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I haven't done any real mixes with it yet, but some of the models immediately sit well with the rest of the mix.

Thanks very much. The culture of the community around NAM is very generous right now. People worked hard to create the amp models and IRs. Some of them spent a great deal of money to do so. The least I could do was credit them.

It's gotten a lot better in recent years. NAM is another level, though.

And I'm sure more improvements are coming.

Doesn't it? It's amazing -- especially for free!

@@NLNPNL Free and as good as possible. We are blessed.

I didn't know it was going to be an AC/DC style solo until I did it 😂 Thanks for the compliments on the track. And I agree, NAM is great!

Agreed.

NAM can capture distortion pedals, for sure. And that's right, you wouldn't typically load an additional IR for a pedal. Some of the nam models were captured by recording a mic on a speaker cabinet, so you wouldn't need an IR in that case. My understanding though, is that NAM is optimized for capture without a speaker and adding an IR later.

Agreed. And it will raise the bar for everyone.

NAM can capture the tonal characteristics of a compressor, but not the compression action. It doesn't do time-based FX such as reverb, chorus, or delay.

Yeah. You can spend your life going through tonehunt listening to sounds. What I do is go into the Facebook group occasionally. Every couple of weeks, somebody comes along and talks about how great a particular capture is. I sometimes go check those out. Other than that, I limit the rabbit hole to times I'm about to record guitar.

If you want to add additional fx, you'll have to load NAM in a DAW, or a VST host such as Cantabile. And you would typically load NAM and the put the FX after it, in the signal chain.

Tonehunt now has amp models ranked by popularity. It quickly becomes obvious that a few folks are making really good captures. Stick to those and it's a lot less trial and error.

Yeah, there's some bad models. Use the search function in the ghetto 6 to search for bass.

Lots of people are running it on the M1.

I just installed it on my M1 and it works great as long as I use the VST3 version. The AU version crashes every time. p.s. And it sounds awesome!

You load two instances, or record two tracks.

My pleasure.

Honestly, I didn't spend much time looking through models. I just quickly picked what I thought would be representative of what people might be interested in. Some crunch sounds, some clean sounds and some lead sounds.

Decent!? It sounds phenomenal.

It is a bit of a CPU hog. It works at whatever latency you set your DAW at. For the standalone version there's also a setting. I found it will pop and click of I have something else running, such as RU-vid. Other than that, I didn't experience any latency issues.

The latency depends on your PC and audio interface specs, not the plugin.

Would be cool to know how much latency this plugin creates. Ignite NadIR has no latency

@@GuitarAcademia here's a quote from a user, Rune Thoen: "Just trying out a possible live setup. Using an RME interface, Macbook M1 and Live Professor 2 as host, I can easily use a 16 (!) samples buffer and get a total latency of 2.15 ms (forgot the output buffer: 2.5 ms it is) from analog in to analog out. That's less latency than just about every modeler out there. Plays like a dream." Basically, the latency is determined by how you set your buffer size. If your computer can handle smaller buffer sizes, it will be a very small amount of latency.

To be honest, I used a Kuassa VVV today :-). But I already owned it.

In what way do you think they don't react like speakers do? Are you talking about sag?

I just peruse the FB group and go on recommendations there, or use the ratings system to see what's good (or at least popular).