In-Depth Look: NAM player Hardware and Software Walkthrough 

I just bought a fm3 a month ago. Never stopped me before. I buy this as well. Screw practicing guitar. I love gear. ❤

I'm a big fan of all the new devices hitting the market that move the great new software onto the stage for live performance.

The long press to delete should bring up a dialogue box with a choice to cancel or delete. Otherwise a good beginning.

Currently testing a DIMEHEAD NAM player. Man, the low latency of this thing is just stunning. Factory captures are also pretty, pretty nice. Espescially considering how many mediocre captures you can find on Tonehunt sometimes.

Noise gate threshold being defined globally could come with its own issues if you have patches for hi-gain rhythm and leads. Dialing in the gate for the chugs can end up cutting the sustain on the leads (same as for cleans / EoB tones).

Very nice !! Congratulations👍

Looks dope so far! I‘m really curious how this will sound! I‘d love to demo one sometime! ❤

This seems like an incredibly well thought-out product. As a big time NAM-fan and one of the "OG" adopters, short before it blew up: if there is any chance for a collaboration on presenting the product on my channel, I would be incredibly honored to put this device through it's paces! You have made all the things better which the ToneX has failed to do so - congratulations already on this astonishing product.

Here are my first thoughts on the NAM player. I bought the pedal at full price, so my opinions are genuine. I've played it alongside the ToneX all week, using the same AmalgamAudio profiles to keep the comparison fair. In my experience, the NAM player is superior to the ToneX in terms of tone quality. It feels better under the fingers, and the customer service is fantastic. Although the NAM costs more than the ToneX, I do believe the extra money is well spent if you care about tone.

Superb work.

This is one of the greatest inventions/developments in the domain of guitar/bass pedals from Germany in the last couple of years. Idea, Circuit Design, Parts Choice, Enclosure & UI design, DSP programming and much more, all done locally by bright Northern Lights in Germany, I am in awe, seriously. Ordered one right away!🤩👍

A.I. voice and no audio examples?

The 0.5ms latency sounds too good to be true, I hope it really delivers!

Will it be possible to add 2 NAM captures in the Signal chain? One Amp capture + Drive capture? Thanks

This thing is awesome

Does it support 500ms IR’s. I love some real room mic IR’s mixed in… I guess the convolution reverb loader would handle those if you crank the mix to 100%. Great job guys!

Is there a plan to include a boost state on second press of a selected preset? That's a good feature to have. Ideally, it would comprise a change in all parameters needed (gain, effects/mix, volume, etc.)

Holy shit! I knew this was coming

🤯😳🤩😍 want this yesterday

Finally somebody did it. The latency is 0.5ms even with standard models?

fx loop to use with other analog gear would be such a benefit

Wow they managed to put the DSP power of a gaming PC into a pedal to run the FULL NAM tech…!! And with imperceptible latency at 0,5ms (it’s like the time sound out to travel 17 centimeters..!!!) It’s less latency than any Mac/PC with a 2k$ sound interface. What a great time to be alive❤❤❤❤

Looks great! Pretty straightforward and utilitarian, which is how I like my pedals. €200 more than the ToneX pedal, but the higher quality captures and more features definitely makes up for the difference in price.

Looks very interesting. What’s the innovation in comparison to a MOD Dwarf? I only see it a bit more guitarist focused with certain knobs to directly adjust the typical settings. But the MOD Dwarf seems to have much more sound capabilities with all the effects and wiring options. Or am I missing something??

WoW!!!!!!

That's really a good product, but for the price I would have expected some more features; 2 model slots in series (so to be able to load a pedal model and an amp model), and a dual IR with stereo output and pan for each one of the 2 impulses. 1ms latency would still be great if 2 models in series require more latency. Wouldn't mind about reverb, although it's useful - and what's the point of a mono reverb by the way?

Does it have ambient reverb, like shimmer type, that would be nice, also can it do snapshots, like 4 snapshots per preset/song that also be useful

Are you guys shipping to brazil?

The one thing that's gotten me not to the pull the trigger on any sort of profiling pedal yet is that none have Spdif. The reason is that I integrate the Kemper with the Fractal stuff via spdif to drop the Kemper in as an FX block to add profiling to the Fractal stuff. The large Kemper has spdif but the profile player does not. The ToneX pedals don't have it either, and neither does this. I suppose someone could have a solution where the USB plug could put out USB audio somehow to some sort of converter to SPDIF. It would also have to run at 24bit 48k to work with Fractal. My Fracta/Kemper spdif setup has been working great, but it's not portable enough anymore. I can't lug a big rack around these days. However, the benefits are great. The Fractal has better converter sonics or whatever, which make the Kemper sound better. Mainly, I've become totally dependent on my Fractal for FX because I can't duplicate them with any other device (believe me, I've spent $1000's trying, so it's non-negotiable for me at this point. :/ I could patch a "profile player" into a Fractal via audio cables, but that will introduce more conversion steps and latency, while eating up I/O. I also do use the 4-cable method already, so it becomes a bigger problem.

Very nice. But the UI kinda old like kemper. Im interested in the long run

Awesome! Ordered one, as so far only the NAM VST is really able to satisfyingly reproduce my Friedman Smallbox 50. All the other current solutions kinda fail. So I'm expecting great from this! Can you tell us what kind of processor you are using? It must be some beefy hardware.

Interesting. But for me to buy, the price would need to similar to the Tonex pedal which costs quite a lot less than this.

Can you guys show how to implement Dimehead with pedals for live and studio? How would one connect pedals that normally go into FX loop? LINE OUT? and then from the last pedal into a mixer? Literally the one thing that is stopping me from buying/

My only concern is the spacing between footswitches. They seem a bit close to each other for accurate footwork and risk of misclicking two at once in a live situation

What about the hardware?

What UI framework/kit does this use? I'm doing some embedded stuff and I'm hunting for a decent UI kit with menu heirarchy etc...

Can it use captures made with Tonocracy?

very interesting, Stereo outputs would be incredible , I/O makes quite a difference if it's a question of space constraints moving connections to accommodate for stereo output could be an idea (e.g midi + headphone out on the side of the unit), or otherwise 2x Line outputs (like other modellers have, is ok) it might be an idea to have the rotary knobs do different things on different pages so instead of them being assigned to one thing , depending on the page that's selected they can also be used to quickly change parameters (for example delay selected, knobs 1-3 change mix/time/feedback ) that way you get more usage out of the knobs instead of them being solely assigned to volume/bass/middle/treble for example, having knobs that are assignable from the main page (so for example if you always like to tweak delay mix from the first screen or another parameter) modifiers are otherwise always fun =) (LFOs etc..) , happy to give more feedback if you like

So, I already own a Quad Cortex. Am I missing something? How would this offering be more advantageous? 🤔

I loved the bit where you showed how it sounds by playing guitar using some example models

When can we buy this?

Maybe in the next update, the Noise Gate threshold could be saved with different threshold level (or even switched off) per preset instead of globally. This is really a very promising product but as it is (same goes with the Tonex & Tonex One), it's not for me. Don't get me wrong, like i said this is a really promising product, but for me personally, i would like to have a stereo capable outputs (& even sweeter if it has separate stereo DI outputs with the Cab sim switched ON, while the 1/4" stereo outputs, having switchable Cab sim ON or Off)..... also a stereo effects loop built in. Other than that, i am very sure this product will be great for many others. Again, these are just my personal preference.

When is this puppy coming on the market?

Can it load Kemper amp profiles?

No stereo?

at that cost, touch screen would have been the go

What is the latency

It's great that this already exists. I'd buy one today if the price was closer to the tonex pedal. This is way too expensive as it stands.

2 preset per bank is really not enough. 3 is would be the minimum. 64 bank also is too small.

It´s a pity, that that great device doesn´t have a send/return connection.

what will be the pricetag?

Man, 600 euros... I know, I know... But, man... Good equipament anyway.

The man in this video should be speaking about nature or someone 😂

Only mono out…

I don't see the ability to run a high cut after the IR. This seems to be a huuuuugggeee oversight. Among other issues, like a lack of FX and snapshots. I guess 2x snapshots is something, at least you can go clean to heavy. But the lack of high cuts? That is a huge deal breaker for me, high cuts are so important to getting modelers to sound great, especially live.

For €300 it would be no brainer, €600 is too much considering the alternatives.

Compared to Tank G, it is 20 times cheaper, but the quality difference is no more than 30%.

It's a little bit expensive, compared to say a Tonex pedal.

Kemper for ever.

this thing is gonna kill tonex. rip.

Is this fake?

Just get an amp

Looks like old tech

_"DimeHead"_ screams 14 year old...

If it's 200€ more than Tonex, and 400€ more than Tonex One, this is way to expensive. And no sound examples? Making a product much more expensive than a well designed counterpart?

but ,,but .. ,, real things valve amp is always better choice .... rest is only -smoke on the water .

I like a sturdy tool and functional design, but this thing is so incredibly ugly! Why??? How do you guys want to be competitive, when most people would be ashamed to put such an ugly device on their beloved pedal boards? And yes, it looks so bad, it's NOT a matter of taste anymore 😀