friedman!! I need a 'gig saver' that travels easily, this could be it!!
Thanks man! Agreed, a lot of potential uses for it.
why am I just now finding out about this amp. Right this minute. Friedman is absolutely on a roll. Every product sounds so goooood.
That's for the very good explanation of this preamp! I like the way you review all the equipment you have in you hands!
Thank you kindly!
nice video thanks I got the IR-D little different but more my speed great for an 80's kid
Good stuff. Mine should arrive in a couple of days. Stoked!
Is there a Friedman product out there that isn’t just pure awesome? I think not… that company puts out consistently sweet sounding amps and sims… incredible sounds from this tube pedal… just incredible 👍🏻👍🏻
Agreed! I’ve said before on this channel, it often sounds like I’m being bias but there is just something about the voicing and design of Friedman products that just does it for me. Thanks for watching 👍
I first read that as a complaint 😂
@@eryckcrypton6412 It’s my strange writing style lol… I get that from time to time 😂
Most products are entirely overrated and this is purely because I can’t afford them.
@@tyroneenglish8396 😂😂😂 I feel you there lol
Man, that was a great demo. Nice pickin! Greetings from Texas.
Thanks for watching 👍
Definitely on my must get list !
Oh man but that gower 😮😮😮
great tone! Very nice demo🤟🤟
Greetings from South Africa, and a rather embarrassed person who thought he was seeing you on stage in a Tina Guo Facebook post, and asked “is that Dan?” I must have scrolled from her post to yours without realising it…
This is the third review I have seen for this unit today and must say, it’s consistent in all areas. Ticks all the boxes. But I doubt we will see one on our shores. We don’t seem to have a local importer/distributor. Too small a market. Still, I think the Kemper’s new Liquid profiling allows one to do an improved level of changes on the fly.
Cheers and keep well.
Helpful video. Thank you!
Thanks Dude. Now I don’t have to wear out my JJ jr head. Everything on my pedalboard
Hey Dan...great review, mu question is: the sound we hear is just your guitar plugged in the Pedal or...did u recorded and then apply something on the DAW??
lemme know, thanks in advance
Best Sound Man!🙈🎸
Hey Dan! Can you A-B with a TONEX capture and do a vid on your preference..if you can hear any difference? Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Hi Dan, great video as always. I think if I was still doing live gigs I would be looking very closely at this. How does it feel being a younger version of Davy Johnston? That guy makes the Elton John band for me. One of the very best underrated guitarists of all time. Great to have you back on my screen.🎸🍻😀
Thanks for watching Ray! I’ll be honest, that gig was way harder than I gave it credit for! Davey is the man! Incredible parts and feel. New levels of respect from me 🙏
EXCELLENT.
Is this sound coming direct or is it coming through a power amp and real speaker? Fantastic demo!!
Direct out for the whole demo, no cab
I understand that you also have the Kemper. How does it compare tone and feel wise? There's something a bit spiky in the kemper high end that I don't like. Does this get a more organic sound and feel. A little warmer and realistic? By the way very nice review and great playing!
Yes, i both it first day they releest it 😊
kemper slayer
Thanks Dan, any noise from the unit? Especially on the higher gain settings channel 2?
We put a friedman demonfx distortion worth$50 and sounds better than this ir worth $900 but hay great video & playing
dave friedman is going to buy a mansion off these, that funk playing you did sold it for me...we knew the gain was going to rip.
Can a footswitch be plugged into it, in lieu of those on the unit? I'd like the unit up high and the switches on the floor. I guess I could take a hack saw to it. 😁 Frankly, maybe the switch part should be detachable. That's a nice Tom Anderson, BTW. Even better playing.
I was thinking of the morning star midi
I can hear an excellent delay in the mix. Would you mind sharing which one?
Never mind. Flashback looks to be staring in this film.
Great demo. Thanks Dan.
Any demo of that Gower modded Marshall that's lurking in the background coming any time soon??
Nothing yet but hoping to film ‘a loud day’ at a rehearsal space soon. I’ve been on the road a lot lately but home most of October so I’m going to try and stockpile some content 👍
@@DanLeggatt Appreciate you are busy. Looking forward to your 'loud day' though. 🙂
@@glynnrobinson5123 Me too 🤘 Been a while since I cranked up for the sake of just messing with tones.
It sounds great Dan, your playing is great too. Is it possible to use other analog preamps into its send and completely bypass the Friedman pre but use its IRs?
Thanks so much. You can run other pres but you’d run into the return to do this 👍
Great tone on the intro.Was it into your guitar amp or interface?
Direct out for the whole demo 👍
Can you go into more detail about how you programmed your patches with the loop switcher and midi? Also, I’d love to know the details on that flashback mod
Sure man. The Friedman is so easy to program by midi. Just send a midi program change into it, select what you want via the footswitches and hold the boost to save. The only loops I’m using on the switcher is for the compressor and Zoom fx unit. Very easy to program anything if I need to change it.
The flashback mod - the flashback switch is momentary. If you have a switcher that can send out momentary relay commands (like for amp switching) you can tap the 2 contacts from the switch and add a jack that will also activate the bypass in the flashback. The beauty of the mod is that it lets the spillover of delay when bypassed and the switch on the unit also still works.
@@DanLeggatt pretty cool flashback mod! Thanks for the info!
Nice but I will stick to my Bluguitar AMP1 with 4 channel nanotube preamp, boost, reverb, 100w class D amp
Dan what is your midi pedal?
Musicom Labs Lite 6M
Do you have a favorite way to run this (ie power amp, fx loop return, direct)?
Sounds great mate! I know it’s a bit more space on the board but I love the Victory V4 amps and preamps, have you tried them before, thoughts?? Cheers!
Cheers! I haven’t tried the Victory stuff yet but I’m normally a fan of Martin Kidds work. I’d like to give them a blast when the opportunity presents itself. Which ones have you tried or owned?
@@DanLeggatt thanks for the response! I’ve got the V4 Sheriff amp at the moment and it sounds killer. I’ve also used the Copper and Kraken preamps in 4cm with the V4 and the tones are sick!
Great video, great sounds. What are the ir's youre are using ? The standards included ? which ones ? thanks
Just the stock ones as it comes out of the box 👍
Dumb question😂. Besides the ir and tubes, what's the difference than this and the be deluxe pedal if using a tube poweramp into a cab? Love the channel
Not a dumb question at all mate. From what I know, the BE deluxe is voiced to be used into the input of an amp. The output level and EQ is for that sole purpose. Although you could use the BE deluxe into a power amp, I don’t imagine it would sound all that great and you would have to crank the level.
The IRX is designed to hit a power amp or go direct. It is a tube preamp, very much like the one found in the Smallbox head from what I’ve heard. While I think it’s possible to use this in front of an amp, the pedals like the BE deluxe, DS, SB & BE would be a better option in that role.
Don't think of this as a pedal - think of it as a rack pre-amp (Bogner Fish, ADA MP1, JMP 1). It is just in a pedal format for modern day convenience
I would love to try this into the effects loop of my Peavey Classic 50. I bet it would sound great at band practice. Would you have any idea how it would sound at lower bedroom practicing levels? Thank you for the video!
Should sound absolutely fine. Just like your classic 50 generally, it will open up more at higher volumes, perhaps ‘smooth out’ a bit like most tube amps but it should still sound great 👍
i see the problem with live play you would have to bend over and change settings as you play not good:) im sure it sounds ,but you need more presets for live play.
Totally depends on your use. This pretty much has 4 channels or tones instantly recallable. That’s more than most amps. If you need more than that you are already in the digital modelling world, which this isn’t.
Exactly. This is not yet another multix fx/ modeller. This is an amp replacement. An amp. Singular. For those people who can still remember concerts with real amps. You would have to adjust the amp settings as well "back in the day"!
And people just don't get it. They keep comparing this to fully fledged, programmable modellers.
For me a tight bottom end its gotta be the most important😜
🤣
Hey dude, thanks for putting this together. I just ordered one and am trying to get an idea of how the IR-X is used with a loop switcher if the IR-X is supposed to be used in the effects loop of a tube amp? The manual says that the IR-X return should go into the return loop of the tube amp, but if you do, how do you connect the loop switcher to where it can control the IR-X? Did you have to get a splitter in order to do your setup?
I'd basically like to have my guitar go into my tuner, then have the IR-X in the effects loop of the amp with the loops of the ES-5 having reverb/delay/modulation pedals in them and the IR-X channels being controlled via midi.
Hey man! The best way to think about the IRX is as a replacement preamp for your amp. It won’t be ‘in the fx loop’, you are using the fx return to use your amp as a power amp. So even though it may be in a loop, you wouldn’t want it bypassed.
Signal path would be something like guitar > front end pedals > IRX > fx loop pedals > amp return.
If you are running into an FX loop or amp make sure you run from the IRX output and bypass IRs or come out of the IRX send as your output as that is pre IR.
With a loop switcher, you could still utilise your amps pre amp and switch between the two but that’s a bit more complex.
Hope that helps 👍
@@DanLeggatt Awesome, thanks! So I basically want to do the first part of what you're saying and use the IR-X as a replacement preamp so I can use the controls on the IR-X as effectively my amp head. Per the manual though, it says you're supposed to hook up the IR-X Return to the FX Return of the amp head. If I do this, how am I supposed to run the IR-X into the Boss ES-5 loop switcher? Would I have to run my guitar into the input of the IR-X, and then run a cable out from the send of the IR-X to the input of the ES-5?
@JJDon5150 I'm taking an educated guess & thinking in Dans rig in this video, the output of his loop switcher (which only has fx in it that you would run into the FRONT of an amp) is going into the input of the IR-X. The channels of IR-X itself are being controlled from the loop switcher via midi but is not in a loop. He has the reverb & delay in the loop of the IR-X. The fx loop in the IR-X can be turned on / off via midi but Dan is not doing that here. He is leaving the IR-X loop on all the time & has modded his delay to switched on/off from a relay switch on the Musicomlab unit. Hope this helps.
@@JJDon5150how do you normally hook up an amp? Do that. You seem confused. He answered you and you asked the exact same question
@@Ottophil there is a much different routing flow you have to use when you use the IR-X with a loop switcher like the Boss IR-X and want to use direct to PA and amp return at the same time. Its not just "plugging it in." I got it figured out after asking some people on a forum. I'll basically need a buffered splitter.
Next time you want to comment, at least add something positive instead of complaining/trolling.
Is possible to use it in front of a clean amp? The output level is too much?
Yeah, no problem this thing is super versatile.
I imagine it’ll work, not sure you’ll get the best results but I haven’t tried it myself. I would come out of the send jack if you were going to try it, I believe the FX loop level is quite controlled.
this or the victory V4 sheriff amp
This one!!! I had V4 and sold it. I have a demo on my channel. V4 cannot get clean, doesn't have tight function, does not have IRs, has shared EQ that you cannot balance to use both channels.
Would this be worth getting to use it just as an or loader so be able to use the fractal with no ir and then into this. And why are people so lazy to have global controls right on your fractal that has a high cut low cut and and then low mids and highs. And bam you have knob and a fractal that’s literally the best piece of equipment for guitar They sound better then the original tunes amps. But hey to each their own
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