IK Multimedia TONEX

[Nathan] said:
To be fair the update that came out a week ago has made it a lot more promising than the last few years. Most of the bug bears people had with batch capturing and quality of results has only just been improved.

Keen to check it all out again
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I do like that they have a presence here too. Are there any other vendors from digital modeling/capture companies here aside from Fractal and L6?
 
As much as I hate buying captures, I snagged 3 of the Amalgam V2 packs - Fender II, Marshall, and the High Gain pack. It felt like a fair contribution after their commitment to provide free V2 update paths for existing customers.

There’s some juicy stuff in there. I just had a few mins with an SG and can’t wait to get back to it with a Tele because a handful of the Fender blackface caps are gorgeous. Curious to see how those will handle a real tubescreamer and other pedals.

The high gain stuff rips but is generally over gained and noisy on my board. My input trim is zeroed out and I might need to adjust some.
 
Mikael Dez said:
I do like that they have a presence here too. Are there any other vendors from digital modeling/capture companies here aside from Fractal and L6?
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Yeah it is nice when vendors participate in discussions. Yes, Lin 6 has @Digital Igloo that comes by and hangs out all the time. Not sure about Fractal since I dont have one so I dont ever go in that one.
 
Just made three captures that are training, and did the exact same three on Tone3000. Had to use the internal load on the amp this time but the process in Tonex is much, much improved at least.

Gonna be interesting what falls out of it and doing a comparison. I goosed the output as per NAM instructions and also found that almost all of my extra noise when capturing the Lead channel stems from my computer monitor, so unplugged it and VNC’ed into the computer to finish up the capturing processes. Now I feel like a tech ninja.

Edit- looks like TONEX training times are going to be about an hour each on my M2 Mac Mini…
 
Chocol8 said:
My advice would be to do one capture at a time until you get the process down. THEN try to do a handful to take advantage of batch processing.
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I did three; just the three modes of the Fillmore. We'll see how it goes later, because this laptop told me it would be a few days for a standard capture. :D

I'm going to move the archived caps to my Mac.

If it works, we've got a Mark VII, Mark IIC+ RI, Badlander 100, and Rectifier 90's coming in, which would be cool AF.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
Being able to queue models up and train later means the slow speeds are less of an issue IMO. I just leave it running overnight and by morning I have 10-15 ready to go.
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That and the ”use same setting” option really speeds it up for the critical capturing section of the procedure. I’m very happy with it.

Next up on the wish list is input calibration and then for fucks sake, an update to the iPhone/iPad app!
 
I mean this in the least shitty way possible, but I’m not sure how to process a world where IK repeatedly adds post-purchase value.

paisleywookiee said:
Send me thoughts and prayers: I completely fucking nerfed my Fillmore 50 NAM caps last weekend, so today I'm trying Tonex instead.
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Dude join the friggin’ club. There was a brief period where I thought I’d found a repeatable capture process that worked for me. Those days have gone.

IMO one of the biggest wins that may come out of L6’s Proxy is being able to standardize and make assumptions about levels within that ecosystem. Levels seem to be the name of the game currently.
 
@MirrorProfiles Just wanted to let you know I played your Free BE 100 BE all weekend and just wanted to say that DI Preset is awesome!

I like to play Plexi-Type crunch & drive tones with a lot of the stuff our band does and it works for all of it. I was splitting the songs with 2 other Plexi Presets, one for my LP & another for my Tele, and this one replaced both for me.

This one - https://www.tone.net/tonex/tonemodels/10175

Let me know if you ever make a V2 version. Thank you!
 
Chocol8 said:
LOL, it works, the question is can you make it work well? I would expect you can, but messing up the first few is pretty typical.
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I've gotten plenty of great profiles off of the FM9T so far, but the analog amps and interface obviously change it a bit. Still, same process.

FWIW, for anyone interested, it's really easy to capture stuff on a weak laptop, archive it, and move it to another computer for rendering.

1. Capture the amps.
2. Archive them (don't delete, obviously)
3. Go to the ToneX-->Modeler-->Archive folder, and copy the entire contents of each capture
4. Move it across the network, upload to Google Drive, whatever your favorite method of moving stuff is
5. Copy that to the ToneX-->Modeler folder on the system to do the rendering
6. Voila. They should show up in the Capture list, to be added to the que.

Figured this out yesterday, didn't have to watch Jason Sadites. :rofl
 
paisleywookiee said:
I've gotten plenty of great profiles off of the FM9T so far, but the analog amps and interface obviously change it a bit. Still, same process.

FWIW, for anyone interested, it's really easy to capture stuff on a weak laptop, archive it, and move it to another computer for rendering.

1. Capture the amps.
2. Archive them (don't delete, obviously)
3. Go to the ToneX-->Modeler-->Archive folder, and copy the entire contents of each capture
4. Move it across the network, upload to Google Drive, whatever your favorite method of moving stuff is
5. Copy that to the ToneX-->Modeler folder on the system to do the rendering
6. Voila. They should show up in the Capture list, to be added to the que.

Figured this out yesterday, didn't have to watch Jason Sadites. :rofl
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And that's why you left
7. Add compressor to end of chain
off.
 
Byrdman said:
@MirrorProfiles Just wanted to let you know I played your Free BE 100 BE all weekend and just wanted to say that DI Preset is awesome!

I like to play Plexi-Type crunch & drive tones with a lot of the stuff our band does and it works for all of it. I was splitting the songs with 2 other Plexi Presets, one for my LP & another for my Tele, and this one replaced both for me.

This one - https://www.tone.net/tonex/tonemodels/10175

Let me know if you ever make a V2 version. Thank you!
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Ha thanks! I tend to dial stuff in with humbuckers but I try to always check with my Tele and i’ll make a few single coil based presets if needs be. I have a pack of V2 BE100 models from that amp available here: https://mirrorprofiles.myshopify.com/products/tonex-amp-pack-11-be100
 
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