IK Multimedia TONEX PEDAL - It's Incredible!

In today's video, I am looking at the much anticipated TONEX pedal from IK Multimedia. This pedal is the hardware version of IK Multimedia TONEX software, where you can capture the sound of your favorite guitar amplifier and then plug into the TONEX pedal to play the exact tone that you captured.
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A revolutionary concept in rig modeling, and the core of the TONEX ecosystem, TONEX software uses breakthrough AI Machine Modeling™ technology to let you model the sound of any amp, cabinet, combo, or pedal, and turn it into a plug-in, all with a sonic accuracy that’s virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. You can instantly play up to 1,000+ Tone Models already available plus browse, demo and download the growing number of Tone Models available on TONEX in ToneNET.
From rare one-of-a-kind vintage amps to modern rigs, TONEX makes it possible and affordable to own the most sought-after gear in the world.
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The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.

[@hanovergreen4091]

Moving faster and faster to the "amp less" world where nobody cares what the amp IS...just what SOUNDS you are getting. Thank You Paul! Best Regards and Best Wishes!

[@peek4b00h]

How long before somebody trains an AI from all of the captured models and we have an AI that can produce models from prompts without having to capture a real amp? Ampless amp models. 🤯

[@nedim_guitar]

@@peek4b00h And imagine AI of every pedal ever, even the very complex Eventide stuff. Virtual pedalboard of any amp and any pedal combination. Talk about option paralysis! 🤣🤣

[@bluarcher5941]

I feel stupid for asking this, but if you're playing live with this setup, what do you actually see on stage?...just a laptop on a stand next to you and the pedal on the floor? The signal is being fed into the house pa and you have a wedge to hear yourself? Just asking, as I've never used or thought about using a setup like this....

[@shaharbar]

@@bluarcher5941 no laptop necessary, thats the beauty of this pedal…. Laptop only necessary for setting up your presets (which you would do before a show)…

[@masterofreality230]

Yea, the names are just useful to give people a general idea. Who knows, one day this technology could surpass tube amps. I have a Mark v 25 and there was a 2C+ that I absolutely loved, if my amp god forbid, went away somehow, I would be happy to use Tonex.

[@jessejohnson8210]

I just discovered this channel a week or so ago, but WOW. This is my new go-to for tone!

[@samwilcockmusic]

It’s a great channel. Really useful and fun to watch!

[@k8923]

Absolutely stunning sound on the Fender with the two P-90's (starting at 1:04). Beautiful playing throughout Paul.

[@truthfactreality6814]

Just bought a tone x. Wow! Sold my quad cortex. It really does capture the amps well and I use my usual effects on my board with it. The quad cortex effects were not up to standard and like you said real pedals didn’t work the same in front of it like tone x does. Also tone x runs off normal 9v low power consumption

[@siitan83]

ye 9volts but 320 ampers ?? was it?

[@kenbell9094]

You get by far the best clean tones out of the ToneX than any video I've watched... and I've watched many.

[@rosencanev2432]

Yes, true...... because they don't come out only from ToneX :)

[@markinthemix6055]

You achieved some great tones. How can anyone argue with this?

[@electricworshipguitar]

I've decided to get the Tonex Pedal because I've tried the free version of the tonex plugin and I loved it ! Try it before you go ahead and spent 400 Bucks in a product that maybe you don't like.

[@IainFrame]

Not going to lie. I'm using a Kemper and I'd happily replace it with a little stomp box sized alternative like this. I don't use the Kemper to actually profile my own *one* amp, I just want a little magic box with a handful of solid tones for gigging and recording. This Tonex pedal looks 🔥🔥🔥

[@iansimmons735]

Do you not use any effects on the Kemper?

[@IainFrame]

@@iansimmons735 Yes I use the in-built FX. I suppose the Tonex is a wee bit limited in that aspect but doesn't it have compressor, overdrive, reverb etc?

[@lhrocker]

@@IainFrame No overdrive, although you can capture an OD pedal but can have an od capture go into an amp capture. I think you can capture an OD into an amp as a single baked in capture though.

[@StratsRUs]

It's obvious I have to get a great Mac soon, then get Tonex. But the real star of this is your great playing Well Done !

[@BrettPapa]

Dude the Fender with P90's OMG!!!

[@TheStudioRats]

Yeah its a really cracking guitar Brett. It was one of Greg Fessler's showcase guitars for the 2018 NAMM show.

[@garywaddell6309]

I simply love that Pink strat. Some great tones Paul. Love that shimmer sound and your chord melodies!

[@80sOriginals]

One of the few guitar channels where the talking doesn't get in the way. Great content.

[@ThomWastes]

The clean tone on the bad cat is so good. Can't wait to get my tonex pedal.

[@Pulse2AM]

Great demo. I love IK, I have Syntronik, Sampletank, Amplitube 5 and ToneX.

[@JM_2019]

Paul, there is one skill, that you just don‘t have: you are unable to let anything sound bad! :D

[@Bobby_Digital37]

I absolutely love my Amplitube!! If this thing sounds as good as Amplitube I’m sold!!!

[@slidersson]

it'a thousand times better man

[@HandWiredAmps]

@@slidersson No, ten thousand times

[@steverussell7645]

Your playing around the 1:30mark - beautiful and inspiring.

[@TheStudioRats]

Cheers Steve

[@jamessweeney1834]

Seriously considering selling my Boss Pedal collection and Vox AC30 Alnico Blue to buy one of these instead. I’ve used Tonex software since it came out and love it. This is the icing on the cake I can replicate the tones love exactly how they are going to the recordings. A real holy grail moment.

[@Guitaural.]

Ordered! My own pedalboard, plugged directly into this, every amp under the sun. How did the others not see the need for this?

[@Dunk0The0Punk]

Wow an exclusive ! this is great for the Rat Channel 👏 and a fantastic pedal too, got to get one, been using Amplitude 5 and tonex software for a while now and was blown away with the quality, now with the Tonex pedal I can gig with the same quality tones ! superb !

[@Jonw8222]

Beautiful tones.. if you released a pack of amps you've captured, I'm sure I'm wouldn't be alone in buying them.

[@robertdouble559]

These heavily modded teles and strats you're rockin are AWESOME!!!!

[@Malburn]

I was waiting for the price to be well out of my range, nice surprise! All that for £399 is fantastic, looks like I'll not be needing to buy a Captor X after all. Cheers Paul :)

[@ehdforlife]

I think you still do. I've been looking. You either need a load box and some other tools or the ToneX Capture. If I'm wrong, I'd be glad to know

[@Malburn]

@@ehdforlife In my case instead of attenuating my Marshalls with a Captor X, this box should allow me get a good (valves cooking) low volume Marshall tone without annoying the neighbours. For recording use (and effects) I have a GT1000, that should serve as a PC interface for the Tonex. All the hundreds of other amp tones available are icing on the cake and if it sounds as good for live use, as Paul here is making it out to be, then so much the better :)

[@IamMusicNerd]

I’ve used quite a lot of their Logic plug ins before, and they are always great.

[@Kaptime]

Finally a profiler/high-end emulator with a competitive price point. This is actually a compelling purchase for casual/hobbyists rather than having to commit to a "pro-grade" product like a axefx3 (£2399+ in UK), Quad-Cortex (£1599) or Kemper (£1299), for which you could buy a good 2nd hand head + cab or a whole damn car.

[@thyggs]

This is mono only and offers no fx loop. Id argue its not a high end emulator based on the fact that those two options are a studio standard.

[@bigstam1234567890]

@@thyggs when recording on a record, nowdays they record dry, then put effects. That's why the fx loop is useless in this case. You can get a good fx stompbox for stereo fx and fx in general

[@larrydering1598]

Thanks for showing a clean setting. Too many distorted tones on demos.

[@lonnyhandwork422]

Thanks for the great review. I’m a QC user but just ordered the Tonex pedal as - from my alternate perspective - I effectively get the pedal “free” with Max (using some existing IK bucks here to make up the difference). The Max Dumble models alone are almost worth it - and combine that with some fantastic Jubilee models I downloaded it made it a no-brainer. I’ve got some great tube amps that I look forward to modelling as well (totally could have done a great job of that with the QC as well admittedly but never got around to it).

[@leehenderson8132]

Someone loves p-90s.I really enjoy your playing.

[@adilO.o]

I bought it and I was honestly not impressed until I went to Tone net and played your Matchless and Bad Cat captures. Suddenly this affordable piece of gear became my all time favorite. It is not perfect, it could have an led screen, Bluetooth app, aux in etc but still this is the most amazing affordable gear a guitar player can buy today !!!!

[@sonofploppy]

This will be my next guitar purchase for sure

[@mattlennon7628]

Great video and amazing unit. I'm really wondering did you try to run it with Boss Katana and how would that sound ?

[@Garflips]

Cool, sounds from a great player. Just wish The Tonex Pedal had a stereo insert - send/return - so that I could run effects before using the USB out to send audio to my computer. I think that was a serious oversight.

[@TheStudioRats]

That would be cool.

[@AlexAlexAlexMartin]

Such great sounds! Thanx a lot for sharing!!!!

[@TheStudioRats]

My pleasure

[@alexismalicsi3814]

This is a game changer

[@maxmenius9839]

A truly great review and demonstration of sounds. Thank you.

[@n8r875]

Wow great demo. You sold me on this pedal. IK will owe you some commissions! :P

[@Tommy_Gi]

Wow, IK work quick. I literally said last night on the live stream that they should get into hardware 😂 Great product, amazing video as usual Paul 🤘🏼

[@AndrewStottisTheIndiWerWlf]

The AmpliTube line was launched in 2021. They had 4 pedals before this one.

[@nathanclave]

It’s here! Thanks for the demo!

[@anthonycosta2662]

Playing does not disappoint

[@Emily_M81]

you had me at takes pedals well :D I've tried to use Positive Grid's BIAS ecosystem to have the same sound on computer and live, and... it was just too fiddly messing with an iPad and interface (and they've discontinued their pedals and big amps). I think this could be the way forward for me. Thanks for sharing!

[@Franq85]

Nice demo! Just ordered one too 😀

[@tizmo57]

Great tone Paul, I am sure your ability helps! Great job.

[@toneydavis9802]

Thanks Paul. This is gonna be FUN!

[@Bero70]

Huge fan of your channel. I have Kingsley Maiden D, and Constable Plexi preamp that I use with pedals like: Gladio, JHS Angry Charlie, Flint ,El Capistan etc. Couldn't be more happier with my sound. But,the question for you is: How is it that on your every video, regardless of what u using, sound is top notch. Real Amp,Fractal, Boss,plug ins, whatever is it's always 10. Now,that is an art in itself ,and video about that would be realy,realy welcome. Keep em coming and all the best.

[@TheStudioRats]

Cheers Bero, you have some nice gear there. I think I look for a very specific type of sound in a piece of gear, this can also be a hindrance. I like tight articulate amp sounds. I sound terrible through a tweed amp.😀

[@masterofreality230]

I was gonna go with an HX stomp as my first decent modeler , but not any mo6, this is just too good

[@cohguitar]

Great review Paul!! I could listen to you play all day long! Always tasty and killer tones. I need one! 😎

[@killerchickens]

Paul, you make everything sound good. But this is exceptional!

[@Alanoffer]

I love that paisley strat ,

[@mikeanthony5684]

How could I pay attention to anything more than those Beautiful guitars!!!! Great collection you have . That Gold top P90 is 🔥🔥 ❤ . okay going to start video over and listen now! I’m a p90 guy and one day will play one of those Paul’s!!!! New Subscriber !

[@mananakoa2412]

Thank you for sharing your review it helped me decide to get one!

[@TheStudioRats]

Glad I could help

[@markinthemix6055]

Enjoyed your demonstration 👍🏼

[@Nick-72]

Just My GranMa is Missing To Show That Pedal on KZbin Today 😅😅😅 but for a Trusty and Tasty Demo that's the Place ..with Paul🎸😀🤟

[@clanyongco2908]

You're the best paul. Your reviews makes spend more money! 🤣🤣🤣

[@marcobonfanti2831]

O.T. that fender it's fantastic!

[@przemyslaw1235]

gear is just gear🙂love your playing🙂

[@orenji13]

beautiful, i want that now.

[@renevanderbruggen731]

Thanks a lot Paul !!👋

[@THillick]

Being able to get 'tone' w/o volume is a the way to get more gigs... Not to mention faster setup/breakdown in/out.. clubs love it. Now if only more drummers would step up to decent E-kits.. and more clubs would invest in a decent house PA... I could gig with a a pedal case, 1 or 2 guitars and a mixer.. send the FOH and Monitor feeds and be done... Someday????

[@ksharpe10]

Is this central florida's T. Hillick ???

[@THillick]

@@ksharpe10 yep!

[@ksharpe10]

@@THillick Ken showkeir here, Every video I have seen on this unit and the computer software that you can use and download to the pedal makes it really versatile. I got an old Vox tonelab SE and I was astounded by that, this is much smaller and even more versatile, I feed it into a guitar amp, and even switching to different cabinets comes thru in the sound. Anyone old like us who have heard these amps. thru the years, Tweeds, blk face, silver face, marshalls, dumbles, you name it knows somewhat what they sounded like, Today is really remarkable, wish I had this stuff back in the 70's.

[@THillick]

@@ksharpe10 if/when I start playing out again… no amps…I have the Headrush… direct feed to the PA. Or I’ll bring my FRFr cab….and what did you mean “…like us”? LMAO

[@ksharpe10]

@@THillick Were Boomers played guitar in 70's 80's, before modeling/sampling, most amps did not even have effects loops til the 80's. We have a memory of what the older amps sounded like from the old days. Right?? And remember when effects pedals were but a few on the market. Now the Market is to say the least Major Flooded.

[@davyboeren6472]

this in combo with an helix FX. what more do we need ? 😁 that way we can add the effects not available on the tonex (delay, chorus, tremolo). you have your sound on the go be it at home with headphones, at a gig, on vacation,..

[@JamForThought]

Excellent demo

[@inclinedplanes]

a stereo fx loop would be kind of wicked and useful.

[@cyanidejunkie]

Ok…. I watched a demo of this thing earlier today and it sounded absolute trash. I’m now convinced Mr. Drew can plug into a cats ass… kick it, and still make it sound great. Thank you…. For your talent, your wisdom, and your precious time. Be well.

[@TheStudioRats]

Cheers Boss. I think people are using the internal sounds as apposed to capturing their own amps.

[@silent-trouble]

These are some of the best tones i've heard. In particular with the p90 les paul. Really tempted to try this. So this is like a kemper, so you dont need an amp or even cab? Could you go straight into the foh?

[@glory2glory55]

Hello! Great demo and channel! Would you be able to do a review of the ISP Theta Pro DSP and dive into its vintage preamp section with some lower gain settings? Your playing is very easy on the ears and I think you would do a super demo. Cheers!

[@jacquesbureau5294]

Great video. Very informative and great playing and sounds. You also save 100$ if you own Tonex MAX.

[@nethbt]

A fantastic product, wish they included a basic delay though

[@TheStudioRats]

Yes agreed

[@jnh73]

I'd bet a million internet points that a simple delay will be included in a future software release. Given how many people are asking for it, I'd wager it'll be here tomorrow. 🤣

[@Stefan-]

Yeah, a delay and perhaps a chorus and it would be more of a giggable all in one solution, now its basically more like an amp with built in reverb which is quite limiting. I hope they will release a more full featured solution with built in effects.

[@nethbt]

@@Stefan- it's a corporate business strategy to lure us into buying their overpriced X-time delay and X-Vibe chorus pedals, both of which costs less than a thousand dollars combined

[@Stefan-]

@@nethbt It may be, they of course have business strategies but i also think that many will either buy a multieffect and put this tonex pedal in the loop or they already have the multieffect, i have at least thought about this option myself.

[@shaharbar]

I wonder if this forces Neural and Kempers hand to offer a plugin version of their hardware. I can also already see a subsequent version of this pedal with multiFX coming.

[@TheStudioRats]

I think you’re right Boss.

[@Stefan-]

Yeah, personally im not sold on this small limited box although good, i want an all in one with built in effects and more footswitches.

[@EdgarBeja]

The intonation on your guitars is perfect! What strings are you using! Thanks 😀🤟

[@TheStudioRats]

Cheers Edgar, I use whatever is about at the time. Ernie Ball, rotosound and Diaddario are all great strings.

[@EdgarBeja]

@@TheStudioRats Thank you! I usually use D'Addario NYXL and Nickel Bronze on the acoustic! Cheers 😀

[@7riXter]

Great video... love your Matchless Independence 35 TSR Capture... playing its lot since December. Are the others in this video also available... can’t find them on toneNET 🤔

[@ksharpe10]

His Captures sure sound great that Matchless is awesome and the Bad Cat is different too.

[@7riXter]

@@ksharpe10 found it on the website… no clue why the app couldn’t find it… I‘ll try again

[@religionoffreedom]

I’m gonna wait for version 2 of this to come out, hopefully next year.

[@RockmannMusic]

But why?

[@robfrasier9412]

Exactly

[@tomw2013]

Thank you sir. Always enjoy your videos. Just noticed the pedal doesn't have a delay?

[@jaroslawlukaszewicz]

Great playing actually.

[@418a5150]

beautiful creamy tones

[@embreesmith7613]

Thanks. 🙂

[@TheStudioRats]

You're welcome 😊.

[@brammanck]

briljant! just bought another product but this is tempting anyway

[@nikoniko893]

Some very good tones there. I'd be a happy man if I could have the 'brownsound' and the tone for Loudness - Shadows Of War

[@streetlegal008]

The AI revolution is only really just beginning. It could be worth holding off - because what AI will make available in a couple of years will transform the whole audio market.

[@RECTIFIER101]

Would love to hear that in a mix on the song falling to pieces!!

[@vaughnwebbermusic]

Great tones

[@johnnymirrorguitar]

Great. Many thanks. Will you be uploading your amp captures? Please?

[@TheCLOUDFORCE]

If I want to play this live, no PA, which kind of cabinet would you use it with?

[@DavidMacVicar]

I just want that tone from the very beginning of the video (using a Fractal FM9) lol

[@n8dawg85]

Amazing sounds! Is that Matchless super clean capture available for purchase anywhere?

[@TheStudioRats]

All the captures are on our website

[@n8dawg85]

@@TheStudioRats thankyou😊

[@samxday]

Sounds fantastic. Incredible price vs. Competition. Shame there’s no fx option to include simple modulation fx.

[@johnnathancordy]

Now I'm living in Ecstasy

[@Stevenafoe]

I don’t understand; isn’t your fractal axe fx3 capable of creating ir’s from your amps? Why didn’t you use that iso the tonex to get the amp out of the mix?

[@GabrielPHahn]

Can you say if the ToneX Pedal makes the profiling of my real amps/rig or do I need to have ToneX Capture Box for this?

[@AndyNyle]

Hi Paul. Nice demo!! Do captures react to volume pot on the guitar? Let’s say if you are using the gainier capture and back off on the guitar volume?

[@matthewlarissawanstall8476]

Hey mate, awesome captures! That sounds great! Were both those matchless captures on tonenet? I can only seem to find the one with the boost in front of it, was the clean one up there as well?

[@TheStudioRats]

I thought it was, I’ll have to check next week.

[@rm_0605]

I didn't understand what you said at 4:00 concerning the AXE FX and having to take out an amplifier.

[@eugenez77]

Hello Paul, I am wondering if you got deeper in technical combinations and considered to test the setup with two tonex's and gt core signal chain with two amps setup? Interesting would be if different amp models on tonex's introduce different latencies and would destroy the idea? May be you have done it already with neural/kemper?

[@hannesganahl6384]

This pedal could be perfekt, but there are some essential Ins and Outs missing: Send/Return for a FX Loop and a Aux In! With this addet this pedal would be perfekt and because I most of the time play with headphones I would immediatly sell my amp and replacs it with the tonex pedal, but because these Ins and Outs are missing it is totally useless for me! How can I connect my reverb and delay pedal? We all know that it sound like crap infront of a distorted amp... And when I practice at home I whant to play to backing tracks, but for that I would need the Aux In. So it is kind of sad to me, that because these things are missing the pedal is useless for me!

[@mr.d.572]

Yes, they really did need to include an fx loop at the very least.....

[@farko63]

I see that you love as me P90 !

[@billyschmidt7049]

Great Demo and playing as always ... I would buy it ASAP if it had delay or an efx loop! But as is I must stick with my current setup!

[@AntonovichHicksenbrau]

agree

[@bueckstueckklaus]

How does the dynamic response compare to real amps, the Kemper or the quality cortex ? Does it compress or has it distant fell from latency ?

[@Utube-g3g]

There’s my palisades. Best ts type pedal around. 401 options apparently Paul. Nice playing. Sounds good but I’m financially exhausted from being a gear addict. But sounds great anyway. I think I said it before I wish you could try the 2.0 QC through ur amp’s return fx and use a real guitar cab again. I hope u don’t mind me mentioning the QC here. If so my apologies. Cheers 🥂 take care.

[@TheStudioRats]

Hi J. The Palisades is my favourite drive ever.

[@roncollins6259]

The pedal is fantastic... but that paisly strat! I'm in love. Never imagined cheating on my girls, but she's something. And with p90s. Great taste man!

[@Smart-Alex]

Thank you. Tonex or IR200? What do you think?

[@kadourimdou43]

Great review. Is it worth buying this if you only have a small Boss MKII Amp?

[@amitbidaye7855]

Can this be used with the Boss Katana effectively? I guess poweramp in but you'd lose all the effects of tone studio right?