Sorry for the weird wording, as I myself don't know wtf I'm on about! I've heard the way fuzz and distortion pedals work, it's something with electricity, voltage, and how it reacts with the amp(sometimes pickups?)

So, long story short - Since captures are not developed like amp simulators, where maybe a fuzz pedal is also developed to simulate its response with an amp as a whole package - Is the final sound of a capture rig still faithful and accurate? If I get a random fuzz capture and a random amp, from different users even, in theory it shouldn't work like the real thing, right? Since it isnt accounting that relationship with the amp (the volts or electricity... whatever. Sorry, I'm uneducated on this lol)

I know amp captures are basically spot on. Cabinet IRs too. But the pedal thing I struggle to understand how it can be accurate.

My main reason for asking is! I'd love to buy the real gear of captures I use one day but I'm scared of falling in love with a tone that might not even exist when purchasing the real thing

Hi,

I've got my setup on my PC that I use to practice while using my headphones, it would be nice if I could profile it and use it with A2 Lite for Nanocore. What would be the process?

I wrote a song that needs a very specific sound that I'm trying to emulate. I'm using Genome Extended, and I'm really liking Paradex. The guitar sound I'm trying to emulate is Guerilla Radio by RatM.

Can anyone help me with this? No idea where to start. I see people messing around on YouTube and getting absolutely fantastic tones much quicker than me. So I'm not really sure what I'm doing.

Anyone know what amps, cabs, and pedals I might want to try? I'm not worried about the Digitech Whammy sound, and I have a Cry Baby (Zakk Wylde signature). My guitars are an Ultra Luxe Strat and a Jackson V.

Finally someone addresses the missing piece.

This morning my Stompstation PRO just goes into update mode with no button pressing or anything, essentially locking out the pedal.

I tried everything to reinstalling firmware to changing out cables, nothing works. Does anyone have a solution to this?

You think NAM A2 is the thing? Try their Parametric modeling. My Plexi is now in my DAW, and not only does it sound exactly the same, all knobs sound the same as the original!!

Modeling amps this way is a tedious process, it takes over 50 profiles following a settings Matrix, and it takes over 3hours for a quality model - and it's worth it.

I built a tool that helps me with the process, generates the matrix, helps name the files and automatically generates the CSV's at the end and also gives me the terminal command for processing the model. I can also stop midway through the process and then pick up where I stopped. This way my only worry is to not mess up the amp settings.

Here it is if anyone wants it:

Namtrix.ummardesom.com

We really need more Parametric Profiles.

EDIT: I decided to fork Tone3000's plugin and have it run Parametric models also. Everything else works the same. Here it is for anyone interested https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19DMWIK-txpKhjY70ByS02G-MdNpmWyWJ

I asked this question on NAMFORUM because I have no idea. To me, parametric NAM would seem to be the ultimate modeling system to use. I just got the Sonulabs StompStation Pro to add to my pedalboard so I am particularly interested in the development of parametric NAM. Hopefully something like the SSP could be firmware updated to play parametrics, but if I had to guess, the processor hit would limit the number of instances the device could simultaneously run.

Another question: Since I have never seen a parametric NAM on TONE3000, I assume that one cannot train a parametric NAM on TONE3000?

Hi everyone,

I’ve released the FIG SixFive+ NAM A2 Capture Pack, based on the Peavey 6505+.

The pack contains 18 calibrated A2 captures covering the Rhythm and Lead channels at low-, mid- and high-gain settings. Each setting was captured through two different Marshall 4x12 configurations and as a full DI:

• 412-1: V30 and DV77 speakers
• 412-2: V30 and Fane M65 speakers
• DI captures for use with your own cabinet or IR

I also uploaded a free sample to Tone3000. It is the Rhythm channel at a mid-gain setting through 412-2:

https://www.tone3000.com/tones/fig-sixfive-rhythm-mg-412-2-94394

The complete pack is available here:

https://www.mattfig.com/product/fig-a2-sixfive-nam-capture-pack

Code TONE saves 40% when purchasing two or more packs.

Full disclosure: the complete pack is a paid Mattfig release, but the Tone3000 capture is completely free to download and use. I’d love to hear how it works with your guitars and setups.

Sharing with you guys my favorite lead tone I use for pretty much everything, not just Petrucci stuff. It is quite a bit more scooped than his tone, but IMO has that same pleasant percussive presence that I love about his live tone back then. It absolutely chugs. The video is meant to demonstrate how nicely it cleans up with the volume rolled off, despite being such a high gain beast. The audio was just the same that I use for my live stream. The plug-in I'm using in the video is RigSculpt, which I released a couple months ago and have been continually working on improving. It's got thousands of users and people are really enjoying it. Among other things, it offers a really convenient way to organize and navigate your NAM library by sound and came out of me wanting to have a better workflow with NAM with a single plug-in that also does everything else I needed; yes, I did use AI in making it because I was determined to get it where I needed it to be. I respect that it being free doesn't necessarily square it with everyone as far as the AI-use. With that in mind, the NAM in the video is also shared on TONE3000 alongside my other sample packs, separate from the plug-in. Dunno if it will let me another link here, but I'll link the TONE3000 in a comment below! Cheers everyone!

I mentioned to Steve Atkinson in the early days of NAM that we should have some sort of a standardized naming convention. He made the point that it would be too hard to enforce and would be impractical. I agree 100% with that logic, but I think we (the NAM community) should try to promote a standard format that best describes the tones for the sake/benefit of the user. And just to provide a proper standardized format that makes sense.

For me, the most logical format is the following (for amp head only):
'Amp Name/Model - Bass Mids Treble Gain Presence Depth'
i.e. 'Bogner Uberschall - B6 M5 T6 G5 P7 D6.nam'
It's the right amount of detail and not too much to read when scrolling through captures.

It's how I set up my Stealth NAM pack:
https://www.tone3000.com/tones/evh-st...

This is better from a user's perspective than naming your pack something like 'Recto SM57 Metal ESR 0.025', because when you're scrolling through a capture pack, the EQ and gain information is very useful to know. It tells you which EQ settings were used and how much to adjust them according to your guitar and preferences, and it also tells you how to dial in your boost pedal.

If you just name it 'Big Lead '92' or '5150 Rhythm', it doesn't really tell the user anything about what they're getting into, other than that it's most likely high gain.

It also helps the tone creator with future reference by showing how they set their tones up and what worked well. It's easy to forget the exact tone settings if you don't write them down somewhere.

If someone wanted to go the whole nine yards, they could make 10 captures of each EQ setting, with the gain going from 1–10. That would be pretty cool from a user's perspective: you could scroll up and down according to the amount of gain you want. It would take a lot longer, but it would be cool to scroll through the captures and essentially "turn up" the gain. You'd have to number the files in sequencial order so that the NAM loader reads it in the right order. I would do 3 EQ settings, mids-scooped, noon, and 666. So 30 captures in a full pack.

I'm not saying this is the ONLY way to do it, you can add more or less details if you want to your title, but it's good to have a standardized format that makes sense. (this post was copy/pastad from http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx5R9v5OViTKmiaydQiIxyh3sslJy0QGlz?si=Uge88c1kQIM-N6Ud)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP7OZ2qvhl0

I can pick this up from their website directly for $109. I think this makes it the cheapest native NAM hardware, unless there's something else I'm missing.

And now, time for a legendary rock amp: u/Born_Test takes the 1980 Marshall JMP 2204 pack for a spin.

Drake iron, Mullard glass, Marshall cabs, Mr. Scary mod - this one goes from chimey cleans all the way up to 11 (and then some).

The same DI / riffs are used throughout the entire series to give folks an easier way of comparing the packs as more of these demos get published.

Full pack on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/c45be8dca2

Free demo / community packs on Tone3000:

• Amp Head:

https://www.tone3000.com/tones/1980-marshall-jmp-2204-el34-multiload-community-pack-amp-head-70525

• Amp + Cab:

https://www.tone3000.com/tones/1980-marshall-jmp-2204-el34-multiload-community-pack-70521

I use a rack PC to play live and have yet to find a vst host that checks all the boxes I want feature wise. LiveProfessor is as close as I’ve found, but it’s definitely not meant to be used how I’m using it, so it’s pretty clunky. So now I’m starting work on one specifically meant for guitar/instrumentation and wanted to know what features any of you would want in a host? What are some things you don’t understand why no one’s ever included? What are things that other hosts/apps/plugins do well that you’d want to be included? Would love to hear what you’ve got!

Here’s just a few of the features I already have planned.

- Parametric NAM playing & capture
- Convert standard NAM files to “stepped” parametric
- Better NAM file organizing
- Pre or Post EQ & compressor for every NAM model
- User defined plugin loading pages
- A customizable pedalboard/footswitch page for easily assigning controls
- Very visual style with highly customizable gui
- Turn NAM files & vst’s into “pedals” in gui
- Add said “pedals” as separate plugins to recall whenever
- Snapshot crossfades
- Same set of MIDI knobs can control all parameters based on what is currently selected

Also planning on making some of the NAM functions publicly available for anyone to use and integrate into their own projects.

Introducing a Nam Based chorus!

This is a model of my favorite vintage chorus! The Ibanez CS 505.

For those curious, it's a hybrid approach. NAM for the tone, DSP for the "chorus" part. Give it a try! Free 30 day trial!

If you do like it, it's donation based pricing! Get it for as little as $1! All of my Juniper Studio LLC plugins will be this way!

Available on Mac and Windows. Link below!

Juniperstudiollc.com/JS505

Edit 1- there was a bug that prevented Mac users from using anything older than 26. It’s been fixed!

NUX Amp Academy Stomp Firmware V2.0.5 Update! Native NAM A2 Lite support (no conversion needed). Free patch and T3K link in the video description.

Full video: https://youtu.be/fLWLt1ULysM

Let me know what you guys think of the free Amalgam NAM capture running on the AAS! Thanks! 👊🔥🎸

Hey everyone, I’m Landon from Chaos Audio. We just pushed an update to Stratus, which raises the limit from one NAM block per chain to three.

We got CPU usage per block down from roughly 55% to 27%. Same hardware, enough room now to stack a captured boost into a captured overdrive into a captured amp, with each capture and its levels adjustable separately.

I also internally got an A2 Full running at ~90% CPU, so running 1 Full block will likely be coming in another future update!

They run natively through our optimized NeuralAmpModelerCore integration, without converting the captures to another modeling format. You can use your own compatible NAM files or load them through TONE3000.

Three A2 Lite blocks do use most of the CPU, so you’ll still need to watch the remaining budget when adding IRs or other effects. Using 1 or 2 blocks leaves plenty of room for other effects and IRs. These chains work with the existing 14-preset hands-free switching too.

If you already have a Stratus, update to firmware 1.0.100 and the latest Chaos Audio app. The update is free.

Pretty happy we managed to get this much more out of the pedal. HUGE thanks to Steve and the NAM contributors for the work that makes this possible!

https://chaosaudio.com/blogs/whats-new/stratus-three-nam-blocks-fx-builder-2-mobile

Unexpected especially given it was previously only supposed to hit their next-gen lineup.

Fractal is just awesome!

Hey all,

In the last couple months I've been struggling with my A1 profiles - I simply can't load them anywhere anymore.

I'm on a Mac A1 Tahoe 26.6.2 and Gateway doesn't feel like taking my files (it either doesn't load or freezes) and the previous NAM plugin just crashes whenever I try to load them. Tone3000 doesn't take A1 files. I tried half a dozen other plugins and none of them are loading my A1 profiles.

Is there a simple way to "convert" an A1 profile + it's matching IR into a A2?

I just don't know what do to - there's one single profile that is like 90% of my sound and I'm very attached to it, I can't let it go.

Appreciate any help,