Day-one buy if it ever came out. I would kill for some of those amazing Tool tones.
Let’s make it happen, @Doug - you caught a wild Petrucci, I’m sure capturing an Adam Jones in your NDSP Pokeball can’t be much harder 
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If they update Nameless with the same time-based effects as they did with Fortin Cali, you’ll be very close. Nameless is capable of producing convincing AJ tones (assuming you’re using the proper pickups—I have a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge).
Putting a volume pedal and flanger in front of the plug-in would complete the rig. I know it’s not ideal, but if you have Nameless and Petrucci, you could daisy-chain them in a DAW, turning off whatever modules you aren’t using in each to preserve CPU.
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Haha nah, I’m too lazy for that. With the Petrucci, I just open the app and it’s ready to rock. I don’t want to have to open Logic and then two plugins (and all the latency that would create). Besides; I think an Adam Jones plugin would have cool Alex Gray-inspired aesthetics
I’ll have to give the Nameless a try; I think that’s the one plugin I haven’t tried yet. Thanks!
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Oh man, can you imagine how cool it would look with an Alex Grey-inspired interface and silverburst touches? Yeah, I’d probably buy the plug-in just to look at it.
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Frankly, a good percentage of why I like NDSP plugins is the aesthetics. The JP is super cool and futuristic (his whole NOMAC nonsense lol) and the Plini is clean and chill with a bit of an old-school vibe. It definitely adds to the inspiration and joy of using them.
yeah id be all over this in an instant if it happened!!!
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I recently started playing in the past year and I see that I’m late to the party. I’m going to comment to hopefully give this thread some new life and attention, but I would also like an AJ plugin. Although I’ve gone ahead and bought a few of the pedals, I think the ideal AJ plugin would have the following pedals: Delay, Flanger, Chorus, Comp, Reverb, Wah, and Volume. It would also have to emulate a MB-dual rectifier, Diezel VH3 CH3, and I believe a Marshall Super Bass.
I don’t know enough about the business or IP-legal side to know if NDSP would be able to justify the costs or not, but my thoughts are that it would probably be on the pricier side of plugins. I think the price would be high for a few reasons: you would need 6 or 7 effects to really get most of AJ’s sounds (volume pedal optional, but preferred); the three amps he uses go for a premium, so I would imagine that the companies who have their names on them would likely want a decent price for licensing; lastly, I think Adam Jones, or his legal reps, might want to have some royalties from the plugin.
I am quite ignorant on things relating to Intellectual Property or the legal/admin/business side of the house, so I’d be curious to hear from someone in one of those fields on what the biggest hurdles and considerations for something like an Adam Jones plugin would be.
Assuming the legal side of creating an AJ plugin is relatively easy, I would also be curious to see how the business side of NeuralDSP would go about deciding on whether or not this plugin would be good for business.
I know the Adam Jones tone is one that is heavily sought after by many guitar players who listen to Tool, but out of all guitar players who actively play and use plugins, how many of those are genuinely chasing Adam Jones sound. Although his tone is super sought after, it hasn’t changed much throughout the albums; it might be a little cleaner for FI, but I think thats just a matter of volume and EQ control, but IDK for sure.
As much as I would love the plugin, it seems like NeuralDSP would have to fork over a lot of legal dollars for a plugin that might not get a ton of purchases; although I know I would almost definitely buy it.
Does anyone from NeuralDSP every comment on these threads? I’d be curious to get their point of view, and have they ever considered doing an AJ or Tool plugin, or have they ever tried reaching out to AJ or his agent to see if he would be open to putting his name on a plugin?
While AJ has great tone, what makes Tool Tool is his style; the note choices, the dynamics, the feedback - I’m not sure these things would translate well to a plugin and a dude sitting in front of a computer and studio monitors.
In the meantime, if you’re interested, you can get the NAM player and then there are some good AJ NAM profiles out there - all for free! (but, of course, no effects).