TONE3000
Latest TONE3000 guitar news, new electric and acoustic guitars, signature models, artist collaborations, and releases tracked by Guitar Radar.
Guitar Radar follows TONE3000 through 2 stories and 1 product release, covering new gear, launches and company news as they happen. Most of it sits under gear. The most recent story, from Sep 11, 2026, is “TONE3000 brings its NAM A2 plugin directly to the Octave HS-1”. Coverage here goes back to Sep 3, 2026. The newest product in the releases catalog is the TONE3000 TONE3000 Plugin.
About TONE3000
TONE3000 is the community and capture platform built around Neural Amp Modeler (NAM), the open-source amp modeling technology created by Steve Atkinson. It was formed when ToneHunt, a community for sharing and discovering tones, was merged with TONEZONE3000's free online gear capture into a single platform, with existing accounts and content migrated. Stanley Vergilis is described as co-founder and CEO, and Woodbury Shortridge as co-founder and CTO.
The company describes itself as the largest community-driven platform for sharing digital models of amps, pedals, outboard gear and full signal chains. It launched NAM A2, the second architecture of Neural Amp Modeler, on June 2, 2026, in partnership with Atkinson, saying it is fully open source and can run on hardware as small as a $3 chip. By TONE3000's own figures the library grew from 300,000 to over 700,000 tones in three months, with more than 600,000 monthly users. These are company-reported numbers, and its accuracy claims are likewise from its own marketing.
Tones are delivered through a plug-in, and hardware makers including Blackstar, Darkglass and HeadRush have said they support A2. Guitar Radar follows TONE3000 and NAM news.
Sources: TONE3000: ToneHunt is now TONE3000 · TONE3000: About · Guitar.com: TONE3000 plugin and Neural Amp Modeler
Stories
TONE3000 brings its NAM A2 plugin directly to the Octave HS-1
The portable Windows-based HS-1 will ship with TONE3000 preinstalled, putting NAM A2 captures, VST hosting and recording tools into one touchscreen guitar rig.
TONE3000 releases a free, open-source plugin with access to more than 700,000 NAM captures
The largest Neural Amp Modeler library is now a plugin and standalone app that pulls community captures and IRs directly, with no downloading or file management.