Next out of the workshop
More whole heads, with their channels intact
A multichannel amp in NAM 9000 is the entire head: every channel, its own voicing, its own working GAIN knob, switched from the front panel like the real thing. Version 1.9.0 brought the first four, 1.10 added the blackface combo — and the latest store drop added the SLO-100-style, the Mark IV-style with its five-band graphic EQ, and the BritPlex 50. The bench does not stop: the next head is captured, trained and playing here — waiting on the same last step every amp waits on, which is somebody's ears rather than a calendar.
BE-100-style — the boutique king, whole
The modern boutique lead head, already one of the most-wanted hero packs in the store — now getting the full multichannel treatment: BE, BE Fat, HBE and HBE Fat, every voicing its own deep gain sweep on one switchable head, wearing its own faceplate in the app. Captured and trained; on the listening bench now.
A tweed 4x10 — Bright, Normal, and both at once
The blonde combo every studio reaches for when a clean tone needs hair on it: Bright and Normal channels, each swept across its range — and the jumped sound of both inputs bridged, the way players have wired it since the fifties. On the capture bench next.
On the capture bench after that
- A blackface 2x12 for the loud, clean end of the tweed's family
- More heads follow — the capture rig runs every week
- Every one with the full GAIN treatment, channel by channel
Each head is a few weeks of capturing, training and listening — so this list is an order of work, not a release schedule. A head only ships once every anchor on every channel has passed the bench, and then somebody has played it for a while and not wanted to go back to the real one.