Amp Lab: online guitar amp simulator
Plug your mic in, pick an amp, and hear your guitar through a real modeled tone in real time. Free, no sign-up.
This runs a real neural amp model live in your browser — not a canned demo clip. Latency depends on your setup: a wired audio interface into your guitar feels tightest, a laptop's built-in mic works but adds noticeably more delay, and Bluetooth mics add the most. Headphones help avoid feedback between your speakers and mic.
Amp models: Vox AC10, Fender Deluxe Reverb, Ampeg, and Jazz Chorus — via the open-source Neural Amp Modeler project, running as WebAssembly directly in your browser.
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Getting a usable tone out of Amp Lab
Sort out the input before you judge any amp. A guitar through a wired audio interface gives the tightest response, a laptop's built-in mic works with noticeably more delay, and Bluetooth mics lag the most. Wear headphones so the amp's output does not feed back into the microphone.
Then compare the four models on the same material instead of noodling on each one. Pick a short phrase with a strummed chord, a single-note line, and a palm-muted part, and play it through the Vox AC10, Fender Deluxe Reverb, Ampeg, and Jazz Chorus models in turn. Listen for which one keeps the notes of a chord distinct and which one smooths over your picking. That tells you more than any single chord ever will.
Use the tone as a practice tool, too. A clean, bright model hides very little, so running a passage you are working on through it exposes uneven picking that a thicker tone covers. To hear the playing itself with no amp coloring at all, record the same passage dry in the practice looper and compare.