My only concern is the spacing between footswitches. They seem a bit close to each other for accurate footwork and risk of misclicking two at once in a live situation
@dimehead15 күн бұрын
It's always a compromise between board space and ease of use. You can easily connect an external MIDI controller to change presets.
@BlazonStone15 күн бұрын
The 0.5ms latency sounds too good to be true, I hope it really delivers!
@dimehead15 күн бұрын
Feel free to watch Leo Gibson's video about it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJqjyNOyj93Qj6Q.html
@KG-wp6gh19 күн бұрын
Awesome to see a community project turn into this!
@tgchan19 күн бұрын
Can you guys show how to implement Dimehead with pedals for live and studio? How would one connect pedals that normally go into FX loop? LINE OUT? and then from the last pedal into a mixer? Literally the one thing that is stopping me from buying/
@tgchan19 күн бұрын
Can you guys show how to implement Dimehead with pedals for live and studio? How would one connect pedals that normally go into FX loop? LINE OUT? and then from the last pedal into a mixer? Literally the one thing that is stopping me from buying/
@Tryggvasson22 күн бұрын
this thing is gonna kill tonex. rip.
@ric77161222 күн бұрын
Here are my first thoughts on the NAM player. I bought the pedal at full price, so my opinions are genuine. I've played it alongside the ToneX all week, using the same AmalgamAudio profiles to keep the comparison fair. In my experience, the NAM player is superior to the ToneX in terms of tone quality. It feels better under the fingers, and the customer service is fantastic. Although the NAM costs more than the ToneX, I do believe the extra money is well spent if you care about tone.
@artquantmindproject2116Ай бұрын
Compared to Tank G, it is 20 times cheaper, but the quality difference is no more than 30%.
@spyware1100Ай бұрын
It's a little bit expensive, compared to say a Tonex pedal.
@FunkMauzzАй бұрын
Third 😊
@TurquoiseArmiesАй бұрын
Does it support 500ms IR’s. I love some real room mic IR’s mixed in… I guess the convolution reverb loader would handle those if you crank the mix to 100%. Great job guys!
@marceloSDMFАй бұрын
are you guys shipping to brazil?
@marceloSDMFАй бұрын
Are you guys shipping to brazil?
@user-xl8qs4gb2jАй бұрын
at that cost, touch screen would have been the go
@NikolausBrockeАй бұрын
Wow, very authentic.
@fuzzaldryn9626Ай бұрын
Currently testing a DIMEHEAD NAM player. Man, the low latency of this thing is just stunning. Factory captures are also pretty, pretty nice. Espescially considering how many mediocre captures you can find on Tonehunt sometimes.
Ай бұрын
Is there a plan to include a boost state on second press of a selected preset? That's a good feature to have. Ideally, it would comprise a change in all parameters needed (gain, effects/mix, volume, etc.)
@cancion5791Ай бұрын
Does it have ambient reverb, like shimmer type, that would be nice, also can it do snapshots, like 4 snapshots per preset/song that also be useful
@CTBlazeАй бұрын
you can load ANY Reverb IR into the Convolver part
@VanjaSpirinАй бұрын
If it's 200€ more than Tonex, and 400€ more than Tonex One, this is way to expensive. And no sound examples? Making a product much more expensive than a well designed counterpart?
@dimeheadАй бұрын
Because nam requires many times more computing power than Tonex ;-) Take a look at our KZread channel and homepage first before you just complain.
@rtchau4566Ай бұрын
What UI framework/kit does this use? I'm doing some embedded stuff and I'm hunting for a decent UI kit with menu heirarchy etc...
@dimeheadАй бұрын
We tried many UI frameworks. Most of them are unusable, especially for LCDs. Eventually we developed our own :)
@rtchau4566Ай бұрын
@@dimehead It looks super nice. What resolution is the LCD? I don't suppose you're open-sourcing the UI framework? :D
@faben702 ай бұрын
That's really a good product, but for the price I would have expected some more features; 2 model slots in series (so to be able to load a pedal model and an amp model), and a dual IR with stereo output and pan for each one of the 2 impulses. 1ms latency would still be great if 2 models in series require more latency. Wouldn't mind about reverb, although it's useful - and what's the point of a mono reverb by the way?
@szveszs2 ай бұрын
Man, 600 euros... I know, I know... But, man... Good equipament anyway.
@Mike-fc5vp2 ай бұрын
but ,,but .. ,, real things valve amp is always better choice .... rest is only -smoke on the water .
@Mr_Bollie2 ай бұрын
Awesome! Ordered one, as so far only the NAM VST is really able to satisfyingly reproduce my Friedman Smallbox 50. All the other current solutions kinda fail. So I'm expecting great from this! Can you tell us what kind of processor you are using? It must be some beefy hardware.
@fuzzaldryn9626Ай бұрын
You would be surprised.. but nope, no beefy hardware. Just think about it: less than 500mA current draw. ;-) Made possible by some clever and well thought code optimizations, which is also partly why this thing comes with this initial "hefty" price tag. It's not like they just took the open source NAM as it is and simply build some hardware. It's meticulous software optimizations AND hardware development (which could be fairly called the easier part of this product).
@Mr_BollieАй бұрын
@@fuzzaldryn9626 The used Cortex A72 is actually almost a decade old. So I wonder what they did to the Wavenet libs to make them run efficiently on that platform. ;)
@fuzzaldryn9626Ай бұрын
@@Mr_Bollie... Well, that's the secret coding sauce. ;)
@Mr_BollieАй бұрын
@@fuzzaldryn9626 Not a fan of "secret sauce", when it comes to base a product on open source software. It should be a give and take, so it would be nice to see any optimizations be shared back with the community. Perhaps that has been happening already, dunno. :)
@DanteS-119Ай бұрын
Yeah, it’s against the license to hide the software changes to NAM
@fsdjgygsdsdhuw2 ай бұрын
please , an clean normal sound of an amp , that is important
@TheNino372 ай бұрын
I'm a big fan of all the new devices hitting the market that move the great new software onto the stage for live performance.
@comboart46102 ай бұрын
Need Global EQ ???
@Bilsuburbians2 ай бұрын
Very nice. But the UI kinda old like kemper. Im interested in the long run
@ryanhalliwell66712 ай бұрын
Holy shit! I knew this was coming
@truthtorpedo992 ай бұрын
I loved the bit where you showed how it sounds by playing guitar using some example models
@dimehead2 ай бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYh_2JOvo7HKpbw.html
@cuanyu2 ай бұрын
What is the latency
@dimehead2 ай бұрын
0.5ms - take a look at our homepage at dimehead.de for more details. :)
@N8oRMusic2 ай бұрын
Just get an amp
@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugs2 ай бұрын
Then capture the amp, and then, load that into a small pedal unit and enjoy anywhere you like. Portable!
@N8oRMusic2 ай бұрын
@@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugsgigs don't work like that
@jconner38912 ай бұрын
The man in this video should be speaking about nature or someone 😂
@jconner38912 ай бұрын
I just bought a fm3 a month ago. Never stopped me before. I buy this as well. Screw practicing guitar. I love gear. ❤
@FranciscoAlbMartinezАй бұрын
Lol!
@ItaiIfrachАй бұрын
Nothing to regret about, choose the FM3 as a stereo time based fx after Dimehead- should be fantastic
@luisfguitarАй бұрын
Hahahahhaha😂
@nj12552 ай бұрын
Looks great! Pretty straightforward and utilitarian, which is how I like my pedals. €200 more than the ToneX pedal, but the higher quality captures and more features definitely makes up for the difference in price.
@fuzzaldryn96262 ай бұрын
... Especially if you consider in order to play proper good quality nam models as of now you still need a good audio interface plus a rather capable PC and yet, the performance (especially the latency) wouldn't be equally good.
@HanhaloArt2 ай бұрын
fx loop to use with other analog gear would be such a benefit
@luxintenebris66142 ай бұрын
I like a sturdy tool and functional design, but this thing is so incredibly ugly! Why??? How do you guys want to be competitive, when most people would be ashamed to put such an ugly device on their beloved pedal boards? And yes, it looks so bad, it's NOT a matter of taste anymore 😀
@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugs2 ай бұрын
I personally feel the opposite. You don't need to be horrible about it, and if you are it most likely says alot more about you than who you are being horrible towards.
@nebroTtfeoH2 ай бұрын
Looks very interesting. What’s the innovation in comparison to a MOD Dwarf? I only see it a bit more guitarist focused with certain knobs to directly adjust the typical settings. But the MOD Dwarf seems to have much more sound capabilities with all the effects and wiring options. Or am I missing something??
@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugs2 ай бұрын
The Mod Dwarf doesn't have enough CPU power to load any standard architecture NAM models. So, if you want something to load standard NAM models (the vast majority of models on Tonehunt), NAM Player is the only option in a hardware pedal. The idea is to do that job perfectly, without any struggles, which means a 10x more powerful CPU is requited. Also, additional features such as loading Cab IRs, Reverb IRs, a delay, other FX options are planned.
I think dime head is probably a crappy Chinese company
@fuzzaldryn96262 ай бұрын
@@aviolentpurple9925 Nope. Two Guys from north Germany, who started developing this idea in their free time while full-time working as software developers and electronic engineers for different companies.
@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugs2 ай бұрын
@@aviolentpurple9925 Incorrect. Dimehead are based in Germany.
@aviolentpurple99252 ай бұрын
Ah okay thanks!!!
@XChristianNoirX2 ай бұрын
The one thing that's gotten me not to the pull the trigger on any sort of profiling pedal yet is that none have Spdif. The reason is that I integrate the Kemper with the Fractal stuff via spdif to drop the Kemper in as an FX block to add profiling to the Fractal stuff. The large Kemper has spdif but the profile player does not. The ToneX pedals don't have it either, and neither does this. I suppose someone could have a solution where the USB plug could put out USB audio somehow to some sort of converter to SPDIF. It would also have to run at 24bit 48k to work with Fractal. My Fracta/Kemper spdif setup has been working great, but it's not portable enough anymore. I can't lug a big rack around these days. However, the benefits are great. The Fractal has better converter sonics or whatever, which make the Kemper sound better. Mainly, I've become totally dependent on my Fractal for FX because I can't duplicate them with any other device (believe me, I've spent $1000's trying, so it's non-negotiable for me at this point. :/ I could patch a "profile player" into a Fractal via audio cables, but that will introduce more conversion steps and latency, while eating up I/O. I also do use the 4-cable method already, so it becomes a bigger problem.
@lankududniteshift2 ай бұрын
Maybe in the next update, the Noise Gate threshold could be saved with different threshold level (or even switched off) per preset instead of globally. This is really a very promising product but as it is (same goes with the Tonex & Tonex One), it's not for me. Don't get me wrong, like i said this is a really promising product, but for me personally, i would like to have a stereo capable outputs (& even sweeter if it has separate stereo DI outputs with the Cab sim switched ON, while the 1/4" stereo outputs, having switchable Cab sim ON or Off)..... also a stereo effects loop built in. Other than that, i am very sure this product will be great for many others. Again, these are just my personal preference.
@dylanjastle2 ай бұрын
This thing is awesome
@daveredfern82582 ай бұрын
Kemper for ever.
@Jerrythill2 ай бұрын
No stereo?
@JohnWiku2 ай бұрын
It's great that this already exists. I'd buy one today if the price was closer to the tonex pedal. This is way too expensive as it stands.
@CarcPazu2 ай бұрын
With the release of the Tonex One pedal at $180, I don't think they can match that price.
@ObtuseRhombus2 ай бұрын
@@CarcPazu The ToneX One just upset everything. It's too good at that price point, especially when you factor in size and weight. Buy 2, leave them under the pedalboard. Set & Forget.
@CarcPazu2 ай бұрын
@@ObtuseRhombus Yes exactly, I actually bought two full size Tonex pedals to run them in stereo with a TC MIMIQ Doubler. Runs great but two of them takes so much place on my desk. Those tiny Tonex One are perfect. I root for that NAM player though, I hope it will work well and that people will embrace it, they'd be a great addition to this ecosystem.
@ObtuseRhombus2 ай бұрын
@CarcPazu Agreed! I am all for NAM and it having a physical home on a pedalboard. I think it has amazing opportunities for adaptation into a small format pedal. I can't wait to see what the open source community does over the next couple years!
@CarcPazu2 ай бұрын
@@ObtuseRhombus First order of things should be to have a proper installer like any other software, maybe it's already solved but last time I checked you had to compile something or whatever geeks do with their github gizmo thing… I never tried because of that.
@yargnad2 ай бұрын
_"DimeHead"_ screams 14 year old...
@jdubbs96552 ай бұрын
So, I already own a Quad Cortex. Am I missing something? How would this offering be more advantageous? 🤔
@yargnad2 ай бұрын
If you already own a Quad Cortex, this isn't for you.
@shorerocks2 ай бұрын
I have a Kemper for years. Super happy. Still interested. Just don't tell my wife.
@TheRecurrence2 ай бұрын
NAM generally edges out NSP. So if you have infinite money you may want this as well :)
@wolvesandguitars2 ай бұрын
Looks like old tech
@fuzzaldryn96262 ай бұрын
Maybe on purpose? It's not like electric guitars and tube amps are incredible high tech eiither. 😂
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Man sounds phat!!!
My only concern is the spacing between footswitches. They seem a bit close to each other for accurate footwork and risk of misclicking two at once in a live situation
It's always a compromise between board space and ease of use. You can easily connect an external MIDI controller to change presets.
The 0.5ms latency sounds too good to be true, I hope it really delivers!
Feel free to watch Leo Gibson's video about it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJqjyNOyj93Qj6Q.html
Awesome to see a community project turn into this!
Can you guys show how to implement Dimehead with pedals for live and studio? How would one connect pedals that normally go into FX loop? LINE OUT? and then from the last pedal into a mixer? Literally the one thing that is stopping me from buying/
Can you guys show how to implement Dimehead with pedals for live and studio? How would one connect pedals that normally go into FX loop? LINE OUT? and then from the last pedal into a mixer? Literally the one thing that is stopping me from buying/
this thing is gonna kill tonex. rip.
Here are my first thoughts on the NAM player. I bought the pedal at full price, so my opinions are genuine. I've played it alongside the ToneX all week, using the same AmalgamAudio profiles to keep the comparison fair. In my experience, the NAM player is superior to the ToneX in terms of tone quality. It feels better under the fingers, and the customer service is fantastic. Although the NAM costs more than the ToneX, I do believe the extra money is well spent if you care about tone.
Compared to Tank G, it is 20 times cheaper, but the quality difference is no more than 30%.
It's a little bit expensive, compared to say a Tonex pedal.
Third 😊
Does it support 500ms IR’s. I love some real room mic IR’s mixed in… I guess the convolution reverb loader would handle those if you crank the mix to 100%. Great job guys!
are you guys shipping to brazil?
Are you guys shipping to brazil?
at that cost, touch screen would have been the go
Wow, very authentic.
Currently testing a DIMEHEAD NAM player. Man, the low latency of this thing is just stunning. Factory captures are also pretty, pretty nice. Espescially considering how many mediocre captures you can find on Tonehunt sometimes.
Is there a plan to include a boost state on second press of a selected preset? That's a good feature to have. Ideally, it would comprise a change in all parameters needed (gain, effects/mix, volume, etc.)
Does it have ambient reverb, like shimmer type, that would be nice, also can it do snapshots, like 4 snapshots per preset/song that also be useful
you can load ANY Reverb IR into the Convolver part
If it's 200€ more than Tonex, and 400€ more than Tonex One, this is way to expensive. And no sound examples? Making a product much more expensive than a well designed counterpart?
Because nam requires many times more computing power than Tonex ;-) Take a look at our KZread channel and homepage first before you just complain.
What UI framework/kit does this use? I'm doing some embedded stuff and I'm hunting for a decent UI kit with menu heirarchy etc...
We tried many UI frameworks. Most of them are unusable, especially for LCDs. Eventually we developed our own :)
@@dimehead It looks super nice. What resolution is the LCD? I don't suppose you're open-sourcing the UI framework? :D
That's really a good product, but for the price I would have expected some more features; 2 model slots in series (so to be able to load a pedal model and an amp model), and a dual IR with stereo output and pan for each one of the 2 impulses. 1ms latency would still be great if 2 models in series require more latency. Wouldn't mind about reverb, although it's useful - and what's the point of a mono reverb by the way?
Man, 600 euros... I know, I know... But, man... Good equipament anyway.
but ,,but .. ,, real things valve amp is always better choice .... rest is only -smoke on the water .
Awesome! Ordered one, as so far only the NAM VST is really able to satisfyingly reproduce my Friedman Smallbox 50. All the other current solutions kinda fail. So I'm expecting great from this! Can you tell us what kind of processor you are using? It must be some beefy hardware.
You would be surprised.. but nope, no beefy hardware. Just think about it: less than 500mA current draw. ;-) Made possible by some clever and well thought code optimizations, which is also partly why this thing comes with this initial "hefty" price tag. It's not like they just took the open source NAM as it is and simply build some hardware. It's meticulous software optimizations AND hardware development (which could be fairly called the easier part of this product).
@@fuzzaldryn9626 The used Cortex A72 is actually almost a decade old. So I wonder what they did to the Wavenet libs to make them run efficiently on that platform. ;)
@@Mr_Bollie... Well, that's the secret coding sauce. ;)
@@fuzzaldryn9626 Not a fan of "secret sauce", when it comes to base a product on open source software. It should be a give and take, so it would be nice to see any optimizations be shared back with the community. Perhaps that has been happening already, dunno. :)
Yeah, it’s against the license to hide the software changes to NAM
please , an clean normal sound of an amp , that is important
I'm a big fan of all the new devices hitting the market that move the great new software onto the stage for live performance.
Need Global EQ ???
Very nice. But the UI kinda old like kemper. Im interested in the long run
Holy shit! I knew this was coming
I loved the bit where you showed how it sounds by playing guitar using some example models
kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYh_2JOvo7HKpbw.html
What is the latency
0.5ms - take a look at our homepage at dimehead.de for more details. :)
Just get an amp
Then capture the amp, and then, load that into a small pedal unit and enjoy anywhere you like. Portable!
@@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugsgigs don't work like that
The man in this video should be speaking about nature or someone 😂
I just bought a fm3 a month ago. Never stopped me before. I buy this as well. Screw practicing guitar. I love gear. ❤
Lol!
Nothing to regret about, choose the FM3 as a stereo time based fx after Dimehead- should be fantastic
Hahahahhaha😂
Looks great! Pretty straightforward and utilitarian, which is how I like my pedals. €200 more than the ToneX pedal, but the higher quality captures and more features definitely makes up for the difference in price.
... Especially if you consider in order to play proper good quality nam models as of now you still need a good audio interface plus a rather capable PC and yet, the performance (especially the latency) wouldn't be equally good.
fx loop to use with other analog gear would be such a benefit
I like a sturdy tool and functional design, but this thing is so incredibly ugly! Why??? How do you guys want to be competitive, when most people would be ashamed to put such an ugly device on their beloved pedal boards? And yes, it looks so bad, it's NOT a matter of taste anymore 😀
I personally feel the opposite. You don't need to be horrible about it, and if you are it most likely says alot more about you than who you are being horrible towards.
Looks very interesting. What’s the innovation in comparison to a MOD Dwarf? I only see it a bit more guitarist focused with certain knobs to directly adjust the typical settings. But the MOD Dwarf seems to have much more sound capabilities with all the effects and wiring options. Or am I missing something??
The Mod Dwarf doesn't have enough CPU power to load any standard architecture NAM models. So, if you want something to load standard NAM models (the vast majority of models on Tonehunt), NAM Player is the only option in a hardware pedal. The idea is to do that job perfectly, without any struggles, which means a 10x more powerful CPU is requited. Also, additional features such as loading Cab IRs, Reverb IRs, a delay, other FX options are planned.
When can we buy this?
you can pre-order now ;-)
A.I. voice and no audio examples?
kzread.info/dash/bejne/kX1rmtulds_amKQ.html&ab_channel=DIMEHEAD
I think dime head is probably a crappy Chinese company
@@aviolentpurple9925 Nope. Two Guys from north Germany, who started developing this idea in their free time while full-time working as software developers and electronic engineers for different companies.
@@aviolentpurple9925 Incorrect. Dimehead are based in Germany.
Ah okay thanks!!!
The one thing that's gotten me not to the pull the trigger on any sort of profiling pedal yet is that none have Spdif. The reason is that I integrate the Kemper with the Fractal stuff via spdif to drop the Kemper in as an FX block to add profiling to the Fractal stuff. The large Kemper has spdif but the profile player does not. The ToneX pedals don't have it either, and neither does this. I suppose someone could have a solution where the USB plug could put out USB audio somehow to some sort of converter to SPDIF. It would also have to run at 24bit 48k to work with Fractal. My Fracta/Kemper spdif setup has been working great, but it's not portable enough anymore. I can't lug a big rack around these days. However, the benefits are great. The Fractal has better converter sonics or whatever, which make the Kemper sound better. Mainly, I've become totally dependent on my Fractal for FX because I can't duplicate them with any other device (believe me, I've spent $1000's trying, so it's non-negotiable for me at this point. :/ I could patch a "profile player" into a Fractal via audio cables, but that will introduce more conversion steps and latency, while eating up I/O. I also do use the 4-cable method already, so it becomes a bigger problem.
Maybe in the next update, the Noise Gate threshold could be saved with different threshold level (or even switched off) per preset instead of globally. This is really a very promising product but as it is (same goes with the Tonex & Tonex One), it's not for me. Don't get me wrong, like i said this is a really promising product, but for me personally, i would like to have a stereo capable outputs (& even sweeter if it has separate stereo DI outputs with the Cab sim switched ON, while the 1/4" stereo outputs, having switchable Cab sim ON or Off)..... also a stereo effects loop built in. Other than that, i am very sure this product will be great for many others. Again, these are just my personal preference.
This thing is awesome
Kemper for ever.
No stereo?
It's great that this already exists. I'd buy one today if the price was closer to the tonex pedal. This is way too expensive as it stands.
With the release of the Tonex One pedal at $180, I don't think they can match that price.
@@CarcPazu The ToneX One just upset everything. It's too good at that price point, especially when you factor in size and weight. Buy 2, leave them under the pedalboard. Set & Forget.
@@ObtuseRhombus Yes exactly, I actually bought two full size Tonex pedals to run them in stereo with a TC MIMIQ Doubler. Runs great but two of them takes so much place on my desk. Those tiny Tonex One are perfect. I root for that NAM player though, I hope it will work well and that people will embrace it, they'd be a great addition to this ecosystem.
@CarcPazu Agreed! I am all for NAM and it having a physical home on a pedalboard. I think it has amazing opportunities for adaptation into a small format pedal. I can't wait to see what the open source community does over the next couple years!
@@ObtuseRhombus First order of things should be to have a proper installer like any other software, maybe it's already solved but last time I checked you had to compile something or whatever geeks do with their github gizmo thing… I never tried because of that.
_"DimeHead"_ screams 14 year old...
So, I already own a Quad Cortex. Am I missing something? How would this offering be more advantageous? 🤔
If you already own a Quad Cortex, this isn't for you.
I have a Kemper for years. Super happy. Still interested. Just don't tell my wife.
NAM generally edges out NSP. So if you have infinite money you may want this as well :)
Looks like old tech
Maybe on purpose? It's not like electric guitars and tube amps are incredible high tech eiither. 😂