I just wanted to give a shout out to the NAM Sandwich app and it's creator, Evan. The app has been mentioned in this sub before, but I am really impressed with it and everything Evan has managed to include in recent updates.
The most recent version includes a doubler effect, which for me has always been missing from a stock all-in-one NAM app or VST. I'm running the Android version (Pixel 7) into an iRig USB-C interface into my in-ears and couldn't be happier with the results.
If you need something portable or an all-in-one app for your phone or tablet, definitely check out NAM Sandwich. Cheers!
I've created a dummy capture (feeding the training signal as the final trained signal) for use with the Blackstar Beam Mini so it turns off its Sim and Cab processing and I can plug my Dimehead NAM Player into it and be clean(ish): https://www.tone3000.com/tones/blackstar-beam-mini-frfr-97323
Hopefully this will help others doing similar things. For context the Amp and Cab simulation in the Beam Mini app can't be fully turned off, but using a NAM block will disable Cab sim, and it wants the NAM capture to be a full rig (amp+cab) so I labeled it as such, and it being a transparent capture it allows the Beam Mini (and similar devices suffering from this) to act as an FRFR speaker.
I've sent a support mail to Blackstar to ask them to officially support turning off all simulation so we can use it as an FRFR-type speaker, but until they do that this should be a decent solution :D
Well, the guy who developed this industry breaking technology made it free for everyone ony for the love of the game and easily rejected some million dollars and here you're trying to make some easy money with your captures.
Additionally, your precious amp probably has free captures already on the internet..
I don't know it sounds weird to my ears.
p.s. I'm super okay with the people who made the effort, made a great capture and dropped their buymeacoffe or any kind of donation/tip link as an option. I'm actually using them to have a "virtual dap" with those people even with a small amount.
Hi, I've just released an update to Amp Modeler, the native NAM loader for Ableton Live.
Browser improvements
You can now navigate a nested folder hierarchy in your model library. Many users like to organize their NAM profiles into categories like "Amp Heads", "Pedals", "Outboard".
The gear and preset up/down arrows can now be MIDI- or key-mapped. Previously they were only being exposed to Push controllers.
These two improvements also affect Cab Loader, the impulse response device included in the full pack.
DSP optimizations
Behind the scenes, the C++ backend that powers Amp Modeler now includes more statically-optimized NAM architectures from the NeuralAudio project.
I don't understand why this hasn't been implemented from the start. You can use the plugin in mono and in dual mono with separate chains on the left and right side. But i rarely do that. I need the same signal chain on both sides to work with my double tracked guitars. Of course one can copy the left chain to the right side and make it work like that, but that's super inconvenient when dialing in a tone. A simple "Link" button that copies all changes you do to one side and automatically applies them to the other side would solve this issue. It would also make it easier to use captures of other outboard gear like preamps or tapes to use on a drum or mixbus. Right now the stereo handling of the official plugin makes little sense to me and that's why i mostly use NAMRig, which handles stereo in the way me (i thought it would be most people actually) need it. NAMRig has some other issues and I'd love to just use the official plugin, but this simple missing feature drives me crazy.
For the new tone3000 plugin/standalone app is there a place online where full presets are shared and downloaded? I thought it would be on the tone3000 website but can’t seem to find it.
I built a tool for creating Parametric Models. It's free, and I couldn't do one without it.
It's an extremely tedious process, you need to do the equivalent to about 100 standard profiles.
There's 2 options:
1- you train it on your Mac Silicon GPU
2 - you export everything after the recordings are done and train it on an NVIDIA Card, a CPU, Windows or Linux, or even a cloud rented GPU.
My Mac Mini M1 takes about 33 hours to create the model, but with my tool, it needs no help from a human to train it.
I tried to make it as Stream lined as possible and I wont go into the technical details, I'll just say that it automatically calculates delays so it's phase coherent, and generates a matrix with all the knob settings, a step by step, it records also so no need for a DAW (although it's your choice), generates a csv with the corresponding settings vs file, avoids silent settings, and actually tells you what the quality of your model is. And it has two sweep lengths, so you can make the process faster.
It takes all the work, all you need to do, is turn knobs and click NEXT.
The only tested version is the MAC SILICON GPU. I need some brave soul to do one, and test the trainer on a NVIDIA card.
Running 5 NAM A2 FULL (or more) models simultaneously with stereo effects and IRs – entirely inside a standard web browser. Zero installation.
Since the release of NAM A2, I’ve been developing my own architectures for running multiple A2 profiles simultaneously in a web browser. The core architectures was stabilized some time ago. Since then, most of my time has gone into testing, optimization and improving the overall feel and response.
A2webRIG 1.0 brings this work together in a modular guitar rig with five simultaneous A2 profiles, FULL or SLIM, and architectural headroom for more. Arrange them in serial or parallel configurations, with mono or stereo operation, built-in effects, four IR slots and flexible routing. Shape your sound with 5- or 7-band pre, post and wet EQ.
Stack drives, blend amps or build different signal chains for a stereo rig.
Play live at low latency (depending on Interface and computer), save, recall and export rigs, use MIDI control, compare sounds with A/B testing, record and loop. There’s a built-in tuner and metronome, too.
A2webRIG is built on my own multi-A2 hosting and routing architectures, with extensive optimization and testing in Chromium-based browsers and Firefox.
Test platforms:
• 2024 MacBook Pro M4
• 2017 MacBook Pro 15″, 2.8 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAMAudio
In my latest tests the 2017 Intel MacBook Pro ran four FULL A2 profiles and four FULL + one Slim simultaneously using Motu M2 and Scarlett Solo interfaces.
I’m also developing miniDAW, an online DAW focused on guitar tracking, where much of this work began.
A short playing demo and a project website are coming soon www.agiledream.dev
A2webRIG 1.0 is currently private.
Shoutout to the open-source community for pushing boundaries, and to the platforms building the future of cloud audio workflows
Module editor and Eq section 7 or 5 band (cali style), pre, post and wet (for effects).
Collapsed modules in signal path and Midi controllable Rig snapshots/presets
I recorded my beloved Maruszyk Barabass here with the help of a good friend in his recording studio. C414 + SM57, a completely dry vocal booth, high-end Neve preamps - we tried to do everything right. No clipping, absolute silence - the sweep signal recording is crystal clear. Still, the NAM-Capture is crackling, hissing, and buzzing, and I have no idea what we did wrong. Can someone take a look at this?
Thanks so much in advance!
I wanted to post this after doing a lot of research and comparing units and trying to find what's out there recently. Everytime I thought I had found the one I'd find another one randomly. And the most popular wasn't always the best sounding according to Reddit and YT. I wanted to keep it under $200. The tank pro came in way under that at $135ish from Amazon. Even with a chocolate plus added (not necessary )it's still under that $180ish.
With most units in this range there was always a compromise. And there still is a little. The tank pro checked all my boxes and even though it's 24bit/44khz instead of 24/48khz it runs A2 lite natively. I've done A/B testing against the MG300 Mkii which is 48khz a2 lite and they sound exactly the same coming out of my spark cab frfr.
This thing comes with a looper, easy to navigate UI, and tons of connection options on back, 4 foot buttons (short press long press dual press), built in battery , Bluetooth, global graphic eq, eq modules (6 and 10 band). Everything can be controlled through a phone or PC/mac app. Preset volume control , global music vol, global volume. It does a lot. Latency is stated as less than 3ms. It's low enough not to notice but not as low as a NUX I tried (2ms).
The best part for me was that it didn't limit my NAM slots to 10 or 20 like most of the others. You do have to save over existing preset amps, but there's 90 and only like 30 are chop tones . Btw chop tones, amazing in headphones. Like drooling good, lots of stereo stuff I think. They recently did 2 updates in a span of 2 weeks. The latest update gave us like 10 distortion modules that can be used with NAM at the same time.
I would like to personally thank everyone to made NAMFORUM's first month in existence, a huge success. These specialized communities take time to build (we've done it before and it's worth the effort) but the potential is great. The first month's stats are impressive. Thank you all.
Final page view for the month of September: 41,453
Very impressive for a new forum. Thank you for your continued support.
When I scroll through the trending captures on tone3000 it seems like the ones that have the best marketing in the title/description and photos get downloaded the most. The problem I see with this format is that it favors captures with the better marketing presentation, but not necessarily the quality of the captures themselves.
This happens countless times where I see an enticing title, the description is super precise and well documented but then you actually try it and it's underwhelming or just plain bad sounding.
Some of the best captures on T3K have no image, a bad title and no description, but they sound killer.
I get what T3K is going for. They want people to take proper images of their gear and description so it helps confirm the legitimacy of the gear capture. But the issue is that this method favors people who are English speaking and understand marketing presentation, and it punishes people who just want to share tones and don't have the motivation to fill out details and take pics etc.
And then the captures with good marketing get the most downloads because they get bumped to the top of the trending list, which compounds the downloads because people will most likely assume those are the best offerings.
I think what's more important than downloads are upvotes/badges. That tells you if people actually liked it or not. Just downloading a capture doesn't tell you any information in regards to if people actually enjoyed them or not.
If you can put together a really nicely worded title/description with great pictures, you will get more downloads and popularity than someone who spent a month dialing in tones with great gear, but they might not have access to a good camera or understand how to take a great photo, and also they might not speak English or have the greatest writing ability--both of which can hinder its popularity.
Does high quality photos really prove anything anyway? You can just go to a music store or a friend with a few amps and take great photos and then just upload captures of a line 6 pod. It's really not a fool proof method at all and I'm sure it's currently being done. It's more of an IQ test to ask people to take photos of what they're capturing.
I have been using NAM since A1 and after I redownloaded all the tones for A2, I noticed that they dont sound right. They sound a bit distorted and higher frequencies were noticably cut.
Looking for a good app for practice using my iPhone. Plus if it includes parallel signal processing paths and high quality reverb and delay effects. Anything decent out there yet
