I opened Pandoras box - the land of IR's. Ok I have Tonex and Tonex One and bought some IR's and stuff for that. I have been playing with modeling since the early 90's. Consider it modeling or not, but I had a Digitech RP-5 and that was my first foray into something trying to model a cab. TBH, it sucked horribly...ok fast forward to today and I while I love my Tonex, I still haven't setup the thing to model my own rig... anyway I like to tinker and do unconventional things just because that how I do things and you learn interesting lessons that way.
Anyway I got one of those Leo Jaymz /M-Wave/Erok IR BOX loaders to play with and see how it worked primarily with my Zoom MS 60-B and Ihave other use cases for this for recording too. So off I go downloading some free IR's based on some of the recommendations in this thread. I found some really good useable ones with Shiftline, Panda, Science Amplification, and a couple of other sources. Some were ok, some I didn't like at all, and a few I really liked. So I naorrowed down the ones I liked and was pretty happy with that. Shiftline overall was my favorite, especially the Mesa 215, SVT, and the 115. I test my IR's by going through the setlist of my band as we play several styles and I can see where one IR works better than another. I am setting this up as one of my gig rigs.
So, the tinkerer in me decided how can I manipulate these IR's. These are .WAV files right? I am Waveman, so why don't mess with with them in my DAW. I wanted to experiment with blending IR's. Cool. I made several ones based on two IR's playing with stuff just combining the two, write it the pedal and see what it sounds like. First iterations were cool, but character of the IR's were seeming to conflict a little, so adjust the mixer on the one you think is getting in the way. That worked pretty well! Then well, why not throw on a compressor and adjust the bass. That did stuff to it, some was good, but not what was looking for exactly. But still a valid thing to do. Anyway, my mind was spinning (still is spinning with possibilities here). I got the idea, why not take the signals for a couple or three IR's, split them in the same exact locations, and splice them back togther. That worked! While it may be a crude way to do, it's works. When analyzing the wav form, I just picked spots where it behaves differently, such as the front few ms where the big part of the wave is, then as it settled down, and then a little after that where becomes this long narrow waveform.
One of my favorites so far is where I took the first part of the Mesa 215, second part was from blended signal of the two, and the long tail was from SVT. I figure the front part of this is the basic character of the cab, but the second part and long tail effect resonance and stuff like that. Again, crude fun, and worth trying verses blending two complete signals
