Three Full unlocks for hands-on YouTube reviews

Hey everyone! I’m Samet, the developer of NAM A2 Recorder at Maya Apps. This is a promotional developer update, shared with moderator permission.

I posted here before launch. Since then, I’ve been working on making the app more useful as a guitar and bass practice rig. I wanted to show one workflow in particular:

I record one dry riff into the PRE looper, then change NAM captures while the exact same performance keeps playing.

One riff, different tones

The PRE looper records your dry input before the processing chain. While the phrase repeats, you can put your instrument down and manually change NAM captures, cabinet IRs, EQ or effects.

My usual workflow is:

1. Connect a compatible USB audio interface and load a NAM capture.
2. Select PRE and record a short guitar or bass phrase.
3. Let the loop play.
4. Change the capture, IR or tone settings and listen to the same performance through the new setup.

It’s particularly useful when you want both hands free to adjust the sound.

Captures can have different output levels, so start with your monitoring volume low when switching between them.

POST looping is also available: it records the processed sound for the usual looping and layering workflow.

Practice with drums or your own backing tracks

The practice section now includes:

• Rock, Funk and Shuffle drum grooves, with independent level control.
• Local backing-track playback for playing along with your own audio files.
• Tap Tempo for setting your practice tempo.
• WAV recording for keeping a performance or a tone idea.

Build your own NAM rig

You can load your own NAM captures and cabinet IRs. Full access includes:

• Two NAM slots, with serial or parallel routing and blend control.
• Presets and four Scenes for recalling different sounds.
• An advanced three-band input compressor.
• Delay, chorus, flanger, phaser and tremolo.
• Extended MIDI control and MIDI Learn.

There’s also a basic compressor, a chromatic tuner, six-band EQ, USB/Bluetooth MIDI support, and DSP load monitoring and protection.

As a bass player, I’ve also tried to make the bass workflow useful. For example, parallel routing lets you blend a cleaner branch with a more driven amp-style branch.

The Bass EQ uses 80 Hz · 250 Hz · 500 Hz · 1.5 kHz · 3 kHz · 5 kHz.

What you need

My reference setup is a Samsung Galaxy S23 + Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, mainly with bass.

You’ll need a compatible 64-bit ARM Android device running Android 8.1 or newer, a class-compliant USB audio interface, and your own NAM/IR files.

Audio processing and recordings stay on the device. Latency, stability and processing capacity depend on your phone, interface, captures and settings, so please test your own rig before purchasing.

There are free core features, a cumulative 60-minute Full trial with online verification, and an optional one-time Full unlock. Full can be active on up to two Android devices.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mayaapps.nama2recorder

Earlier practice demo:
https://youtu.be/styYYGRn7uk

The video was recorded before some of the newer practice features.

If you try it, I’d love to hear your phone model, Android version, audio interface, latency mode, capture type, and what worked or didn’t.

Would you use the PRE looper mainly for choosing captures, adjusting your tone, or testing effects? Happy to explain the routing or help with setup here.

Three Full unlocks for hands-on YouTube reviews

I’m also offering three complimentary Full unlocks to people who would like to test NAM A2 Recorder with their own guitar or bass rig and publish a hands-on YouTube review.

If you’re interested, send me a Reddit DM with your YouTube channel, Android device, USB interface and a short idea of what you’d like to test. I’ll select three volunteers based on compatible hardware and a useful hands-on test plan, then confirm the arrangement privately.

Full access will be provided before testing. Your review is your own: honest criticism is welcome, and there is no requirement for a positive verdict, a Google Play rating or an upvote.

Please disclose in the video and description that the Full license was provided free of charge, and use YouTube’s paid-promotion disclosure.

The gift covers the app’s Full unlock; you’ll need your own hardware and NAM/IR files.

I’ve been experimenting for quite a while with the idea of using an Android phone + class-compliant USB audio interface as a complete NAM A2 rig rather than just a simple profile player.

My main setup is a Galaxy S23 with a Scarlett 2i2, and the signal chain I ended up building around it now includes two independent NAM A2 slots, serial/parallel routing, IR loading, guitar/bass EQ, compression, modulation, presets/scenes, Bluetooth MIDI and recording.

The part I’m most interested in discussing here is the actual workflow.

On bass, for example, parallel routing lets me keep one path fuller/cleaner while blending another path through a more aggressive amp or drive NAM.

On guitar, the same setup can be used more like a conventional dual-amp rig.

I’ve also been testing different latency modes and A2 Full/Lite models to see how practical this actually feels on Android hardware.

For people here already using NAM or other amp sims:

• Would two NAM slots actually be useful in your normal rig?
• Do you care more about lowest possible latency or having a larger effects chain?
• Are you using Android with USB audio at all?
• Guitar or bass?

I’m the developer of the Android app I’ve been using for these tests, so I’m happy to answer questions about the implementation too.

Mostly interested in how people here would actually use a setup like this.

UPDATE — IT'S LIVE ON GOOGLE PLAY! 🎉

NAM A2 Recorder is now officially available on Android.

Thank you to everyone who commented and showed interest while the app was waiting for review. I've been looking forward to finally letting you try it on your own devices.

There's a cumulative 60-minute Full trial, so you can test the complete rig — including dual NAM A2 slots, serial/parallel routing, advanced compression, modulation, scenes and extended MIDI control — with your own hardware before deciding whether it works for you.

Google Play:

NAM A2 Recorder: Guitar & Bass

I'm especially interested in real-world feedback about device compatibility, audio interfaces, latency and stability.

I hope you enjoy it!

Hey everyone,

I've been working on an Android app called NAM A2 Recorder, and it has just entered the final stage before its Google Play release.

The original goal was simple:

Can an Android phone + a class-compliant USB audio interface become a genuinely usable portable NAM rig?

The project ended up growing quite a bit beyond a basic NAM loader.

Current signal chain / features include:

• Two independent NAM A2 slots

• Serial or parallel NAM processing

• Independent input selection and output control

• IR loading

• Separate 6-band EQ optimized for guitar and bass

• Basic compressor

• 3-band multiband input compressor

• Chorus, flanger, phaser and tremolo

• Chromatic tuner

• Presets and 4-scene switching

• Bluetooth MIDI controller support and MIDI Learn

• WAV recording

• DSP load monitoring and protection

• Multiple latency modes

• Full and Lite A2 processing modes

I've also tried not to treat bass as an afterthought.

The EQ has dedicated Bass behaviour, and the dual-NAM architecture lets you build things like clean/low-end + processed/amp-style parallel rigs.

My main test setup has been:

Samsung Galaxy S23

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB

Bass guitar

NAM A2 + IR + compressor/effects

I've also tested it on a Galaxy Z Flip5.

At this point I'm deliberately trying not to add another pile of features before launch. I'm more interested in finding anything that feels wrong, confusing or genuinely missing.

So, especially for people already using NAM:

1. Would two NAM slots + serial/parallel routing actually be useful in your real rig?
2. Is there anything obvious missing from the signal chain?
3. Would you use Bluetooth MIDI / footswitch control on Android?
4. Guitarists: what would you expect from a mobile NAM rig?
5. Bassists: what would make this genuinely useful instead of just another guitar app with a “Bass” switch?

Google Play release should be in the next few days.

I'll add the link here once it goes live.

I'm the developer, so criticism is very welcome.