NAM 9000

Your entire guitar rig.
Free.

A complete guitar rig built on Neural Amp Modeler — with professional amp profiles already inside it. Play captured amps, build full rigs, capture your own gear, and take your .nam files anywhere.

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Pro-quality amp profiles included — nothing to buy first

Standalone · VST3 · AU · Windows & macOS · Standard .nam files · No account required

IncludedPro amp profiles, in the free download
18 capturesOne British classic, right across its gain range
250,000+Community captures, through TONE3000
Your ampsCapture and train your own gear
Open .namPortable files, not a locked preset format

Included free

Great tones from the first launch

A huge capture library is wonderful and completely overwhelming on day one. So NAM 9000 arrives with a curated set of profiles we captured and dialed ourselves — install it, open a preset, and you are already playing something worth recording.

The Brit 800 head as it appears in NAM 9000 — its own faceplate, with PRE-AMP driving the gain sweep
Included free

Brit 800

The British classic, captured across its whole gain range.

Most captures freeze an amp at one setting. This one was captured 18 times across its gain control, and the plugin loads the whole set as a single amp — on its own faceplate, where the PRE-AMP knob moves through the amp's real gain staging instead of turning up a frozen tone.

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18 separate captures of the same amplifier, blended as you turn the knob. Plus all four rigs of the pack — each one twice: with the matched cab captured in, and as a DI capture for your own cabinets.

Included

Two NAM 9000 house amps

A clean and a high-gain profile of our own, with rig presets built on them — so the plugin makes real sound the moment it opens, not silence.

Included

GD-808 Green Drive

A captured screamer in front of the amp, with a DRIVE knob riding nine real captures of the pedal — not a filter sweep over one.

Included

Cabinet and presets

A blended-speaker cabinet IR at every supported sample rate, and factory rig presets covering clean, rhythm and lead.

Two things. One app.

A complete NAM guitar rig — and the machine that makes NAM models

01 — Play

Build a complete rig 🎛️

Pedals into a captured amp, twin studio EQs, cab and IRs, delay, reverb and tuner. Browse captures and build whole playable rigs without leaving the plugin.

Explore the rig →

02 — Capture

Turn your amp into a model 📡

Record your real amp, train the model on your own machine, compare it against the original — and keep a standard .nam file you can use outside NAM 9000.

Explore capture →

An open format

Capture once. Play it anywhere.

Neural Amp Modeler is an open capture format, not a closed preset ecosystem — and NAM 9000 builds around it rather than replacing it. A capture you make here is a standard .nam file that travels with you: load it in another compatible NAM plugin, or onto NAM-capable hardware. Your tone isn't locked to this app.

CaptureYour real amp, pedal or full rig
.namOne standard, portable model file
Play anywhereCompatible NAM software or hardware

NAM 9000 is not affiliated with the Neural Amp Modeler project. Captures are designed to reproduce the same amp behaviour wherever a compatible NAM implementation runs them.

01 — Play

Everything between your guitar and the mix

Paged like a real rig: pedalboard, amp head, rack, cab. No menus buried in menus.

Not a file loader with a volume knob — the whole chain, in the order a real rig runs it.

PedalsReorderable board, captured drives included
NAM ampYour capture, with a real gain knob on sweep amps
Studio EQ10-band graphic and 8-band parametric
Cab / IRLoad your own impulse responses
DelayStereo, with ping-pong and offset
ReverbRoom, hall, spring and plate
NAM 9000 pedalboard page — gate, drives, capture pedal, modulation

The pedalboard

Gate, Tube Screamer, compressor, pitch, chorus, phaser, flanger, tremolo — plus the CAPTURE pedal: a second NAM engine that runs captured drive and fuzz pedals in front of your amp, simultaneously.

  • Two NAM engines at once — pedal capture into amp capture
  • Pedal captures from TONE3000 auto-route here
  • Tape delay and four-engine stereo reverb — room, hall, spring, plate — with trails bypass
Amp head page with glowing hex grille
The ampGlowing tube head, multi-capture cycling on the faceplate, Full/Lite quality toggle.
Stacked graphic and parametric EQ panels with live analyzers
Two studio EQs10-band graphic rack and an 8-band parametric with HP/LP — stacked panels, both in the chain at once, each with its own live analyzer.
4x12 cabinet page
The cabClassic-style 4x12 with IR loading. Amp+cab captures auto-bypass it — no double-cab mud.
Profile browser with brand folder tree
The libraryHundreds of profiles in a resizable brand-tree browser — search, favorites, folders, one-click load.

02 — Capture

Your amp, immortalized

Profiling isn't an external tool or a paid add-on — it's a page in the plugin. Setup → Test → Capture → Train → Compare, all guided.

The capture studio

NAM 9000 plays the official NAM capture sweep through your rig, records what comes back, and trains a neural model on your own machine — GPU-accelerated, nothing uploaded anywhere. No NVIDIA GPU? One click exports the recording to TONE3000 and trains it free in the cloud. This is the actual capture scene from the plugin, cloning a rig on loop:

  • Capture amps, drive pedals, or full amp+cab rigs
  • Built-in level test and sweep calibration
  • A/B compare the clone against the real amp when it's done
  • Output is a standard open .nam file — not a locked format
  • Export any capture for NAM hardware — Dimehead, HoTone, Darkglass and friends
  • Share on TONE3000 or keep your secret sauce private
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Hook up your ampInterface out to the amp, mic or load box back in
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Play the sweepThe plugin sends the calibrated capture signal through your rig
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Train locallyThe neural trainer runs on your own machine
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your-amp.namLands in your library, ready to play or share

Can't get a good clone? We'll train it for you.

Every interface, level chain and room is different — and a capture that's slightly clipped or misaligned trains into a lifeless clone no matter whose cloud does the math. Send us your raw capture recording and it runs through the exact pipeline our commercial packs are built on — checked, trained, measured and listened to by an engineer who's mixed metal for ten years.

  • Verified before training: clipping, time-alignment and level problems get caught — and if your recording can't train well, you're told exactly what to fix and get a free re-run, not a silent bad result
  • Delivered with a quality report: match score, what it means, and how your capture compares to our pack standard
  • Ready for NAM 9000 — correct gear tagging and cab handling built in — and 100% standard .nam for any player or hardware
€9 / capture
trained + verified, with the written quality report
€19 / five
a whole channel's worth — all gain settings of one amp, or your pedalboard

Email us — hello@nam9000.com

How it works: in the plugin, run your capture and use Export recording (the same file TONE3000 takes), then write to us — attach the .wav, or paste a WeTransfer / Drive link if it's too big for mail (over ~20 MB). We'll confirm it can train well before you pay anything, and send payment details with the confirmation. Turnaround within 48 hours of payment, delivered as a download link.

Your recording and the trained profile are yours: never reused, never added to our packs, deleted from our systems 14 days after delivery. Anonymous quality statistics (match scores, common capture problems) may be kept to improve the in-app capture studio — never your audio.

Gear

Take your captures out of the box

A capture you make in NAM 9000 is a standard Neural Amp Modeler file. It doesn't have to stay on your computer — NAM-compatible hardware will play the same profile on stage.

Darkglass Anagram

A bass multi-effects floorboard with the Neural Amp Modeler built in — so a profile you capture and train in NAM 9000 loads straight onto the pedal. Six controls, three footswitches, IR loading, XLR outs, MIDI and USB-C.

  • Plays the same .nam captures you make in the plugin
  • Capture at home, run it on the floor — no re-profiling
  • Exporting your own captures is free — exporting purchased pack content is a Pro feature

View at Thomann ↗

HeadRush Prime, Core & Flex Prime

HeadRush's whole multi-effects lineup now runs the Neural Amp Modeler natively — the free 5.1 firmware update adds NAM support and the TONE3000 library right on the pedal's touchscreen. Browse, load, play: no computer, no file transfers.

  • Plays the same .nam captures you make in the plugin
  • TONE3000 on the touchscreen — the tones you browse in NAM 9000, on the floor
  • Already own one? The update is free — you can start today
  • Exporting your own captures is free — exporting purchased pack content is a Pro feature

Prime ↗ Core ↗ Flex Prime ↗

More gear lands here as it ships. Links to Thomann are affiliate links: if you buy through one we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes what we recommend, and we don't list anything we wouldn't use ourselves.

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250,000+ captures, zero cost

NAM 9000 speaks directly to TONE3000, the largest open library of neural amp captures. Search by gear, audition, one-click download — amps, pedals and full rigs route to the right slot automatically.

  • Search with gear and architecture filters (A1 / A2)
  • Pedal captures auto-route to the CAPTURE slot
  • Amp+cab captures auto-bypass the internal cab
  • Multi-capture tones download on demand as you cycle
TONE3000 browser open inside NAM 9000

Optional

More gear. Captured properly.

The included profiles are a real starting point, not a demo — and when you want specific gear, the store is a library of properly captured amplifiers and pedals rather than a pile of presets. Every one of them is optional. None of them is required to use NAM 9000.

A multichannel amp head in NAM 9000 with its channel switcher
Premium

Multichannel amps

The entire head — every channel of the real amplifier, each with its own voicing and its own gain sweep, switched from the faceplate. Audition every channel free in the app for five minutes.

from €12View amps →
 A hero amp pack loaded on the NAM 9000 head
Premium

Hero amp packs

One legendary head, captured across its useful range with the rigs already dialed — in full-rig and DI versions so you can use your own cabinets.

from €9View packs →
 Captured drive pedals on the NAM 9000 pedalboard
Premium

Drive pedals

Screamers, boosts and transparent drives — each captured nine times across its drive range, so the pedal's knob moves between real captures.

from €9View pedals →
 The NAM 9000 library browser filled with pack content
Premium

Genre collections

A whole wall of heads for one style of music, dialed by an engineer who has spent ten years recording, mixing and mastering metal.

from €39View collections →

Content packs and the optional NAM 9000 Pro upgrade are separate things: Pro adds features to the software, packs add gear to your library. Neither one is needed to use the other.

The price

Free actually means free

€0

Not a trial, not a feature-limited demo, and it doesn't expire. Want dual amps, dual cabs and the rig renderer as well? NAM 9000 Pro is an optional one-time upgrade — the free app stays the main product.

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03 — Go Pro

The studio rig, unlocked

NAM 9000 Pro turns the player into a mixing desk: two complete rigs in stereo, a multiband compressor built for metal guitars, and a renderer that bakes it all back into one .nam. €19 one-time, offline license — get it here or read on.

Dual amp rig — two independent heads with a mix panel under each

Dual amp rig

Two fully independent heads — own profile, tone stack and power switch each — with a mix panel under every amp: volume, constant-power pan and phase flip, true stereo from the mixer onward.

  • Loudness-normalized mixing — switching single ↔ dual never jumps the level
  • L/R balance meter with peak lines that hold after you stop playing
  • MATCH L/R button — one press levels both sides from the measured difference
  • Dual cab too: two-mic IR blends on one amp, or one cab per amp
  • Phase-true blends: auto IR alignment at load + a ±2 ms ALIGN trim — the comb-filter fix hardware modelers put in their cab blocks
Why the two amps start hard left & right. Two different amp captures summed to the same centre channel fight each other: their low end phase-cancels and their slightly different internal timing combs the midrange — the thin, hollow "dual" sound. Split hard L/R, each amp owns its own side: full, wide, nothing cancelling. For the same reason, Render Rig bakes a dual-amp rig into two profiles — an "…L" and an "…R", never one summed file. The measurements →
Multiband compressor — four bands with draggable crossovers and gain-reduction meters
Multiband compressorFour phase-aligned bands, draggable crossovers, live gain-reduction meters — with TIGHT METAL and GENTLE GLUE starter presets. Clamp the palm-mute low end without dulling the pick.
Dual cab — two IRs as a mic pair with a mix rail beside each cab
Dual cabThe classic 57 + 121 mic blend: a mix rail beside each cab with volume, pan, mute, phase and an ALIGN micro-delay — IRs are phase-aligned automatically at load, and the ±2 ms knob fine-tunes the pair by ear. No comb filtering, loudness self-balancing, always.
Render Rig — bake the whole rig into one .nam file
Render RigBake the rig back into standard .nam profiles — a single rig to one file, a dual-amp rig to two (L / R) so nothing sums — at single-amp CPU, exportable to NAM hardware.
What you getFree
€0		Pro
€19		Premium
€99
Full player — pedalboard, amp, EQs, cab, time FX, tuner, A/B✓✓✓
Capture & training studio (local trainer, open .nam output)✓✓✓
TONE3000 browser · hardware export of your own captures✓✓✓
Dual amp rig — second head with vol / pan / phase mixer—✓✓
Dual cab — two-mic IR blends, or one cab per amp—✓✓
Multiband compressor editing (free: on/off with factory settings)—✓✓
Render Rig — bake everything into one standard .nam—✓✓
Hardware export of purchased pack content—✓✓
Multichannel amps — whole heads with real channel switching5-min auditionone of your choice✓ all included
Preset pack catalog — 350+ profiles, six genre collections—sold separately✓ all included

Get Pro — €19 Get Premium — €99

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🖥️ NAM 9000 for Windows & Mac

Windows: Standalone + VST3, 64-bit, with the local GPU capture trainer. macOS: Standalone + VST3 + AU for Logic and GarageBand, one universal build for Apple Silicon & Intel — captures train free in the cloud. Both include the factory presets and cabs.

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🎛️ Go Pro — €19

One-time, offline licence. The free app stays the whole guitar rig — Pro is for when one amp stops being enough.

  • Dual amp rig — two heads in true stereo, each with level, pan and phase
  • Dual cab — a two-mic IR blend, or one cabinet per amp
  • Multiband compressor unlocked for editing
  • Render Rig — bake the whole rig into one standard .nam
  • One multichannel amp of your choice, included free
Get NAM 9000 Pro See everything Pro adds →

Runs on Windows 10 / 11 64-bit and macOS 11 or later (Apple Silicon or Intel) · VST3 / AU in any major DAW, or standalone · an ASIO interface is recommended on Windows

Signed Windows installer · Apple notarized · No account required

What that means, and why it matters

The Windows installer is Authenticode-signed under the publisher name NAM9000, so SmartScreen recognises it instead of warning about an unknown developer. The macOS installer is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper lets it through without the “unidentified developer” dialog. Both mean your operating system can verify the file before a single byte of it runs — a guarantee you will rarely get from a one-developer audio tool.

Having trouble? The standalone app remembers your audio device setup, and I/O calibration is saved globally — set it once and forget it.

You'll also be first to hear about new preset packs.

About

One person, one plugin

NAM 9000 is a solo project. I'm Tommy Pedersen — I've played metal most of my life, and I've spent the last ten years recording, mixing and mastering it. My day job is software and content development; this app is where the two worlds meet.

When the NAM A2 architecture was released, profiling quality crossed the line where I no longer wanted anything else on my recordings — but the plugin I wanted around it didn't exist. So I built it. NAM 9000 is that build: the rig I actually play through, shared.