Loopy Pro: Create music, your way.
What is Loopy Pro? — Loopy Pro is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive live looper, sampler, clip launcher and DAW for iPhone and iPad. At its core, it allows you to record and layer sounds in real-time to create complex musical arrangements. But it doesn’t stop there—Loopy Pro offers advanced tools to customize your workflow, build dynamic performance setups, and create a seamless connection between instruments, effects, and external gear.
Use it for live looping, sequencing, arranging, mixing, and much more. Whether you're a live performer, a producer, or just experimenting with sound, Loopy Pro helps you take control of your creative process.
Download on the App StoreLoopy Pro is your all-in-one musical toolkit. Try it for free today.
Overdrive Special by Nembrini Audio
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1620147441
Description:
Nembrini Audio Overdrive Special Guitar Amplifier plugin is based on a Overdrive Special By Dumble* schematic #124.
Nembrini Audio Overdrive Special s a two channel amplifier, which includes a clean channel and an “overdrive”channel.
The overdrive channel is described as “cascading” from the first channel into, at least, one additional gain stage in the overdrive channel. This means that the clean channel’s tone stack and gain stages will “cascade” into the gain stage of the overdrive channel, causing the clean channel to become “overdriven".
Nembrini Audio Overdrive Special features a 3-band equalizer and one volume control for both channels, but each channel has its own gain control.
The gain controls LEVEL and RATIO interact when the overdrive channel is engaged to allow a harmonic change in gain.
The Overdrive Special guitar amplifier plugin includes a complete recording chain emulation and our custom design noise gate circuit.
Works as a standalone app, AudioUnit v3 effect, or Inter-App Audio effect
Legal Disclaimer:
Overdrive Special By Dumble is a registered trademark of Dumble. Nembrini Audio Overdrive Special was developed by Nembrini Audio SRL based on its own modelling techniques. Dumble has not endorsed nor sponsored the Nembrini Audio Overdrive Special in any manner, nor licensed any intellectual property for use in this product.
Details:
Universal: Yes
Minimum OS version: 9.3
Rated: 0 based on 0 votes
Comments
Finally! Can’t wait to try it out…
yes bought it, Nembrini and Dumble, must be good!
For those who would like to hear some examples of the presets:
Edit: Can't seem to past a link to the whole Overdrive Special playlist, only the individual examples.
On Intro price of $9.99 which is 50% off.
I have so many of the Nembrini amps, and I keep coming back to those that are clean and can be driven to breaking up slightly. Basically, I want to use the amp wrong. This feels duplicative with other recent offerings? I mean, I will absolutely never want to sound like a Texas bluesman (not that I could). But if somebody told me, "Oh, this is how Wilco got those gnarled lead sounds on 'Spiders (Kidsmoke)" [or whatever], then I'm all in.
Played the new app this evening, it certainly has it own sound. The layout and knobs and options are interesting. I have to study a bit more to understand it. There is a overdrive level and ratio knob. And other settings like jazz/rock, tonestack on/off. It is a different take. Of course I never played a Dumble and I have no clue how a real one sounds, but what I am hearing is pretty good. I also dial in a clean tone, and go from there to a bit more dirty, no extremes.
FWIW, there isn’t really a particular Dumble sound. By intention, each one was custom made for a particular person and customized for their preference and touch. I’ve read interviews with Dumble owners who talk about how dramatically different the one they have is from other ones that they have played,
OK, got it. I'm using it wrong an it's great. So versatile, and the ratio know really lets you get a wide range of tone in a single setting. Might be my favorite Nembrini so far. Very surprised.
How are the cleans?
Not especially clean, but you have other amps for that.
Heads up @Tones4Christ
If you let each clip play to the end, it continues to the next through the whole list. Thanks for posting that.
Does anyone have any idea who the artist was that this particular Dumble was modeled for? Most were blues/rock guys (John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robben Ford, Carlos Santana, Eric Johnson and Kenny Wayne Shepherd) but would be interesting who the intended artist was…
Yes, good you mentioned it, that is true. I just read the Dumble Wikipedia page, nice paragraph about the Overdrive Special:
On the other hand, even the many 6L6 versions of the ODS vary considerably. For example, some have a clean channel that stays clean "all the way up to 10" (referencing a gain potentiometer ranging from 1 to 10). Others have a clean channel that starts to "break up" around 3. Some overdrive channels can only reach a minimal amount of breakup, even when dialed up. However, most ODS overdrive channels have a large amount of tube distortion available. Many later versions of the ODS have "HRM" controls on the inside of the amplifier, which is a "hot rubber monkey" tone stack that sits "on top" of the overdrive channel or, in other words, comes after the overdrive channel tube gain stage.
There are commonalities across all ODS amplifiers. Firstly, the ODS amps are known for their harmonic richness in the overdrive channel breakup, and transparent "open-ness" in the clean channel. Guitarists describe the overdrive channel using terms like sustaining, blooming, and musical—and call the clean channel "fast", "huge", and "responsive".[11] Robben Ford describes the tone of the ODS as having "a perfect sonic curve, the lows are deep and rich but not unclear, it doesn't mush out like some amps will. You have the frequencies there for your use. The mid range [is] punchy and clear and the high end, bright, clear but doesn't hurt your ears. It's loud but it sounds good."[12]
But if somebody told me, "Oh, this is how Wilco got those gnarled lead sounds on 'Spiders (Kidsmoke)" [or whatever], then I'm all in.
Definitely in on that one!.
I have way too many amp sims. The best one is always the last one.
Any demos from users?
@flo26 (who has left the forum unfortunately) has several videos of it on YouTube:
Thank you. Yeah, I noticed he left the forum..
+1 for spiders
IME, no one nails the complexities of an overdriven tube amp like Nembrini and this one’s no exception. At $9.99 it’s another must-have.
Great release, extremely versatile. There’s a lot of twang and spank available, almost steel string like. Not a lot of bass if you don’t want it. This is easily the Nembrini amp for twang, Texas, and Nashville.
At the same time, you can dial in a big rich sound, with plenty of bass, and a lot of harmonically smooth distortion. There’s plenty of gain on tap but also lots of headroom, so the gain can be wide open and transparent or super squeaky compressed. Very flexible.
As with all the Nembrini amps, I prefer to use my own IRs. Especially when playing through iLoud MTMs, a really good IR can both clarify and smooth things out around the decay. The Nembrini IRs can be good, you just have to cycle through all of them to find one that pairs well.
I’ve been reaching for the Hivolt and BG Extacy a lot lately, they’re just so rich and full of character, and touch sensitive. But my absolute go-to Nembrini sound is Bst100 either dirty clean or medium gain, with an OwnHammer ac15/30 mix IR. It just has that tickle…
I’m very tempted by this one but I always get their new amps and then always just end up using their Marshall one mostly when I play guitar
I ear you. I'm always tempted too... but I ALWAYS end up using the BST100... or the CaliReverb (for lush cleans)... so, I think I'm done buying amp sims. I've got 4 others of their amps that sleep on my iPad in the same folder of Amplitube, Bias amp and FX2, and ToneStack ; what a waste of money
Made a short demo video for it if anyone's interested in checking
I really like the sound of it.
Caliverb or this one for a Telecaster clean sound?
The CaliReverb produces extra lush cleans ; perhaps sometimes "too soft"... To get a great Tele twang, based on Flo's demos, I would probably choose a more "in your face" tone like the Hivolt 103 is capable of. ;-)
Just wanted to chime in as a user; I have a Kemper and access to an FM3, and have been obsessed with Dumble tones for years now, even went as far as building a clone. The Nembrini Overdrive Special iOS app is as good as any other modeler I have used, in fact tied with the FM3 as the best. If you want that Robben Ford overdrive tone, the Nembrini delivers, especially with Celestion G12-65 IRs. You can disable the cab in the ODS app, and use Nembrini's IR loader to load the external IRs. I don't think the Nembrini app has G122-65 IRs, might be wrong on that however.
Gotta say I find the buttons very confusing. Is it just me?.
I don’t see anything in the gray color to indicate that it’s “on”. The gray actually reminds me of “grayed out” as in not active. Plus sometimes the names change (rock/jazz).
I also don’t really know what the “tone stack” does and there’s no info in the manual.
Have to play it some but so far it hasn’t clicked… I don’t love the overdrive sound on this and I think I like the “crunch” on the Faceman or the vox dc30 better, SoundMaster is still up there.