what i have hear is one fantastic piece of gear, at a price that is simply stupid. $199 shipped to your house. what we have here is the ability to load ANY IR cabinet tone into your rig. this is a game changer.

the factory IR's are ok, better than most modelers. they don't have that annoying fizz at least. most of them are fairly midrange heavy, but good for guitar. loading IR's are fairly simple: copy and paste the IR's onto the SD card that comes with the Epsi. be sure to put a 3 digit number before the name so you can identify it when it loads up. the Epsi only displays a number like 101, 102, 306, etc. the factory presets start at 100. my personally loaded new favorite IR is loaded at location 000, so it's real easy to find.

Here's a list of the factory stock cabs. It's basically the same ones twice... one with some of the room characteristics added in and one without.

100 1X12 Celestion Blue.wav
101 1X12 Jensen P12R.wav
102 1X15 Jensen C15.wav
103 2X12 Alnico Blue.wav
104 2X12 Alnico Silver.wav
105 2X12 Jensen C12N.wav
106 2X12 JBL D120.wav
107 2X12 Roland JC120.wav
108 2X12 Celestion G12M25.wav
109 2X12 Celestion G12H30.wav
110 2X15 JBL D130.wav
200 4X12 Sheffiled 1200.wav
201 4X12 Celestion G12L.wav
202 4X12 Celestion G12H30.wav
203 4X12 Celestion G12M20.wav
204 4X12 Celestion G12M25.wav
205 4X12 Celestion G12M.wav
206 4X12 Celestion G12T75.wav
207 4X12 Celestion G12T75.wav
208 4X12 Celestion V30.wav
209 4X12 Celestion V30.wav
210 4X12 Celestion V30.wav
211 4X12 Celestion V30.wav
212 4X12 Celestion V30.wav
213 4X12 Eminence S12X.wav
214 4X12 Eminence Legend V12.wav
215 4X12 Fane 122231.wav
216 4X12 JBL K120.wav
217 4X10 Jensen P10Q.wav
300 1X12 Celestion Blue Room.wav
301 1X12 Jensen P12R Room.wav
302 1X15 Jensen C15 Room.wav
303 2X12 Alnico Blue Room.wav
304 2X12 Alnico Silver Room.wav
305 2X12 Jensen C12N Room.wav
306 2X12 JBL D120 Room.wav
307 2X12 Roland JC120 Room.wav
308 2X12 Celestion G12M25 Room.wav
309 2X12 Celestion G12H30 Room.wav
310 2X15 JBL D130 Room.wav
400 4X12 Sheffiled 1200 Room.wav
401 4X12 Celestion G12L Room.wav
402 4X12 Celestion G12H30 Room.wav
403 4X12 Celestion G12M20 Room.wav
404 4X12 Celestion G12M25 Room.wav
405 4X12 Celestion G12M Room.wav
406 4X12 Celestion G12T75 Room.wav
407 4X12 Celestion G12T75 Room.wav
408 4X12 Celestion V30 Room.wav
409 4X12 Celestion V30 Room.wav
410 4X12 Celestion V30 Room.wav
411 4X12 Celestion V30 Room.wav
412 4X12 Celestion V30 Room.wav
413 4X12 Eminence S12X Room.wav
414 4X14 Eminence Legend V12 Room.wav
415 4X12 Fane 122231 Room.wav
416 4X12 JBL K120 Room.wav
417 4X10 Jensen P10Q Room.wav


the first problem most people will run into is "which cabinet do i like the best?" this is where you can get sucked down the rabbit hole and never play again....only tweak and load more cabinets. let me give you some advice: cabinet sims are like pornography, and can be very addicting. pick one cabinet (like having one wife) and be monogamous. in the real world, most of us would have one great cabinet and a rack of doom. the key here is to find that one cabinet quickly and stick with it for awhile. always use that cabinet as a reference for whether or not you want to switch to another cabinet.

i think i've settled in on one cabinet sim right now, it's based on a Scumback M75 (pre-Rola Greenback clone). it's an Ownhammer IR, from the studio vintage mix i believe. this cabinet just sounds great for my personal taste. i feel like i have my entire old rack back and it's mic'd up properly in the studio. no fizz, no weirdness, just smooth tone. best part is that i am NOT having to use ANY post amp eq at all to get good tone!

if you have a modeler and are sitting on the fence thinking about a better rig.....get the Logidy Epsi C. put it in your effects loop and disable your mfx unit cabinet sim. many modelers have a great preamp section and some even have a good power amp section, but the cabinets are the fizzy downfall. this will get you into the axe-fx/kemper ballpark (tonally). if your modeler happens to have great effects, then you are even closer to the big dogs.

i'm using the Epsi with a Rocktron Prophesy II, which has pretty nasty cab sims by itself...not fizzy, just not smooth. with this rig i can get all kinds of great tone, with effects spillover to boot.

i can't wait to try the eleven rack and other mfx units through the Epsi, surely they will only sound a lot better.

will keep you guys posted, and clips to come.

holy s&&$T ... I see GAS coming...

Thank for the review, Singtall

Waiting to hear how it will work with the Eleven Rack.

I have three modelers, I am currently trying to choose one from for live use.
Eleven Rack/Powered Speaker (EV els112p)
Line 6 HD500 used with DT50H (4x12 Cab)
Scuffham S Gear(computer/audio interface) with the EV powered speaker.

The Eleven Rack in my home studio sounded great, but when I took it out of the room it sounded "thin and digital" Your advice and setting gigs (patches) helped
but I think the Logidy might help with the "thin and digital" I may go back to a power amp and 4 X 12 Marshall with Celestians

The Line 6 sounded very good until I blew up the head, (power transformer, currently in the shop.

I do love the way the S Gear sounds thru my Mackie HR824's (original) in the studio. and could possibly use the Logidy with this setup.

So I am anxious to hear how it sounds with the Eleven Rack.

Thanks again,
BMoe

I'm going gas gas gas I'm going gas gas gas agaiiiin!
Rhoss, did you had a chance to try the effects in the other software version of the epsi?

i haven't tried the reverb, but i bet it's fantastic based on what i've heard so far. this unit is as good as the IR you load into it.

i searched for some weird ir based effects,but i didnt have any luck finding it, do you know anything i can try?

not yet.

i just loaded up every Scumback 75 IR from the Ownhammer pack that i bought and went through all of them. 3 of them are my immediate favorites. while i was testing my soundcard, i went to youtube.com and was listening to Mark Day play his "monster tone" preset from the axe-fx II. i decided to try duplicating that sound with a rocktron prophesy/epsi combo. wasn't as hard as i thought. it appears that the IR greatly determines the overall sound. some minor pre-eq tweaks and i was getting a very similar tone.

i believe that the Epsi with the right IR has no problem helping a modeler get into the axe-fx/kemper territory (tonally)....effects are another story though.

excuse the rusty playing....and i'm not trying to clone Jake's tone on this clip, i'm just jamming.

https://soundcloud.com/singtall/prophesy-epsi-ownhammer-scumback-75

this feels like a real cabinet. i haven't made any presets yet, this is just the stock prophesy British preamp with no post eq. tone knobs at: B-5, M-2.3, T-6.3, P-6. I'm still learning how to operate the prophesy with the Epsi in the loop. right now i have to keep the master vol at 2 so that my presets aren't much louder than the rest of the stock stuff.

tomorrow i try the eleven rack with the Epsi.

same cab sim used in the Epsi for both preamps. prophesy british channel. eleven rack soldano drive. i had too much presence on the soldano amp model, so you can hear that it has a little more bite, but you can dial both of these preamps to sound very similar. this tells me that the Epsi will bridge the gap between modelers. IR plays a large part in the final tone.

https://soundcloud.com/singtall/prophesy-vs-eleven-rack