My snare hits are like 100 or above 99% of the time 🤣 Haven’t dived into that too hard honestly, could be worth emailing them to ask. Something like superior would be a lot better. I reckon it would be on par with GGD at a glance but I’m really not sure

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You’d ideally want to run this directly into an fx loop so it’s hitting the poweramp, otherwise it’s stacking 2 preamps. But it would still sound good through the front I reckon. I can’t post any examples here but if you jump on my discord I can hook this up to a clean channel on an amp and run it through the front like the EHX and see how it goes

@@ampspedalspickups sadly the Mig 50 doesn’t have an fx loop, but it has two amazing clean Channels, unless you turn em up of course :D Haven‘t been ob discord a while, but why not! I‘ve ordered the Joyo Oxford meanwhile to give it a try for 36€ :D

My chain for this stuff is interface -> reamp unit -> amp -> loadbox -> interface Once you have the gear hooked up the process has been simplified. They just increased KZbin “shorts” to 3 mins so I might do a quick “how to nam in 2 minutes”, easier than it used to be

@@ampspedalspickups Thanks so much for the info. Same was I have set up to profile for Tonex. Oh wow! 3 min shorts! I didn't know that.

No idea unfortunately

Punk players are built different

I’ve been talking to a few other capture people and I’ve figured out the main culprits (boost pedal)…. Amp only captures are coming out pretty good. Gonna do a follow up very soon

Boomer is a state of mind

I dont have them either so its hard to compare. Im in the middle of doing a EVH Stealth comparison but thats Real Amp / TMP / AxeFX / Mercuriall and NDSP Gojira. The SLO-100 should be pretty good... but the Marshalls can sound a bit more "metal" than rock in amphub I find

@@ampspedalspickups I see! I've heard great things about the Mercuriall EVH stealth! Can't wait to see it in action against all the others!!

Just a joke, apt name for old gear and sounds though

I use more riffs in other videos, this shows how it shapes things well rnough

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I don’t have a fm3 anymore but if you share some samples on discord I’m sure someone can point you in the right direction. I’d start a new patch, set master vol to 2, gain at 2-3 (whatever feels good), rest of eq at noon….. then I’d goto dynacabs and choose any typical 4x12 with a 57mic near the centre, do the other one with a dynamic mic (one bright one with body)… blend them til the tone mostly sounds good. Then start messing with the amp dials, if you’ve dialled in the cabs well enough you won’t need drastic changes, maybe nudge the mids and treble a bit But yeah share some sameples on discord all good

Haha I can hear the AILD influence for sure

I haven’t put the gain under a microscope, I’m gonna be doing a stealth shootout soon between the real thing and a few ones like the TMP so we’ll see. As a general player the gain seems fine for punk and metal, maybe a bit smooth and not “real and raw” like an amp. To be fair the only one that’s done that for me has been fractal… but half the time I’d have to finesse things and end up with a smoother tone like what the quad cortex and TMP produce out of the box anyway I have no doubt the modelling could be improved, I’m here for all the improvements either way!

@@ampspedalspickups dude the TMP has a ton of horsepower in it that isn't tapped yet. I just bet here soon it will be on top. That rawness in a amp you spoke of isn't lacking in Fractal, line 6, or even a boss unit. They will have it right any update now I guarantee it lol ...look forward to that comparison. The EVH in it is a bit better than it was originally. Before the updates it was awful lol

Might be easier to join my discord and go through this step by step. Not sure if you’re recording on the axe and spdif to the rme or vice versa. I haven’t done this exact setup but depending on how you’ve got it all setup I’m sure we can figure it out

Lion is unabashedly old school Marshall Rock whereas Nameless has the roots of that sound but is supercharged for modern sounds. Lion is warmer fatter and I guess more "vintage" sounding. Nameless is just more modern, brighter and tighter which you need to clean up the low end and get the more modern metal thing going. Both are probably best in class for what they do, just anyone's pick on what kind of sound they're aiming for.

@@ampspedalspickups thank you for your insight!

Thanks! I havent done extensive testing but I did think they were dark / not what I expected as well. I dragged over some IRs and surprisingly the cab wasnt too far off what I imported. I dont know whats going on but I do think there could be some weirdness around the cabs in general... maybe its more impedence mis-matching issues or something. I would have used some IR's here but then people might complain they can't achieve this sound on the TMP standalone. I should have a play around with IR's / SIC again. On a side note there's some annoying vol/level matching issues so when you scroll through SIC it can be a bit elusive trying to properly A/B things... its small stuff like that they really need to tighten up. Dont even get me started about the "mixer" when you blend 2 cabs, AWFUL haha. But yeah with all those gripes said... the tone rips, unit has tons of power. I have no idea if its the most accurate or anything but its like my fisher price toy that I enjoy and keep going back to.

@@ampspedalspickups definitely agree that it has high potential. The fender folks just need to be: 1. Honest about comparisons to other units and keep refining. 2. Maybe set goals to deliver a bit faster updates - I realize that software/firmware development is a massive undertaking and they want to get it right but they have a ways to go compared to the competition and I think a non-bug fix update every six month might be a bit on the slow side at this time. Most importantly I hope they maintain interest in the project

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1968 was quite a few years ago……

@@ampspedalspickups what’s your point?

Yeah im keeeeeen to try that when it comes out

I’ve never been able to get this quality of gain and saturation out of ToneX, but at leasit ToneX can do a lot more in general

@@ampspedalspickups i mean to each their own but I have both plus I am monitoring with Barefoot and a calibrated room and and to me when comparing captures of the same amp, the difference is clear and Tonex wins. This UA plugin does sound good tho but to me it’s lacking edge and more air that Tonex on the hand provides

Fair, hard to find a tone you don’t like with software these days, they all have their pros and cons

​​@@ampspedalspickupsI'm with you, I think this sounds far better than tonex or namm. Those plugins have horrible aliasing and artifacts, and to my ears sound much less alive. Even with amalgam captures and York IRs etc, I think this plugin edges them out The best thing about the uad amps are the room dials. Such a shame it's not there with the dream 65 because it absolutely adds that realism.

Yeah and at the end of the day the way it plays and feels under your hands is going to get the best results….. let the nerds figure out the mixing after the fact. Had a play around today with the fender and box ones, all 3 sound great, they did a great job.

The UAD DSP guitar amp sims blow these out of the water, except for the Ruby, they don't have any that sound like that on the DSP side currently.

I don’t wanna think about it, we’d be better off without it

@@ampspedalspickupsI’m onto you and your tricks.

Lol, and yeah it will work with any interface, fine with axe io

@@ampspedalspickups thanks bro. Türkiye'den sevgiler..

I need to get a fair bit better to play Chris's riffs, he's up there for one of my top admiration guitarists, an absolute beast!

Yeah it’s definitely quality stuff I can tell

I like NAMs for one shot tones, any modelling thing is always easier to dial things in to personal taste easier. But yeah the actually quality of NAM is top tier. Would be fascinating to get one of these amps and NAM some tones and have a listen

IMO the lion specifically is better than NAM captures. The saturation and gain just sounds so good. The curated room dial adds so much realism. The problem with nam is that it's a collage. You have DI load boxes doing the amp capture then you have separate IR files to mimic the speaker. To me it never sounds right. Plus load boxes are not speakers, they are reactive loads, so they don't act exactly like a speaker. UAD spent a lot of time and energy on three amps. Simply the work put in to matching everything, and using the best of capturing and modeling tech has resulted in a much more coherent product.

@@Yestherewego yeah agreed, I think they spent a lot of time fine tuning the lion. It’s not as simple as an amp modelled and done, it’s refined across the spectrum. Agree on NAM tones. NAM makes an amazing photocopy of a single tone, but a model like Lion is giving you the whole blueprint. All the technology is great but if you’re a fan of something like the Lion there’s still big value in the whole plugin

I captured all the presets I liked with NAM and nano cortex, waiting for 70€ deal to get the plugin

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We’ll take the small wins where we can 🤣

What interface is it? And what Amp sim are you trying to use?

@@ampspedalspickups It’s Presonus studio68 and Neural Amp Modeler plugin.

@caopgtr The manual for that one says when your interface gain is set to 0, the instrument input is +15dbu. I have some captures at +13dbu and 2dor and others also have some captures at +13dbu. If you were to use ours, to take your input from +15dbu to +13dbu you need to turn UP +2db. If someone's pack said it was captured at +5dbu then you'd need to gain it up by +10 inside the plugin (always leave the interface gain at 0 and gain things up inside the software). The problem with NAM captures that you'll probably encounter is that lots of people don't mention their capture specification. If that's the case then it's a guessing game. But if you use someone's who has mentioned it, you can just adjust in the software.

@@ampspedalspickups So I should adjust it to 0db instead of the minimum -15db right? But 0db is not exactly marked on the dial, I need to find it by eye. I have figured out the formula for adjusting the plugin inputs. I re-downloaded some captures with specification, used them by guesswork before.

@@caopgtr On your interface keep the gain at 0. When you plug any guitar into a plugin and everything in the plugin is neutral then the signal is still sitting at +15dbu When you go +2db in the software then your signal will be +13dbu. If you go -2db in the software then your signal will be equivalent to +17dbu The INPUT knob in NAM will load at 0.0, just adjust it up or down the match whatever pack you're using is saying its captured at.

Its a laptop stand off Amazon. I've got a few of them for laptops and other things. They all have 2 side feet but I'd reccomend the ones with a big flat back as opposed to just 2 side rails. The ones with the bigger back piece of metal seem to be a lot more sturdy and they're only a couple bucks more... the side rail ones are kind of flimsy in general, very handy for modellers on a desk!

Such an amazing unit but yeah you really need to make patches on the computer and not on the device. From memory you can use an eq block and only use the gain portion as a volume block workaround

Boomer myths! Evertune is flat out amazing The only scenario I can see where an Evertune might not be the best call is anything with constant bend and slide articulations like country/jazz/john mayer kind of really top level playing expressive stuff. For my 99.9% use of rhythm and tight leads the evertune is an absolute champ. Sustain is insanely increased, when you play chords or let anything ring out they're constantly wobbling in (close enough to) perfect pitch. One of the most common things people say after using an evertune is... I can't unhear how out of tune my normal guitars are (I'm the same now). I really can't foresee me buying a new guitar without evertune, it solves and excels at so many more things than problems it brings (none other than the styles I mentioned above). Zone2 is where its locked in and Zone3 is a free for all. It's upto you to ride that fine line. For my low string where I want it rock solid in tune I have it 70% in Zone2, I really have to bend it to get a bend sound. The top strings is probably the opposite... if I hold a chord up there my bad fretting is masked by the Evertune but when I goto do a bend it bends as expected, its just dialling it in properly. Good call on the review its about time. I actually fell out of love with the Solar because of the Fishmans. I had it in Drop D and it sounded wonky to me everywhere. I got it serviced and its in Drop G now and its an absolute monster. I just recorded a track with it now and am doing a tonemaster video with the Solar, should be out in a day or so... I'll do a follow up review for sure, the actual Solar guitar has held up great.

@@ampspedalspickups Thanks so much for the insight! Sadly I'm nowhere near John Mayer, so it should be fine haha I think I'll risk it with fishmans, though classics, with 3rd voice split coil - ESP LTD EC-1000T Evertune BK Only thing is, I'm playing a waiting game since that ESP might be refreshed soon, and get the direct mounted pickups, I just love that look.

Could be the input gain stuff setting it all properly. If you join my discord we can share some files and see what’s going on I know what you mean, when I watch Misha videos they sound amazing… can be hard to distinguish what’s going wrong…. My stuff is straight forward so yours should be very similar with the same stuff

I have a feeling that stuff is coming, possibly paid updates (not sure) For me Universal still the front runner for stereo processing without mucking around… but tonocracy does have a lot of merit. If they refined the UI and did NAM captures instead of their format it would have been a much bigger deal imo.

Maybe it's just preference, maybe it's the usecase... I don't want a reverb or any other FX on a plugin like that. I would always lean towards tried and trusted FX in that domain.

Most of the tonemaster videos I see are cleaner edge of breakup stuff. Checkout Tim pierce he has a god video or two on it. I’m a high gain guy so I can’t comment too much on cleans but the clean guys seem to like the TMP over other modellers. I’m in the middle of filming another TMP video but it’s for drop G tuning and possibly the heaviest stuff I’ve ever done, complete other end of the spectrum 😆

The best part about NAM is that it’s amazingly accurate tech, open source and free. Playing anyone’s profiles you’re generally going to have some gripes with it. The best mileage you’ll get is doing your own captures…. So if you do your own, the software is great either way.

There’s probably a few ways you can do it but this is what I’d do Track1, guitar direct and use an amp sim, mute the output to your monitors but send the output to an output on your interface…. Plug the pedals into that output…. End the pedal chain and plug that into an input on the interface Track2 is reading the input from the pedals. On this track you want to a) Use an IR and hear the playback on your monitors b) send the output (without the IR) to the power amp probably on output4 on the interface. You can do all this way easier with DI boxes cause they split the signal but if you’ve only got the interface then that’s how I’d do it. If you join my discord I can probably send you photos with reaper settings

@@ampspedalspickups awesome help thanks mate and ill definately join. and yes i have two Di boxes, one passive and one active.👍

Kris is a beast, I use some of their riffs/songs for general practice…. Great album