So what is your favorite IR cab sim, what kind of IR loader do you use, and how?
Personally I use IR cab sims because I run an amp-less setup, it features several tone shapers, and a tube preamp both at the start and end of the signal chain, but right before the second tube preamp and DI I got a NUX Melvin Lee Davis preamp, loaded with an Aguilar Tone Hammer amp emulation, and my favorite choice of IR until recently used to be the stock Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab sim, but then I gave exprimenting with different 3rd party IR cab sim files a second shot, and ended up falling in love with an IR, captured by and purchased from Doctor Bonkers, of an obscure, I believe late 60 or early 70's 1 x 15" + 2 x 8" cab, named the Poly Pro.
I can warmly recommend Doctor Bonkers IR's, when you purchase an IR pack of a cab you get a but load of different captures of the same cab in all possible kinds of resolutions and bit depths, captures with all kind of different microphones, including 2 mic mixes and 1 mic files, including IR files where the poweramp has been included as part of the IR (so probably not the right choice if you are prone to suffer from option paralysis).
Personally and more specifically I found I preferred with the particular IR simulations of the Poly Pro cab captured with 1 or 2 AKG C414 XLS II microphones, and so far settled for a single mic IR file, captures at the cone (I assume the cone of the 15" speaker unit of this cab), with the poweramp captured as well, though the other captures where the AKG 414 was used sounded really nice as well, so hard to chose, and I might eventually go for one of the other options.
I starts rolling off low end, but not steeply, from about 70Hz (same did the Ampeg IR cab sim I used before), and the high end starts slowly to roll off around 3Khz with a steep decline from about 5Kz or so.
And it reproduces a really punchy, and not least snappy, but also clear, tone.
Personally I use IR cab sims because I run an amp-less setup, it features several tone shapers, and a tube preamp both at the start and end of the signal chain, but right before the second tube preamp and DI I got a NUX Melvin Lee Davis preamp, loaded with an Aguilar Tone Hammer amp emulation, and my favorite choice of IR until recently used to be the stock Ampeg SVT-212AV IR cab sim, but then I gave exprimenting with different 3rd party IR cab sim files a second shot, and ended up falling in love with an IR, captured by and purchased from Doctor Bonkers, of an obscure, I believe late 60 or early 70's 1 x 15" + 2 x 8" cab, named the Poly Pro.
I can warmly recommend Doctor Bonkers IR's, when you purchase an IR pack of a cab you get a but load of different captures of the same cab in all possible kinds of resolutions and bit depths, captures with all kind of different microphones, including 2 mic mixes and 1 mic files, including IR files where the poweramp has been included as part of the IR (so probably not the right choice if you are prone to suffer from option paralysis).
Personally and more specifically I found I preferred with the particular IR simulations of the Poly Pro cab captured with 1 or 2 AKG C414 XLS II microphones, and so far settled for a single mic IR file, captures at the cone (I assume the cone of the 15" speaker unit of this cab), with the poweramp captured as well, though the other captures where the AKG 414 was used sounded really nice as well, so hard to chose, and I might eventually go for one of the other options.
I starts rolling off low end, but not steeply, from about 70Hz (same did the Ampeg IR cab sim I used before), and the high end starts slowly to roll off around 3Khz with a steep decline from about 5Kz or so.
And it reproduces a really punchy, and not least snappy, but also clear, tone.
