Tonex

I would be more interested if it was stereo.

Could have used a better name. Sounds like a cosmetic.

Someone on another board was saying the Fenders were so good that people should switch from the UADFX Dream. The example they posted then of a "good" Twin sound was super distorted (for a Twin) and didn't sound like a clean Fender at all. 

I bet it's like anything, though, and you'll figure out a way to get what you want out of it. 

I have an Iridium and have been happy with the Fender in that. The videos I've heard of the Dream might be better. I can't just keep buying new gear and losing money on the old stuff. But I actually do enjoy working with the pedal instead of mic'ing an amp. Probably not a popular thing to say on a recording gear forum, but it's just easier and I'm getting good tracks. 

I’m sat here with my Fender Princeton and Tone King Imperial mk2 a bunch of fancy mics and pre’s and I’m feeling like a Luddite!!

You guys are all raving about digital emulations, what am I missing here, why am I going to the trouble of recording real amps?

Or a better question why is everyone using emulators?

Is it the real amp volume that’s the issue?

Or a case of the tone is “good enough” and the convenience it a big draw?

I need to know

Okay thanks,

I have S-Gear for that or a Boss Katana II in which case there’s little extra advantage if I’m going to record my toob amps for the final tracking stage.

I’ll totally use a sim for a keeper track, I’m not redoing something that’s working great in the track. Unless it’s crying out for replacement, which would be the same criteria for a real amp track. I’m gloriously immune to theoretical improvements these days. If a plugin is getting me all the way there I’m not going to pull out a bunch of hardware to chase “better.”

And yet, sims get used over amps only for convenience, I can work on personal projects when my kids are playing Lego. It’s about creativity, above all.

At any actual studio it’s almost always amps, but if I’m engineering and the player brings in a Fractal we use that and it’s totally fine. Has happened exactly once. I’ve also had dufus guitar players insist on playing their Blues Deville despite the pile of superior amps and I’m not one to push on that, it’s not worth brow beating someone who’s about to perform.

regarding the name there also happens to be this other device called XTone from XSonic that does very close to the same thing -

low latency high res stomp interface that integrates with mobile versions of biasfx and some other amp sim softwares

xsonicaudio.com/pages/xtone

True. Some times they end up staying.

Hmm, who knows all the settings, but my first thought was: it doesn’t sound very 335 sweet ?

Well, the thing is the take itself really, if I’ve got lightning in a bottle then I’m keeping it. Doesn’t matter if I played it on a Hondo or a 58 burst.

I’m not hearing a critical difference in the mids between sims and real amps, necessarily. Something like a pocket pod, well yes, those suck.

I do love my amps. But I don’t have to use them to make music. Actually, just scored a Princeton Reverb though. 😂

You're not wrong. But with a profiler you really need to compare it to the amp thats being profiled.

There are some good comparisons with the tonex on youtube, and for sure it is more accurate that the kemper. But the kemper doesn't really capture the mids and the pick attack correctly. 

Just spent a bunch of time messing around with it and comparing to the Dream pedal. Just like the Kemper, this thing is completely profile dependent. There are some free Tone Junkies profiles of a Deluxe, AC30 and Plexi that are actually quite good. I don't think I have anything more than the free Tonex plugin...You have to open that to download them to your local library, then you can load them into Amplitube and use all of its effects. Make sure you turn off the cabinet when you load the Tonex amp, though. It def sounds like a miked up amp. Don't know if the Dream is better - little less bright for sure.