SoundCheck for the Source Audio NEURO 3 App
Source Audio, a leader in digital guitar and bass effects pedals, is excited to announce the immediate release of SoundCheck™, a groundbreaking new technology for exploring the wide world of tones available in Source Audio effects pedals. Using only a mobile device or a desktop computer, SoundCheck allows users to instantly hear sound samples from the over 10,000 factory and user-created pedal presets published to NEURO 3 (Source Audio’s free editing and preset management software). Before buying a Source Audio pedal, anyone can experience the company’s entire line of effects pedals in a deeply immersive manner with perfect sound replication. For those who do own Source Audio pedals, SoundCheck offers a very effective and convenient means to browse, tweak, create, and manage presets without plugging in a guitar, amplifier, or effects pedal.
“Years ago, we envisioned a technology that would let musicians instantly and fully experience the sound of our pedals, without being delayed by the logistics of having a guitar and amp,” said Source Audio CEO Roger Smith. “With SoundCheck, we’ve eliminated those logistics, empowering anyone, anywhere, to immediately access the precise tones of any Source Audio pedal or preset. I’m incredibly proud of the innovations we’ve brought to the pedal world over the past 20 years, but transforming how musicians explore and evaluate sounds is truly one of our most exciting and groundbreaking achievements.”
SoundCheck features a comprehensive collection of unaffected, pre-recorded guitar, bass, and keyboard clips. Each clip can be played through any of NEURO 3’s growing library of presets created by the Source Audio staff and the nearly 100,000 musicians around the world that make up the NEURO Community. Using just a mobile device or desktop computer, users can simply select a preset in NEURO 3, choose a sound clip, and instantly hear it processed through the preset. In real-time, SoundCheck matches the preset’s exact parameter settings, emulating the precise tones of the corresponding Source Audio pedal. Additionally, a finely tuned impulse response (IR) perfectly emulates the sound of a Source Audio pedal running through a stereo pair of real guitar or bass amplifiers.
SoundCheck also allows users to play one of the pre-recorded guitar clips, make preset parameter adjustments in NEURO’s effects editor, and immediately hear the results. Once perfected, presets can be saved to the user’s private, cloud-based library or shared with the NEURO community, making them accessible to anyone using the platform. All this using only a phone or computer.
Another new feature in NEURO 3 is Guest Mode. Guest Mode gives anyone who has downloaded the free app the ability to quickly access a selection of NEURO features without creating a personal account or signing in to an existing one. Features accessible in Guest Mode include listening to pedal presets in SoundCheck, downloading presets to pedals, and editing presets with the NEURO editor. Access to advanced interactive features, such as saving presets to a personal library, creating a personal account with social media links, or interacting with preset listings by liking or leaving comments requires the user to create an account.
The SoundCheck rollout will run for 14 days. Each day, Source Audio will introduce a new curated collection of SoundCheck presets for a different pedal. To celebrate the launch, Source Audio will give away a different pedal every day. NEURO Community members can sign up to win each day’s pedal, by making a comment on their favorite preset. The winner will be randomly drawn from each day’s entries and announced on Friday April 4. At the conclusion of the 14-day rollout (Thursday April 3), Source Audio will fully open SoundCheck, giving users complete access to explore the over 10,000 presets available in NEURO.
Source Audio was founded in Woburn, MA in 2005. Born of visionaries from Analog Devices and Kurzweil Music, Source Audio blazes a trail of innovation through the sometimes-conservative world of guitar effects pedals. Pedals like the Collider Delay+Reverb, C4 Synth, Artifakt Lo-Fi Elements, and EQ2 Programmable Equalizer have found their way onto the stages and recordings of musicians like David Bowie, John Mayer, Billy Strings, Noah Kahan, David Gilmour, My Morning Jacket, Phish, Living Colour, King Crimson, The Killers, The Cure, Victor Wooten and more. The company has been recognized through multiple awards from Premier Guitar, Guitar Player, Sound on Sound, Guitar World, Bass Player, and Electronic Musician Magazines.
SoundCheck is now available in the latest update of NEURO 3. NEURO 3 is a free download for mobile (iOS and Android, version 3.5.11) and desktop (Mac and Windows, version 3.0.24). For more info visit www.sourceaudio.net