Neural DSP Tone King imperial - This Has Changed My Mind.

In today's video, I look at the Tone King Imperial MKII plugin from Neural DSP.
This plugin is a faithful recreation of the fantastic Imperial MK11 Amp from Tone King. This amp sim plugging has changed my mind on how great Amp Sims can be! Top Job Neural DSP.

Here is what Neural DSP say about the Tone King Imperial MKII Plugin.

Balancing iconic vintage characteristics and innovation is a paradox very few can reconcile. Tone King is one of the most remarkable examples of this in the world of tube amplifiers. It is packed with gorgeous clean and crunch tones reminiscent of the most iconic era. However, it also comprises unique features like its built-in reactive attenuator – all painstakingly modeled to replicate every sonic nuance.

This amplifier was designed to delight and inspire, and we are proud to present the Tone King Imperial MKII Suite.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.

[castthom]

Theres not a neural DSP plugin that ive played around with that hasnt totally and utterly blown me away ! I cannot believe the quality you can get with a set of monitors and an 80 quid ish plug in ! Certainly beats the rubbish practise amp that was the same price when i was young ! If your a home player you dont even need an amp or pedal board any more to have alot of fun and sound amazing ! But lets be honest we all need both ;)

[davegrice]

This Tone King is the cream of the Neural DSP crop for my taste. From clean-ish to light breakup, and even some classic Rock, it covers it so well. And it feels really good to play.

[douglasnewman]

Wow! Really an impressive plug-in! Loads of versatility! Wonderful demo of it, Paul! Thanks!

[kezjc]

Wow! What an angelic playing...I was stuck on the intro for like 10 times over and over again. Thanks for the great music

[IamMusicNerd]

The real Tone King Imperial amp is one of the best clean tones I have ever heard. Right up there with the Magnatone Panoramic.

[martoneill]

This is great - I downloaded the free trial after watching this and I'm really enjoying it - very very tempted to buy it straight away.

[thegolfnut]

A like and a subscribe. A great video that helped me get better tones from this plugin. I have other plugins that I can't get to sound this good. I played my strat and tele and figured out what you were playing and what nice tone. So glad I bought this Tone King. Like you I'm not sponsored and this is a true recommendation. Thanks again.

[BryanTheBand]

I love all the Neural DSP stuff, but their Tone King Imperial plugin is another world of realism. The way it reacts dynamically is so fantastic. The drive is delicious, and the clean is to die for. It's fantastic for when I want a similar sound to my DRRI but everyone is asleep.

[CREEG]

Killer playing man, great review too. I downloaded the trial tonight and was very impressed with it too. Especially for the $ and compared to lots of other stuff out there which masks the guitars natural sound

[jips]

It is an amazing plugin. I love using it.

[xrichalex]

I got this plugin, it's amazing, great review.

[MRxr]

Sounds amazing. Have to look into this option

[SjaakShirly]

This is one of the best plugins I own. For clean sound my first choice.

[JohannesLabusch]

This plugin has a few very nice features that have noting or little to do with the sound of the amp itself. For instance, it's got a very sensitive tuner, and a kick-ass metronome! You can set its sound to "drum kit", which gives you a bass drum and a closed hi hat. Practicing is much more fun that way. I also really love the stomp boxes, especially the delay and the compressor. Oh, and on top of the "built in" spring reverb, it has a separate reverb "pedal", which gives you those long, epic movie soundtrack reverbs, which in combination with the trem are a slow player's best friend. One more thing: If you experience latency, like I did, reduce the audio buffer size in the settings. It didn't seem to deteriorate the sound at all.

[billy]

I recently picked up the Tim Henson and the love them and I think I need this to definitely get a 14 day free trial

[BradRocker]

Best Neural DSP Tone King demo so far. Don't sound to shabby either.

[tuentc]

Lo llevo probando desde hace 10 días y me parece lo más maravilloso que ha hecho neural . Y con strat ( o singles ) mucho más ……hay muchos vídeos que prueban este plugin con guitarra de metal ……..un crimen !

[Pete_Harris]

Very nice demo! The Neural DSP Soldano is also excellent and Amplitube 5 has some great amps as well of late, worth a look.

[chrislocke]

That Strat is beautiful as is your playing Paul

[mattg]

While I’m waiting for my real Tone King MK2 to come in next weekend. I downloaded this to get me over till then. Wow, sounds really great and gives me ideas. And set points for when I get my real one! I went through a lot new Reissue Fender tube amps…horrible issues and quality build. So spring for the Tone King! I saw this plug-in way after I purchased one. But very cool stuff!

But anyone looking to really buy one…tel er this plugin has pedals, effects and a master eq. So a real one you may have cool pedals…but it won’t be stereo and there is no master EQ. The master EQ allows the plugin to be a little more high gain metal. The actual amp sounds just as good from medium to hard gain…but the real deal is not something you want to put a plexi style or metal zone through! It has some crisp highs that without a master eq, ..like the plugin would just shrill