Falling In Place

Laney IRT Studio with pod hd 500 via 4 cable method for a Tube Screamer, noise gating and some eq going direct out using cab IRs.  I'm using guitar DIs and a backing track found on the andy sneap forum.

Laney IRT Test IR

Helix Mesa Tone

Helix Mesa Tone 3

Here is a comparison of the Line 6 Helix's stock cab and IRs from my favorite IR makers.  I used a Mesa OS cab with an SM57 and a Sennheiser MD421 mic.  All IRs used that same combination except for possibly the Rosen Digital cab (It may have an additional mic I'm not sure as there is no specifics on the mic combinations on the 3 IRs you get in the pack, only that an SM57 and 421 were both used as well as other mics).  I kept everything else exactly the same.  The only difference is the cab used.  I used slight post EQ in Cubase 6.5.  Just a High/Low pass filter, a 1db cut in the 130Hz area, about a 2db cut in the 550Hz area and about a 1db cut in the 850Hz area.  I also had my usual mastering chain.  Nothing fancy there.  Really just to get the loudness up and a slight widener.

Helix 5150 Stock Cab

Helix Mesa TMS IR

This is a tone test of several IR makers of Mesa V30 cabs. The celestion IR is not a mesa but it is a V30 speaker (Celestion has there own unnamed cabs they use) This playlist is with a single SM57 mic in a cap edge position (or sound equivalent if not specifically listed). There is no post processing on the guitars. Just a mastering limiter on the two bus to raise the volume. The ampsim used is Mercurial Reaxis. All settings are identical except for the IR used. The C and D MLSoundlab IRs are different mic positions. I couldn't decide which to use so I used both.

Seacow Mesa 57

GodsCab 57

Celestion V30 57

JST Mesa 57

Valhallir Mesa 57

Redwires Mesa 57

MLSoundLab Mesa 57 D

MLSoundLab Mesa 57 C

Ownhammer JYC 57

Ownhammer HHC 57

Ownhammer RECTO V70B 57

This is a comparison of many different Mesa V30 cab IRs. I've included more IR makers who don't have single mic IRs (3Sigma Audio, Rosen Digital, and SinMix). Each tone in this list has a mix of mics instead of only an SM57. I've included in the name the name of the mix used.  I also added a tone of the stock cab for the Reaxis. It's a Mesa V30 cab with an SM57 and Royer 121. No post processing was done except for a mastering limiter on the two bus to increase loudness.  Mercurial reaxis was used for the amp sim. The DI and backing track were taken from the Andy Sneap forum.

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