Capture your gear for free with TONEZONE3000

[staas]

I built something! It's called TONEZONE3000 (https://tonezone3000.com) and it's built on top of Nueral Amp Modeler (NAM) the open source project by Steve Atkinson. With this tool you can capture a digital model of your amps, pedals and signal chains for free.

Training/capturing tones is hard - modeling pedals are expensive, colab is frustrating/expensive, local set ups are daunting. My goal is to change that by making training simple, free and accessible. With TONEZONE3000, you can easily train models online, fast and free, with a slick UX.

Here are a few reasons why I've enjoyed TONEZONE3000 coming from colab / my local setup:

• Super fast and totally free training on RTX 4090s (no longer consuming my own resources)
• Dead simple workflow
• Cloud-based, so you can start training and close your computer
• Train multiple models concurrently
• An organized library of your tones
• Easily share your models with friends
• Preview your models with a range of DIs

Btw, you can train models with just a Dry/Wet Pair (DI and its matching stem). This has enabled me to create tones models from sessions I recorded years ago!

I’m sharing the beta to you now, and I'd love for you to train a model (or ten!) and share your feedback and models

Here's a capture of a Klon clone I built with my buddy: https://www.tonezone3000.com/tonezone3000/tones/klon-centaur-silver-clone-130

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

Yes @staas

Tonezone 3k is a huge improvement for anyone already (or curious to try) training NAM models. It's easier, faster, and so much more convenient.

Good work!

 

[pipelineaudio]

Awesome! How do I put it in my Helix Floor?

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

Awesome! How do I put it in my Helix Floor?

Aaron, are you being a wind up merchant on the internet again?

 

[2dor]

Tonezone3000 is 110% legit.

It's amazing to have something like this made available.

 

[EOengineer]

I used this to make my first NAM capture today and it was a totally painless experience. It completed in about 1/10th of the time it usually takes me to create a Tonex capture, and that was at 1000 epochs.

Whoever slapped that together did a massive service for the community.

 

[pipelineaudio]

Aaron, are you being a wind up merchant on the internet again?

I want it on my helix but I’m tonex one size. With midi in.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

I want it on my helix but I’m tonex one size. With midi in.

Line 6 don't seem to be that receptive of ML / Capture tech, but you never know!
Until then, why not get a Dimehead NAM Player? It's currently 450 + local tax and delivery and does everything you just said.
Maybe if you're lucky, Dimehead will release a mini version, but that's yet to be confirmed.

 

[TwistedTape]

Line 6 don't seem to be that receptive of ML / Capture tech, but you never know!
Until then, why not get a Dimehead NAM Player? It's currently 450 + local tax and delivery and does everything you just said.
Maybe if you're lucky, Dimehead will release a mini version, but that's yet to be confirmed.

That Dimehead unit is the smartest move if you need amp captures and reverb convolution in a portable package. I dont need portable, but if I did, I would be looking at that unit.

 

[unix-guy]

Whoever slapped that together did a massive service for the community.

Reading the OP it sounds like it was the thread creator, @staas.

 

[EOengineer]

@staas you have a PayPal we can send a few $ to?

 

[Nathan Explosion]

This really is a game changer (for me, anyway). I've used NAM for a while but I'm way too dumb to capture my amps. Until now. My first attempts were pretty bad because I didn't know what I was doing. But Staas gave me some really helpful tips and my second attempt was much better. If you're into high gain tones, check them out at Tonehunt. Ignore the ones that were uploaded 6 days ago. If I could delete them I would.

I did a few amps that I don't see captured often, if at all: a Randall Diavlo RD1, Carvin V3M and Marshall DSL 20. All are boosted with what I consider the best matching OD, and the preamp out is sent to a Peavey Classic 60/60 power amp (6L6). So even though two of these are EL84 amps, this configuration uses 6L6 power, which I think makes them a bit unique.

Other stuff I might capture: block letter 5150, Mark V:25, old Hafler T3 and Hellrazor preamps, the original Peavey Classic 20 from the 90s, various ODs. etc.

Only grab the files with "(improved)" in the title. Feedback is welcome, good or bad, as I am still trying to figure all this out.

https://tonehunt.org/NathanExplosion

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

This really is a game changer (for me, anyway). I've used NAM for a while but I'm way too dumb to capture my amps. Until now. My first attempts were pretty bad because I didn't know what I was doing. But Staas gave me some really helpful tips and my second attempt was much better. If you're into high gain tones, check them out at Tonehunt. Ignore the ones that were uploaded 6 days ago. If I could delete them I would.

I did a few amps that I don't see captured often, if at all: a Randall Diavlo RD1, Carvin V3M and Marshall DSL 20. All are boosted with what I consider the best matching OD, and the preamp out is sent to a Peavey Classic 60/60 power amp (6L6). So even though two of these are EL84 amps, this configuration uses 6L6 power, which I think makes them a bit unique.

Other stuff I might capture: block letter 5150, Mark V:25, old Hafler T3 and Hellrazor preamps, the original Peavey Classic 20 from the 90s, various ODs. etc.

Only grab the files with "(improved)" in the title. Feedback is welcome, good or bad, as I am still trying to figure all this out.

https://tonehunt.org/NathanExplosion

Hey, that's really awesome.

Btw - you can remove any models you don't want from Tonehunt - go to 'my models', and then you can delete whatever you like.
Also you can edit the description of your models too if you wanna change that at anytime.

 

[BenIfin]

I'm not a NAM user etc... but am curious .... how is this free ? Has someone setup a Cloud Server with High End Video Cards and allowing people to use it for free ?

 

[TwistedTape]

I'm not a NAM user etc... but am curious .... how is this free ? Has someone setup a Cloud Server with High End Video Cards and allowing people to use it for free ?

Yea, it seems so. Pretty cool.

 

[BenIfin]

Yea, it seems so. Pretty cool.

Hmmmm ..... if (?) this is right ....... couldn't the person that "owns" or "runs" this TZ3000 just take a copy of each Capture made and sell or do as they wish with them ?

Or maybe (?) they have access to downtime / bandwidth on someone else's hardware with (?) or without (?) their knowledge (?)

 

[TwistedTape]

Hmmmm ..... if (?) this is right ....... couldn't the person that "owns" or "runs" this TZ3000 just take a copy of each Capture made and sell or do as they wish with them ?

Or maybe (?) they have access to downtime / bandwidth on someone else's hardware with (?) or without (?) their knowledge (?)

I have no clue, the person who started this thread says they created it, maybe they will chime in. I dont make it a habit to worry about all of that extra stuff, if it can profile good and fast, its cool with me until I hear otherwise.

 

[laxu]

Hmmmm ..... if (?) this is right ....... couldn't the person that "owns" or "runs" this TZ3000 just take a copy of each Capture made and sell or do as they wish with them ?

Technically yes, as there are no terms of service for the account. It's certainly something @staas should add just to avoid any misunderstanding.

It does make creating captures very easy as it moves all the technical knowhow to the actual setting up your gear for captures.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Has one used this/NAM to capture studio outboard signal chains? Like mic preamps/compressors/EQs.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Has one used this/NAM to capture studio outboard signal chains? Like mic preamps/compressors/EQs.

People do it, but it always confuses me as to why.

You’d need to adjust the underlying structure to capture time based stuff well, which is essential for compression.

Mic preamps make little sense because you’re losing the impedance interaction with the mic, as well as the fact that you’d be adding it on top of an existing preamp.

EQ’s, you’d have to use fixed settings or make a parametric model. All to achieve something that plugins can already do easily. Similarly, a compressor at fixed settings isn’t particularly helpful, let alone with no ability to adjust the sidechain between dual mono and linked stereo.

Add in the fact that stereo usage is rarely very nice with most NAM plugins, and the fact that the whole premise of NAM is to accurately capture guitar amps. You’re also adding in a ton of extra CPU cycles, upsampling and downsampling, aliasing and god knows what other compromises all the achieve what?

The fact that it can do other things doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to. Black box modelling does have a place but NAM isn’t the answer to absolutely everything.