Iso cab or impulses

[AudioGeekZine]

I know this has been talked about before, fuck you. I want your opinion today not in 2007.

My studio is in an apartment. I don't have any big amps (yet) but I also don't want to say I can't do something in my studio, in addition to no drums.
Plus the wife acceptance factor is in effect.
I'm not really that thrilled with my results with impulses thus far and I have to do a fuckload of proccessing to get acceptable results ITB compared to miking an amp.

So loud guitars. The options are:
Iso Cab like the fairly inexpensive Jet City
DIY Iso cab, which would look less pro and/or cost about as much as the Jet City
Impulses (which is not very loud at all) :Smug:
losing business

GO!

 

[DeclanWhite]

haha first sentence made me lol.

hm. i say buy the jet city. if you dont like it take it back?

 

[guitarguru777]

I would say the ISO cab and swap the speaker out for a V30...

I didn't even know this existed! I will be doing a SHIT TON of more research on this little fucker!

 

[drew_drummer]

Well... judging by my results with a cab + bunch of blankets over the top... I'd say ISO cab. It's gonna be similar to what I'm getting I reckon.

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Impulses IMO

 

[guitarguru777]

a slightly boxy tone is worth the neighbors not kicking your ass!

No impulse sounds as good and a mic'd cab. Atleast I haven't found one yet, and I own all the supposedly "really good" impulses. Recabinet, Redwires, Catharsis. While they sound great on demos and when you cant crank up your amp. Its still just not the same.

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Yeah, but I'd rather have an "80-90% there" 4x12 tone than a boxy, stuffy mic'ed-up tone

 

[ParsonsMatt]

I'd love to get an ISO cab to experiment with... It'd be nice to get the power amp/speaker dynamics that impulses can't capture. But, as Marcus says, will the sound be any better?

 

[digitaldeath]

Yeah, but I'd rather have an "80-90% there" 4x12 tone than a boxy, stuffy mic'ed-up tone

This. Talk to Greg about getting custom impulses.

 

[FIXXXER]

impulses= no or minimal costs, tons of options, flexibility, good sound
isocab= expensive, not really flexible, may sound good but not as a mic'd 4x12.

 

[Pot]

"Plus the wife acceptance factor is in effect"

Def impulse rout + real amp

 

[Crustopher]

I was in this exact scenario about 2 months ago and ended up buying a THD hot plate, Beyer Dynamics DT990 Headphones and redwirez impulses for my setup (6505+ into Orange PPC 4x12) and running the amp quite hot with a lead from the pre-amp out into my audio interface.

Now i'm happily shredding away and for what I want it totally gets the job done.

All the IsoCab's i could find were either really expensive, quite limited or worse still just really physically big and not practical for having in an apartment.