I'm not sure if it's "fair" to cite a paid vst, but IMO, "Amp Room" by the dev "Soft Tube" (sic..?) is my fave, soundswise. Particularly the Fenders and Voxes, I can dial in/nail the cruddy, disgusting, rebellious-sounding "edge of distortion" sounds I need in order to perpetuate the 1 and 1/2-chord "I wannabe 1966" garage rock "songs" I do.
Great rundown! I think I agree it might have the slightest edge over ToneX/NeuralDSP in terms of sound quality/realism. The open source nature of NAM is so intriguing...really feel like the first company to implement this into a well-executed hardware pedal will be sitting on a gold mine! Poly effects is working on implementing it into their firmware for the Beebo and should be available really soon - eager to see how that goes.
Thank you Andrew!! It's definitely close. I have a comparison video coming up, and I'll just say this... the results were actually pretty surprising. To me, at least lol- Either way, it's really cool to see what this technology can do and the possibilities it's unlocking. Thank you for letting me know I needed to check it out.
1. fantastic video! You explained this with ease, so I subscribed. 2. I really dig your playing, even though I am more of a metal/hardcore guy I really dig lush, rich sounding rock tones. 3. What kind of dog is Bailey? Thanks :)
I wanted to point out something about the cons-- this product is supposed to be for studio usage, so having a less-than-intuitive setup of plugin to website to VST package to folder to DAW, is pretty normal! I think today musicians are spoiled by the convenience of plug-and-play pedals and software, but I think putting a few minutes of thought into how you want to set this product up will help you prepare for recording with it. Gigging with NAM would be cool, but that's specifically what TONEX is designed for.
Thanks so much!! Appreciate it! She's a rescue dog, so we aren't sure exactly what mix of breeds she is. But we think she's a Shiba Inu / Lab mix or a Shiba Cattle Dog Mix. She's the sweetest :)
HOWWWWWWWWWWWW did you get that tone at 4:56 man I've been trying to replicate it for SO LONGGG!!! It's coming close but not the beauty I'm hearing here. Please help me outtttt.......
Thank you so much!! I used the two different Amalgam captures in stereo. So one amp on the left channel, the other amp on the second channel. I can’t remember… but I’m pretty sure that was just the Jackson audio Belle star into a light room verb from the bigsky into the amp sim 👍🏻
This is too cool! I’m sure a Nux or Joyo company will get on this bandwagon soon and offer a pedal where you can just dump all this stuff into and place in your pedalboard. The possibilities are astounding!
Thanks so much! I don’t remember since I made this almost a year ago now. I do know I used the Fender Tweed and the AC30TB in stereo for all of the parts. I think I had my deep six and moonshine going into the amps. Although the amps were breaking up a little so it could’ve been the Belle Starr instead of the moonshine…
That would be cool!! Not sure about EQs, but there are plugins that effectively do this with compressors, but they're emulations vs captures. It's pretty cool though because you can set your compression settings and then scroll through various compressors to find the one with just the right sound you're after without having to load up other plug-ins!
I tried NAM and FINALLY got a clean tone with a digital guitar i use, but im still gonna buy a real one and a audio interface but a friend of mine has a real amp :)
I really love the convenience of these kind of plugins. Plug the guitar to my interface, and that's it. No outboard gear really necessary. Although I do plug in to a Digitech FreQout first (to get sustain and feedback at very low volume), but that's it.
Nice video man, you got pretty damn good sounds. I've been using it for a good while now. Just to add on the "portability" of it I've also been messing around with the NAM port on the poly Beebo (ig it's open source), and it already sounds great though it's still just beta firmware. It's great though, just a little research on tonehunt and you're set. Fairly futuristic ngl, now you can basically record a fairly pro sounding song with just a guitar and sme cables
Nice Video! You were getting some great tones. Are you using free IRs from Tone Hunt as well for this video or was it your own/ones from York Audio or another 3rd party?
Thanks homie!! Appreciate it. I used all free IRs from tone hunt. The specific amps I used were all listed in the video- all of them were by Amalgam Audio.
I think with plugins, latency issues might have more to do with your computer than the plugin nowadays- But that's definitely a top concern amongst guitarists! I personally didn't notice anything significant until my computer started to get bogged down.
Well done kid. I've shared your video among older sceptics. They probably couldn't care less :). NAM is incredible, gonna be interesting to follow for the future. Expecting more NAM-able hardware units to arrive soon.
I've used logic and Mac to record and I agree somewhat. It wasn't as bad as a lot of other computer daw combos that I've used. Nearly all of my other PC based daw experiences (recording guitar live with plugin active in the box) that didn't have built in DSP processors gave me bad issues with latency though.
Either with plug-ins, or you could run your pedalboard into your audio interface, then into it. Or you could even convert your signal from the DAW back to line level and then route that into pedals and then send it back into your audio interface.
I programmed those with a plug-in. I think I used Native Instruments Abbey Road Modern Drummer… or Native Instruments Studio Drummer. I can’t remember which I used since it was a bit ago, but both are fantastic!
Maaaan your guitar tones sound so good, I had to download NAM to try this out! I'm having the hardest time getting Impulse Responses that sound good though.. did you use all the same Amalgam IRs that they paired with their different NAM amp captures, and use the built in IR loader in NAM? I wanna try and learn how to get sounds similar to yours first just to make sure I'm using NAM and IR's the right way!😂
Well, I play live with an IPad, an audio interface and a bluetooth pedal to switch channels, so, at lease 1 person is doing that ^^ Thanks for the vid, great subject, great editing, great vid ;)
Running a true stereo setup per guitar track + layered guitar tracks for a production. I would print tracks for mixing of course, but when I'm writing and recording parts, I don't want to have to interrupt my flow to bounce down tracks. I run similar amounts with other guitar amp plugins and haven't had this problem-
"It's August and it's 87 degrees out" - While it's 107 where I'm at -_- lol. Great video, definitely want to check this out. How do you think it fairs to the Neural Plugins? I use Cory Wong's plugin personally, and I think it's an interesting comparison since it's in the same market.
My heart breaks for you in 107 degrees. That's a no from me... LOL. Well, I've never used the Neural Plugins, but I assume sound wise they have to be pretty similar to what's in the Quad Cortex, and I thought this was pretty competitive. I'll have to hear them side by side, but with the right amp model, the sound quality is pretty darn close.
I did not noticed the high CPU usage (MacBook Pro 16" with M3 Max) at all. BTW; you can gig with it easily, I have a flight case with enough room for my Mac Mini, a SmallHD Smart 7 monitor, Apollo 4X and an expression pedal, it is easy to setup and sounds great!
Huh? A laptop and a small interface is a lot of gear to lug around to a gig? Dude. It literally fits in your backpack. A full fledged amp and a set of speakers doesn't. Also, if you have multiple guitarists, you can run multiple cabs with this. And you can even have different cabs for different songs even if you're just one singular guitarist. I see no downside to this in terms of lugging gear. Its hella compact.
