TC Electronics Ampworx pedals

[DieSchmalle]

To me Fender amps sound pretty awful if you try to crank them for gain anyway and thought the clean and edge of breakup tones sounded just fine. The DC30 is probably the worst of the bunch where it seems just too harsh even with the high cut turned up.

It might be a question of IRs selected. Easy test would be running into an IR loader pedal and see if some different IR fixes the problem. But that of course takes away any value these might have and it would be better to just buy a Strymon Iridium.

On an AC30 you don't really notice the high cut until it's at least 2/3 up. And little changes make a huge difference towards the end.

I think the IRs are fine. I like the Creamback choice for the Combo Deluxe - enough mids and lean bass.

 

[jellodog]

Are these pedals just another offering from the explosion in repackaged open source neural amp modelling (NAM or similar tech)?

There are going to be SO MANY of these over the next couple of years

 

[Lysander]

Are these pedals just another offering from the explosion in repackaged open source neural amp modelling (NAM or similar tech)?

AmpWorx is component level modelling.

 

[Desertdweller]

A Vox, Fender and low gain Marshall AIAB?!?!?!?!?!?? Very innovative!

100%! Definitely something that’s never been done before.

 

[EOengineer]

That is a really nice JTM45 model. Smart IR choice too.

 

[hunter]

looks like a cheap backup rig to bring along?

 

[the swede]

Strymon Iridium All these three in one with IR management and quite good midi support. Just… just saying. Of course these could theoretically sound better. But the Iridium sounds nice. The Marshall being the weird one though… always found it was too dark and low heavy… making the IR search a pain. These all sound great though.

 

[laxu]

Strymon Iridium All these three in one with IR management and quite good midi support. Just… just saying. Of course these could theoretically sound better. But the Iridium sounds nice. The Marshall being the weird one though… always found it was too dark and low heavy… making the IR search a pain. These all sound great though.

The Strymon Iridium is just a straight up better pedal in many respects compared to these. Used prices here in Finland are a bit under two of the TC pedals.

The Strymon Marshall model has fairly interesting settings. When I tried matching it to my Axe-Fx 3's Plexi models, the closest ones were the reissues with less gain and even then the matching setting was something like Normal volume higher than Treble volume. The Strymon model could really use a presence control but in absence of that, the right IR selection works well enough for me.

Really the only failure of the Strymon Iridium is that the stock IR selection is all over the place. Replacing them with York Audio and ML Sound Lab mixes and I don't think it sounds worse than equivalent models from my Axe-Fx 3, even if the Fractal is more "warts and all" accurate. Not bad for a pedal from 2019 with nothing but small bug fixes since then.

 

[telecode101]

AmpWorx is component level modelling.

what is component level modelling ? they model the electrical circuits vs modeling the capture of the amp?

 

[Lysander]

what is component level modelling ? they model the electrical circuits vs modeling the capture of the amp?

In a nutshell - you're modelling the actual circuit, and the interaction of all components in it. It's the same approach used by f.ex. Fractal and NUX.

 

[-BOOGIEMAN-]

I like what I heard from the JIMS 45…

 

[Lysander]

Here's Henning reviewing the Dual Recto model.



...not great, IMHO. A lowly HX Stomp runs circles around all of their models.

With the exception of maybe the Jims 45. That one sounded amazing on every single review i've heard.

 

[DieSchmalle]

 

[Desertdweller]

Here's Henning reviewing the Dual Recto model.



...not great, IMHO. A lowly HX Stomp runs circles around all of their models.

With the exception of maybe the Jims 45. That one sounded amazing on every single review i've heard.

Excellent choice of knobs. Just like the real amp, you can't see the settings from even 5 feet away

 

[laxu]

Based on a quick look at the videos for these new pedals, they remind me of the high gain models of old modelers where they are almost like a caricature of those amps.

 

[Whizzinby]

Full credit for adding high gain options. (Not that any of them sound great from the above demos)

 

[DieSchmalle]

Seems like TC made a compromise and tamed the bass response so that you can plug these in a tube power amp, but also record direct. At least the demos sound quite lean - or "mix ready" I guess.

 

[deepskyone]

 

[DieSchmalle]

Ah, great. The A/B with an actual 800 in the end kind of shows the lean bass response.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Big pass on all of these. They are kind of a hard sell against a Mooer mini preamp pedal, even if these were around $80-100. For $150, they are hoping for suckers to buy this shit.