I have tried Positive Grid's BIAS AMP 2 & FX 2, which was alright. GR5 is definitely not a good amp sim at this point, so I only use it for the effects (I find that there's a lot of tweaking I can do to get some really unique sounds that I can't get from other plugins). I'll see if I can post what my settings are tomorrow (I need to sleep). The song I'm currently working on has kind of a crazy setup where I'm using 60 cycle hum in a kind of creative ways (it's hard to explain without going into detail), but even outside of that example, I don't quite get as full of a sound as I'd like. I'll have to look at my settings tomorrow. One thing that helped today was to use buses in Reaper (so I could add some EQ shelving to make it fit into the mix better), while also adding some compression to the Master track. I mainly use Amplitube 4 (and sometimes use Guitar Rig 5 for effects. I know the review I saw of the Iridium edition said you could use IRs, but I'm assuming that was a new feature (as in, use your own IRs). Doesn't mean I'd be able to afford it, lol. ~1500 Euros ain't cheap, but if it does everything as well as it claims that it can, I'd say that to be a perfectly reasonable price. Getting that give & sag is important for my style of playing, and I can certainly hear the Mercury getting into the metal territory, just not that ideal. To be fair, I don't really do a whole lot of detuning stuff other than Drop D (I could see experimenting with that more, though). This is the kind of distinction I was looking for. What plugins are you using and what settings? You should not have any issues getting great lead tones with plugins. I would recommend checking out the Facebook group for BluGuitar, you can ask any further questions there. I understand a dummy plug can be used for this so you don’t need an actual speaker load. There is also a small difference in the response of the recording out whether the speaker out is connected or not. I have not tried this yet as I haven’t bothered buying a suitable DI. However BluGuitar has said it is safe to use the speaker output going into a DI box with a -20 dB pad to get around this on the ME. Note that you cannot turn off the recording out cab sim on the Mercury Edition like you can on the Iridium. It comes down to the feel and response - to me the ultimate metal amp has a very tight and fast, immediate response but for everything else you want more "give" and "sag" so it doesn’t feel too stiff. This is the tradeoff you need to do with most amps where the perfect blues/rock amp is never the perfect metal amp. It can do metal tones no problem, it is just not the ideal thing for the super tight stuff the Iridium is capable of. The Amp X is said to cost about 1500 euros so much more expensive but in line with stuff like Line6 Helix, Kemper Stage or other "do it all" boxes. I really wish I could try them out first, but obviously, that's not exactly practical (especially at the moment). Since I don't really have the equipment or the right type of acoustics, I'm sure I'd stick with direct-in & use IRs.Īny thoughts? One of my concerns is that the Iridium won't be able to do some of the nuance that Mercury can do. They're okay, but I find they really fall apart when it comes to lead tones that stick out in the mix (which also makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong). I should mention that, at the moment, I record going direct-in, and using amp modeling plugins. I'm aware that BluGuitar is coming out with the Amp X, which has both versions of the Amp 1 along with built-in effects & such, but it's probably not coming out until next year, and it will probably be a lot more expensive (I'd have to imagine). On the other hand, the Mercury edition seems like it can do the high gain sound pretty well, and with an overdrive or distortion pedal, I picture it being able to handle high gain just fine. Part of me is leaning towards the Iridium because I find it harder to get a really good high gain sound without it sounding excessively noisy. From every demo I've listened to, both versions sound like they'd suite my needs, but if I end up buying one of them, I'd still have to choose. I tend to play sort of a combination of psychedelic-blues-rock-metal, and so I tend to use everything from the cleanest cleans to that "on the edge of breaking up" clean to a solid overdrive to full on high-gain metal. I've been interested in these 2 amps for awhile (although, I'm still saving up for it), and I'm not sure which version I'd prefer.
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