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New to TONEX. Running the app on my iPad and connected to the plug without issue. While the clean amps sound OK, the higher gain amps just sound really bad. I know guitar players like to use expressive language to describe guitar things, so it sounds crispy. Everything just has a unpleasant harshness to it, especially in the upper mid range and higher frequencies. I might even go as far as using the word sizzle, in a bad way.

I’ve adjusted the trim to 0.0, and I’ve tried a pair of Beats on ear headphones as well as an older pair of decent Sony over the ear headphones.

i’m also having trouble with presets not saving changes as well as preset names not saving, but the sound quality is my primary concern at the moment.

Why is the iOS app of the Tonex Plug so buggy.
At first I only had issues when saving presets. Most of the time, the app didn’t really save the preset, although the saving screen.
Currently the iOS app is completely unusable.
When it starts up, it shows one standard preset, although the shown preset is not what you hear. Changing any settings in the app does not affect the sound. Even the tuner is not showing any response.
In addition, when the battery is empty, the device just shuts down, no warning.

I really like the sound of the Tonex Plug, and for me as a hobby player I love the inconvenience the device promises.. but like this it’s only a frustration.

I had a Positive Grid Spark mini before. The sound was way worse.. but it worked.

It took me a while to get the cab EQ dialed in, but now I think it sounds pretty great, and honestly, not THAT much different than a traditional guitar cab. I was worried about high gain stuff, but I think it sounds legit.

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I had a problem I suspect many of you know: record a few presets, compare them in a mix, and even with matched LUFS they sit at completely different perceived volumes. A dense crunch pushes harder than a clean tone at the same K-weighted number — the ear isn't a meter.

I spent a few months figuring out why. The short answer: LUFS K-weighting treats all frequencies equally, but the ear doesn't. A dense midrange-heavy tone triggers more loudness perception than the number suggests.

So I built something. It measures perceived loudness using a psychoacoustic Bark-band model — same principle as Zwicker's loudness model — and gives you:

- The exact dB correction to apply to each preset's output to match perceived loudness to a reference

- A timbre-only "Character" score (presence, dynamics, stereo width) separated from volume — tells you if a difference is a gain issue or an EQ issue

- Cut-through score — how well the spectrum sits in a dense mix

- 8-band spectral balance with concrete parametric EQ suggestions

- Loudness curve over time (N50 sustain / N5 peaks)

Workflow: record the same passage through each preset, drop the files in, pick a reference, press Analyze. Runs in the browser, no install.

I'm selling it but happy to answer questions about the model or the approach first. Has anyone else run into this problem and how did you solve it?

https://www.ppianalyzer.com/

With this kind of price drop it would almost seem it has to be.

I bought a Tonex One to use as a clean pedal platform on my pedalboard. I gigged recently using it with two clean Fender amp patches. Unfortunately it didn’t sound very good. I’m sure some of this is user error. But Tonex does themselves no favors with this software. It’s a nightmare.

I just want to audition some clean amps and put them in the pedal. Maybe a Princeton and a Marshall of some sort.

I don’t want to wade through hundreds of user submitted patches and I don’t need presets with effects. I already have effects.

Currently using some Friedman pedals for dirt, clean boost for leads, a chorus pedal, and an EQD dispatch master for reverb/delay. I’ve tried the Tonex pedal both before and after the time based effects. Not much different really.

Please help. Make it make sense.

Thanks.

This software is crushing my soul.

Check the pics. I think I have it set up configured correctly.

Logic works, neural works.

No signal is getting to the software as the input meter is not showing anything.

Suggestions?

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