SOLD

The secret pedal for getting great tone direct!

What sold me on buying this pedal was the headphone and gate features. I have been searching for a cabinet simulator/headphone amp that did not cost a small fortune, that was simple to use and of course sounded great. My use for this is to be able to plug in my pedalboard and/or one of my Amp-In-A-Box pedals for silent practice or recording direct without an traditional amp. The Iconoclast’s headphone and gate features make this easy and silent!

I also use this connected from the Line Out from my Carr Mercury V amp so I can use the amp tone as well. If I just turn down the attenuator on the Carr Mercury V to zero and have all the great amp (and pedal) sounds going into the Iconoclast out headphones or into PC interface for recording. All the amp settings still work as expected and no speaker load is needed. The Carr Mercury V built-in attenuator takes care of this. Most times you would need to use a speaker load for a tube amp which would require another device or a more expensive cab sim that offers this. Of course if your amp has a Send out you can use this as well.

My Tech 21 Liverpool V2, the Iconoclast and headphones is a great practice rig!

Neunaber Audio Iconoclast dynamically shapes your tone as a speaker cabinet would yet outputs directly to headphones, powered speakers, a mixer or recording interface. When paired with the drive pedal or preamp of your choice, Iconoclast delivers consistent amp tone at any volume—and in virtually any setting—often without needing to bring anything more than your pedal board.

Intuitive controls make it easy to dial in a wide range of tones on-the-fly, whether or not you know anything about how different speaker cabs sound. The Low, Mid and High controls work pretty much like they appear. It doesn’t need to get any more complicated than this.

For you tone nerds, however, there’s a lot more going on under the hood:

  • Low adjusts the virtual cabinet type and size
  • Mid captures the speaker’s dynamic interaction with the amplifier
  • High shifts the frequency cut off, reproducing a wide range of speaker types

Iconoclast advances the state of the art in guitar cabinet emulation. Eschewing IRs (impulse responses)—which are static and cannot be adjusted in real time—Iconoclast uses proprietary filters that parameterize the speaker cabinet response, allowing you to easily and intuitively dial in the sound you’ve been looking for. In addition to capturing both the reactive and resonant components of the speaker load response, Iconoclast emulates the dynamic response of a heated, hard-driven speaker. And it’s ultra-low latency (315 microseconds) preserves your rig’s feel.

On top of this, Iconoclast Software for Windows/Mac lets you dig deep into the inner workings, visualize how your tone is being shaped, and change the response to your heart’s content. The software also adds a mono-compatible stereo enhancer for your listening pleasure.

Iconoclast was designed to be the only thing you need after your pedal board or preamp, so we also added a studio-quality noise gate to clean up your dirty signal chain. Flexible ins & outs may be used mono or stereo, and the outputs can be used balanced or unbalanced. Or just plug in your headphones—with its built-in headphone amp, Iconoclast can handle that too.

At only 4.6” × 2.8” (116 mm × 68 mm), Iconoclast can fit almost anywhere and is powered by your existing 9V or 12V pedal board power supply (not included).