NMD Tank-G

[Tito83]

I needed a cheap backup/rehearsal, I was going to get an MS50g, but in Brazil it got pretty popular, so I cracked and decided to get one out of curiosity about the possibility of doing captures.

Out of the box everything is very hit or miss, but it's perfectly capable of pretty great basic tones. Better basic amp tones compared to the HX Stomp imo.

So I started trying out doing captures. ToneX you get better results WAY faster... But with the Tank-G software you can let it run basically without stopping, so it gets closer and closer, obviously improvement gets slower over time. After a day or so the thing got really close. Can't compare directly to ToneX now, but it got scary close considering the price of the unit. Wish I had a faster PC so I could run more iterations of the learning process.

For dirty cheap this thing can compete tone wise to the top tier stuff. Crazy. Done a few captures of my Dream, Lion and Enigmatic. The tones aren't exactly the same, but really close. Next gig I'll ditch the pedals and use it for the amp tones in the loop of the HX Stomp.

While still natural that technology will advance, what this thing can do at this price point... Scary.

 

[mbenigni]

I'm curious but confused... There are a lot of products called "Tank-G" floating around. Looks like the company or at least this product has changed hands a couple of times. I see Playwell, M-VAVE, Lekato... Which are you using? None the ones I've found look like capture/ profile players(?)

 

[Tito83]

I'm curious but confused... There are a lot of products called "Tank-G" floating around. Looks like the company or at least this product has changed hands a couple of times. I see Playwell, M-VAVE, Lekato... Which are you using? None the ones I've found look like capture/ profile players(?)

I got the M-vave. I think lekato and playwell are just different brands, same product. I've seen people pointing out they all point to the m-vave site for updates and other related software.

The capture is done fully outside the box (which means they could potentially just make a plugin that ran captures). Run the app, setup ins and outs, capture, train. At the end you replace one of the amp slots with the capture.

 

[mbenigni]

Hard to beat the form factor. It's basically all footswitches. :)

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

And when you add the chocolate midi controller..... pretty sweet busking rig.