About TONE3000
TONE3000 (T3K) is the world’s largest community-driven platform for sharing and discovering digital models of amps, pedals, outboard gear, full rigs, signal chains, and more.
T3K is built on the open-source project Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) by Steve Atkinson. A huge thanks to Steve, Pablo, Dom, Ross, Scott, Jon, and the entire NAM community ♥️
FAQ
General
Yes!
TONE3000 gives you access to tens of thousands of digital models of amps, pedals, full rigs, outboard gear, and signal chains. You can use these models to create studio-quality recordings at home or load them onto compatible hardware to perform live.
Digital models save you time and money while providing endless choices. Here are some popular uses, though there are probably way more:
- Create studio-quality recordings without expensive studio sessions
- Play live without lugging around expensive and heavy gear that's prone to damage
- An organized library of your favorite tones
- Experiment with tones without retracking, reamping or setting up gear
- Recreate tones (e.g. tonematch) even if you forgot your signal chain or settings
- Share your favorite tones with friends, family or lovers
- Play models of your gear through headphones/monitors instead of blasting through a wall of 4x12s and having your neighbors call the police
Amp modeling pedals cost $550–$2000+ and only capture tones from amps. With T3K, you can capture tones from any signal chain for free on your computer. Plus, Neural Amp Modeling captures are widely regarded as the highest quality and most accurate.
Neural Amp Modeler is an open-source project created by Steve Atkinson that uses deep learning to create digital models of guitar amplifiers, pedals and signal chains with state-of-the-art accuracy.
Neural modeling uses machine learning to accurately replicate the tone created by audio equipment. Instead of relying on traditional digital modeling, neural models "learn" the unique sonic characteristics of gear from recordings.
Digital modeling currently captures a "snapshot" of gear at specific knob settings. To cover different settings, users create multiple models.
A tone pack (sometimes called "tone" for short) is a collection of models or impulse responses (IRs).
An Impulse Response (IR) is a digital model of a speaker cabinet, reverb, or room acoustics, captured as a waveform.
Yes! We worked really hard to build a "preview player" that lets you hear every tone on TONE3000 with a variety of DIs and IRs.
Yes! Simply share the link to the captured tone.
Our favorite gear has numbers in its name… so why not ours?
Getting Started
We're excited that you're getting started with gear captures. Here's what you'll need to play your instrument through a gear capture.
Requirements:
- A computer with internet access.
- A DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like GarageBand, Logic, or Pro Tools.
- An audio interface to connect your instrument (guitar, MIDI keyboard, etc.).
- The free NAM plugin (loads gear captures from TONE3000 into your DAW).
How to Use TONE3000:
- Download a Capture – Go to tone3000.com and download a gear capture (e.g., a Fender Twin Reverb).
- Load the NAM Plugin – Open your DAW and add the NAM plugin to a track. (If you're new to this, check online guides for adding plugins.)
- Connect Your Instrument – Plug your instrument into your audio interface and route it to the track with the NAM plugin.
- Load the Capture – In the NAM plugin, select "Model" and choose your downloaded capture.
- Start Playing! – Your instrument now runs through a digital model of the gear!
Capturing Your Gear
We hope so! Here's why:
- Fast, free training on RTX-4090s (no need to use your own resources)
- Dead simple workflow
- Cloud-based: Start training and close your computer
- Train multiple models concurrently
- Organized library of your tones
- Easily share your models
- Preview models with a range of DIs
- Upload either a recording of the provided sweep signal through your gear or a dry/wet signal pair (DI and matching stem).
- T3K trains your tone model using cloud GPUs—no complex local setups or coding required.
- Download your tone as an open source NAM file, compatible with free and paid plugins for use in your favorite DAW, and also any compatible hardware. You can find a list of compatible products on the Neural Amp Modeler homepage.
We're a venture-backed studio, which allows us to offer free GPU resources for you. Eventually, we'll need to figure out a "business plan."
Training typically takes a few minutes to an hour, depending on the number of epochs. TONE3000 trains 100 epochs in 90 seconds.
Local training setups are too complex and amp modeling pedals are too expensive. T3K makes it simple, fast, and free to train models, with a sleek UX that (hopefully) anyone can use.
The following are direct quotes from our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service:
- You retain full ownership of all audio files, models, and related data you upload.
- TONE3000 does not claim ownership of your uploaded content and will not sell your data or models.
- By uploading files to TONE3000, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the data for internal research purposes to develop and improve our services.
- This license is limited to internal purposes and does not grant us the right to share, sell, or distribute your data.
An example of how we use data for internal research is our feature called "Best Fit," which delivers the same quality model, only faster. We wrote about it here.
If you would like to opt out of having your data used for research purposes, please email us at support@tone3000.com.
Absolutely! Here are some ideas:
- Record a MIDI progression with a MIDI trumpet and MIDI guitar. Train a Dry/Wet model using the MIDI guitar as the Dry signal and the MIDI trumpet as the Wet signal. Play your real guitar through the model—could it make your guitar sound like a trumpet?
- Record vocals with an SM57 ($100 mic) and a U87 ($3,000 mic). Train a Dry/Wet model using the SM57 as the Dry signal and the U87 as the Wet signal. Could this make a $100 mic sound like a $3,000 mic?
Experiment!
Support
Please spam us with your ideas and feature requests! Email us at support@tone3000.com
Email us at support@tone3000.com.