Strymon Iridium Amp & IR Cab Simulator Pedal

Leave Your Amp At HomeNothing reveals the true finesse of your guitar playing like a world-class tube amp driving a perfectly matched speaker cabinet in a great sounding room. This pedal that truly delivers that sound and feel, with simple controls for effortlessly dialing in the perfect amp tone when going direct. Discover inspiring tube amp responsiveness, unprecedented impulse response speaker cabinet realism, and controllable natural sounding room ambience.

Iridium gives you three legendary amplifiers, with a total of nine impulse response speaker cabinets that complement the tonality of the amp. Skip the hassle of carrying and miking amps. Place Iridium on your pedalboard and send stunning stereo amplifier tones, realistic cabs, and natural room ambience direct to a recording interface or PA system. With Iridium, it’s easy to dial in a direct tone that will truly inspire and sound great if you're monitoring through in-ears, floor wedges, reference monitors, or studio headphones.

At A Glance • Three amplifier models crafted using Matrix Modeling
• Nine Impulse Response speaker cabinets
• Load your own impulse responses using Strymon Impulse Manager software
• Hybrid IR/algorithmic Room control with selectable small, medium, and large rooms
• Simple, responsive amp-style controls for Drive, Level, Bass, Middle, and Treble
• Premium stereo high impedance discrete JFET analog front end withup to 22dB of pure analog gain
• Designed and built in the USA

Three Iconic AmplifiersThe Matrix Modeling™ process captures all the nuances and unique tonal characteristics of each amplifier. Three iconic tube amps with distinct characters have been mathematically modeled with every aspect of their circuitry to absolute perfection, delivering the response, feel, and inspiring experience of playing through the original amps at their best. Taking the process a step further, each amp has been hot-rodded to provide an extended range of tonal options beyond what was available from the original designs.

Nine Stereo IR CabinetsIridium’s speaker cabinets provide a level of realism and responsiveness unprecedented in outboard effects. Iridium delivers full stereo 24bit 96kHz resolution for the entire 500 milliseconds of its speaker cabinet impulse responses. Until now, IRs of this resolution have only been available for use within studio recording software. Iridium’s breakthrough technology means you can use the very best impulse responses available, bringing maximum realism to your pedalboard.

Adjustable Room AmbienceIridium’s hybrid room reverb combines a 256 millisecond stereo impulse response with Strymon’s reverb tank algorithm for extended decay. This combination places your amp and cab in a natural sounding room (small, medium, or large), creating a space for your amp to open up and breathe.

Round AmpThe Deluxe is one of the most recorded amps ever made, and for good reason. This amp is clean, bright, and mid-scooped, with plenty of headroom. At higher Drive settings it delivers an overdriven sound unique to its architecture. The Deluxe’s Normal channel was chosen for its round tone that plays well with pedals. While preserving access to all the tones originally available with this channel, our model gives you something more: a midrange control. With the midrange at noon, you get the original fixed-resistor value and standard tonal characteristics of the Deluxe. Turn down the midrange for a more scooped sound, or turn it up for tweed-era tones.

Chime AmpThis model of the AC30TB Brilliant channel is jangly, bright, and chimey, providing air for subtle passages with a light touch, and bite when you want to dig in. For this amp, the Middle knob acts a Tone Cut knob, providing high-end roll-off just before the power tubes, per the original AC30 design. Along with the full available gain of the original amp, toward the top end of the Drive knob’s range of travel, we’ve added a frequency-shaped front end boost to tighten the low end while driving the amp further into saturation.

Punch AmpThis amp features a buttery, smooth overdrive. At higher Drive settings it will deliver all the high gain distortion and growl this amp is known for, and then some. Setting the Drive control at around 2 o’clock gets you the maximum gain the original Plexi design allowed. Beyond that, this model has some additional gain on tap, giving you access to custom hot-rodded Plexi high gain tones.

Load Your Own ImpulsesImpulse responses allow the sound and character of a mic’d speaker cabinet to be captured, so that any audio signal can be processed by the resulting impulse response and sound as if it’s being played through that exact speaker cabinet. Iridium can deliver impulse response resolution far greater than any other piece of outboard gear.

With full 24bit 96kHz resolution for the entire 500 milliseconds of its speaker cabinet impulse responses, Iridium is able to use the absolute highest quality IRs available. This means countless details are accurately preserved and reproduced to give you a completely real speaker response. Every cabinet resonance, speaker vibration, as well as reflections between the cabinet, the mic, the floor, and the ceiling; all the minuscule cues that tell our brain we are listening to our favourite cabinet are preserved, providing completely lifelike realism.

It’s easy to replace the pre-installed IRs with custom IRs from your own collection by using Strymon Impulse Manager software.