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Favourite Redwirez IRs?

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ChaserHUN

Jul 18, 2020
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I've purchased Redwirez Bass IR Pack. They sound pretty great....BUT.....there are just waaaay to many variables.

I didn't have the time to go through all of them, as of now I use a 810 with 421 mic 2inch from cone and a Hartke 4,5 with 421 mic 2 inch from cone. The Hartke has a strong midrange and the svt 810 complements this good, but the latter I feel has a bit tooo much low end.

I am looking for a nice open sound with big headroom. Also a distortion sound (I use aguilar agro in effects loop). A play in drop A# with an Ibanez SR300EBL

What are your favourite IR's? Or what combinations of them? With this many variables it feels like a never ending story to find the right one.
 
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I completed my short IR journey with Shift Line free package. There was several cabs (Sunn, Hartke, Ampeg, Mesa) but one over all the others was Mesa RR2x15. For me it resembles more my 810 live cab than any of Ampeg 810 cab sims I have tried and also compliments the distorted sound very nice. I like the fact that there was not too many options in the package, basically 1-2 per cab. Makes things easier for me.

Sorry for my post without any Redwirez, but at least there was something about IR :)
 
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paskisti said:
I completed my short IR journey with Shift Line free package. There was several cabs (Sunn, Hartke, Ampeg, Mesa) but one over all the others was Mesa RR2x15. For me it resembles more my 810 live cab than any of Ampeg 810 cab sims I have tried and also compliments the distorted sound very nice. I like the fact that there was not too many options in the package, basically 1-2 per cab. Makes things easier for me.

Sorry for my post without any Redwirez, but at least there was something about IR :)
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I have tried Shiftlines pack. It is ok as it is free, but I think there are better soundings out there. Their Hartke model was too honky for me. Would have been nice a few more options there.
 
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paskisti said:
I forgot to say that I use it for demoing, and could use for FOH, but not for studio.
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Started playing around with the mesa cab from the shiftline and actually got the best sound so far, haha.
Distortion has a nice midrange grunt without sounding honky and nasaly and doesn't have that harsh high end where you have all that string noise coming through. My problem is this with all the Hartke 410 IRs, wich is weird because I own an actual cab like that and don't have this problem.
 
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ChaserHUN said:
Started playing around with the mesa cab from the shiftline and actually got the best sound so far, haha.
Distortion has a nice midrange grunt without sounding honky and nasaly and doesn't have that harsh high end where you have all that string noise coming through. My problem is this with all the Hartke 410 IRs, wich is weird because I own an actual cab like that and don't have this problem.
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Isn't that annoying. You just need to find good sounding IR and forget what is your actual cab. I like Hartke cabs too but IRs are not representing their true nature.
 
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paskisti said:
Isn't that annoying. You just need to find good sounding IR and forget what is your actual cab. I like Hartke cabs too but IRs are not representing their true nature.
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Honestly I tried hartke IRs from 3 differrent brands, all of them sounded too harsh or bad in someway. Didn't try lancasters dough. I don't know how that would sound.
BUT.....I've decided to try 3sigmas Aguilar 810 and Mesa 810 cabs, and OMG, they sound amazing. You have many options but not a million like redwirez and they sound pretty amazing from the get go. Together they sound really amazing. Especially with my agro distortion. Nice throaty sound, but it is balanced not that irritating nasaly midrange.
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