Suhr Reactive Load Vs Fractal Audio X-Load

[EOengineer]

I definitely wouldn't be playing this thing in my apartment at all, never mind these settings, if I didn't have the Suhr. I have no experience with other load boxes, but had enough experience with the amps into cabs to know it works fucking great. Only reason I went for that over the Fractal was because I found one used for like $50 cheaper than I could have gotten the Fractal at the time.

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There is no better solution currently, especially when running vintage spec Superleads. I absolutely love playing my 1959 and 2204 through the Suhr.

The idea to limit IRs to 20ms when a large amount of IRs are 200ms-500ms was not a good call by Suhr.

And this is exactly why many of us choose to keep our reactive load and impulse response processing separate. I’m frankly still shocked Suhr hasn’t corrected that flaw with the current version…and it is a flaw. A giant one.

 

[Desertdweller]

And this is exactly why many of us choose to keep our reactive load and impulse response processing separate. I’m frankly still shocked Suhr hasn’t corrected that flaw with the current version…and it is a flaw. A giant one.

Agreed on both counts. Back in the day when we’d pay for recording time in a studio you generally stuck to 1 cab and that was it. Now we have the freedom to use different IRs on different instruments and different songs, so there’s so much more freedom. It’s a better workflow with more options to add IRs in the DAW so you can mix and match for the right sound for the song. I’ve had some songs where greenbacks or cream backs worked better than my 4x12 V30 cab and it’s great to have those options specifically when mixing the track.

 

[Chocol8]

I think that is why Suhr hasn't upgraded the onboard IR handling. A 20 ms IR is fine to feed to front of house for a bar gig, and probably as good or better than micing the cab with a beat up beer soaked 57. Most other uses, you aren't going to use the built in IR's anyway.

 

[Allexi]

The thing is that Suhr is using russian IR module produced by AMT. It is off the shelf product. Suhr didn’t developed it and just integrated it into RLIR.

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[nicolasrivera]

By this time i have learned something that few will tell you, there is not one reactive load unit thats the better fit for all amps. Each amp sounds and feels a bit different with each unit, its up to you to decide if one units serves the best for your amp, and this is an expensive research as you need multimple reactive load units to experience this.