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Different speakers and mic position are sometimes more important than the amp itself, so I’m looking forward to all the speaker shootouts! You’ll definitely make it all sound great 💪🏻🔥
For years I was plugging into my interface using plugins. Then I started digging out my old gear, preamps and pedals, and putting them into the interface. Now I have an Engl fireball 25. Cabinet arrives today and I’m shopping for mics. I really missed walking into my room, turning on an amp and rocking out like in my younger days. I don’t always want to deal with a computer when I want to play guitar and I like twisting physical knobs. Maybe young guys who have never had the experience of having a physical amp and cab don’t have that feeling of missing it. Dunno.
I love real tube amps and my cabs. Super fun. I have a work computer on basically 98% of the time so a computer is a no go for me. Even the positive grid spark 2 is more fun than computers or headphones only.
I've been plugging my pedalboard into different neural plugins but i'm in the same boat as you. I have a nice amp and cab and a the two notes captor x. The captor x has attenuation. I've been thinking about setting it back up so i can just play without dealing with a computer. The sound of plugins is there but being able to touch the amp and "feel" the sound coming out of the amp is a whole other experience.
@@alexdoyleguitar my problem is I want to crank the shit out of the amps like my peavey ultra half stack when I was a kid. But now that I have kids and a job that is 70-80 hours a week, time is the problem (and so is space). So even my 6505MH winds up in the 85-100 decibel range because I love pushed air. And while I can get it quiet through the torpedo captor, the big ass speaker magnets don’t have the same feel below 90db. The spark 2 which I got is a great compromise and I sometimes run my old POD2.0 (from 2002) with an ir loader through the aux input at like 65-70db at 1am.
I hope you continue to keep in mind those of us for whom using real Amps, Mics, or even Iso Boxes are impractical. Your Channel has been my "go to" source on YT for hearing what what outstanding sounds can be achieved while working digitally, and in the box. Thanks
Jon, you are the best! I appreciate that you are trying different stuff. Would be super stoked to check sound of amps through iso cab! Though worth to say your mixes have been sounding awesome with IRs too.
Back when my studio was right next door to my toddler I had a randall 112 Isocab and I really enjoyed it. It did have a little bit of a boxy tone to it, but it was better than waking up the kid. I'm glad you finally got your hands on a good solution for you and your family! Did you ever see the 412 sized Randall Isocab? that thing was pretty sweet.
I'm 1000% here for it. You'll be filling a niche on here that's sorely lacking. I love hearing that you've parterned up in a way with OJB. We're gonna be blessed with information that we didn't even know we needed.
LOVE seeing the evolution on the channel. Love the OH IRs that I've discovered through your videos. ISO cab changed how I record over the past year. Now, I am starting to capture my own amps and speakers. Looking forward to all your upcoming vids. Would also love to buy/support if you ever make a dedicated set of amp & captures for ToneX/Cortex.
While I love love love IRs and I'm primarily an IR and Quad Cortex guy, there's still something special that a dedicated amplifier, speaker and microphone combo won't be beaten on. It's that last 10% in the top end frequencies for me. Modellers are amazing and have come so far, and in a full mix are indistinguishable. But as a player, I believe that the absolute best results will always be with an amp, cab and mic.
congrats Jon 🙌 we talked about this briefly but hearing this again and all in context, it totally makes sense, logical step for what is your sound and being able to share that as well, really awesome
The match EQ thing is really smart as you use the same sounds. Usually people try to use match EQ with songs which are not the same key, not the same density, etc.
This year, i moved away of using one amp, mesa single rec, and one quad box, marshall v30, for gigs. I wanted to have a compact light weight and options of going direct and/or use a frfr on stage. But a simple analog style with knobs and two channels with a digital output as in IR's. I went with the Friedman IR-D and fender fr10. wow. so inspirational and the ability to choose a small box IR or one of two quad IR's, it gives me all i could ever hope for and the feel of a real valve amp. Very happy chappy. Have a great Christmas
Great decision! And looking forward to the new videos! As a drumming sound-engineer with a small studio, I just bought the Engl E658 Steve Morse Signature 20. An all-in-one package to start with IR’s for practicing with the band with in-ears. I was thinking to buy a Engl E112VSB Cabinet for recording, but now I’m going to add a Grossmann iso cab for recording.👍🏼 This way I can use my extensive mic collection and play around with different mic-preamps and speakers. 😊
My guess is that it will consume so much time in your video making that you will have to toss it away and use the ir’s more as before. Time is money, but I may be wrong. Great video as always and this new idea differentiates from other youtubers.
One thing I can highly recommend is to get a Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon. It's a killer mic on guitar cabs all on it's own, but it also sounds so damn good when blended with an SM57 or any other bright dynamic mic. It's fairly cheap for being a high quality ribbon as well.
Been playing through the fatbox for almost 10 years now. Still makes a huge difference compared to IRs imo. Problem for me was, the amp was still too loud, even with the lid closed. So i got the roadcase to get even more isolation. Now my kids can sleep in the room next door while i can enjoy the sound of my 100 watt tube amp through my headphones. :D
I've been wondering about IR's from you for a while. This is great news. Would you possibly do a video on how to make IR's? I've seen many others but can't seem to put all the pieces together. Also, genuinely curious how you do it and would love to see the process.
In the Isobox review you said you made some EQ settings so the box sounds open while it's closed. Will those IRs have that "Open box EQ" already applied or is that for us to add once we purchase them? Can't wait to see what you've got coming up, between speaker demos and mic demos there's a lot of content to be made.
So, because of you, I've been using the ML almighty V30 IR for a while now. But, I can't stop myself when it comes to V30 IR's, so I had to buy yours of course. I really like the SDS V130 57 2 and i've switched my main patch over to it. I'm using a Fender TMP with the Orange amp and the 4x12 Mega V30 speaker impedance and it sounds great to me. I use IR's with headphones, and a duncan power stage and a 2x12 with v30s when I can be noisy, so i totally get your thing about wanting to just play without needing a computer. I vastly prefer the real cab when playing without headphones.
i've used kind of isobox for sometime. At first i also thought it's sound like my mesa 4x12. But after a while i understand it's different. I wouldn't call it "sound in a box"' it's just sound very jammed and kind of small. My guess is it need more space and air to "breathe" for such a power speaker.
@@SonicDriveStudio BTW If u have enough space in u room. Didn''t u think to build like a small booth for u Engl cab? U know like a vocal booth but for cab. I think it can work perfectly.
Haha, we'll see! I don't feel the need for expensive preamps yet and I prefer keeping the mic signal pure until it hits the daw. So many speakers to go through first 😅
All people I know with initial enthusiasm for iso cabs changed their mind pretty soon. It's just not on par with a 2x12 or 4x12 and always feels like a compromise. Making your own "custom" IRs can be a game changer - but not with iso cab I'm afraid.
You mean quality cause tone is on the fingers. You will sound like you with any equipment once you dial it to your taste, the difference is the quality of the signal. You can buy some artist setup and learn his songs and his nuances and BE very similar sound wise, but if i ask you "play on that one of your songs!" What will you do? Instant playing or will you tweak the setup to acomodate your song?
Change?! I can’t handle change NOT ACCEPTABLE!!! lol just kidding. Actually this is the coolest possible news you could have given us!!! I love using my cabs and mics. I also have an iso cab in the middle of rebuilding so I can relate. Yeah this is totally cool! More cabs and mics = more fun!!!! Sure IR’s are great and all. But they are just too easy and sort of boring imo. I like the art of making noise. Not just making noise. lol
One Heck of an amp collection you have there. I wonder what would happen if you turned them all on at once!!! Will it shut down the power grid... hahahah
Super stoked to see the speaker comparisons! Just some feedback from me - you've recently started to use lavalier mics or those wireless clip-ons like in this video. I imagine they are more convenient than whatever you used to be using (overhead SDC probably?), but the audio quality of your voice dropped significantly and it pains me to say that it's annoying for me to watch your videos now because of it. Honestly I would 100% rather watch videos with worse visuals but better audio, like your older ones. If for some reason you don't consider coming back to the old way of recording your voice then some EQ would help to bring it closer to the old quality. Love your stuff man and I really hope you don't overlook this!
@SonicDriveStudio I browsed your latest videos just now and the last time you used overboom mic instead of the wireless lav was the ENGL Fireball video and the audio is great, just like I remembered from your older videos. The very next video and all following are with the lavs and the sound is not it, there's some unpleasent midrange to it. I will download audio from one of these videos and play around with the EQ, maybe I will send you the settings or something if you want to check it out for yourself. Or you can just ignore it if I turn out to be the only person complaining. Even if that's the case I still think that people notice even if they don't complain about it. Do with that what you will. Cheers!
Why not build also a "box" for the bigger 4x12? I know it's expensive, but you can capture all the ambience and not only the speaker under a closed little box. There's some boxes built or this purpose. Just a thought.
@@SonicDriveStudio You can change home 😆😆😆 (just kiddin'). But for 2025 I definetively think to put some cabs in a mic'ed little room for my amps, it's handy and convenient to change cabinets and mics.... Anyway, nice solution ISO cabs, indeed, if there is no room...
Love to hear that you are going to use a real cab. The IR thing gets kind of boring, stale and sterile sounding. Be cool to hear an in the room tone. Like Kyle bull with unprocessed audio
I've done "in the room sounds" and I'm personally not a fan of that as it's impossible to convey how it actually sounds in the room. Close mic'ed for now!
Don’t you use a fractal as your audio interface? I know you had an axefx3. You can literally make a perfect IR if your Engl cab mic’d exactly how you like it in 10 seconds with the Fractal and SS poweramp. I know this is about getting away from IRs but the IR you make will always be better than a bought one because it’s set exactly like you like it and hear your cab.
No, Nooo, Nooooo!!! WTH man, please don't change your sound!!!! There is not enough money to change what's not broken! We,, the listeners, can't afford a Goodmon isolation cab, but We can afford an IR! You are the best at what you offer to us, the little people, but, cutting the nut on a Goodman cab, that is not an option!! That said, maybe just a little bit we want to hear what sound you can come up with, for experimental purposes only, but please, throw that thing in the trash when you are done!!!! We want the old JON back when you are done messing about with anything that's not IR's! TT
I suppose I'm slowly becoming an old fart, but I feel the "amp in a room" sound problem has not been solved yet with load boxes or modellers. With a bit of experimentation you can get good recorded tones, but it's a lot harder to get the feel of standing next to a tube amp. I guess it misses some dynamics, ambience and air moving. It would be interesting to see how much natural room feel or ambience you can get into sounds from an isolation cab.
well I don't know john, more and more of us will never use a cab again and our tones depend on IRs, so whenever you test anything you should still use IR's alongside anything else you think it is fun to do, in the end and even if we all hate it, IR's is what most of your audience uses
That is of course a great solution. I'm absolutely baffled that people in all seriousness PLAY through IRs, have the sound come out through their studio monitors or FRFRs, and are content with the tinny, screeching mess they're hearing. Guys, you need to snap out of it, that's crazy. IRs are the sound of a microphone placed directly in front of an amp + cabinet. It's the sound of studio recording. It's not the sound of playing guitar! I of course LOVE IRs - for music production. A good IR gets you exactly what you need for a guitar in a full mix. But even when I'm recording and relying 100% on profilers and modelers, I split the signal and the direct preamp sound goes into the DAW (where it is later treated with IRs), but also simultaneously to the power amp section of a Katana Artist and THAT'S what I'm listening to while I play. Rehearsal room, the same - profiler into the power amp section of an amp and into a real 4x12. That's how a guitar sounds when you play it and you shoudn't be training your ears to expect the sound of a mic'ed up guitar speaker.
@@MeTuLHeDWhat don't you understand about it? I just explained the matter. IRs do NOT give you the sound of a cabinet, and thus eliminate the need for a cabinet. They give you the sound of one or more MICROPHONES recording a guy playing a guitar through an amp and cabinet. That's a completely different thing. It's what you hear on records in a full mix. It's a close mic'ed, very harsh type of sound, but it works in the context of a music production, where you double track guitars, EQ them, balance them against the bass and all that. It's not at all what you hear when you're standing in a room, playing your guitar through and amp and cabinet. Playing through an IR live and projecting that sound through a flat frequency speaker will never give you the sound and feel of playing a real guitar rig and will sound pretty terrible. What we hear when we play guitar and what we're hearing on a mixed record are two different things.
@ I am tempted to buy a Randall iso cab or Rivera silent sister, but I need more space for that. Also, I like the grossman because you can use multiple mics.
@@Rokken2Dokken Silent Sister is awesome although huge! It's the second iso cab I own. Still kinda prefer the inexpensive Jet City due to smaller size.
@ I didn’t know jet city made one. I think that the demand fell off seriously in light of the whole expansion of reactive loadboxes but I wish I had something where I could monitor the mic audio in realtime. Also I would have loved to see a decibel meter comparison.
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Different speakers and mic position are sometimes more important than the amp itself, so I’m looking forward to all the speaker shootouts! You’ll definitely make it all sound great 💪🏻🔥
Cheers!
For years I was plugging into my interface using plugins. Then I started digging out my old gear, preamps and pedals, and putting them into the interface. Now I have an Engl fireball 25. Cabinet arrives today and I’m shopping for mics.
I really missed walking into my room, turning on an amp and rocking out like in my younger days. I don’t always want to deal with a computer when I want to play guitar and I like twisting physical knobs.
Maybe young guys who have never had the experience of having a physical amp and cab don’t have that feeling of missing it. Dunno.
I love real tube amps and my cabs. Super fun.
I have a work computer on basically 98% of the time so a computer is a no go for me.
Even the positive grid spark 2 is more fun than computers or headphones only.
I've been plugging my pedalboard into different neural plugins but i'm in the same boat as you. I have a nice amp and cab and a the two notes captor x. The captor x has attenuation. I've been thinking about setting it back up so i can just play without dealing with a computer. The sound of plugins is there but being able to touch the amp and "feel" the sound coming out of the amp is a whole other experience.
ive been thinking the same. Let me know how it goes! these new lunchbox amps with all the attenuation and noise gates make a lot of sense.......
@@alexdoyleguitar my problem is I want to crank the shit out of the amps like my peavey ultra half stack when I was a kid.
But now that I have kids and a job that is 70-80 hours a week, time is the problem (and so is space).
So even my 6505MH winds up in the 85-100 decibel range because I love pushed air. And while I can get it quiet through the torpedo captor, the big ass speaker magnets don’t have the same feel below 90db.
The spark 2 which I got is a great compromise and I sometimes run my old POD2.0 (from 2002) with an ir loader through the aux input at like 65-70db at 1am.
I turn my fractal on and also don't need a computer. Once your Presets are ready you can plug and play like an Amp.
John Browne is such a great dude. He's so gracious and helpful.
He's the best!
@@SonicDriveStudioyou should donate a song for him to use so we can hear the speakers he samples in context
Underrated channel
Great idea, developing yourself is everything and shows the right mindset. Looking forward to hear your results
Thanks!
Makes sense. I think you mastered the load box + IR method, always impressed with your sound.
so glad you're making the switch
As all in life friend, you need always be open to new things to try since it might worth the intent
ISO cabs have been completely normal in studios and huge live tours for decades. Ppl act like it’s a new thing and I don’t understand why.
The point is that it's new for me
Hit the like immediately when I saw that pile of speakers. Looks a like lot of fun!
So much fun! :)
I hope you continue to keep in mind those of us for whom using real Amps, Mics, or even Iso Boxes are impractical. Your Channel has been my "go to" source on YT for hearing what what outstanding sounds can be achieved while working digitally, and in the box. Thanks
You'll be able to get all my speaker sounds in IR form. So I'm looking to cater to everybody
Jon, you are the best! I appreciate that you are trying different stuff. Would be super stoked to check sound of amps through iso cab! Though worth to say your mixes have been sounding awesome with IRs too.
Awesome news! I can't wait to eventually get my hands on these IRs to try them out.
Love your content! Always evolving! 🤟
Been follow your channel for ages. Really nice seeing you keeping up. 🙏👌💪🏻
anxious to hear it all....
Back when my studio was right next door to my toddler I had a randall 112 Isocab and I really enjoyed it. It did have a little bit of a boxy tone to it, but it was better than waking up the kid. I'm glad you finally got your hands on a good solution for you and your family! Did you ever see the 412 sized Randall Isocab? that thing was pretty sweet.
Good stuff. Looking forward to this. The feel of the amp also changes when connected to a real speaker versus loadbox. You’ll love it.
I love this channel.
I'm 1000% here for it. You'll be filling a niche on here that's sorely lacking. I love hearing that you've parterned up in a way with OJB. We're gonna be blessed with information that we didn't even know we needed.
LOVE seeing the evolution on the channel. Love the OH IRs that I've discovered through your videos. ISO cab changed how I record over the past year. Now, I am starting to capture my own amps and speakers. Looking forward to all your upcoming vids. Would also love to buy/support if you ever make a dedicated set of amp & captures for ToneX/Cortex.
@@AnthonyStudio I’m resisting the capturing because that’s hundreds of dollars that I would rather spend on stupidly expensive microphones ;)
While I love love love IRs and I'm primarily an IR and Quad Cortex guy, there's still something special that a dedicated amplifier, speaker and microphone combo won't be beaten on. It's that last 10% in the top end frequencies for me. Modellers are amazing and have come so far, and in a full mix are indistinguishable. But as a player, I believe that the absolute best results will always be with an amp, cab and mic.
congrats Jon 🙌 we talked about this briefly but hearing this again and all in context, it totally makes sense, logical step for what is your sound and being able to share that as well, really awesome
Thanks Paul!
I hope you do a video of how to use it and get the best sounds when using an isolation cab. Looks awesome.
The match EQ thing is really smart as you use the same sounds. Usually people try to use match EQ with songs which are not the same key, not the same density, etc.
Wow, image is awesome, new level!
😊
This year, i moved away of using one amp, mesa single rec, and one quad box, marshall v30, for gigs. I wanted to have a compact light weight and options of going direct and/or use a frfr on stage. But a simple analog style with knobs and two channels with a digital output as in IR's. I went with the Friedman IR-D and fender fr10. wow. so inspirational and the ability to choose a small box IR or one of two quad IR's, it gives me all i could ever hope for and the feel of a real valve amp. Very happy chappy.
Have a great Christmas
🔥 I can't wait to get some IR's from you
Great videos. We might want to mention that the concealed white cab, they do not ship to the USA
Have fun going down the speaker rabbit hole 🍻 The EVH G12 Speaker is the love of my life 🤣🤘
I want one
Cool thats the real things , with real cab you feel also the physical part of the music and the magic.
I would also suggest trying a ribbon mic like a Royer 121 along side your sm57. Might be worth a try. Happy hunting on the tone quest.
Great decision!
And looking forward to the new videos!
As a drumming sound-engineer with a small studio, I just bought the Engl E658 Steve Morse Signature 20. An all-in-one package to start with IR’s for practicing with the band with in-ears.
I was thinking to buy a Engl E112VSB Cabinet for recording, but now I’m going to add a Grossmann iso cab for recording.👍🏼
This way I can use my extensive mic collection and play around with different mic-preamps and speakers. 😊
My guess is that it will consume so much time in your video making that you will have to toss it away and use the ir’s more as before. Time is money, but I may be wrong. Great video as always and this new idea differentiates from other youtubers.
My setup is very streamlined so it doesn't take a lot of effort to plug in the cab at all
🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤 me waiting for that VH4 video
Excited to hear the shootout with the Mojotone
One thing I can highly recommend is to get a Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon. It's a killer mic on guitar cabs all on it's own, but it also sounds so damn good when blended with an SM57 or any other bright dynamic mic. It's fairly cheap for being a high quality ribbon as well.
Been playing through the fatbox for almost 10 years now. Still makes a huge difference compared to IRs imo. Problem for me was, the amp was still too loud, even with the lid closed. So i got the roadcase to get even more isolation. Now my kids can sleep in the room next door while i can enjoy the sound of my 100 watt tube amp through my headphones. :D
I've been wondering about IR's from you for a while. This is great news. Would you possibly do a video on how to make IR's? I've seen many others but can't seem to put all the pieces together. Also, genuinely curious how you do it and would love to see the process.
In the Isobox review you said you made some EQ settings so the box sounds open while it's closed. Will those IRs have that "Open box EQ" already applied or is that for us to add once we purchase them? Can't wait to see what you've got coming up, between speaker demos and mic demos there's a lot of content to be made.
All the IRs have the "open box sound"
i have nothing against digital of any kind its all great but ive never even used a plugin let alone an IR, love my real cabs 🦅
So, because of you, I've been using the ML almighty V30 IR for a while now. But, I can't stop myself when it comes to V30 IR's, so I had to buy yours of course. I really like the SDS V130 57 2 and i've switched my main patch over to it. I'm using a Fender TMP with the Orange amp and the 4x12 Mega V30 speaker impedance and it sounds great to me. I use IR's with headphones, and a duncan power stage and a 2x12 with v30s when I can be noisy, so i totally get your thing about wanting to just play without needing a computer. I vastly prefer the real cab when playing without headphones.
Thanks Nate, hope you enjoy them!
Do you like the Framus Cobra? :)
Are there samples for the IR packs that we can hear?
Maybe I can add some soundclips. If you want to hear how the V30 sounds you can check out my review of the Grossman
Very much looking fwd to the speaker comparison! I hope you have the Celestion G12H30 55 hertz ☺
I don't have that one (yet) but I have like 18 other speakers so far that I can use
I have a feeling, Jon, you’re going to go down the expensive rabbit hole of microphones now! ❤
They don't fit haha! For now I'm quite pleased with that I have
You only just started making IRs and they already sound better than mine. I am DISGUSTED! 😂
Haha no way!
Speakers and Monitors day time.
Loadboxes and IRs 11 PM to 6 AM.
i've used kind of isobox for sometime. At first i also thought it's sound like my mesa 4x12. But after a while i understand it's different. I wouldn't call it "sound in a box"' it's just sound very jammed and kind of small. My guess is it need more space and air to "breathe" for such a power speaker.
This cab was designed with all that in mind but the match eq trick really helps to open it up
@@SonicDriveStudio BTW If u have enough space in u room. Didn''t u think to build like a small booth for u Engl cab? U know like a vocal booth but for cab. I think it can work perfectly.
I bet one day the tube mic preamps question will rise:)
Haha, we'll see! I don't feel the need for expensive preamps yet and I prefer keeping the mic signal pure until it hits the daw. So many speakers to go through first 😅
All people I know with initial enthusiasm for iso cabs changed their mind pretty soon. It's just not on par with a 2x12 or 4x12 and always feels like a compromise. Making your own "custom" IRs can be a game changer - but not with iso cab I'm afraid.
Happy to prove you wrong!
You mean quality cause tone is on the fingers. You will sound like you with any equipment once you dial it to your taste, the difference is the quality of the signal. You can buy some artist setup and learn his songs and his nuances and BE very similar sound wise, but if i ask you "play on that one of your songs!" What will you do? Instant playing or will you tweak the setup to acomodate your song?
Change?! I can’t handle change NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!
lol just kidding. Actually this is the coolest possible news you could have given us!!! I love using my cabs and mics. I also have an iso cab in the middle of rebuilding so I can relate. Yeah this is totally cool! More cabs and mics = more fun!!!! Sure IR’s are great and all. But they are just too easy and sort of boring imo. I like the art of making noise. Not just making noise. lol
what camera are u using ?
Sony A6400 for the most part
Great idea about selling IR packs
I hope you like them! I'm loving them!
We want the Edwards LPC review!
Not sure if and when I'll do a full review but I'll tell you this: it's amazing!
What cameras are you using now?
Sony A6400 with DJI Osmo Pocket 3 sprinkled through
@@SonicDriveStudio Awesome, thank you! I know what I'll be asking Santa for this year 😂
Just wish I would understand all this technology stuff 😁
One Heck of an amp collection you have there. I wonder what would happen if you turned them all on at once!!! Will it shut down the power grid... hahahah
The universe would implode!
Super stoked to see the speaker comparisons!
Just some feedback from me - you've recently started to use lavalier mics or those wireless clip-ons like in this video. I imagine they are more convenient than whatever you used to be using (overhead SDC probably?), but the audio quality of your voice dropped significantly and it pains me to say that it's annoying for me to watch your videos now because of it. Honestly I would 100% rather watch videos with worse visuals but better audio, like your older ones.
If for some reason you don't consider coming back to the old way of recording your voice then some EQ would help to bring it closer to the old quality.
Love your stuff man and I really hope you don't overlook this!
I was recovering from the flu when filming this. Please keep that in mind
@SonicDriveStudio I browsed your latest videos just now and the last time you used overboom mic instead of the wireless lav was the ENGL Fireball video and the audio is great, just like I remembered from your older videos. The very next video and all following are with the lavs and the sound is not it, there's some unpleasent midrange to it.
I will download audio from one of these videos and play around with the EQ, maybe I will send you the settings or something if you want to check it out for yourself. Or you can just ignore it if I turn out to be the only person complaining. Even if that's the case I still think that people notice even if they don't complain about it. Do with that what you will. Cheers!
Why not build also a "box" for the bigger 4x12?
I know it's expensive, but you can capture all the ambience and not only the speaker under a closed little box.
There's some boxes built or this purpose.
Just a thought.
I have absolutely no room for that. Luckily I love the sound of this cab
@@SonicDriveStudio You can change home 😆😆😆 (just kiddin').
But for 2025 I definetively think to put some cabs in a mic'ed little room for my amps, it's handy and convenient to change cabinets and mics....
Anyway, nice solution ISO cabs, indeed, if there is no room...
@posarelli the fact that this is a compact iso cab made it all possible for me since volume and size was always an issue. This cab fixes all of that!
Love to hear that you are going to use a real cab. The IR thing gets kind of boring, stale and sterile sounding. Be cool to hear an in the room tone. Like Kyle bull with unprocessed audio
I've done "in the room sounds" and I'm personally not a fan of that as it's impossible to convey how it actually sounds in the room. Close mic'ed for now!
@ yeah I meant close mic. But blended with a room mic would be cool too. Like some of olas videos
Don’t you use a fractal as your audio interface? I know you had an axefx3. You can literally make a perfect IR if your Engl cab mic’d exactly how you like it in 10 seconds with the Fractal and SS poweramp. I know this is about getting away from IRs but the IR you make will always be better than a bought one because it’s set exactly like you
like it and hear your cab.
I use the FM9 as my interface
There is a feel and fidelity you just don't get in an ir.
Early gang here! 😂🤘
Yo!
next step = get a 2x12 grossman signature cab ;)
It wouldn't fit 😅
IR here to stay! (see what I did there? 😜😂)
Your voice sounds sooo different
I was sick when I recorded this. My voice is still recovering
No, Nooo, Nooooo!!! WTH man, please don't change your sound!!!! There is not enough money to change what's not broken! We,, the listeners, can't afford a Goodmon isolation cab, but We can afford an IR! You are the best at what you offer to us, the little people, but, cutting the nut on a Goodman cab, that is not an option!! That said, maybe just a little bit we want to hear what sound you can come up with, for experimental purposes only, but please, throw that thing in the trash when you are done!!!! We want the old JON back when you are done messing about with anything that's not IR's! TT
That's why I'm selling my own IRs, as I explain in the video.... NOT throwing it in the trash obviously
The best part about real cabs is that you can make IR's 😂
It's definitely fun!
I suppose I'm slowly becoming an old fart, but I feel the "amp in a room" sound problem has not been solved yet with load boxes or modellers. With a bit of experimentation you can get good recorded tones, but it's a lot harder to get the feel of standing next to a tube amp. I guess it misses some dynamics, ambience and air moving. It would be interesting to see how much natural room feel or ambience you can get into sounds from an isolation cab.
well I don't know john, more and more of us will never use a cab again and our tones depend on IRs, so whenever you test anything you should still use IR's alongside anything else you think it is fun to do, in the end and even if we all hate it, IR's is what most of your audience uses
Eh, IR's and real cabs are so close that it just doesn't really matter. If you hear a tone with a real cab you can get it with an IR and visa versa.
As noted in the video I will also be making my own IRs so that people can get the tones I'm getting from my real cab in digital form
@@harrymack3565 6 inch minitor speaker cant make 12 inch speaker sound , not even consider mics curve.
That is of course a great solution. I'm absolutely baffled that people in all seriousness PLAY through IRs, have the sound come out through their studio monitors or FRFRs, and are content with the tinny, screeching mess they're hearing. Guys, you need to snap out of it, that's crazy. IRs are the sound of a microphone placed directly in front of an amp + cabinet. It's the sound of studio recording. It's not the sound of playing guitar!
I of course LOVE IRs - for music production. A good IR gets you exactly what you need for a guitar in a full mix. But even when I'm recording and relying 100% on profilers and modelers, I split the signal and the direct preamp sound goes into the DAW (where it is later treated with IRs), but also simultaneously to the power amp section of a Katana Artist and THAT'S what I'm listening to while I play. Rehearsal room, the same - profiler into the power amp section of an amp and into a real 4x12. That's how a guitar sounds when you play it and you shoudn't be training your ears to expect the sound of a mic'ed up guitar speaker.
You love IRs but they make a tinny screeching mess? 🤔
@@MeTuLHeDWhat don't you understand about it? I just explained the matter. IRs do NOT give you the sound of a cabinet, and thus eliminate the need for a cabinet. They give you the sound of one or more MICROPHONES recording a guy playing a guitar through an amp and cabinet. That's a completely different thing. It's what you hear on records in a full mix. It's a close mic'ed, very harsh type of sound, but it works in the context of a music production, where you double track guitars, EQ them, balance them against the bass and all that. It's not at all what you hear when you're standing in a room, playing your guitar through and amp and cabinet. Playing through an IR live and projecting that sound through a flat frequency speaker will never give you the sound and feel of playing a real guitar rig and will sound pretty terrible. What we hear when we play guitar and what we're hearing on a mixed record are two different things.
I don’t like Grossman because I can’t buy one in America ;)
Yeah that's a bummer...
@ I am tempted to buy a Randall iso cab or Rivera silent sister, but I need more space for that. Also, I like the grossman because you can use multiple mics.
@@Rokken2Dokken Silent Sister is awesome although huge! It's the second iso cab I own. Still kinda prefer the inexpensive Jet City due to smaller size.
@ I didn’t know jet city made one. I think that the demand fell off seriously in light of the whole expansion of reactive loadboxes but I wish I had something where I could monitor the mic audio in realtime. Also I would have loved to see a decibel meter comparison.