heath wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 7:52 pm
The Tonex One still has 99% of the features of the big one. They sound identical. You are limited to three models that are easily accessible without getting overly fiddly to get to them. If you need to make adjustments to your effects/compressor settings regularly you will probably need a computer. If you are a set it and forget it kind of person, you are probably fine with this unit.
I keep my One as my "oh crap" something is broke or as a "I am too lazy to pack a board for this short gig". It lives in my gig bag. I keep two presets on the A/B mode that lets you toggle between them. One is a crunchy matchless capture with some delay and verb that cleans up with the volume knob and the other is an over the top high gain lead tone with more reverb and delay. I have made it through entire gigs multiple times with just a guitar, the One and in ears and it sounded good.
that sounds good, i have my computer here under my desk and my amp rack right next to me so i could just have it on my desk and run it into one of my loops?? does it sound good in a loop?
It depends on the capture really. I find if I do a preamp capture into a loop, it sounds stellar through an amp effects return. If I run a full amp capture it can get overly compressed. On that note, if you have any basic interface with a couple of inputs you can create decent captures. My ADA MP1 and Rockmaster captures are 99% sound and feel and some of the captures like my Laney GH30R combo actually sound better than the amp (less congested) due to tweaks I made in the eq and mid range.
In all honesty, the full amp captures, especially the ones that are direct captures (no speaker cab baked in) and you add your own IR sound better than my recordings of my amps through cabs anyways. I am seriously considering getting one of the Tonex cabs to just monitor myself when I play at home.
I wanted the bigger Tonex, but honestly, I think the Tonex one is all I need. When I record songs, I typically use a combo of real amps into the Capture with IR's and some sort of digital stuff. For under $200, I'll have to check it out, plus it also seems like it might be nice for late night playing when I don't want to pull out the Pod Go
I got one too as well as the little capture DI box. Amazon had a huge discount going and I got both of them for about $500.
turns out, my interface can't do the proper routing for capturing (feedback loop) and after talking with a few others, they had problems with their interfaces too. Seems like one of the M-audio units and the focusrite interfaces also struggle with routing.
Sooo, I coughed up another $300 for an IK media interface JUST for captures. It's out for delivery so hopefully I can mess around with that this weekend.
The headaches trying to get all this shit workign and connected only makes me appreciate the Nano Cortex that much more. For capturing amps, it solves literally all the problems and makes it effortless to capture amps.
fastredponycar wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:10 pm
I got one too as well as the little capture DI box. Amazon had a huge discount going and I got both of them for about $500.
turns out, my interface can't do the proper routing for capturing (feedback loop) and after talking with a few others, they had problems with their interfaces too. Seems like one of the M-audio units and the focusrite interfaces also struggle with routing.
Sooo, I coughed up another $300 for an IK media interface JUST for captures. It's out for delivery so hopefully I can mess around with that this weekend.
The headaches trying to get all this shit workign and connected only makes me appreciate the Nano Cortex that much more. For capturing amps, it solves literally all the problems and makes it effortless to capture amps.
Man that is wild! I started doing my first captures with a $50 behringer unit and an old bypassed boss pedal to get my interface output level to appropriate guitar level. I have also used my helix for the capture routing as well with decent results.
I will honestly be shocked if IK doesn't drop an all-in-one unit with built-in capture setup, more in-depth effects options, and spots for drive and amp captures or parallel amp captures. The market is there and they have all the pieces in house. It's just getting it all in one unit and at the right price point.
fastredponycar wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:10 pm
I got one too as well as the little capture DI box. Amazon had a huge discount going and I got both of them for about $500.
turns out, my interface can't do the proper routing for capturing (feedback loop) and after talking with a few others, they had problems with their interfaces too. Seems like one of the M-audio units and the focusrite interfaces also struggle with routing.
Sooo, I coughed up another $300 for an IK media interface JUST for captures. It's out for delivery so hopefully I can mess around with that this weekend.
The headaches trying to get all this shit workign and connected only makes me appreciate the Nano Cortex that much more. For capturing amps, it solves literally all the problems and makes it effortless to capture amps.
Man that is wild! I started doing my first captures with a $50 behringer unit and an old bypassed boss pedal to get my interface output level to appropriate guitar level. I have also used my helix for the capture routing as well with decent results.
I will honestly be shocked if IK doesn't drop an all-in-one unit with built-in capture setup, more in-depth effects options, and spots for drive and amp captures or parallel amp captures. The market is there and they have all the pieces in house. It's just getting it all in one unit and at the right price point.
Theoretically the ToneX pedal itself I think maybe can facilitate this but when you select it as the device in the toneX software, it wants you to use connections that are labled in a way that dont' exist on the pedal itself.
If it could tell the pedal to use various inputs/output jacks the right way it COULD work. Either the expression jack or headphones jack would need to be re-assigned by the software to function as the input from your microphone or IR loader box or DI input.
Yeah I was thinking about getting the capture interface to capture my amps, but I went on their Cloud Server (tonex net or whatever it's called) and I was able to find great captures of all of them, including the Laneys.
I think if you play something that's completely custom or modded, it's worth capturing it, but if you play common stuff like Fender, Marshall, Friedman, 5150, etc, there are plenty of great captures online already.
I have used the capture for those one-off items like the old modded ADA Mp1 and modded Rockmaster and my GH30R. Its also been useful for capturing things like an Xotic SL Drive into the clean channel of my MT15 and the ODR-1 into the lead channel of the MT15 and a BB Preamp into the Mesa F30.
Probably the best thing I have started doing is capturing specific settings I use when recording songs in case I need to retrack something later. It's made it much easier to punch in later without having a notebook full of settings.
