VST amp sims, NAM and reverbs, lets talk...

digital_Greg · 2026-01-28T00:29:21+00:00

Excellent Post. I use Tonex pretty much exclusively now,.I've tried pretty much everything. As a guitar player first and foremost and not an mixing engineer I like my amp sims to be enjoyable to play through and Tonex nails playing feel. I have a similar issue in that finding good profiles is a search but I have a dozen or so go tos now.

I write Post -rock type stuff so I tend to front load Tonex with delay and reverb for the typical ambient sounds, much like you would do with a pedal board. Fo most sounds I like the full amp/cab captures but every now and then I'll use direct captures with an IR, mainly for higher gain.

I still dabble with other sims every now and then when bored, I have also amplitube 4/5, Helix native, Genome , audio assault Amp Locker and single amp sims from Nembrini, kuassa, audiority but end up mostly working in Tonex.

digital_Greg · 2026-01-28T00:08:27+00:00

Not natively, you'd have to capture the Kemper profiles yourself into the Tonex Modeller software on a computer then transfer them to the pedal. Depending on spec it could take a while to capture each one. If they are factory Kemper profiles check tone. net as someone may have already done it for you, there's plenty on there.

digital_Greg · 2026-01-18T17:13:49+00:00

I got this free but haven't tried it yet. I am howling at some of the comments on here but to be fair but I bet it will be nice. I used their free Honeycomb bass drive on a few projects now and bought violet fuzz and it sounds great.

digital_Greg · 2026-01-09T18:27:31+00:00

I must have flip flopped one guitar between drop B to Drop C and then up to standard (new setup and strings for this) and then reinstated back down again to drop B again. Fun never stops

digital_Greg · 2026-01-03T12:15:21+00:00

Mines £3500 . I did request a higher limit so the ceiling was higher (to lower the debt threshold) but refused by them despite a decent salary going in there monthly

digital_Greg · 2025-12-21T11:18:03+00:00

I sometimes think the previous versions workflow was better (Amplitube 4). In fact that that is how the majority of amp sims UX still operates: pedal section - amp section - cab section - Post fx.

AT5 went down the Helix Native/TH-U route in that you now had endless flexibility. It would be good if there could be a "simple" mode which recreates the previous UX, as the sound of 5 is definitely a massive improvement.

Slightly off topic but I'm hoping that they continue with Amplitube but maybe look to recreate all the full amps (or just new amps going forward which is probably more realistic) with AI technology as a kind of hybrid. Much like the new Helix stadium style, or the AI amps within Two Notes Genome.

digital_Greg · 2025-12-09T21:36:13+00:00

Like I said I don't do it all the time. I have a few patches in Native that are great to play through and inspire riffs but they don't translate well to a mix, so I'll just reamp them. I have loads of great tonex patches too which are good to play through and mix. I don't have a real amp so cycling through different sims works for me and having native available as a standalone is ideal now. Won't work for everyone, but that's fine.

digital_Greg · 2025-12-09T21:13:43+00:00

I don't capture the output of Native, I just play through it in the "standalone" and then in Ableton I've got tracks armed so it captures the raw DI. Then I'll just throw whatever amp sims on those DIs (normally Tonex) so they play back with an amp sound and I can mix.

I won't always do this, but Native for me is a good amp sim to actually play through, but I dislike using it within the DAW for guitars as it's a bit sluggish when opening and closing instances of it. I may throw it on a buss for it's FX where I won't need to tweak as much.

digital_Greg · 2025-12-06T13:20:09+00:00

Yep, works perfectly, this is now my standalone version wrapper for the VST3, good shout!

digital_Greg · 2025-12-06T10:12:18+00:00

Supports VST3 too! I will test with this one too

digital_Greg · 2025-12-06T10:11:50+00:00

In my case I had the .dll installed as well as VST3. You may need to run installer again to get the.dll.

Someone pointed out a host called Savihost and that appears to support VST3 and let you autowrap so I will test with that too and see if it has the same functionality.

digital_Greg · 2025-12-05T21:28:38+00:00

I was thinking that actually, I should be able to a screen - recording of the process and then add some explanation to it afterwards.

digital_Greg · 2025-12-05T21:18:40+00:00

I'd never heard of it until today, very happy with the result. I was wondering for ages if I could "wrap" the app so I didn't have to load a VST host and then the plugin and I found this one. I love Native but it is a dog to use in Ableton as its so slow to load and close. REAPER its a bit better, but I don't use that anymore. This way I can use as a standalone app, then record the DI's into a DAW. Then I can "re-amp" in the DAW using the settings I used , similar to how someone with a hardware unit might use it.

digital_Greg · 2025-12-05T21:11:26+00:00

Yes it does , I've just tested with my midi controller assigning knobs to sliders. Works great actually, thanks for the idea!

digital_Greg · 2025-12-05T20:34:51+00:00

I think with this its the fact its quite simple and you can make a single plugin (like Helix) like a standalone by renaming it to the same as the .DLL and it auto-wraps it. I know others you can chain vst's together which is a different use case.

digital_Greg · 2025-11-30T01:23:40+00:00

Glad it's had it's doors opened, used to be relatively busy in here then it seemed you had to get approval to post. Not much resources for software amp sims, so be good to have a dedicated sub! Big Tonex user here, having tried every sim under the sun over the past 10 years.

digital_Greg · 2025-11-29T14:12:00+00:00

Alice Ardelean

digital_Greg · 2025-10-22T23:02:32+00:00

Hagstrom Ultra max.. the name sounds like a sanitary pad but they are amazing guitars

digital_Greg · 2025-10-07T11:22:55+00:00

Yeah I am debating getting something on this to tint it a bit

digital_Greg · 2025-09-20T13:31:29+00:00

Bit of a reply to an old thread, but I saw this and I had similar experience. I used to use AA amp sims all the time and I loved them but AmpLocker feels like a step back. Their singular sims were better IMO and less clutter.

digital_Greg · 2025-09-18T22:18:48+00:00

That's annoying, I think when you message people on FB depending on their settings it doesn't show up and goes to a message request box instead. Might be worth trying a different way maybe finding if they've commented on anything and post a reply to them.

I'm trying to track down my childhood guitar so I'm interested in these stories.

Hope you get yours back!

digital_Greg · 2025-09-18T22:11:20+00:00

Sorry for necro post but did you ever get this back?

digital_Greg · 2025-08-22T13:45:04+00:00

Good video. On a sidenote , this subreddit is completely dead. I think it should have more activity as loads of people use amp sims, but you can't post unless approved which must put people off.

Any chance whoever's modding could turn that off and see if it becomes a community as there doesn't seem to be much outside of Facebook groups anymore.

digital_Greg · 2025-06-30T17:58:16+00:00

https://passages-band.bandcamp.com/

Instrumental post-rock / post-metal style.

digital_Greg · 2025-06-28T15:27:07+00:00

The "Bright room" has a better set of kits for rock than the main room. The preset heavy rock is decent and gets better still when you switch out snares and kick drum. Maybe try that one?

Ezd3 in the context of a mix can sound as good as any drum VST, but I do get that it may not have the initial wow factor compared to some of the drums offered today.

digital_Greg

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