I watched that this morning and Iām more than a little curious but I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to crack that box open the inside is going to be stuffed full of either Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Which in and of itself is not a bad thing. . . until you slap a $1000 price tag on it and your software development is done for free by other people.
First to market is not always the best option and Iām looking forward to seeing what else comes along.
Even worse, itās a small company, so who knows how long they will be around to support their product. But, if you absolutely need NAM in a pedal, Iām not sure you realistically have any alternative unless youāre prepared to engineer your own solution on a Raspberry Pi.
Yeah if you are at home etc you can just do that, on stage I guess its harder, this lets you take your NAM models live I guess without as much risk and trouble.
True. Personally though, if I were actually gigging, I think I would get a small form factor PC (like the Intel NUC box) exclusively for music use, and run everything on it (including all other distortion / modulation / delay / reverb / etc. effect plug-ins), plus a midi pedal controller. I think the dimehead unit might makes sense (especially at the current price point) if it also does multi-fx, meaning itās literally all the pedals you need, but it doesnāt.
NAM started out as a pc only plugin because itās processor requirements are pretty high.
The tech iq quite popular and logically, the requests for āportable liveā solutions quickly grew in numbers.
I have a MOD Dwarf;
It supports NAM (amongst other āprofilingā tech) but only the nano scale models so I would not recommend it for NAM applications. I use the AIDA-X technology, which is more light weight on the processor of the unit while the results are pretty nice. There arenāt 1000ās of profiles available but I can make my own by transforming a dry sound and submitting wet and dry. the profiling algoritms calculate the function dry->wet.
The AIDA people are also bringing their tech to Chaos audio: https://chaosaudio.com
Stay tuned
If you donāt mind Leoās Italian accent, you could check videoās like this:
(It should give you some extra insight on what is very popular on the market right now)
Expensive, for a floor pedalā¦they all are
BUT if you like tinkering, profiling yourself or want a vast amount of options, your choice might be different. Iām not fooled by quantities, since I usually work with 1 amp live (which I " crafted" myself using a blend of digital high gain amps and some EQāing)
BTW; I LOVE not having run aroudn with amps and speakers
and the modelling technology is very fascinating.
I think a guitarist should at least know what it is all about, whether he/she goed for such an approach or not.
This just dropped, Valeton, makers of a great little multi-FX units have released their own take on what is essentially a Tone-X One. But, this one will run NAM captures!
If you have a Valeton multi-FX unit, as of yesterday, you now have the ability to load amp clones and capture your own amps by updating your firmware and software. That is a pretty nice upgrade for what is already a ridiculously low priced unit that punches way above its weight class.
