Third party IRs vs stock cabs

[jrjones]

How many of you guys use third party IRs instead of the stock cabs? How big of a difference is it?

 

[Dave Merrill]

The stock cabs ARE IRs, just to be clear.

Personally I use both third party and built in IRs, both are great.

 

[mr_fender]

Some of the factory cabs come from third party vendors too like ML Sound, York Audio, Austin Buddy, Celestion, Ownhammer, etc. The rest were shot by Fractal. It all depends on what you are looking for.

 

[GreatGreen]

Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, but my go-to IR I still use and love is a blend of the Legacy IR F103 4x12 Basketweave TV Mix mixed with and a flat signal that goes up to 13 kHz and cuts off sharply, just barely blended in so you can just start to hear some additional high-mid content.

90% of it is that old TV Mix IR though, there's just something magic about it i haven't heard in any other IR.

 

[jrjones]

The stock cabs ARE IRs, just to be clear.

Personally I use both third party and built in IRs, both are great.

Yeah, for sure. Edited the OP for clarity.

 

[Budda]

I'm bumping up this old thread to ask:
How do you distinguish the Fractal IR's from the third party ones in the picker?

Ones you buy will be in the user cabs section after you upload them to the unit.

 

[JWDubois]

I use both stock and aftermarket IRs, and I can get good and bad sounds with either.

At this point I'd like to see the stock cabs refreshed, with emphasis on a consistent mics and mic positions across the cabs.

 

[JTI]

Finkle is Einhorn

 

[Piing]

 

[Rajnar]

BTW, unsurprisingly considering the properties of human hearing (Fletcher/Munsen etc.), I've found it necessary to use different cabs at different volume levels.