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TONE3000 unveils NAM Architecture 2 (A2), the next generation of the open-source modeling technology, in partnership with Neural Amp Modeler creator Steve Atkinson. A2 lets anyone create neural captures of analog gear including amps, guitar and bass pedals, outboard gear, and full signal chains.

A2 captures feel more satisfying to play and sound virtually indistinguishable from the analog original. The bloom of a tube amp pushed into breakup, the sag of a fuzz pedal under a heavy chord, the snap of a transient through an analog compressor: A2 captures it all.

A2 makes TONE3000 possible on mass-market hardware.

Blackstar, Lava Music, Darkglass, HeadRush, Chaos Audio and Dimehead are all supporting A2, with dozens of major companies announcing support this year.

"The goal was simple. Capture tone so faithfully that you couldn't tell the difference. Getting there took months of obsessing over every detail, from the odd harmonics of dimed EL34’s to the sag of a vintage transformer. The entire universe of analog gear is now accessible"  – Woodbury Shortridge, Co-Founder and CTO at TONE3000

NAM launched as an open-source project in 2019 and has since become the most accurate amp modeling technology available. The first iteration, now called Architecture 1 (A1), was originally designed by Steve Atkinson to run in DAWs on computers.

A2 was developed by TONE3000 in partnership with Atkinson. Together, they rebuilt the architecture from the ground up to deliver better sound quality while using far fewer computational resources, opening the door for affordable multi-fx pedals to run A2 natively on device.

"TONE3000’s mission is to make music creation universally accessible. A2 accelerates that mission by democratizing tone. A $5,000 vintage amp that was once locked away in a studio can now be captured, shared, and played by any artist, on any device, anywhere in the world." – Stanley Vergilis, Co-Founder and CEO at TONE3000

A2 is the most accurate, best sounding amp modeler ever.

A2 represents dynamics, gain structure, frequency behavior, and transient handling more faithfully than any modeler that came before it. TONE3000 verified this in two ways: blind listening tests and head-to-head quantitative testing.

A2 not only sounds amazing, it frees tones to be used across a wide range of hardware and software. Until now, tones have been trapped in walled gardens. Audio plugins lock your tones in their plugin in your DAW. Neural DSP, ToneX, and Line 6 lock your tones in their pedals and plugins.