This open source amp modeler may change the guitar world... 

It sounds great. I'm thinking about how to use this as part of my rig when playing a gig. Would I have to bring a computer, is there a pedal or another solution?

Thanks for watching!

^^^ The author of NAM here, people, what’s up with no upvotes 😅 Steve, you rock!

@@agafonkin ;)

You bet!

no its not. the whole point is open source and free. and thats how its going to be. people who sell will not do well in this community or monetarily

@@JayOneAlumni I am developing some open source codes so I fully agree that the whole point is that the software stack for training and playing is free and developped as a community. Also, free profiles are already shared by many users (and I am trying to build my own too) but high end amps recorded in a high end environment is also an added value that some could consider worth paying for. Open source / free software does not means no one can provide paid services / support or content. Indeed most of Linux and other big open source projects are actually sponsored by companies that provide services around that code base and many people make a living from the development of open source software. To have a durable development, there is sometimes the need to make some money... It can be through donation, through a premium service or maybe through a marketplace were a small commission can be taken when buying some paid for content (but keeping open the free exchange of free content). As someone who has to deal with hosting and distribute open source software, I can tell you that download bandwith is actually quite expensive if you have many users worldwide.. And someone has to pay the bills (=me in my case) for this. So to make opensource software sustainable beyond a hobby project it is important to find also a way to support the costs...

@@jcugnoni /wooooooosh

Your videos have helped me a ton, Jason. Thanks!

Jason is THE man! His videos are great, super concise and he is very well spoken and a great presenter. Go check his videos out! They allowed me to discover NAM, made me do a video, made others do a video, etc. He is the OG avalanche starter!

Yup highly recommend.

@@PippPriss Thanks, man! Your videos are also awesome and totally helped catapult NAM into the limelight! You sent a ton of new people over to my channel too!

They find use for Linux for them not us they like to bury this kind of stuff and charge us an arm and a leg for inferior products that they can resell to us over an over

These are my exact thoughts. There will also be companies who will steal the code and release as updated firmware for their platform.

Exactly. As for stealing the code, there’s no point in doing it. You’d be just missing out on developments done by other people. This is why nobody “steals” Linux’s code. It’s more useful to just hang around, help where you can and profit from the concerted effort. The closest to stealing would be to simply use and not contribute, but to use and not give credit is (1) enforceable by law and (2) not interesting from the moment NAM becomes something famous as sort of a brand. Think about it: if everybody praises NAM, to have your product associated with it is a good thing. You’d be profiting from its clout.

THIS. I don't need/want to make captures, I just want to use models on a pedal-format piece of hardware. If someone could sell me a pedal for $300 that could load and perform NAM models, I'd be all set. Give me optional IR loading for cabs and both 1/4" and XLR output jacks please and thank you.

I’ve got nam stuff on the site!

Sorry but kemper is now the worse if all : Axefx 3, ToneX and obviously NAM.

So the worst is still good, actually great, actually awesome and the same unit just keeps getting better.

NAM is Napster lol.

It gives your computer viruses? Lol

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something I'm finding is that if you have to adjust NAM's tone knobs more than a tick or two, the profile is not good to begin with. Find a profile/IR that needs virtually no knob adjustment, and very little post EQ for best results. Too much tweaking loses the sound of the original amp and doesn't work as well. With that philosophy in mind, I've got some fantastic sounds from this plugin. love it.

It depends how that hardware unit is currently coded. Anything that uses C++ could totally be programmed that way.

Preamp out isn't so great as the power amp is bypassed. The neve DI yes, certainly seems like having the speaker connected but taking the signal from a box like the neve is the most accurate.

@@rossbalch thank you for your response.

Yes!

Honestly, soundwise NAM is probably even better than the Kemper, which is insane in itself, considering the price difference. I say probably, because someone might disagree, and that's fine. I had a Kemper, and in my personal opinion, NAM sounds noticeably better.

@@milankotevski1663 I sat with both today and I can't agree with that, personal opinions I guess. I can't see myself going to gig with a computer and a plugin. For me, with all the functionality and tweaking I can do on a Kemper, NAM doesn't even come into the same ball park, I see it as a tool for re-amping at best. I haven't tried using it to profile anything, and probably never will. It's cool. I dig it, but Kemper Rules in my guitar world. Maybe the profiles I tried with the NAM were just crap, who knows.

Those captures of the skylark with different cabs are actually Nam captures of the ToneX captures I did. I didn’t say that in the video but in Tone x and the kemper it separates the amp and can so I took a cab Ir of the other speakers and put them together and shot that thru the Nam trainer. It says ToneX on the description on the site where you download it but I didn’t say that in the video. It worked pretty well to get a variety of tones.

In the video I think you mention it as well?, maybe a bit obliquely but I’m willing to say I missed it. Nbd. Have you done any shootout of tonex to see how accurate their separation is? No one’s seems to have studied that yet that I can see. The purple captures are new or tonex as well? Sorry to be a pest. I’m curious because my gripe with tonex was that it does that automatically and I figured an option for separation when capturing might have assuaged nerds like me who can get fidgety and lost in weeds about these things. ;) Also thanks for the prompt reply. Do you ever sleep? Haha

Idly I wonder if they use an ir time window during the capture to determine what might be ir related. Anything not immediate that decays over time is ir anything instant is tone capture kinda thing? Or did they just pre train their ‘AI’ to differentiate.

@@tedonyszczak3029 The only “test” I have done regarding the separation is to use the different cab sections on a direct capture. They all sound similar but a bit different. So it’s not getting it right all the time but it seems like it’s drawing the line in a similar spot. My thought is that, even off not 100% accurate if it lets you get more tones it’s probably works trying so in this case hearing that amp thru another cab isn’t possible at the moment but with a few button click I can find the which cabinet form another amp sounds good and gives me the feel of that cab. To me that’s a win but I’m also not of the opinion that accuracy is everything, I also agree that if it sounds good it is good.

Yeah, it struck me immediately upon hearing how good those pickups sounded.

Bridge is a Seymour Duncan Brad Paisley. Neck is a Twisted Tele.

That's not totally fair though. NAM does the core part really well. But Neural and others offer way more than just a capture player. They have fx, user interface, hardware implementation. That's where the extra team of people come into it.

@@rossbalch Yup but I was only referring to the part NAM does, not all the other pieces.

@@tonepilot my point is though, it didn't take a team to do the part NAM does. They likely had only one or two folks handle the algorithm too. The rest is peripheral.

@@rossbalch Hey! That was my point lol

​@tonepilot your point was "wow this guy is amazing, he is better than these teams of many on his own" His point was "he is amazing, but hasn't have had to deal with *list of things*so he is not better than the companies that make those products because he has been good at 1 thing" There you go this multiple reply comments summarised in one

Essentially no. Files can only be converted when they essentially wrap up the same information just in a slightly different way, that isn't what's happening here. Don't worry though, someone will make hardware devices for this, it's almost guaranteed.

@@rossbalch I look forward to that. I don’t care to do the captures…. I just want to play all kinds of amps(at least captures).

There are probably a few hundred pedal captures already made for NAM.

NAM can easily profile drive and boost pedals. It just can’t do any time-based FX

I don’t see how it’s “way better than tonex” they’ve done videos and the differences in the captures are like decimal points between tonex and Nam

@@Colinrisley the big difference is in the feel.

@@notalkguitarampplug-insrev784 I’ve been playing guitar for 17 years, have both tonex and nam and only the slimmest of differences is noticeable in my opinion.

About 400 euros better than ToneX 😅

@@TeuvoSick maybe for bedroom guitarists like you who don’t gig 😂😂

Those terms seem to be coming together. ToneX calls their captures Amp Models and this is called Neural Amp Modeler but it captures the sound of an amp. Only the Kemper profiler uses the term profiles, QC calls them captures, ToneX and Nam use a capture tech to make their models if that makes sense but it’s not a modeler like the helix or Axe.

@@ToneJunkieTV reminds me of 'tremolo' and 'vibrato' - 50 years after their initial guitar use they are still incorrectly applied...

You cant get cheaper than free, brother!

@@jasonzdora well l was meaning a DAW plus this FREE plug in.

There’s AI software for songwriting too 😂

​@@kane6529 full Ai bands now too

@@kane6529 absolutely. Good addition there. How respectable is autotune, an AI written song, l straight up already know papers are being written for college classes using AI. We live in interesting times. Why do l absolutely love the human feel of an old R&B vinyl? Jimmy Reed or Otis Redding? An early Johnny Winter vinyl. I recently heard a Brad Paisley album and the recording was polished to a point that l could help but feel uninspired. I like Brad Paisley. I think it’s the times we live in. 😂 l feel like an old disgruntled geezer spewing grievances 🤣

😂

His free download doesn't work either. I put a comment up when the video was posted but Tonejunkie deleted it. This probably will too.

@@steveeckert8396 Why would I delete a comment saying the link doesn’t s broken? Would t I just fix the link instead? I don’t know what comment you’re talking about but I haven’t deleted any comments from you. Maybe RU-vids spam filters picked it up?

@@ToneJunkieTV I have no idea how or why it got deleted. There was no vulgarity, links or offers to "hit me up" on a messenger. I just know I posted it, liked it , checked it today and it was gone. Just to let you know, I emailed your gmail account right after your Thanksgiving IR special saying I "thought I ordered some IR's that were on sale and never got a confirming email " I never got a response. Does anyone else have access to your RU-vid page or your gmail account?

I think that's why all the prog and metal guys like Fractals.

​@@bettsdn I play metal, I like my tube amp.