SmartGuitarAmp
Creative
guitar amp plugin
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
13 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Performance: 4 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Tone similarity is impressive for a free plugin
From 2 comments
The tone similarity is quite impressive.
onion-soup on HNJust tried it out, I don't know if I would say it sounds like a $600 tube amp especially in high gain scenarios (it really didn't like my active pickups), for a free plugin it is…
aeleos on HN
Good results from a mathematical standpoint
From 1 comment
Awesome project and pretty good results from a mathematical standpoint. The biggest challenge is to try and convince the tube amp enthusiasts that it sounds indistinguishable to…
nom on HN
Objections
Does not sound warm like a tube amp
From 1 comment
I don't know, I'm not hearing the warmth of a tube amp. Sounds like other solid state emulator amps.
_fs on HN
Latency concerns for live play
From 2 comments
Is latency an issue?
MrBuddyCasino on HNYes.
joeel84 on HN
Title is clickbait and vague
From 1 comment
What a clickbait title. Sounds (to whom?) like a $600 (which one?) amp using deep learning (why does it matter?). To expand on this: -$600 tube amp is not description of a sound.…
romwell on HN
Windows only
From 1 comment
Windows only boohoohooo:(
neiman on HN
Requests
Run on Raspberry Pi for stage use
From 1 comment
Would be cool if you could run this thing on a raspberry pi and actually use it like an on stage amp
offtop5 on HN
Linux support
From 1 comment
I've been using guitarx, it includes some tube emulation, but I haven't really noticed much of a tonal difference between them. This looks interesting, but I run Linux so it is a…
lightlyused on HN
Questions
Which tube amp is modeled
From 1 comment
Which tube amp(s) is it modeling? Its a bit like of like saying “free emulator behaves like $600 console”
deeblering4 on HN
How much compute does the model use
From 1 comment
That's super cool. I've been both playing around with building analog pedals and thinking about how to cram various single board computers into a pedal enclosure for open source…
trollian on HN
Alternatives named
Neural DSP Archetype Nolly
From 1 comment
Just tried it out, I don't know if I would say it sounds like a $600 tube amp especially in high gain scenarios (it really didn't like my active pickups), for a free plugin it is…
aeleos on HN
Kemper profiling amp
From 1 comment
Interesting that Kemper hasn’t been mentioned yet. They are a German company who make profiling amps, which basically consist of software able to profile an existing amplifier…
manmal on HN
Fractal Audio Axe-Fx
From 1 comment
Many prominent artists are touring with modelling amps for years now. https://www.fractalaudio.com/artists/ There are many advantages. Less maintenance, lower stage volumes,…
dmacvicar on HN
Neural DSP Quad Cortex
From 1 comment
This is really cool, I’d love to try this out! Neural DSP, developers of what are arguably the best amp sim plugins available right now, claim that their upcoming floor modeler…
sickcodebruh on HN
Guitarix
From 1 comment
For purpose-made hardware, basically never. If you're doing all of the emulation and signal processing on a general-purpose computer, then sure, you often run into latency…
hannasanarion on HN