Faithfully capturing a snapshot digital reproduction of any real guitar amp has for several years been the province of Kemper with their Profiler and, in more recent years, Neural DSP with the Quad Cortex – both hardware units and not cheap.
IK Multimedia, however, has chosen the more cost-effective software route for amp capture with TONEX, an application utilising AI machine modelling to create ‘Tone Models’ which could be various combinations of amp, cab and drive pedal.
