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The sound

The late-80s lead tone.

One cranked head into a 4×12, a plate behind it, a cream Strat with single coils and a scalloped neck: the neo-classical school, harmonic minor at speed, every note picked. The chain was captured with neural networks rather than modelled from a schematic, then checked against the reference recording until the two could not be told apart. The tone is the product; everything else on this page is the room around it.

  • NEURAL CAPTUREThe head and every pedal are trained on the real thing, not approximated from a circuit.
  • MEASURED CABThe 4×12 is an impulse response of the cabinet, the mic and the room, not a tone stack.
  • ONE CHAINNot two hundred amps. One rig, captured obsessively, that sounds like the record.
50 W · 4×12Single coilsScalloped1988
The head and the 4×12 from the floor, the cream Strat leaning on the cabThe stack, from the floor
The pedals

Six pedals. One board.

The board is where the tone gets its edge: a gate to keep it clean between notes, a compressor so the arpeggios sit still, the drive that pushes the front of the amp, an EQ for the cut, a delay and a plate for the size. Each one is a capture of the pedal it looks like, and each one is on the floor in front of you.

The six pedals on the board, as the room sees themThe six pedals from the floor, from the leftGate · Comp · Drive · EQ · Delay · Reverb
GATESilence between the notes, none inside them.
COMPClean runs that sit still.
DRIVEThe push into the amp. The knob is the knob.
EQSix bands, ±12 dB, for the cut.
DELAYThe slap that makes a run a cathedral.
REVERBA plate, after everything.
The room

A room, not a menu.

Everything sits where a real rig sits. Walk up to the board and a pedal fills the screen; step back and the whole room is there again. No panels, no tabs: the room is rendered, lit and unlit, and you are in it. Try the switch.

The room from the ceiling, power offThe room from the ceiling, power onLit · from the ceiling
The floor plan: rug, board, stack, stool and tableThe floor plan

The feel. A rug, a stool, a coffee table with your presets on a sheet of paper. The lamps stay on when the amp is off. It is a place you practise in, not a window you configure.

The stack

Head and 4×12.

Not a circuit simulation: a neural network trained on the real head until it plays like it, the sag when you dig in and the recovery when you stop. The cabinet is a measured impulse response of the 4×12. Five knobs and a jack, the whole front panel, and they do what they do on the real one. Touch them.

The head's panel from the player's side, the headstock in front
The panelHover a knob on the head to see what it does.
The metronome on its stool, its screen lit
120BPM
NEXT125
CHANGE IN30s
STATERUNNING

TEMPO RANGE & MODE
Start120
Beats/measure4
End160
Subdivision4 - sixteenth
Step5
FeelStraight
Hold (s)30
SoundWood
ModeStep
Volume70%
Practice

Learn to shred, in time.

Runs at speed come from runs done slowly, many times. The metronome on the stool does the discipline for you: set a range and it climbs, glides or throws tempos at random, holding each one as long as you tell it to. Sample-accurate, inside the audio engine, so the click lands on the beat and not near it. Watch it: that one is climbing from 120 to 160 in fives.

STEPStart, end, step, hold. Up a rung every 30 seconds until you can play it clean at the top.
RAMPThe same ladder with a glide between rungs, for the passages that need to be felt, not counted.
RANDOMAny tempo in the range, in any order, so you cannot settle into one speed.
SUBDIVIDEBeats per bar, subdivisions, swing, and a mute on any subdivision to check you are keeping it.
TAPTap a tempo in, keep three of them.
DAW SYNCIn the plugin it locks to the session's bars and tempo, or runs free. One key on its screen.
Under the hood

The engine.

The part you never look at, built so you never have to. High-quality tone is a set of numbers before it is a feeling.

The meter box at the end of the board: input, master and widthThe meter box · in, master, width
48 kHz, alwaysThe models run at the rate they were captured at, whatever the session is set to. No dulling at 44.1.
Sag, fittedThe power supply droops as you dig in and recovers when you stop, measured against the real amp, not imagined.
0.75 msThe rig's own latency at any block size. The rest is your interface, which the app takes exclusively through ASIO.
Seven neural capturesEvery pedal and the head are trained on the real units. AVX2 on the inside, so a full board is a few percent of one core.
A measured 4×12The cabinet is an impulse response of the box, the mic and the room, resampled without losing the top.
Bit-identical pluginThe VST3 is the same engine, checked sample for sample against the standalone on every build.
In your DAW

Same room. VST3.

The plugin is the standalone, hosted: same renders, same engine, same room. Every knob is a parameter, so the drive rides an automation lane; the metronome locks to the session's bars. One licence covers both.

120 BPM · 4/41.1.00
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Kept alive

Updates, support, and a free week.

A rig is not finished when it ships. This one has somebody behind it.

Updates keep coming

New captures, fixes and features land as builds, and they will keep landing. The app tells you when one is out; a click downloads it. A licence includes a year of them, and the app keeps working after that.

Current build

Support that answers

Write and a person replies, usually the same day. Report a bug, ask how something works, ask for something that is not there yet. The fixes go into the next build, and the notes say so.

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Free trial, no card

Seven days of the full rig, standalone and plugin. Your email address is the account; there is no form and nothing to cancel. If it is not the tone, it costs nothing.

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standalone + VST3 · Windows
$49A YEAR · OR $89 FOR TWO
  • Two machines, release one any time
  • A year of updates, then it keeps working
  • Works offline for 14 days between check-ins
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Pricing

One rig, one price.

Honest about what this is

One chain, captured obsessively. If you want two hundred amps, this is the wrong app.

You need an audio interface with an ASIO driver. The app takes it exclusively while it runs — that is how the latency stays low.

Windows only, for now. Pay by PayPal; the licence is issued in your name when the payment is confirmed, usually within the day.