New Boss IR-2

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I'm not much of a modeler guy, but this has me intrigued. Being the size of a normal Boss pedal, and the fact that you can plug it into your phone seems super convenient and useful for me at least. Recording riffs this way to send to the band could be useful. What do you guys think?

 
I just saw an article on this pedal and I must say it looks pretty cool to have as a back up. BOSS is, boss! Good shit.
 
I think this pedal could be Boss's biggest gamechanger since the TU-2.

This is an amp sim, IR loader and interface.

You can run the sims or you can feed the line out of a load box into it.

You can load your own IRs into it.

It has a stereo effects loop.

It has three built-in reverbs.

It has a headphone jack.

It can be set to compensate for the character of whatever amp you're running it into.

It can playback and record from/to your phone/DAW.

It runs off a 9v battery.

It's $200.

There isnt anything out there with these features at this pricepoint.

This opens up so many options to so many players. Use it as your full rig. Run your tube head into it. Use it as a clean platform for your preamp pedals. Use it as a headphone amp. Use it as an interface.

Hell you could build a W/D/W rig with it. Run your head into load box. Run the Thru to your cab. Run the line out into this, with the amp sim disabled. Fill the effects loop with your delay/chorus/verb. Run the outputs into a pair of powerful FRFR cabs. Or just run the mono out into the SDE-3000EVH to split into three monitors.
 
They are going to sell a ton of these. All those features for $200...I can't wait to check one out.
 
This looks great .. I recently got a "Valeton Indie" pedal that sounds pretty damn great but you have to run it into a poweramp to get good tones out of it.. and into a DAW you have to also run it into a virtual poweramp, plus IRs ... this thing seems to take care of all of that

Pretty sure I will be getting one of these as soon as they come to NZ
 
sytharnia1560 said:
This looks great .. I recently got a "Valeton Indie" pedal that sounds pretty damn great but you have to run it into a poweramp to get good tones out of it.. and into a DAW you have to also run it into a virtual poweramp, plus IRs ... this thing seems to take care of all of that

Pretty sure I will be getting one of these as soon as they come to NZ
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I believe you are still going to need a power amp. In this demo they were running out to powered speakers (PA)
 
I was totally sold on this since I'm looking for a backup that I can throw in a gig bag, The clean amps sound good. I watched the Leon Todd demo, and the dirty amps sounded not so hot, and that guy makes everything sound good. But you could always add your own drive pedal. I would assume this is a platform they will build on, with maybe the possibility of adding more amps or effects down the road.
 
Chris6870 said:
I was totally sold on this since I'm looking for a backup that I can throw in a gig bag, The clean amps sound good. I watched the Leon Todd demo, and the dirty amps sounded not so hot, and that guy makes everything sound good. But you could always add your own drive pedal. I would assume this is a platform they will build on, with maybe the possibility of adding more amps or effects down the road.
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The BOSS IR-200 has been out awhile.
 
It has a SLO & a Rec setting. I thought that they were the same preamp, just different power sections? :unsure::LOL:
 
thegame said:
So what's the difference between these units? Is the new IR-2 just a budget version of the 200?
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1 - half the price
2 - simple design (no LED screen)
3 - size!

I bought the 200 series GEQ & delay. Tone suck was the killer for those two.
 
thegame said:
So what's the difference between these units? Is the new IR-2 just a budget version of the 200?
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The IR-2 is a stripped down IR-200.

The additional features of the IR-200 are:

- Two cab slots to run in stereo (Cab B can be slightly delayed)
- An EQ per cab, switchable between graphic and parametric
- A master (system) EQ at output to tune to your setup
- Control over the send/return level of the loop, series/parallel (aka dry mix), placement (before/after cab/EQ) and delay (the loop return can run at a small delay)
- A solo boost that cranks volume (controllable) and presence
- Low, mid and high gain structures for each amp
- Noise gate
- Cabinet knob - the IR for any amp can be changed easily, and IRs can be saved as favorites (the IR-2 links each IR to an amp sim and they can only be reassigned in the editor)
- +/- 20db of input gain, saveable to ten master presets OR assigned individually to each saved memory preset
- Two assignable footswitches plus external footswitch/expression control. Footswitches can run up/down memories, select specific memories, turn the EQ on/off, turn the Solo boost on/off or turn the loop on/off. Expression pedal can control amp gain, and amp, solo, send and return levels.
- Independent volume and ambience for the headphone output
- 1/8" aux jack for playback (IR-2 has USB-C instead)
- 99 preset slots vs 2
- 128 IR slots vs 11
- MIDI control

The 200 is obviously much more feature heavy, but the core functionality of the 200 is the same as the 2.
 
tallcoolone said:
I believe you are still going to need a power amp. In this demo they were running out to powered speakers (PA)
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yeah I worded that wrong ...I meant that the Valeton is more like a fuzz pedal and an overdrive pedal going directly into my poweramp so it takes a fair bit of dialling to get it to sound nice and thick etc, but this Boss is more the amp types have their own "real amp" thing programmed in to the poweramp you plug into is purely just amplifying the signal from the pedal so you are getting those "amp" sounds

Again I haven't really explained it well but I know what I mean hahaha
 
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