Neural DSP has stated that when they updated Plini to X, they built the physical amps so that they could then model it with TINA.
One of my favourite plugin amps is the Cory Wong Amp Snob, which was rumoured to be a Dumble, but the tonestack reacts more like a Fender in terms of the midrange frequency. I’ve heard rumours about combinations of a Super Reverb and a Dumble, or a Twin and a Dumble.
I’m fortunate enough to have a '65 Bassman; the loudest 50w you can imagine. Its my benchmark for what an amp should sound like, but it is so loud that I rarely get to play it at volume. The Amp Snob is closest I’ve found to it from Neural, and the added mid and presence controls are a vast improvement on the blackpanel type.
Did they actually build an Amp Snob, like the built the Plini amps? Can I buy one? Or just borrow it, indefinitely? Joking, but I would love to know more about the preamps specs, wattage (I’m convinced its in the 50w world), transformers, what the drive channel is doing behind the scenes, etc.
Does anyone have more information, or has Neural or Cory Wong ever clarified more about it?
Built the amp? Where does it say that? I don’t see that mentioned anywhere in these articles:
Neural confirms they built a Plini and Gojira amp in the link below, in response to questions about those articles (which contain images of TINA fiddling with the knobs of the Plini clean amp).
The press releases around TINA make a claim that their automated capture process was necessary to make the X releases and the jump to PCOM possible.
It makes almost makes sense. Ancient Neural DSP used ‘white box’ or component modelling, where as the the QC-compatible plugins have now moved to a slightly different tech of ‘black box’ modelling which is a result of interpolating between TINA captures. Basically, to get a compatible ‘black box’ model, they would have to build out the components from the ‘white box’ model then recapture it with TINA.
Or they just took captures from their original plugins and then built a couple of prop amps for the TINA marketing shoot. Anything is possible these days.
Either way, the Amp Snob was likely modelled in their historic ‘white box’ era and they know values of the capacitors, pot tapers, resistors, tubes, etc if they wanted to build it.
I just want to know what I’m playing, it sounds and feels great!
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