PINK PLEXI – NAM A2 PACK

WHAT’S INCLUDED

✓16 DIRECT 2.0 PROFILES
✓16 Studio 2.0 PROFILES w/ Celestion® Greenback 25
✓16 Studio 2.0 PROFILES w/ Celestion® Vintage 30 speakers
✓Matching DI and Studio Captures
✓ Carefully captured and balanced for a consistent, authentic amp response
✓ Compatible with all NAM compatible softwares, such as TONE3000, Headrush, TwoNotes Genome and many many more

The Pink Taco V2 is a Plexi style amp on steroids. To me, it is everything I love about the Friedman® BE-100 distilled into a single channel amp. Even after playing both amps side by side, the Pink Taco V2 stood out and blew me away. To this day, it still keeps me playing, losing track of time and getting completely immersed in inspiration and creation. I’ve played many Plexi style amps over the years, but none matched the feel, and tone of the Pink Taco V2 in my studio. My goal with this pack was simple: capture everything that makes this amp so inspiring to play: fat rock and metal tones for rhythm and lead.

Every time someone plugs into my main guitar rig in my studio, the reaction is the same:

Damn, that sounds incredible. 

The challenge was capturing that same inspiring tone through microphones while staying as close as possible to the actual sound in the room. For this pack, I completely rebuilt my custom guitar cabinet, expanded my microphone collection, refined my profiling process, and spent countless hours experimenting with different speakers, microphones, mic combinations, mic placement, and phase alignment. My goal was simple: capture the sound I hear in the room so I could take it on the road and use it in my studio productions.

A huge part of that journey was working with Conny Schattka, our front of house engineer for my band U.D.O. & DIRKSCHNEIDER. His technical approach, years of experience, and attention to detail helped me make this Pack the best I’ve created so far.

Every AMP HEAD, HEAD+CAB, CABINET & BOOST Capture were created using the exact same amp settings.

The profile names tell you all about the settings of the amp, they will look something like this: PINK PLEXI 3+ SF 30

Let´s break this down:

(1) Amp

PINK PLEXI = Friedman® Pink Taco V2

(2) GAIN STAGE

1 = Low Gain
2 = Medium Gain
3 = Higher Gain

(3) Booster

+ = BOSS® SD Booster enabled (Booster Settings: Level: 5.5 Tone: 5 Drive: 4 Gain)

(4) Switches

S = SAT Switch ON
F = FAT Switch ON

(5) Speaker

DI = Direct Amp Profile (no speaker cabinet)
30 = Vintage 30
25 = Greenback 25

All profiles were captured using two Shure© SM57 and a Royer© R-121. Every sound has its own optimized mic position and mic balance. Only high-end equipment was used in order to create the profiles.

These are NEURAL AMP MODELER® (NAM) files. You’ll need compatible software or hardware to use them. A free option is the TONE3000 app. NAM is also supported by hardware and software such as HeadRush® and Two Notes® GENOME, with compatibility depending on the specific device and NAM architecture supported. For the latest compatibility information, check the official Neural Amp Modeler and TONE3000 websites.

TRADEMARK

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