NAM: Neural Amp Modeler

[volkan]

the data on the sheet is not true ???

look at here mrshultz says
OK so we have an update. It turns out, with my Scarlett solo, it doesn’t appear that the minimum gain dial is actually translating to -12.5 as it should. I produced a sign wave on my laptop, fed it out my interface, chucked a multi-meter on the end to get the voltage of the signal, noted it, and then fed that cable into my DAW where it gave me a dbfs reading. I found your calculator that if you feed in this information, it spits out your interfaces actual reading. My focusrite is spitting out a -14.45 on the lowest gain setting, so I slowly dialled up the gain on the interface to get to the magic -12.2 and bam, that’s everything feeling much better and where it should be. If you are interested, I was feeding a 0.286v sine wave, and in my daw it was producing -23.1 reading

Optimal input level for highest accuracy when using NDSP plugins?

Thanks for your response. I’m not - is this as simple as chucking a multi-meter on the end of the cable sending the signal? 100% have the interface set with inst on - if I turn off the button, the signal drops even further I’ve tried different USB ports, different cables to power the...

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[MirrorProfiles]

the data on the sheet is not true ???

look at here mrshultz says
OK so we have an update. It turns out, with my Scarlett solo, it doesn’t appear that the minimum gain dial is actually translating to -12.5 as it should. I produced a sign wave on my laptop, fed it out my interface, chucked a multi-meter on the end to get the voltage of the signal, noted it, and then fed that cable into my DAW where it gave me a dbfs reading. I found your calculator that if you feed in this information, it spits out your interfaces actual reading. My focusrite is spitting out a -14.45 on the lowest gain setting, so I slowly dialled up the gain on the interface to get to the magic -12.2 and bam, that’s everything feeling much better and where it should be. If you are interested, I was feeding a 0.286v sine wave, and in my daw it was producing -23.1 reading

Optimal input level for highest accuracy when using NDSP plugins?

Thanks for your response. I’m not - is this as simple as chucking a multi-meter on the end of the cable sending the signal? 100% have the interface set with inst on - if I turn off the button, the signal drops even further I’ve tried different USB ports, different cables to power the...

unity.neuraldsp.com

This guy has mixed some values up with peak and RMS voltages.

0.286V Peak = 0.2V RMS

If you put 0.2V and -23.1dBFS into the calculator you get roughly 12dBu.

 

[[Nathan]]

As soon as you said you had the sono I knew this was going to be confusing . I can’t remember exactly but I think unity on the input is at noon and turning it lower attenuates it. I haven’t used one but I’ve seen some confusion with this interface in the past, hopefully Ross can help out!

 

[volkan]

As soon as you said you had the sono I knew this was going to be confusing . I can’t remember exactly but I think unity on the input is at noon and turning it lower attenuates it. I haven’t used one but I’ve seen some confusion with this interface in the past, hopefully Ross can help out!

i am waiting answers from audient help desk

at noon means zero or not i will learn

i think at noon we start to adjust lowering or increasing but waiting answers

 

[[Nathan]]

i am waiting answers from audient help desk

at noon means zero or not i will learn

i think at noon we start to adjust lowering or increasing but waiting answers

If you have a multimeter you can also just measure the signal and do it that way, but yeah see what they say I guess.

 

[volkan]

If you have a multimeter you can also just measure the signal and do it that way, but yeah see what they say I guess.

friend i dont have multimeter i even dont know how to use it

 

[volkan]

Tom Hazel (Audient)

Dec 23, 2025, 12:39 GMT

No, the knobs turned all the way to the left is 0%. You then increase the gain by turning it too the right.
Kind regards,
Thomas Hazel

 

[volkan]

when i asked for the 0 gain on the input

Tom Hazel (Audient)

Dec 23, 2025, 10:05 GMT

Hi there,

You'd probably need more input than that, you just need to set it so your input isn't clipping.

Kind regards,
Thomas Hazel

 

[volkan]

Audient doesnt say anything about using gain at 0

 

[2dor]

Audient doesnt say anything about using gain at 0

I think you should now have enough information to be able to make an informed decision. At the end of the day, if it sounds good, it is good so just roll with that & make some music.

 

[volkan]

This video is the right way
You will lower the input on the plugin as the amount of the gain you added on interface.

 

[volkan]

This video is the right way
You will lower the input on the plugin as the amount of the gain you added on interface.

Before doing that
Do we have to do the zero gain and find the proper input level on the plugin first???

 

[MirrorProfiles]

This video is the right way
You will lower the input on the plugin as the amount of the gain you added on interface.

This video is telling you the same advice as you've already been told. To get any further you'll need to know what your headroom is on your interface. With that particular interface, it's much easier to just buy a multimeter and know for sure.

Meanwhile - just released a Bad Cat Lynx 50 pack. 60 NAM models (30 standard architecture, 30 xSTD). ToneX pack of the same settings coming very soon.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

This video is telling you the same advice as you've already been told. To get any further you'll need to know what your headroom is on your interface. With that particular interface, it's much easier to just buy a multimeter and know for sure.

Meanwhile - just released a Bad Cat Lynx 50 pack. 60 NAM models (30 standard architecture, 30 xSTD). ToneX pack of the same settings coming very soon.

Awesome!
ps. the flangering is on point

 

[2dor]

Before doing that
Do we have to do the zero gain and find the proper input level on the plugin first???

Yes. That video is useful after you've already understood what's been explained here before.

The vid you listed goes into further optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio.

In principle, it's about raising the gain knob (and subtrating the equivalent value in the digital domain) as much as you can without clipping the converters when you play hard. If you find that sweetspot you should have the best experience & SNR.

But to get there, you'd need to make sure you know what your interface's input rating is etc.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Awesome!
ps. the flangering is on point

Death, taxes and flanger on everything

 

[volkan]

This video is telling you the same advice as you've already been told. To get any further you'll need to know what your headroom is on your interface. With that particular interface, it's much easier to just buy a multimeter and know for sure.

Meanwhile - just released a Bad Cat Lynx 50 pack. 60 NAM models (30 standard architecture, 30 xSTD). ToneX pack of the same settings coming very soon.

How to use that multimeter please explain

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

There's a guide here, which can be used in part or in whole, to work out all of these questions (especially if combined with the other links people have shared), including how to use a multi-meter:

How to determine the calibration levels of your recording setup — neural-amp-modeler 0.12 documentation

 

[Shask]

when i asked for the 0 gain on the input

Tom Hazel (Audient)

Dec 23, 2025, 10:05 GMT

Hi there,

You'd probably need more input than that, you just need to set it so your input isn't clipping.

Kind regards,
Thomas Hazel

This is where these conversations always confuse me also. This is how you are supposed to use interfaces. I don't know why people recommend static values. You should set your interface based on your pickups, to where it is just under clipping.

I mostly use ToneX, but I basically set the knob on the interface to just under clipping based on which guitar I am using, and then in the ToneX software I set the input to just under clipping after that. That always gives me a good input range into the amp captures. If I want more or less gain at that point, I will use the input knob that is programmable for that preset.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I mostly use ToneX, but I basically set the knob on the interface to just under clipping based on which guitar I am using, and then in the ToneX software I set the input to just under clipping after that

This will likely hit quite some captures too hard. Not IK's own, though, as they seem to be made for pretty high levels (their hardware input default settings let one suggest that as well).