Steel Speaker IRs

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 19 Nov 2024 9:27 am

I know there's a a growing number of great steel rigs for Tonex, Kemper, Quad Cortex, etc., but is there anyone out there with just the IRs for some classic pedal steel speakers?

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 19 Nov 2024 9:59 am

It would be nice to have a BW1501 and 1502, JBL D130 and K130.

Jack Stanton · Post by **Jack Stanton** » 19 Nov 2024 12:34 pm

Eminence has PF & TT Speaker IR's on their websites.

Ron Hogan · Post by **Ron Hogan** » 19 Nov 2024 8:50 pm

Chris,
I have several IRs. Travis Toys, Franklin 350 and 400’s.

Being most of my gigs are live with a speaker cabinet on stage and not going to FOH, I don’t use the IRs. I’m using the ToneX pedal.

Ian Worley · Post by **Ian Worley** » 20 Nov 2024 8:56 am

York Audio has some really nice cab IRs of a pair of JBL D120F speakers captured in a '71 Twin Reverb. I have some of them loaded into my Iridium, they sound great for steel IMO. https://www.yorkaudio.co/product-page/ftwn-212-d120

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 20 Nov 2024 9:00 am

Ian Worley wrote:York Audio has some really nice cab IRs of a pair of JBL D120F speakers captured in a '71 Twin Reverb. I have some of them loaded into my Iridium, they sound great for steel IMO. https://www.yorkaudio.co/product-page/ftwn-212-d120

I use this particular set as well as some from OwnHammer (I like their EV-SROs and EV-S, and the Altec 417-8H is pretty good). Of course, I play lap steel so I don’t particularly care for the 15” speaker. I haven’t seen the BW out there, though.

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 20 Nov 2024 10:59 am

Thanks, all.

Mike - I LOVE SROs except for the weight. Having an IR would be brilliant.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 20 Nov 2024 11:03 am

Ian Worley wrote:York Audio has some really nice cab IRs of a pair of JBL D120F speakers captured in a '71 Twin Reverb. I have some of them loaded into my Iridium, they sound great for steel IMO. https://www.yorkaudio.co/product-page/ftwn-212-d120

I have them loaded into my Nu-X Amp Academy. I would also like some BW or JBL 15" speaker IRs. My first amp was a '71 Twin with JBLs. I later made a head cabinet for the Twin and built a JBL spec'd cabinet with a K130.

Joe Rogers · Post by **Joe Rogers** » 20 Nov 2024 11:46 am

I created a few for the BW 1502, I plan to create several for the BW 1501. I created a few for the Altec 418B

Joe Rogers

Len Amaral · Post by **Len Amaral** » 21 Nov 2024 2:25 pm

I have the Boss IR-2 but don't think I am hooking up correctly. I got it to try with pedal steel but I'm very satisfied with my current setup so may try it with guitar in my home studio. There is a downloadable jack to import new effects so a speaker sim would be nice to try once I get familiar with the pedal.

Corbin Pratt · Post by **Corbin Pratt** » 22 Nov 2024 6:37 am

I've tried all of them. The eminence pedal steel ones are good but the York Audio ones are awesome.

Ron Hogan · Post by **Ron Hogan** » 22 Nov 2024 7:47 am

Joe Rogers wrote:I created a few for the BW 1502, I plan to create several for the BW 1501. I created a few for the Altec 418B

Joe Rogers

I’ve always wondered how they separate the IR sounds from the amp preset itself. Each present I would think would bleed over into that particular speaker sound.

Thoughts?

Joe Rogers · Post by **Joe Rogers** » 9 Dec 2024 9:21 pm

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I’ve always wondered how they separate the IR sounds from the amp preset itself. Each present I would think would bleed over into that particular speaker sound.

Thoughts?[/quote]

Ron, everything can be modeled into components. One can hook up the amp to the speaker and model everything in its entirety. That method does not allow you to try a different speaker, nor does it allow you to change mic brands or mic positions after the fact.

The second route is to model everything independently. The amp is basically modeled direct. The speaker IRs are simply a snapshot of the speaker. The two are put together at the tail end. The best way I can explain Speaker IR creation is by incorporating software, you would run an audio sine wave through a speaker. The software takes a snippet of the sine wave, removes the sine wave portion by means of deconvolver software, and your left with a representation of the speaker. Playing it back simply sounds like a snap or click. Run a steel through it, and it will sound like your steel audio going through the speaker...

....something like that...LOL

Joe Rogers