All Neural DSP Amps Ranked: The Best for High Gain! 

Oooh good idea. Maybe for this video I will pop a link to the presets in the description so NDSP user can try them out on their plugins. The raw amp tones only have a HPF on the stereo bus, otherwise they are untouched. But… there is multiband compression and saturation happening on the Master bus. That will affect the final tone just a tad.

@@BaritoneGoatStudioThat would be killer! And yeah, some compression and saturation on the master buss will impact things some, but the main tone will still be in the patches. 🙂

Nameless is essential. They just released the X version. Definitely worth having.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio it wasn't even on my list......it is now! I'm going to buy 2 for sure. I think your blind mix has me sold on Nameless though.

I really like the Soldano! It and the Mesa amps are the most true sounding amps! The mid range response on the Soldano is super natural sounding. There is a fine line between B and A tier honestly.

I feel like the cab they matched with the head in the nameless gives it a distinct midrange and paired with that grind pedal, it just cuts!

@@BaritoneGoatStudioyeah I think you nailed it, it's the mids on that amp. My association for that tone is Fozzy, oddly. That's what comes to mind every time I hear it :)

The omega gets alot if love! Maybe I should work with it more and do a bit more mixing it with other amps.

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@@BaritoneGoatStudio This track is two Omega and Two Soldano. Quad tracked. They lift each other I think.

I think it is a combination of it being the first real artist suite with a bunch of added stuff, and it was the first decently decked out 5150 sim that also had a modeled JCM 800 as well. It was a lot for the time. I like it enough, and it did set the bar for future releases… but, I like other sims better and other companies do the 5150 better.

Cali is underrated! And AMP B is the most distinct for sure. The bottom end and fullness of the Cali amp is pretty unmatched. Also, you essentially get an Archetype level of tones in the plug-in without paying the extra $40. It is just insane how slept on the plug-in seems to be!

It is at the bottom of C for me, but some of the JCM800 tones and the effects they included at least make it a true to form plug-in. The Henson amp also has a JCM that is just as capable though. I hope the NDSP develops a Marshall suite on par with the Mesa IIC+

@@BaritoneGoatStudio I hope NDSP has a great Jcm coming too, currently I’m getting the Jcm tones from the Lasse Lamert (probably butchered that) from STL

My main gripe with the Mark II suite is the cab selection. I wish they had like a black shadow cab or something other than the V30 OS and Trad 412s.

This is VERY true. Usually I just abandon the built-in cabs and use custom IRs, cause all of the built in stuff sounds pretty basic.@@BaritoneGoatStudio

I think I need to pull up the granophyre and mess with it a little more!

Yeah. It is carry over from modern gaming culture. Basically mean “superior”… it also comes from a Japanese word meant to denote exemplary performance.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio Thanks for the explanation for this old dude

Can’t get anything out of it I like. And I am not alone apparently, if you got a preset I should try, send it along!

The plug-in. It has a lot more control knobs and emulated parameters of the actual amp than most plug-ins and if you haven’t ever played around with a mark series amp, you end up with a bit of a learning curve. Most folks are used to the 5150 style plug-ins. There is a fairly standard way to set them up as you said, and that gets you 90% of most high gain tones. If you try and get it into more modern metal territory, you will spend some time tweaking certain parameters. Additionally, since these are mostly mix tools, how they sound in standalone and in a mix end up pretty different. The main thing about this amp sim in a mix is that small adjustments seem to have a dynamic effect. I found that some of the best preset they have omit the graphic EQ completely. I am also not a fan of the cabs they matched with the amps though. It limits the tone somewhat to me as they all seem to be v30 based.

Omega has a very specific sound and I like it enough for what it can do. But the Abasi was big disappointment. Very much not what I expected.

@@BaritoneGoatStudio i find the yellow amp unusable. The "crunchy" one is fine and the clean is good. Maby if i played 8 string with similar techniques to Tosin it would shine.