NAD Laney Ironheart IRT60H

[matisq]

So in the end I managed to get rid of my no-so-beloved POD X3 PRO and Solidstate 200W stereo poweramp. I decide to buy Laney Ironheart IRT60H. Initially I was looking for a Peavey 6505 but I always prefer new gear over a used one and new 6505 is two time more expensive than Ironheart.

First thing - 60W is fucking loud! I plugged it only to my Custom YCab loaded with 2xV30 and it blows away a 200W solidstate poweramp. I was thinking that maybe 60W is not enough for music I play (metal/hardcore) but not it's huge. I finally discovered a bottom end in my 2x12 cab. And finally I can hear myself in a band situation.

Lead channel: the tone is really good, without using any extra pedal yet (but I will). I use booster at about 3 and gain about 8, and with passive pickups it's quite quiet. Power section is quiet at all. Lead channel works great with volume pot in guitar - it cleans out sound so great that I don't need use clean channel at all! Clean channel is also brilliant: very bright and crispy, works great with build in digital reverb.

I tried to plug POD HD 300 in front of Laney, to use wah or some OD + noisegate. No way! It sucks Laneys tone so badly. Fortunately I don't care, because after all this years I want to have analogue rig if possible.

So now my tube journey has begun!
Next stage - pedalboard...

 

[areyna21]

Congrats man I have had my eye on these lately

 

[Wookieslayer]

Grats dude! those amps look killer.

60w tube is indeed loud! lol

 

[Greatoliver]

Snap! I love mine, the watt feature is really useful to play quietly.

I found it took a while to figure out how to get the tone I wanted, just because there were a lot of variables with the push/pull pots

 

[matisq]

Shitty quality video

 

[Sonicboom]

Congrats on the NAD! I'd love to try one out. I miss my Laney VC100, but my RM100 is making up for all the good tones

 

[Anant Naag]

Are you running it directly through the laney or do you have OD/boost in between ?

 

[ChronicConsumer]

I bought the exact same amp a while ago, absolutely love it! Great stuff.
It's good to hear more and more people using the Ironheart.

 

[matisq]

Are you running it directly through the laney or do you have OD/boost in between ?

No boost yet

 

[fps]

Hey can you dial in hard rock tones with this, like Alice In Chains/ Down, or is it more for that British metal sound and the like? Nice amp, great price they're going for given how good they sound!

 

[matisq]

Sound of Laney Ironheart is not British. It's based on 6l6 so I would say it sound somehow similar to the Peavey 6505. I think you can dial with Ironheart almost any sound so should be no problem with AiC or Down.

 

[Toshiro]

Congrats!! I love mine.

 

[Anant Naag]

The amp sounds amazing for no boost. Lots of gain without getting muddy.
Congratulations

 

[Orren]

Congrats on the Ironheart! I got mine a couple weeks ago and have been absolutely loving it! An amazingly versatile amp in every way! I posted a while ago about mine, nice to see more Ironheart threads pop up!

Hey can you dial in hard rock tones with this, like Alice In Chains/ Down, or is it more for that British metal sound and the like? Nice amp, great price they're going for given how good they sound!

Yes, in fact you can—on Channel 2 (Rhythm). The Rhythm channel with the gain around 4 and Rhythm volume around 6 is a dead ringer for a Marshall/AIC style tone (although AIC used a Bogner Fish preamp, but it was voiced like Marshalls).

I have some clips in my thread: http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/gear-equipment/196045-new-amp-laney-heart-iron-irt60h.html

Enjoy the amp!

Orren

 

[matisq]

Yesterday I finally tried to use HD 300 in the FX loop of my amp with compressor, noise gate, chorus for clean and delay for solos and I have to say it's working just great!
I wanted to by separate pedals for delay, noise gate and maybe chorus or phaser, but now it seems that HD 300 works just fine in a FX loop.

So this is how it looks now.

 

[Edika]

Seems and sounds like a very cool amp! Congratulations man!

Do these have a switch to reduce the Wattage for playing at home?

 

[ChronicConsumer]

Seems and sounds like a very cool amp! Congratulations man!

Do these have a switch to reduce the Wattage for playing at home?

Actually, the button all the way on the right can be used to dial the wattage anywhere from <0 to the maximum!

 

[matisq]

For the price I paid for it it's an awesome amp!

 

[LolloBlaskhyrt]

Nice head!

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

So this is how it looks now.

Just saw Laney post this pic on their official Facebook page.