Academy Of Tone 139: AMPX - Whats up?! - 6 months ago
 

Special guest: Julian Preuß

00:00:00 - Intro Song  
00:04:49 - New Studio introduction

00:05:44 - Thomas Instagram Problems
00:07:39 - Episode information

00:09:02 - Question: “Is the JCM800 new?” - Badboy
00:09:51 - AMPX Introduction
00:10:06 - It's coming this year
00:10:31 - The Project is going since several years

00:10:46 - 1 Mio Dollar Question: When will AMPX be released

00:10:56  - Lead Developer Introduction: Julian Preuß

00:12:52 - Million Dollar Question: When will the AMPX be released?

00:13:37 - The Idea of AMPX
00:15:32 - How Julian joined BluGuitar
00:18:10 - Question: “Can you explain what role is Julian?”
00:23:02 - The Development History

00:26:25 - The challenge of realizing AMPX

00:31:06 - Question: “Maybe a modular PCB?”

00:31:32 - Thomas breaks the question with his idea
00:33:52 - The challenge of realizing AMPX goes on

00:41:31 - The philosophy of creating something new

00:42:27 - What else should AMPX do?
00:46:11 - 2019 - The year of putting all ideas together
00:47:54 - 2020 - The year of the first dummy and publishing news of AMPX

00:57:41 - 2021 - The first real prototype
01:02:53 - Question: “Is the DSP ARM?”

01:05:55 - Thomas at the barber and Julians reaction
01:06:34 - 2021 - Revision “B” and it’s circumstances

01:14:13 - 2022 - Revision “C”

01:16:13 - Question: “Why do the Audio Cores don’t have a C compiler?”

01:18:06 - Question: “How are digital effects distributed across cores?”

01:25:43 - End of 2022 - Revision “D”

01:28:29 - 2023 - Revision “E”

01:29:45 - The reason it takes so long

01:33:05 - Question: “Can it run DOOM?”

01:34:45 - Question: “Is there a self test function?”
01:35:00 - Waiting is good.
01:38:05 - AMP1 vs AMPX size comparison
01:39:19 - Question about the quality of effects
01:40:40 - Release with standard stuff that will get better over the years

01:43:53 - Delay and Reverbs preview

01:47:05 - Question: “Worldwide release or Europe only”

01:47:33 - Priority German guys just in case something happens

01:47:33 - Pre-Order List - For testers??? NO!

01:48:57 - Question: “Able to use internal effects with looper in effects loop?”
01:50:55 - Question: “Ambience Room Reverb on Headphones out”

01:52:43 - Question: “What amount is the first batch”

01:53:36 - Question: “When will X-Wings be presented?”

01:55:56 - Question: “Updates on Dynamic IRs?”

01:57:21 - Question: “Pitch Shifter?”

01:59:15 - Question: “BluBOX2 gets Dynamic IRs?”

01:59:39 - Question: “When will Thomas use AMPX live?”

01:59:51 - Question: “Can settings be transferred via USB stick?”

02:00:02 - Question: “Comparison Fender Amp vs AMPX?”

02:01:18 - Question: “Analog octave Fuzz?”

02:02:35 - Question: “Fender Secret Circuit?”

02:02:52 - Do you even need AMPX?

02:05:48 - Question: “AMP1 production?”