A NEW NAM-Plugin, 100% free, and easy-to-use! || WAVEMIND NAM UNIVERSAL

[@pispalantimbaland]

This plugin is actually quite handy! I like how you can finalize the tone with the Aggravator. And not terrible on cpu consumption.

[@PippPriss]

To be fair, the CPU consumption is the same as using the regular NAM plugin, but it makes sense - the neural network remains as complex and heavy, no matter if NAM native or NAM Universal. But what I found out doing some tests with STL plugins recently is that using standalone plugins consume WAY less CPU than running them in Reaper, so maybe that is where you're coming from.

[@pispalantimbaland]

@@PippPriss Sure. I guess Daws also differ in cpu usage, I come from Ableton land and that is a heavy one I think.

[@Thetimrobertson]

This plugin is absolutely awesome. Been helping beta test too and I’m super stoked on it. It’s definitely a great tone creator. Both instigator and aggravater are surprisingly useful. It’s brand new so no doubt updates and improvements are on the way too. And it’s FREE!!

[@PippPriss]

Yep, exactly this - let's see how people's reception of the plugin is. If something is missing, feedback to WaveMind is always appreciated!

[@scharrface]

@@Thetimrobertson thanks for your contribution Tim, I've been loving your captures!

[@adilO.o]

What I am really amazed about, is not only the great plugin and its great workflow, but as well the content it came packed with. I own a lot of great profiles and IRs from all the famous brands and seriously what I have found with this plugin for free is really good. I have never played a Bugera before and what you Pipp Priss offer just blew my mind. Your profiles sound and feel killer. What a great time to be a guitar player !!!

[@PippPriss]

Thank you for the kind words! I take pride in letting the Bugera rip heads off for being criminally underrated, so your comment made me smile! The packs of most creators there are really good. Some of them, like myself, have invested months of communing and gathering info, exchanging thoughts and ideas to propell the quality of captures made. I am actually thinking about doing some packs for commercial purchase, but I gotta figure out the investment in time is worth the tremendous effort.

[@farko63]

I was trying it like another amp pluigin and .....It's the best plugin ! you can feel your guitar details : so close to a real amp feel ....the best in my opinion.... absolutly. Impressive how these guys get out a so great sound from NAM prfiles.

[@PippPriss]

I love NAM as well. Regarding how we get the sounds out of the profile the way we do... for me, it's basically 1,5 years nearly every day doing something NAM related - at some point you know the in's and out's, at least mostly ;-)

[@TONEWARSgearshow]

Great video, very helpful. I can't wait to start digging into this product very soon.

[@PippPriss]

Thank you! Curious on how your take on NAM! Also, I got a video on the new firmware update of the NAM player pedal which might be of your interest :-)

[@agirotto1]

This looks great. NAM definitely needed a better, more streamlined workflow, and this might just be the thing. I'd been using Tonex exclusively for this reason, but I'm gonna revisit NAM now. Thx so much.

[@PippPriss]

Your absolutely welcome! I also think it's worth the revisit, as NAM Universal really makes it easy to use.

[@eDrumsInANutshell]

Hi! This is the first video on KZbin, that makes me think of: Is this a German or US guy?! But then I noticed a German beer Oetinger bottle standing around... and German words without american accent. That was the Krank Krankenstein video. Than I checked your profile on Facebook. I am a hobby musician drummer, who grabbed some Donner guitars, just - really just to check amp sims and modelers. And a bass, of course. And a used FloydRose guitar. That's why I came here. And - you deserve way more subs, dude! Great content! Thanks! So, why you don't have the typically German accent? Schöne Grüße, aus dem Norden, bei Osnabrück!

[@PippPriss]

First off, thanks for the kind words! Well, the reason is "simple": I am a half-Puerto-Rican/German descendant, born in Wuerzburg, and thus being US-American! Still confused? :-D Honestly, I've been born near Wuerzburg on the military base, that makes me a US-American born abroad, soldiers' kid. I spent some early childhood years in the US, and English was my first native language I learnt, so that stayed with me accent-free. My mother however is German, so after my parents split, we came "back home". Being a child of my mother, I am automatically German as well, so I am a registered dual-citizen. Switching to German... Seit unserer Rückkehr bin ich die deutscheste Kartoffel unter Gottes schöner Sonne geworden ;-) Grüße zurück aus dem immer regnerischen Aachen! :-)

[@eDrumsInANutshell]

@@PippPriss Ja, dachte ich's mir. :) Auch diese Redewendungen ... Das taucht ja im Schulenglisch nicht auf. Jetzt nach 5 Jahren KZbin wegen der eDrums und Music Production Videos schnappt man auf, wie die Leute schnacken. An der Uni war's ja auch stocksteif. Man hat aber viele Akzente verstehen gelernt. Russisch, indisch, chinesisch, französisch. Hahaha, einer schlimmer als der andere.

[@PippPriss]

@@eDrumsInANutshell Da haste völlig recht - am Ende des Tages kann man sich auch im Internet nicht winden und biegen, wie es einem gefällt. Man steckt eben in seiner Haut und kann da nicht so schnell raus. 🙂Da kommt die Persönlichkeit der Leute entsprechend raus, wenn man "Zeit mit ihnen verbringt" (via Videos gucken). In diesem Sinne, beste Grüße und viel Spaß beim E-Schlagzeug knüppeln 🙂

[@chupiconverge6034]

Awesome Job 👌

[@transmothra]

JP - "Turbo Lover"! Great video, thanks!

[@PippPriss]

YES, YES, YES! We have a winner! You win a copy of... the free NAM UNIVERSAL plugin! 🥳🎉 Jokes aside, thanks a lot for watching!

[@resington]

My favourite loader now too. I must add with tonocracy. My copy has gone buggy yet again. Anyway, like you said with delays and chorus etc... I have those already. Great video.

[@PippPriss]

Tonocracy and also GENOME have their advantages over NAM-U, but also some disadvantages, but I personally really appreciate the ease of use of NAM-U. I always rather used the original NAM over Tonocracy, for which there is no need anynmore.

[@matthijshebly]

Looks great, and seems to work fine :) And: stereo!

[@serene.-xp5rv]

Love it, thanks for sharing!

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

While I do get the potential convenience of said plugin, you can build this signal chain by yourself with two instances of NAM, a compressor and a stereo IR loader then save this template. If you have TwoNotes' Genome, it can also load NAM profiles.

[@PippPriss]

Absolutely right. But for standalone operation without a DAW, you only have Tonocracy, which I find a bit tedious to use. When GENOME is released as a standalone, things will start to become interesting. And in itself, GENOME is already cool as is.

[@scharrface]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino for sure. Better for standalone use though and saves a lot of time and clicks workflow wise. When you want to change sounds you can just change presets in one plugin, instead of having to adjust two separate NAM instances, a dual IR loader, an exciter plugin and a multiband compressor plugin. It also supports stereo functionality so you can also save on CPU by running your L and R guitars through one instance of NAM U instead of using 4 NAM instances, two IR loaders, etc. just another free tool in the tool bag! Not meant to replace anything necessarily, but if you don't already have genome and don't want to spend 80 bucks just to use Codex (if your like me and only use Genome for NAM), it provides a solid free alternative

[@cmd_f5]

Tried it out last night and ended up jamming for 2 hours. lol. Props to Wavemind, Ampsim Universe, and all the testers and contributors! Agreed on post-fx. I handle delay/verbs with external plugins usually, so it's no biggy. :) Awesome vid as always dude. edit: Not sure why presets need to exist for something like this anyway. I have a bunch of NAM caps that aren't in the plugin install, so they'd only work on my machine and with the same folder structure,. In that case I'd just make DAW presets for NamU and call it good. I get it from a workflow standpoint, and if you use a lot of the fx in NamU it makes more sense to have presets or fx chains/channel strips etc. Just saying

[@OfficialFatLip]

absolute rubbish, not presets, after adding dozens of nam profiles I realised the bypass has to be turn on each instance instead of off, what kind of back ward polack you think did this?

[@Skullkingd13]

@@OfficialFatLip The "Bypass" has been relabeled Power on each module, in the latest version of Nam-U to prevent confusion in the Future, if the LED is on, this means the module is active. Yes there are no presets at this time, this will hopefully change in a future release, but feel free to make your own, once you save a them, clicking the Preset selection bar will open the drop down menu.

[@OfficialFatLip]

@@Skullkingd13 ill be darn, I guess they rushed the reaper plugin out so fast they forgot what to call it., not even presets by anyone who dares marrying the two dumbest plug-ins you thought a nam loader could beat (instigator etc)

[@PippPriss]

That's a lot of negativity for a free offering, I must say.

[@OfficialFatLip]

@@PippPriss I can make a way better looking GUI then this junk, time has become more of an asset these days, I appreciate this KZbin channel and email list allot, I think its great but tonocracy not mention, eh, have you heard it and its free lol, with out presets for this its like kuassa, they have some of the best marshall sims yet the worse presets.

[@clotban]

Thanks a lot! 👏🤛

[@PippPriss]

You're welcome!

[@Cpmnk]

This looks perfect.

[@peptoattack]

What you were playing at min 26 was Judas Priest, I think Between The Hammer And The Anvil 😉🔥

[@PippPriss]

Close, It's Turbo-Lover - but as much as I butchered it, I can easily see why you would think of another song 😀Thanks for watching that far to actually comment!

[@EsteemedRepresentative]

Greetings! In every demo I've seen so far the guitar is almost always heavy speed metal riffs. In order to hear what the Quantum Speaker is doing, would it be possible to hear something toned way down with a lot of dynamics - say an overdriven tone for blues with varying pick attack, strumming style, etc. to demonstrate what this thing can really do? Coming out of KZbin these all sound the same. Thanks!

[@PippPriss]

Hey there! If I do a dedicated demo on the Quantum Speakers, I can check into that. But cleans, overdriven and edge-of-breakup are usually not my jam, so my playing lacks severely in that department ;-)

[@EsteemedRepresentative]

@@PippPriss Darn. Thanks anyway. I gave up trying to find one. I'll have to install it and see what happens. That may not seem like a big deal but I've put SO much stuff on my PC only to take it off within minutes to hours later. Surprisingly, one thing I'm glad is gone - AMPLITUBE. I know. Shocker.

[@PippPriss]

​@@EsteemedRepresentativeTotally get why it's disappointing for you that everybody and their.mother plays high gain riffs. Since NAM Universal is more a out workflow and not necessarily about tone, I did not give other playing styles too much thought. When I will revise something more from a tonal perspective, I will TRY to be more mindful :-) I also hate my PC being cluttered, but definitely do not regret installing NAM-U!

[@nantan9453]

In order to use it in stereo do you have to use a capture that was done in stereo? Or can you use a mono capture and it will convert to stereo? Thanks!

[@PippPriss]

I am unfortunately one-sided deaf, so I do not hear things in stereo, but only in pure mono. Thus, I basically never bother with the stereo aspect of plugins. From what I understand, it basically simply "copies" the mono capture, converting it thus to stereo. To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a stereo capture in NAM. But there is a slim chance I could be wrong and simply never looked into such subject.

[@nantan9453]

@@PippPriss Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

[@djabthrash]

Seems like a cross between Tonocracy, the CODEX block of Two Notes Genome, and Guitar Rig (because of the rack layout).

[@farko63]

..but believe me : the sound it's another planet !

[@djabthrash]

@@farko63 i don't believe you :) It makes no sense how it would sound heaps better than Tonocracy or Two Notes Genome with Codex :)

[@farko63]

@@djabthrash no prob....try it 😉 Ps : I have both Tonocracy and Genome but the controls on Universal Nam make the sound more real....anyway never believe to the orhers try by yourself!

[@djabthrash]

@@farko63 Which controls specifically ?

[@shivaeyes666]

What if we create a website were we can register for free and share IR's, amps, pedals and song IR's like a tonecloud (from bias fx2) all completly free, like a community?

[@PippPriss]

There is one, check out ToneHunt.org! :-)

[@PASHKULI]

Bypass indicators light up when the tone is not bypassed... weird\unintuitive.

[@PippPriss]

Agreed. I raised this during beta testing. But I guess the UI was finished by that time. Use the Feedback button to make yourself heard 🙂 But I personally just ignore the wording and just go with "Light on, caveman go rock, light off, caveman silent sad". 🙂

[@Skullkingd13]

This has been fixed in the latest version of Nam-U.

[@PASHKULI]

@@Skullkingd13 Great. I downloaded it yesterday but have not installed it yet.

[@williambonadio6695]

What is the ( Preset ) used for , it shows " no preset selected " When clicked it automatically open file location . when you click the file there is nothing in the file . I just download , installed and set it up . I like this a very much .

[@PippPriss]

Presets are small files, which can. Be loaded. So it you got a combination you like, then you can save it by clicking the disk button, five your preset file a name, and later you can recall that file and thus the settings

[@Skullkingd13]

There are not any "factory" presets provided with Nam-U at this time, with future updates this may change. In the meantime, you can create your own presets using the provided Profiles and impulse responses to use as you see fit, the X on the Left will delete the selected preset permanently, so take caution when pressing it to be sure you actually want to delete the loaded preset. The Disc button, as Phillipe stated, will save your current instance as a new preset, or using the same name, write over the original. Once you have created a preset, clicking the Preset label bar will open the drop down menu to reveal your preset/s.

[@jimsimmons2674]

I cannot save a preset i created?nothing i tried worked,does anyone know how to save a user preset?

[@PippPriss]

For me clicking on the disc icon and then saving the preset works (the preset is a file, which is loaded by the plugin). If that doesn't work out, check out if OU have the latest versions there was an update with some fixes.

[@ВадимКиселёв-м8о]

Can't make this plugin work. It just doesn't load the sounds. Have anyone encountered such bug? Like - the plugin loads up, I choose the profile and whatever I choose its clean sound. Everything is clean. Distortion, pedals all clean

[@PippPriss]

First off, have you got an interface which uses Direct Monitoring? Maybe that is somehow set weirdly so that it just gives you the clean DI? Apart from that, have you tried using it in REAPER or any other DAW, where other plugins work? That way you can rule out if it's an issue with NAM Universal, or something specific to your setup.

[@ВадимКиселёв-м8о]

@@PippPrissYes I am using DAW Studio One 6, have been using presonus for years, all vst always worked. I don't think its DAW related. Probably some Microsoft library maybe. Direct monitoring is turned off, I prefer DAW monitoring. I don't have too fancy of a setup. Guitar to AXE I/O to Laptop and headphones - thats it.

[@IGarrettI]

My one doesnt sound as juicy 😥

[@PippPriss]

What interface are you using? Maybe I can check the input dBu headroom values and make a recommendation on how to set the input of your interface 🙂

[@Lalodospuntocero]

wardiola

[@PippPriss]

What exactly do you mean by this?

[@periclesgomes_]

The idea is good but the interface is a bit bad. The Instigator is completely unnecessary and all those logos on the screen just make the plugin dirty and I think it would be nice to have an individual pan for each impulse response loader...

[@scharrface]

Why is the instigator unnecessary? It allows you to shape your input signal like on a Mesa Mark series amp which really helps tighten fat captures like dual recs or fatten thinner captures. Unnecessary? I mean I guess, but useful? Absolutely

[@periclesgomes_]

@@scharrface Many captures already have a very good sound and do not need this type of complement... I think a rack with the settings of a Tc Eletronic Line Driver with the noise gate integrated would be more useful.

[@Thetimrobertson]

Ffs. A FREE plugin with some excellent tone shaping tools absent from NAM with curated captures and ability to load your own but the internet is going to bitch about it of course. Not for you? Move on. Pretty simple.

[@periclesgomes_]

@@Thetimrobertson I didn't say it's a bad plugin... I tested it here and really liked it!! I just think it could be better if they had integrated the ideas I mentioned earlier but overall it's pretty cool!!

[@matthijshebly]

NAM is Free and Open Source technology mate... You can create your own perfect version, any way you like. And you can charge anything you like for it. Oh and by the way: this one's free.

[@hcnilsson]

Why have one nam when you can have 2? 🤯

[@PippPriss]

As a incredibly wise swedish man once stated: "How can less be more?! That's impossible - MORE IS MORE!

[@hcnilsson]

@@PippPriss Haha indeed! I recently read a doughnut to coca-cola ratio chart and realized doughnut's aren't THAT bad 🍩😂👏

[@matthijshebly]

Isn't it actually 4 NAMs? 2 NAMs for the amp sim, but also 2 NAMs for the pedal section?

[@wareloski2137]

50$ xD For what? NAM with built in compressor?

[@Skullkingd13]

It’s Free, don’t know where you getting the $50 from, he stated free several times in the video.

[@scharrface]

It's free, but ok. You can generalize anything until it seems pointless lol. If it's not for you, that's fine

[@Thetimrobertson]

😂

[@PippPriss]

Hey there, I think I know where you are getting the 50$ from - the wavemind.net page points you to one of WaveMinds plugins, Ecocide or so. The reason for that was, that I did this video during beta-testing, so there was no proper page I could link toward. I will correct this, now that it's live. Thanks for the comment, because it pin-pointed that it makes sense adjusting that, now that it's live, and hope this clarifies things 🙂

[@matthijshebly]

It's free, and it's great

[@garethde-witt6433]

Seriously these things do not accurately represent amps and speakers they ignore real world physics

[@PippPriss]

Can you elaborate how they ignore real world physics? With NAM and ToneX, you can, with great accuracy, replicate the behavior of your specific signal chain with grwat accuracy. If you are not mindful about the impedance curve of your loadbox, how it works together with your amp while creating a NAM profile, what IR fits the tone of that etc., I can see where using this technology can yield to inferior results. But using the proper tools, I was able to achieve quite impressive results which matched closely the original recording chain (so basically , amp+IR were very close to a full rig recording chain of amp+cab+microphone).

[@matthijshebly]

What's missing?

[@svenandresen6494]

sounds horrible

[@PippPriss]

Well, then you just strongly dislike my captures. Which is totally fine. There are a ton of captures which might sound way better to your taste - go check out Tonehunt.org :-) I personally like what I hear, but no defense and truly no offense taken - captures vary vastly between workflows and preferences of different creators. NAM Universal is just the loader platform.

[@farko63]

try to use it.....any guitar player have different taste....