Suhr Reactive Load IR

Suhr Reactive Load IR delivers a simple solution to capture all of the warmth, and dynamics of your sound, without the hassle of miking a speaker cabinet during a live or recorded performance. The Reactive Load takes the place of your speaker cabinet in your signal chain. It provides an 8Ω load for your tube amplifier (maximum 100 watts), and produces a signal that interfaces with recording devices, effects, and power amplifiers.

The machine is the perfect link between your amplifier and computer audio recording interface, it has 16 different Impuls Responses. You can also use is with your existing library of speaker impulse responses. Included are a Badger 1×12 (Celestion Vintage 30), Bella 1×12 (V-Type), PT 2×12 (Creamback), Hedgehog 2×12 (G12), Suhr 4×12 (Greenback) en Suhr 4×12 (Vintage 30). 

Traditional resistive load boxes will safely load your amplifier, but they also alter the tone, dynamics, and response of your amplifier. Real speakers do not have a fixed resistance across the entire frequency spectrum. Real speakers are reactive. The impedance curve of the Reactive Load has been painstakingly tuned to react like a speaker. Your amp will never know the difference.

It features two line level outputs, one with the unfiltered dry signal with no IR and one with the IR. The INPUT is optimized for the 8 ohm output of your amplifier and the THRU jack can be connected to a physical speaker cabinet. It has a stereo headphones out and a knob for regulating the level of the headphones

Suhr Reactive Load IR demo video