Iridium

Leave Your Amp At Home.

Nothing reveals the true nature of your guitar and your playing like a world-class tube amp driving a perfectly matched speaker cabinet in a great sounding room. Now there is a pedal that truly delivers that sound and feel, with simple controls for effortlessly dialling 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 iconic amplifiers, with a total of nine impulse response speaker cabinets that complement the tonality of the amp. Skip the hassle of lugging around or miking amps. Place Iridium on your pedalboard and send gorgeous stereo amplifier tones, stunningly realistic cabs, and lush room ambience direct to a recording interface or PA system. With Iridium, it's a snap to dial in a direct tone that will truly inspire and sound great whether you are monitoring through in-ears, floor wedges, reference monitors, or studio headphones.

Three Iconic Amplifiers

The Matrix Modeling process captures all the subtleties and unique tonal qualities of each amplifier. Strymon have taken three iconic tube amps with distinct characters and mathematically modelled every aspect of their circuitry with absolute precision to deliver the response, feel, and inspiring experience of playing through the original amps at their best. Taking the process a step further, Strymon have hot-rodded each amp to provide an extended range of tonal options beyond what was available from the original designs.

Nine Stereo IR Cabinets

Iridium's speaker cabinets offer 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 Ambience

Iridium'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 Amp - Based on* a Fender Deluxe Reverb

The Deluxe is one of the most recorded amps in history 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. Strymon chose the Deluxe's Normal channel 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 extra: 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 Amp - Based on* the Brilliant channel of a Vox AC30

The amp that defined the guitar sound of the British Invasion. Our model of the AC30 Brilliant channel (Top Boost) 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. In addition to the full available gain of the original amp, toward the top end of the Drive knob's range of travel, Strymon have added a frequency-shaped front end boost to tighten the low end while driving the amp further into saturation.

Punch Amp - Based on* a Marshall Plexi (Super Lead model number 1959)

This powerful amp is meatier, with higher gain than the other two amps, and has a powerful midrange response. This 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, our model has some additional gain on tap, giving you access to custom hot-rodded Plexi high gain tones.

*All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Strymon. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during Strymon's sound design process. Fender and Deluxe Reverb are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Vox is a registered trademark of Vox R&D Limited. Marshall is a registered trademark of Marshall Amplification Plc.

A Carefully Curated Cab Collection.

Iridium comes pre-loaded with a carefully curated collection of premium cabinet impulse responses from OwnHammer, Celestion, cabIR and ValhallaIR.

Round A - Deluxe Reverb 1×12" by OwnHammer
Impulse captures a vintage Fender Deluxe Reverb open back 1×12" combo loaded with a 1978 Fender CTS ceramic 12" speaker.

Round B - Blues Junior 1×12" by CabIR
Impulse captures a 1×12" Blues Junior cabinet, loaded with a Jensen C12N speaker.

Round C - Vibrolux 2×10" by cabIR
Impulse captures a Fender Vibrolux from 1965 with 2×10" Jensen C10NS speakers from 1965.

Chime A - AC30 2×12" Alnico by OwnHammer
Impulse captures a Vox AC30 / 6 open back fawn 2×12" combo with 2001 Celestion T0530 Blue AlNiCo speakers.

Chime B - 1×12" Alnico by Celestion
Impulse captures Celestion Blue Alnico speaker in a closed back 1×12" cab.

Chime C - Mesa 4×12" by ValhallaIR
Impulse captures a 4×12" Mesa Boogie "Halfback", which is loaded (open back) with two Black Shadow MC-90 speakers from CelestionTM and two Black Shadow EVM12-L from ElectroVoice.

Punch A - GNR 4×12" by OwnHammer
Impulse captures a 1971 Marshall 1960B "basketweave" 4×12" cabinet.

Punch B - 2×12" Vintage 30 by Celestion
Impulse captures a Celestion Vintage 30 in an open back 2×12" cab.

Punch C - Marshall 8×12" Alnico by cabIR
Impulse captures a re-issue of the 1965 Marshall 8×12" full stack cabinet, loaded with Celestion T652 AlNiCo speakers.

Load Your Own Impulses.

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

Stereo Output
Operates at instrument and Line Level input sources
Discrete transistor headphone amplifier
Expression pedal input provides seamless morphing between knob positions (Expression mode), or smooth pre / post volume control with logarithmic taper (Volume mode)
USB jack for connecting to Strymon Impulse Manager software
to add and edit your own speaker cabinet IRs
Compatible with Strymon MultiSwitch Plus for remote selection of up to 4 presets
Full featured MIDI control accessible via EXP Jack for remote parameter control and access to 300 preset locations (requires Strymon MIDI EXP cable or MIDI to TRS interface)

Audio Quality

Ultra-low noise, high performance 24-bit 96kHz A / D and D / A
converters provide uncompromising audio quality
Super high performance SHARC and ARM co-processors
32-bit floating point processing

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Transparent Analogue Buffered Bypass
Strong and lightweight anodized black aluminum chassis
9V DC power supply included
Power requirements: maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 500mA of current
4.5" deep (11.43 cm) x 4" wide (10.16 cm) x 2.4" tall (6.1 cm)
Designed and built in the USA