It's finally here! This is my lightweight facelift of the official NAM plugin, with a gear gallery and ability to hot swap captures, amps and cabs right in the plugin. I kept it as lean as the original with no extra fuss, just your collection of NAM and IR.

https://github.com/kylewetton/nam-division/releases/tag/v1.0.3b

Get started with the Readme file (included in the package).

Windows and VST users, I'd consider it a personal favour if you'd give it a test and report back to me. I've tested it on Mac with AU inside Logic and all works great.

u/overcloseness — 16 days ago
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I'm a guitar pedal builder, and made my dream project for my QC because these don't seem to exist: A pedal that automates all my Quad Cortex changes on stage. Here's a video with explanation, scene change demo and automatic "expression pedal" demo. It also has click and stereo backing track output.

It look me months to finish this. It's my first Raspberry Pi Pico project.

Features:

- Automatic midi output (aligned with the playback whenever you want it to happen)

- Click output (for drummers IEMs)

- Stereo backing tracks output (for FOA), can output mono from left channel if FOA doesn't have space.

- Dynamically generated click and count-in. The click you hear in the demos isn't an audio track but generated live on the Chrona

- Banks (each bank being a setlist of tracks)

- Fully controllable via two footswitches

- Tempo LED that doubles as an aux button (used to open the menu)

- Expression MIDI support (ramp up and down whatever you want)

- 32GB memory

AI disclosure:

I'm a full stack software engineer and did most of the microcontroller myself, save for asking AI to help me make USB file transfer faster as it kept getting bogged down from RAM use.

PCB and CAD design all my own (from my guitar pedal background)

Desktop app is pretty much vibe coded, directed it feature by feature until I was happy

u/overcloseness — 1 day ago

[Meta] Some of you may have noticed, but we've opted in to Reddits new feature to allow videos in comments. Feel free to use it for sound demos directly on your post, or 2 hour long History of Roman Empire documentaries

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u/overcloseness — 2 months ago

I have an MP3 of a song that was recorded without a click but the drummer was really steady (The Trammps), hovers around 130bpm. Does Logic have a one click solution to flex the entire song and warp it directly onto the beat?

Or am I going to need to flex each bar manually?

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u/overcloseness — 2 months ago

Chorus is so popular, but I can’t find a way to use it. To me it’s the sound of the 80s/90s and early 00s radio rock. Is that what everyone’s using it for? Can someone please share examples of modern guitar music that uses chorus in a more interesting way?

I’m so sure I’m not giving it a fair shot, because I can’t help but think of chorus as that sound. It’s not a criticism of that sound at all, this is confusion why it’s pretty much the most common modulation effect I see on people’s boards

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u/overcloseness — 2 months ago

[Stompbox Showdowns] Update

I haven’t forgotten about it, and I know it’s late.

Here’s what happened: Usually, in the two months between announcement and voting, it’s easy for me to filter out the posts that were intended for the competitions theme and the posts that incorrectly used the flair during the competition.

This actually happens a lot. I’d say almost 40% of the posts with a Stompbox Showdowns flair are tagged randomly and they had no intention of meeting the theme requirements or even knowing the competition exists.

Because the theme this time around was “anything goes”, the Stompbox Showdowns “entries” are like 70 posts deep. Way, way more than usual. I don’t want you to vote on posts that obviously were never intended for the competition, and it takes a couple hours work setting up the voting stage (usually) and turns it into a multi-day endeavour.

So up until now I’ve been so caught up in work and life that I kept kicking this can down the road.

So here’s what I’m gonna do: I’ll upload 15 of my favourites from that time period, the ones that stand out. If you entry didn’t make it into voting and you feel like I unfairly missed it, feel free to add it yourself to the voting post or reach out and I can help you add it.

If you happen to read this before voting starts and you have an entry, chuck the link in the comments below, I’ll be setting up voting in the next 24 hours!

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u/overcloseness — 2 months ago

NAM users that record songs with multiple guitar tracks and parts, what’s your CPU management workflow?

This is something I’m trying to understand as I set up a NAM workflow for a co-writer, who uses an M5 with 24GB RAM.

I use Quad Cortex and my recording gets laid down already baked, so this is the one thing I haven’t had to think about until now. What’s your workflow when it comes to managing CPU performance during recording where you’d have multiple tracks with a NAM running (quad tracking a part), are you bouncing in place as you go?

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u/overcloseness — 3 months ago

Here’s a fuzz I built, it’s a rams head Big Muff with a three band active EQ (frequencies can be boosted, not just cut)

I have many more but here ya go

u/overcloseness — 3 months ago