Dimehead NAM Player

[Dom Mcsweeney]

Nah, too big for my board. Too expensive, too.

what's the use case anyway?

 

[Sascha Franck]

what's the use case anyway?

On my currrent live board, I'm using a GT-1000 as the "brain", which it is excellent at - but I absolutely don't like Boss' amp sounds, so right now I'm using a NUX Amp Academy for clean(ish) stuff in one loop and an Amplifirebox MkI as a dirt pedal platform in the other loop (fwiw, overall latency with three full serial ADDA cycles is at 3.5ms, quite amazing).
Would possibly be interested to replace those two one day. Tried with the HX Stomp and it worked quite well, but I rather use that for a smaller board and not move it around. So I thought about two Tonex Ones and then the Dimehead came to mind as well, as its latency is stellar and as it supports 2 NAMs by now. But I would have to be able to separate the two physically (I defenitely want to keep the rest of the board as is and not deal with patch switching on whatever I may use for the main amp "channels").

 

[northern_fox]

input -> pre nam -> fx loop out
fx loop in -> nam -> 1/4 out

Pretty sure that would work for parallel amps, although the cabling might be awkward

 

[Sascha Franck]

Pretty sure that would work for parallel amps, although the cabling might be awkward

Thanks! I don't think it's particularly awkward (just that you need an insert cable). Been doing that sucessfully with the Stomp already.
I will keep that in mind should I really want to throw the two mentioned pedals out.

Oh, one more question: Can both NAMs be controlled with the hardware encoders or just one of them?

 

[northern_fox]

Thanks! I don't think it's particularly awkward (just that you need an insert cable). Been doing that sucessfully with the Stomp already.
I will keep that in mind should I really want to throw the two mentioned pedals out.

Oh, one more question: Can both NAMs be controlled with the hardware encoders or just one of them?

Both - but only the second one has a PEQ and volume control. The first one has the normal fixed 3 band and a gain but no output level. However, you can control the output level for line out globally in the settings too. I do wish they were both identical with PEQ and volume, but the first was originally meant to be a pedal slot and the volume into the second nam is controlled by its gain trim and IIRC this was before the lineout was moveable to in between?

 

[northern_fox]

Thanks! I don't think it's particularly awkward (just that you need an insert cable). Been doing that sucessfully with the Stomp already.
I will keep that in mind should I really want to throw the two mentioned pedals out.

Oh, one more question: Can both NAMs be controlled with the hardware encoders or just one of them?

Sorry, I think I miseread this - no, the pre nam values are only controlled by the endless one, not the BMT ones

 

[Sascha Franck]

Sorry, I think I miseread this - no, the pre nam values are only controlled by the endless one, not the BMT ones

Ok, thanks! Too bad. I mean, I actually want my two main amp "channels" to be exposed all the time WYSIWYG style, but I'd get away with something where I could instantly switch between amps routed to encoders (think Helix Floor and its amp button - a most excellent idea, fwiw). But there's no way I ever wanted to go back to menu based operations on my main live board.

 

[BrazenPicker]

I know people love their all in ones, but a Dimehead and VP4/Helix/Boss unit is a pretty flexible rig.

Yeah, I'm the opposite actually -- amp modeling (and basics like tuner, noise gate) are the main things I want. I bought it (and my Tonex before that) just because I wanted to go back to a pedal board after years with the Kemper. The more a device has to do, the more complex and/or involved the interface gets. That's what made Tonex so awful.