Cloud Capture

Cloud Capture makes a digital model of your own gear. You play our reference signal through your rig, record the result, and upload it here. A few minutes later you have a capture that plays in ToneHub and sounds like the thing you recorded.

There is nothing to install and nothing to configure. The training happens on our machines, not yours.

Whatever you already record with, plus the gear you want to capture.

• An audio interface with a line output and an input
• A DAW, or anything that can play a WAV and record one
• The rig you want to capture
• A reamp box if you are sending the signal to a real amp

No special hardware, and no subscription to anything beyond ToneHub itself.

Three ways, and the page has full instructions for each. Pick whichever suits what you already have.

Tracer Tone
The standard method, and the one that gives the most versatile capture, because it covers the full range of what your gear does rather than only what you happened to play. Download the Tracer Tone, send it out through your rig and record what comes back in one pass, then upload that recording.

Dry + Wet Pair
For when you already have a dry DI and the same performance recorded through your gear. Reamp that exact file, line the two up so they start together, and upload both. They have to be the same take, not two performances of the same part.

Live
No files and no DAW. The page listens to your dry playing and your processed sound at the same time and makes the capture from both. You need an interface running at 48 kHz with the two signals on separate inputs. Set your levels, play for a couple of minutes, and it trains from that.

Whichever you use, export as 24-bit, 48 kHz, mono, keep the levels healthy without clipping, and switch off any noise gate.

• Amp and cab together, through a microphone
• A full rig, pedals included
• An amp on its own, through a load box
• A stomp box into an amp
• A stomp box on its own

Anything that responds to how hard you play is worth capturing. Distortion, overdrive, fuzz, compression and EQ all come through.

Anything that changes over time rather than responding to your playing. Switch these off before you record:

• Delay and reverb
• Chorus, phaser, flanger and tremolo
• Noise gates

The gate is the one that catches most people out. It removes the quiet playing, and the quiet playing is what teaches the capture how your gear behaves when you back off.

Usually two to six minutes. Your capture tells you how long it has left while it runs.

You do not have to sit and watch it. Close the page, shut the laptop, come back tomorrow. It carries on without you and will be waiting when you return.

Upload up to ten files at a time and they all train as separate captures. Ten can be training at once, and fifty a day.

There is no charge per capture. It is included with your subscription.

How closely the capture matches the recording you gave it. Higher is closer.

Use the Compare player alongside it. The number is a measurement, and your ears are the better judge of whether a capture has caught what you wanted.

Nearly always something specific in the recording, and nearly always fixable. In order of how often it turns out to be the cause:

• A noise gate left on somewhere in the chain
• A delay, reverb or modulation effect left on
• The recording clipping, or being far too quiet
• The start of the file being trimmed

Fix whichever applies and record it again. The upload will warn you about most of these before you spend any time training.

A capture file that loads into ToneHub. Download it and import it, or publish it straight to your ToneHub library and it appears on every machine you are signed into.

You can also share it publicly through Discover, where other players can find and use it.

Captures are made for ToneHub and play there. They will not load in other plugins.

Nobody, until you decide otherwise. A capture stays private to your account unless you publish it.

When you do publish, you choose whether it goes to your own library, which only you see, or out to Discover for everyone.

Yes. Set up an STL Artists profile in the plugin and the captures you publish can earn royalties as people use them.

Learn more

Yes. Get in touch through our contact form with the name of the capture and the email on your account, and we can look at what happened to it.