For the uninitiated, the whole deal with IR's is to make a "less than desireable" recorded tone sound like it was recorded through a decent cab in a decent environment.
To get this you need to "process" the guit track in your DAW through an Impulse Response of a speaker cabinet ..your DAW needs a plug that processes IR's ...do a search in the Sneap forums if you're not sure.
One way to do it:
Lets use my mint white tolex 20'th Anniversary '82 JCM-800/50w/EL-34 as an example (BooYaa! I bought it new!).
I dump the main (post-power speaker) outs to a Behringer Ultra-G active DI box (the ONLY Behringer product that doesn't suck, imo) ...amp sim = off.
Ultra-G's XLRs go to a Mackie 1402 VLZ pro ("decent" home studio pre's), into a Gina24 soundcard, into either Sonar5 or Cubase SX.
Once in Sonar/Cubase, I just add (any) VST/DXi IR plug to the track & load in one of the Impulses that the folks here have graciously provided.
Oh yeah, if you don't wan't amp-on 8-speaker-volume, you need to drop the Ultra-G's speaker outs to a dummy load.
If you skip this step (for valve amps), you'll fry your amps output transformer in about 5 minutes.
A big $$ no no.
I built a dummy load box to send the speaker outs to nowhere.
UM's own Ether McBreakfast told me EXACTLY how to make the dummy load box ....net cost was a little over 20 bucks & 2 solder points.
To use Impluses with something like a POD-XT, or a pre like a Digi 2101 or a JMP-1, make sure you have amp sims off ...print the buzzy track, then add the impulse plug.
Adding an "impulse of a cab" to a guit track that is already "cab simmed" will yield basically nothing.
For the most part, you won't be able to notice any difference.
To get this you need to "process" the guit track in your DAW through an Impulse Response of a speaker cabinet ..your DAW needs a plug that processes IR's ...do a search in the Sneap forums if you're not sure.
One way to do it:
Lets use my mint white tolex 20'th Anniversary '82 JCM-800/50w/EL-34 as an example (BooYaa! I bought it new!).
I dump the main (post-power speaker) outs to a Behringer Ultra-G active DI box (the ONLY Behringer product that doesn't suck, imo) ...amp sim = off.
Ultra-G's XLRs go to a Mackie 1402 VLZ pro ("decent" home studio pre's), into a Gina24 soundcard, into either Sonar5 or Cubase SX.
Once in Sonar/Cubase, I just add (any) VST/DXi IR plug to the track & load in one of the Impulses that the folks here have graciously provided.
Oh yeah, if you don't wan't amp-on 8-speaker-volume, you need to drop the Ultra-G's speaker outs to a dummy load.
If you skip this step (for valve amps), you'll fry your amps output transformer in about 5 minutes.
A big $$ no no.
I built a dummy load box to send the speaker outs to nowhere.
UM's own Ether McBreakfast told me EXACTLY how to make the dummy load box ....net cost was a little over 20 bucks & 2 solder points.
To use Impluses with something like a POD-XT, or a pre like a Digi 2101 or a JMP-1, make sure you have amp sims off ...print the buzzy track, then add the impulse plug.
Adding an "impulse of a cab" to a guit track that is already "cab simmed" will yield basically nothing.
For the most part, you won't be able to notice any difference.
