Get the Laney Ironheart Loud at Sweetwater (US): sweetwater.sjv.io/B04bL0 Get the Laney Ironheart Loud at Sweetwater (UK): elkqr.link/q3zrm

I like that this pedal is relatively easy to use. Not a lot of endless menu diving and complicated knobs.

@CorbCorbin

25 күн бұрын

Seems very similar to the Friedman IR, in a few ways, including price. The first version of these Laney’s, are down to $300 new, snd I’ve seen cheaper prices. Used, I’ve seen them for less than $200. It still has two channels, but no boost, and I’m sure less features in general. It’s smaller too. For $500, I’m not getting this new one. I’d rather put it towards a Victory pedalboard amp, that’s all analog, with a pre amp tube, and a DI out. The best modeled tone I’ve heard, is when an amp has a decent cab sim out, and it can be run straight to FOH, because it uses the analog pre and power amps, instead of an IR. The Egnater Rebel, Blackstar HT Club, Peavey has them on some EVH heads and some 30watt amps they make. I’ve been enjoying the Revv D25, with its balanced out, and 6 virtual cabs. I can get the same tone I use, with my pedalboard, and the difference I hear from a monitor, or house speakers, is negligible, and I have the amp behind me, so I still hear the tone that’s inspiring me.

I started playing in 1985, and can’t believe how far amp-technology has come in just the past decade. A guy can show-up these-days with a little pedal-board & sound great.

It definitely has a laney sound - which is sometimes exactly what you want but not as all round pleasant as a nice fender sound etc. thanks for sharing 🤘🤘

I appreciate that you consistently work a baritone into these demos. It is most illustrative.

I just ordered one of these today. Great timing for the video. Thanks.

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

You’re welcome!

I’ve already preordered the ironheart. I’m in love with it ❤

Sounds great!

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

It does, right!

Love Laney gear. Had a 4x10 bass combo cab back in 80's. It rocked🤘

Brilliant mate

Gorgeous 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nice review. Nice pedal.

Very good video Andy, nice heavy chops there too. Chuggy chuggy!!

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

Cheers Jan!

Not sure why but the boost knob being red is such a nice touch. Thx for sharing!❤

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

I agree! It’s a Laney thing that I’m glad they added

Ah yes, the Ironheart! It'll always have a spot soft in my heart because it was my first tube amp. Always loved mine with the boost engaged for just about everything, and loved the boosted tones here a tad more than the others, too. Great stuff, Andy!

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

I have a friend who has a huge collection of amps and his iron heart is his favourite. He sent me a bunch of recordings and it did sound fantastic

I have the regular laney loudpedal, is it worth replacing that with this ?

That’s a tasty rock box, prefer not to share eq but it does a nice loud and louder thing

Great review, Andy. One question…can you still get good sounds out of this at bedroom practice levels through a cab?

How dose this compare to the Blackstar Amped 3 ?

Very good Demo! Just a question. Can we make presets in this somehow and recall them like in the Friedman IR-X via MIDI? Or is MIDI limited to switching things on and off?

I think it sounds good! Very chunky.

This is a worthy expansion of the similarly-named Ironheart Foundry pedal.

I got the first gen loudpedal and it still fits the bill for my needs (mainly for playing live) but geez, this thing has a bunch of really nice additonal features. interface and the ability to load IRs is a huge step up, but it also is quite a bit dearer.

Hi Andy, you're only using 1 mic right? Did you add anything in post? I wonder why it sounds like stereo

Love my Dualtop. Iommi forever.

Interested what the difference is between this and the Foundary one

the website says "tone in an analogue, pedal amp format". Please explain?

I probably need one. I wish my Milkman 50 had XLR out and an fx loop...

Dang that sounds great. I wonder if it can nail the Vox AC tones. I used to own a Laney VC30 and it was my favorite amp

@7Boots

25 күн бұрын

You might check out the other one they just released: Lionheart with Tom Quayle. This is more AC territory, I guess!

Is your Maybach Lester still equipped with the stock Amber Spirit of '59 pickups? I sort of dig their vibe, but they are a bit too low output and too bright for my setup.

Great demo! I built my own cab and am in search of a compact amp to run through it. I have a Pulse 25watt solid and the Joyo 20 watt tube mini head. They aren’t loud enough for gigs. Do your reckon this Laney is?

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

There was lots of headroom left on the clean and it was very loud already. I’ve gigged with a joyo 20 watt head but for drive only. I would think the laney should be loud enough

Sounds good, has a lot of features, but the price is pretty steep. Should be around the 325-350 EUR mark. At 450 EUR it's DOA in my opinion.

Affordable too!

Amazing tone at the start of the video. Glad you didnt go straight to shred.

I wonder what the take up will be? Ipadders with an amp into an inplace speaker system? Public address systems? To be fair there have been small amps like this for decades but ... for whatever reasons ... it is good to see you gave it a few hours to see how semiconductors handled running hot for a while. And a last comment: change from amp that contains everything to an amp capable of supporting everything (and it fits in your laptop bag) Now if only live music were supported enough to make a great market for these things 🙂

Great video! Small correction: it’s designed in the UK, built in China! 🤘

I like it. Siunds good definitely a possibility in the near future. Thanks 😎👋✌️🎸🎸. $500. Is a bit pricey though. Uggh I just looked

I love Flamp

The lower the tuning, the more important the highs: the harmonic stack provides psychoacoustic clarity; ask a bassist.

I need to a) get back into music; b) pick up a guitar again; c) or my bass; d) move somewhere where I can be as loud as I want; e) get an electric guitar; f) get this thing; g) start composing, I guess?

they named it exactly like the previous model ? wtf ?

I don´t understand. If you already have a guitar amp, why do you need an extra 60 watts pedal amp? Your amp speaker will not be able to take the extra watts and may just blow up.

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

It’s an amp in a pedal format. It goes straight to a cab, not into an amp. Do NOT plug this into an amp.

@dlux703

25 күн бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek Yeah, I thought that was clearly stated. Duh? I'd like to try one of my old-school 12ax7 mic pre-amps into the front of it and see if it allows the touch & volume sensitivity that they can provide/simulate on solid state amps.

@jmwaller

25 күн бұрын

@TheGuitarGeek You can plug it into the front of an amplifier and use it as an overdrive/distortion - which is one of the placement options mentioned on the Laney website - but you need to use the line out connection. It's explained in the manual, which you can download from the website.

@Dito.Gancini

24 күн бұрын

My question is, can you plug it into a Laney cabinet Lionheart that is only 30 watts? I have the Laney Studio 5 which I love into the Lionheart LT112 speaker cab. Where is the manual? Laney’s website has a error link for the Lionheart Pedal

And of course, the usual KZreadrs hail this as the best thing since sliced bread. I have the Ironheart IRT amp right behind me. It sounds nothing like it. Sorry...fail.

@TheGuitarGeek

8 күн бұрын

I forgive you

@Anonymous-si6py

7 күн бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek No need to forgive me...repent yourself, Andy!

I don't want to SHARE EQ for both channels. so no thank you!

@robertbriquet

25 күн бұрын

Exactly

@Mancomb_Seepgood

25 күн бұрын

Sharing is caring

@ephil105

25 күн бұрын

Each IR has its own 8 point parametric eq, so leave the shared eq flat and shape each channel using the parametric eq.

@CorbCorbin

25 күн бұрын

@@ephil105 Don’t use logic, and what the pedal’s full features are! 😂 I swear, I’m surprised there’s no “it doesn’t have stereo ins and outs. No buy!”

@kennethdarlington

19 күн бұрын

But IRs arent footswitchable... ​@@ephil105

good teeth bro

My JMP-1 and my Kaluna II nail the tone much better even standalone and they also have no trashy sounding Class D power amp, which anyway is dispensable for me. My stepless power scalable all tube power amp does a much better job, if I need it. Heavily overpriced too for a tubeless preamp and a budget Class D power amp. EUr 289,- would be my limit for such a tubeless fake-tone-processor, but certainly not EUR 449,-. In this price range I already get some good sounding two-channel all tube amps.

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

I kind of understand about the price but for something made in the UK, that’s what it costs! Regarding the sound and feel, there are harmonics a plenty and it’s loud beyond necessary. An amp does not need a tube to sound good. Open your mind a little and you’ll be surprised what is out there

@HEZ63

25 күн бұрын

​@@TheGuitarGeek Unfortunately I am not interesterted in opening my mind for such unbalanced trash tones, sorry! The all tube gear, I already have, gives me better tones, even cheaper.

@TheGuitarGeek

23 күн бұрын

What is your all tube gear? I wanna try it!

@HEZ63

23 күн бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek Already mentioned it: Marshall JMP-1 preamp with RFT NOS tubes, power scalable (mostly) KT77 power amp (1W-40W Pentode, 0.5W -15W Triode), which also works with 6V6, 6L6GC, 5881 or EL34 or even 6L6GC and 5881 or EL34 and KT77 combinations (In fact this is a DV Mark Little 40 L34, which I "abuse" as power amp, as it also offers switchable hot and cold biasing, a really good, not too dull sounding Triode mode additionally, Pentode mode anyway plus the for me essential long tail pair tube phase inverter. Looks maybe strange in combination, but sounds great and this is the only thing, that interests me. The rest at the moment: Slightly modded Killer Ant, Modded sort of LoW Tiny Terror (TubeTown Wild 13), Tubemeister 18. Tube pedals: Kaluna I and Kaluna II as pedals in front of the amps, but they work fine, if not even better also standalone as complete amp replacements, even better stacked with customized cab IR's. Make even the JMP-1 obsolete, I can adjust almost everything between vintage Clean and even Metal high-gain with them alone, nice (hot-rod) Plexi-Tones anyway. So alone these two pedal cover almost everything in top-notch quality for me, plus, they offer real tube tones. Mesa V-Twin clone (Meteoro Doctor Drive), which I do not like so much, as I am no Fender/Mesa Boogie sound fan, but for certain sounds it's ok. Already sold again: BK Butler Tube Driver, Chandler Tube Driver rack preamp, Cream Machine, Tubeman I and II, Tubeman rack preamp, some Valvecasters, Vox Straight 6, Flat 4, V8, Korg Nu:Tube OD-S (horrible in my opinion) and a lot of others. Fryette Power load IR for the amps, so I can use them with cab IR's, if I use a cabinet, which hardly happens meanwhile, it is a, to bassreflex converted deep semi-dampened 112 with a Celestion Sidewinder S12-150 PE. (Luckily I have no 1959 anymore, as it really looked strange on this cabinet, but also sounded awesome through it.) Additional tubeless gear: SD-1 with rare Hidalgo mod (less gain, but more transparent sound, better frequency balancing plus 3 voicings, soundwise some sort of Klon Centaur - SD-1 hybrid, but the typical SD-1 character is not lost, so this is the by far best SD-1, I ever had. Much better than the Waza, which was an instant return.) Then there is still my decades old Award Session JD-10 2.3, which still does a great job, especially with good IR's behind. (Still blows away most new pedalboard amps soundwise, if you only look for some pedalboard compatible, good sounding gear in my opinion, but the Kalunas even are much better!) I already owned the cheaper IRF Loudpedal and it did not convince me at all plus a lot of other Ironhear gear, always with the same results, these dull, muddy bass, the strange, for me much too dark sound shaping, the poor dynamic reaction and even worse harmonics reproduction is nothing for me. But I think, I anyway have access to all the tones, I like... Even better, my meanwhile over 2.300 ToneX models of my gear allow me to use the same tones digitally too, but I hardly ever use them by myself, as the real gear almost always still sounds much better in direct comparison. The new Loudpedals also are too expensive in my opinion. Maybe I bought the Lionheart, if it sold under EUR 300,-, at least it is only a tubeless preamp with a not in any way sound improving Class D power amp, which I do not need, as I anyway mostly only use line-level signals with cab IR's behind meanwhile. For me Laney amps do not offer a pure British tone, if you take Marshall, Vox or Orange as reference, they have their own tone, but it obviosuly is not mine. At the moment pedalboard amps are overhyped for me, more marketing gimmicks than sound improvements, quite the opposite, in some years most of their fans will have returned to real tube amps again, simply because of the better sound. I am 60 years old and have seen so many guitar gear hypes coming and going during the decades and only little of them have remained or revolutioned guitar gear seriously. I still use my 1970's Jen white fasel wah (authentic Vox wah circuit), as it simply even today sounds better than any new wah, I ever have tried. But ok, nobody has to share my points of view.

60 Chinese watts or rms.

@johnwilkes681

25 күн бұрын

UK made , have heard it’s a true 60 watts rms, watch Tom Quayles review

@Markusaldrich

25 күн бұрын

Tom Quayles present the Lionhearted, not just he Ironheart. The Ironheart ist presented by Martin Miller

sounds sterol, totally solid state. Not so great.

Sound is very trebly. Hard to listen to your voice as a result. Reduced the volume by 20% and the treble is still loud. Unpleasant. Bye

@TheGuitarGeek

25 күн бұрын

See ya! Please make sure to announce every arrival and departure in the future. You have my number, right?

@mark.guitar

25 күн бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek Hi Andy. Having thought about this for a bit. There is distortion on a treble frequency and it is threatening to set off my tinnitis, hence the reaction! Have you changed audio rig at all?

How dose this compare to the Blackstar Amped 3 ?