Looking for some guidance.

I've had a number of modelers and have always found myself back using my Two Notes Opus for amp/cab modeling for my direct board. Its never been perfect by any means but has done the job. I pretty much always land on the Foxy preamp but really want a Deluxe Reverb tone and no matter what I do, I just don't get there. There seems to be this weird, hollow character that I can't EQ out. Not a mid dip (which I know is a characteristic of many Fender tone stacks).

I've been researching the Tone King Imperial preamp and it appears to have quite a bit going for it. Love the fact that it has a stereo fx loop and XLR outs (I'm currently using a Strymon PCH at the end of my chain).

Just looking for some user experience before I pull the trigger. Thanks.

Using isolated tracks and Sonulab's Magic Match, I got astonishing results modeling Brian May's guitar sounds. I'm still working on the models in the hardware to create usable live presets in the StompStation Pro, but I should have publishable results soon.

https://sonulab.com/sonulab-magicmatch/

https://namforum.com/index.php/topic,43.0.html

I just finished a new Ampero II Sound Clone pack based on a rare 1965 1×15 tube combo.

The pack has 12 Sound Clones covering the amp’s High and Low inputs at low-, mid- and high-gain settings. Each setting includes the original Jensen C15P 1×15 speaker and a DI version.

You can try the High Input, Low Gain, 1×15 Sound Clone free here:

https://community.hotoneaudio.com/toneInfo/?id=25285

Complete pack and details:

https://www.mattfig.com/product/fig-65tbolt-sound-clone-pack

Disclosure: I created and sell this pack through Mattfig.

Just dropped a video featuring some of my favorite new high-gain amps from the GENOME 2.1 update! Which tone was your favorite? Let me know in the comments.

Hello, good day to everyone

I'm a guitarist who is trying to decide what would be the best option for me

I'm having a few gigs a year, and I've been playing with a heavy amp, and I'm done having to carry it, so I decided to look for alternatives

I'm between the Tone X, a Mooer GE300 lite or a UAFX Dream 65 or Ruby 63

What would you say it's the best sounding and best for the price?

Thanks for the help!

The TONEX Board is here and it’s insane! 🔥🤘
Check out my video below and hear what this beast can do!

so, probably a dumb question but i cant figure it out. Say i load a nam profile that was downloaded from tnone3000 with like mid 5, bass 1 and high 10...would this be the settings with all of the physical knobs on my multi fx pedal at noon? or do i match the physical knobs with the nam recorded settings? for reference i am using a valeton gp50

Well, the new Cab Reactor Driftwood by Lasse Lammert & Reactor DSP is sick AF! Lots of cool features and tons of badass captures. I did a quick tone demo in a full mix environment. Right up my alley! How do you like the tone?

Hey guys, not sure if this is the right sub for this, but I figured I’d throw the question out there.

I play in a few different projects and right now I’m using just a Helix LT for everything. The problem is I keep running out of DSP, so I often have to cut stuff from my FX chains.I’ve been thinking about adding a second modeler just for amp + cab sims, and basically using the Helix as my multi-FX + MIDI controller for the other unit.

I kinda want to avoid going with another Line 6 product, so I’ve been looking at the Fractal FM3. Never tried one but from what I’ve heard on YT and read everywhere, it seems to be the best sounding one but I’m open to other suggestions.
Does anyone here use a setup like this? Is this just a stupid 4 AM idea, or does it actually make some sense?

P.S. I know NAM A2 exists, but I’d rather not use a laptop + audio interface for live gigs.

I've been considering the ToneX Cab to amplify my modeling rig. I currently use the Two Notes Opus along with HX Effects and am sending my signal to FOH with the Strymon PCH (which has been awesome btw).

That said, I am also playing in a group where we use amps/cabinets. I like the Opus rigs I've created and have been looking at a bunch of FRFR cab offerings. Had the Headrush FRFR wedges but didn't like them. Sounded very hollow to my ears.

The ToneX Cab is on sale and I wanted to see what any of you guys have experienced. Thanks.

Hey all.

I've been using Opus for a good while now and its been great. Not perfect (what really is?) but great. I have it after my drives and before my time-based effects. Pretty standard.

That said, I've been struggling a bit with some of the Fender tones as they seem to be a little "hollow" if that makes sense. Takes a lot of tweaking to get close to where I'd like to be and honestly, with all the adjustments I have to make trying to get there, ear fatigue sets in which makes me question trusting my ears.

Watched a couple of videos on the Strymon Iridium and it might get me where I want to be. Looking for opinions on that. Lmk. Thanks.

I wanted to share something I built (full disclosure: with Claude), a simple web-based tool for summarizing a bunch of IRs into one statistical average of them that you can then save. It's free/open-source (MIT license):

https://sumir.geoff-smith.net

I made it for myself so I don't have to sift through the sometimes endless-seeming variations when I get a big pack of IRs (and/or if the IR maker didn't provide one or more summary IRs themselves).

It can also highpass/lowpass the resulting summarized IR, which is useful when there's not a good way to do that in your modeler or other 'amp-replacement-device'. I use the TKIP which has, to me, weird frequency choices for their highpass/lowpass filters (plus you have to select them in the app and/or save a preset, so then you can't change it unless you're tethered or using MIDI). Now I just leave them off and bandpass all my IRs explicitly with this tool. It also renormalizes the output file to -0.2 dBFS so all my IRs are a consistent loudness.

You can also upload just a single IR, that you already have, and high/lowpass it with whatever frequencies you want. The slopes are fixed though, -18dB/octave for the highpass and -12dB/octave for the lowpass (this is what the filter stage on an SSL 4K E/G channel uses).

Hope some folks might find it helpful for dealing with IRs when you're on the go (or about to go on!), like if you need to quick send something to FoH or use with in-ears, etc.

Privacy/security: everything that matters is sandboxed in the web browser, it's just running on a barebones web server on Vercel's free tier (also on GitHub pages at: https://geoffsmithbk.github.io/ir-summary/ ). The files you 'upload' never leave your computer (Vercel/I never see them or the resulting summary IRs you 'download'). There's no scraping, phoning home or other funny business. No ads either (for now). It's pretty easy to clone and run locally as well if you 'github'. ✌️