GENOME Amp Modeling Software

TESTED BY DAVE HUNTER

FRENCH GEARMAKER TWO notes (to use the company’s preferred upper-/lower-case style) is best known for creating hardware that processes digital simulations of speaker cabinets and, more recently, full guitar amplifiers [see our review of the Opus in April 2024]. But the company is also a long-time developer of software editors that maximize these units’ functions and their users’ abilities to create their own presets. So it makes sense that it has now put these capabilities together in GENOME, a totally in-the-box modeling plug-in for use with the most popular DAWs in Mac and Windows.

As Two notes describes it, GENOME is an “ecosystem” designed “to deliver the pinnacle in end-to-end tone shaping.” Being entirely plug-in based, it’s clearly designed for home and studio use, placing it on par with Line 6’s Helix Native, IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube, Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig, Positive Grid’s Bias FX 2, Waves’ Voltage, and several options from Neural DSP, Universal Audio and others.