IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal

Fortheloveofguitar

kennedydream1980 said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Right I’ve bought the Plexi pack from Amalgam and it’s like night and day now. These are really really good captures. They sound great through a power amp and cab setup. 

It’s a shame as he doesn’t have any high gain amps on there. I’ve tried free samples from other providers but again they’re really poor yet charging money for them 

He has the Mesa MkV.

That must be an early pack as it’s only amp and cabs captured together 

firepaulmusic

Has anyone tried the Studio Rats capture packs?

kennedydream1980

firepaulmusic said:

Has anyone tried the Studio Rats capture packs?

Yes I got the first pack. Paul’s Matchless captures are nice. But the Amalgam captures are just on a different level. 

kennedydream1980

I’m waiting for Pete Thorn to release a pack. He has hinted at it so hopefully it will land soon.

Fortheloveofguitar

I bought the Amalgam plexi and it’s awesome. 

I bought a pack from Big Hairy profiles and I was disappointed. Thought his would be great. 

My favourite so far is from XOG Music: https://www.xogmusic.net/. I bought his Bogner XTC Blue captures and they are outstanding. 

I used to go to presets4all for my QC but his prices are now silly. £95 for the 4 channels of the Bluguitar Iridium. 

There’s a few sellers now charging £45 a pack. I’m not paying that and it seems to be the general consensus online that £10-20 maximum is what people will are willing to spend. 

fnpt

firepaulmusic said:

Has anyone tried the Studio Rats capture packs?

I bought it. The Marshall capture was a bit disappointing, much better available elsewhere. The matchless ones are good. 

fnpt

@champ222 have a look at Tannoy Gold 5. Really good. A pair will set you under £400. 

champ222

fnpt said:

@champ222 have a look at Tannoy Gold 5. Really good. A pair will set you under £400. 

Thanks, i was looking at those the other day actually 

PC_Dave

Just received one that I got second hand - only had a few minutes to plug it in and try to figure out how it all works, seems ok if a little bit confusing with the IK software initially. As mentioned by others in this thread i'm not overly impressed with the stock sounds, but i've downloaded the TSR matchless and the Dream65 captures which are top of the list on the ToneX library and they do sound good. See how we go!

Fortheloveofguitar

I’ve just purchased the IK Axe IO as my external M-audio soundcard doesn’t have enough ins and outs to be able to capture 

Could do with an upgrade anyway and if I can’t get good results then I’ll just send it back to Amazon

I’ll also have to use either my sons PC or my wife’s MacBook as he has a high end graphics card and her MacBook has an M1 chip. These are the things that increase the speed at the final capture analysis stage. Takes hrs on a slow older system like mine 

drwiddly

Had one for a little over a week now but with limited time to play with it. It’s impressive and I’ve been trying to integrate it with my HX Stomp which seems to be a good match. As a newbie, my initial thoughts are:

a) There’s not a lot of output level headroom when it’s connected to the Stomp (yes, I’ve watched the YouTube videos,) and it might struggle at a gig.This might be more of an HX Stomp issue!

b) The pedal needs to be better integrated with the Tonex software -
i) there needs to be an editor for the pedal built in to the software. It’s a pain having to load a tone model in the librarian and then edit it on the pedal.

ii) the pedal needs to work as an interface between your pc and monitoring/speaker system. Using an external sound card like a Focusrite to carry the signal to the pedal and any external fx makes things fiddly and changes the end results.

iii) the pedal can capture amps and stomp boxes but you can’t combine them in the pedal or in software after they’ve been captured. It would be great to combine a Tonex model with a capture of your own favourite drive pedal.

Mickeyji

Fortheloveofguitar said:

kennedydream1980 said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Right I’ve bought the Plexi pack from Amalgam and it’s like night and day now. These are really really good captures. They sound great through a power amp and cab setup. 

It’s a shame as he doesn’t have any high gain amps on there. I’ve tried free samples from other providers but again they’re really poor yet charging money for them 

He has the Mesa MkV.

That must be an early pack as it’s only amp and cabs captured together 

I believe there'll be a DI set of captures of a Mesa Mark IIc+ coming out this week.

fnpt

PSA: Amalgam Captures are doing a promo: 3 for 2, 5 for 3 and 10 for 5.

I've got he Plexi, JT45, Blackface, V Super and Vox TB30 captures for the price of 3 (€45). Between 15 to 18 different tonal captures each, which is a lot. So far, I'm really enjoying the V Super and the Vox.

kennedydream1980

fnpt said:

PSA: Amalgam Captures are doing a promo: 3 for 2, 5 for 3 and 10 for 5.

I've got he Plexi, JT45, Blackface, V Super and Vox TB30 captures for the price of 3 (€45). Between 15 to 18 different tonal captures each, which is a lot. So far, I'm really enjoying the V Super and the Vox.

You should check out the new Marshall Superbass captures they put up recently. They are amazing.

fnpt

kennedydream1980 said:

fnpt said:

PSA: Amalgam Captures are doing a promo: 3 for 2, 5 for 3 and 10 for 5.

I've got he Plexi, JT45, Blackface, V Super and Vox TB30 captures for the price of 3 (€45). Between 15 to 18 different tonal captures each, which is a lot. So far, I'm really enjoying the V Super and the Vox.

You should check out the new Marshall Superbass captures they put up recently. They are amazing.

That's exactly the Plexi model I got. Sounds good, but haven't had the time to explore it yet. The V Super, however, is the best Fender type capture I've tried. It's great. Tune your Tele to open G and it's instant Stones.

Fortheloveofguitar

XOG, Amalgam and Matt fig are my favourite captures at the moment. Absolutely outstanding captures. 

New Vintage Audio I’ve been disappointed. Bought the AFD100 DI capture pack and they are some of the worst I’ve heard, absolute crap. 

It’s the same as with the QC that there are so many people charging for crap captures. 

I’ve captured my own Cornford MK50 last week and it’s unbelievable how good the ToneX captured it. The QC couldn’t get anywhere near it when I owned one 

Mickeyji

Mickeyji said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

kennedydream1980 said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

Right I’ve bought the Plexi pack from Amalgam and it’s like night and day now. These are really really good captures. They sound great through a power amp and cab setup. 

It’s a shame as he doesn’t have any high gain amps on there. I’ve tried free samples from other providers but again they’re really poor yet charging money for them 

He has the Mesa MkV.

That must be an early pack as it’s only amp and cabs captured together 

I believe there'll be a DI set of captures of a Mesa Mark IIc+ coming out this week.

Apparently it's the Essentials capture set of the Mk IIc+ that's being released, not the DI. Sorry about that.

Musicman20

This seems like a good buy right now!

IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal AI machine learning multi effects pedal: Tone Model any electric guitar amp, guitar pedal, distortion pedal, overdrive pedal or other guitar effects : Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments & DJ

fnpt

Is it possible to use the Boss GT1000 Core to control the Tonex via midi?

The idea is to change banks in the GT and simultaneously call out the corresponding capture in the Tonex, the question is that the Tonex captures are not in the same order as the presets in the GT. Is this possible or do I have to change the captures in the Tonex to follow the same order as the GT?

vasselmeyer

fnpt said:

Is it possible to use the Boss GT1000 Core to control the Tonex via midi?

The idea is to change banks in the GT and simultaneously call out the corresponding capture in the Tonex, the question is that the Tonex captures are not in the same order as the presets in the GT. Is this possible or do I have to change the captures in the Tonex to follow the same order as the GT?

On the GT-1000 you can send a a midi PC value on a patch change. You decide what value is sent to the Tonex, so it really shouldn't matter what order they are in. For example, GT-1000 patch 1 might send PC #3 and GT-1000 patch 2 might send PC#48. It's entirely configurable. The GT-1000 is actually a really good midi controller and can send via traditional 5-pin DIN or over USB.

It's all in the GT-1000 parameter guide on the Boss web site.