StoreTHE AMPIN EVERY GAME
Plug in your guitar and play through real amp tones, free, right in your browser.
Every Fret Arcade game has a guitar amp built in: sparkling clean, crunchy rhythm, high-gain drive and a wild fuzz, captured from real amps. Pick a tone, turn the knobs, stomp a pedal, and learn with a sound that makes you want to keep playing.
Hear it, no guitar needed
Press play on any amp to hear a short riff through it. With headphones on, it sounds like the real thing.
Chiming chords and clear notes, for learning where every note is.
Raw, thick distortion for power chords and riffs.
Thick, heavy gain for chugging and shredding.
A buzzing retro fuzz, made for an arcade.
How it works
Real amps, captured and running in your browser.
Each tone is a capture of a real amp, made with neural amp modeling: a recording of exactly how that amp shapes a guitar, from a soft touch to digging in hard.
The amp runs on your own computer, inside the page. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there's nothing to download or install.
Open the amp from any game's menu or pause screen. Put any tone in each of its three modules, set the knobs, add a pedal, and it remembers your sound everywhere.
Plug in and play
What you need:
- Your guitar, electric or acoustic with a pickup.
- A way into your computer: an audio interface, or a guitar-to-USB cable. Use the instrument (Hi-Z) input.
- Headphones or speakers on the interface or the computer. Wired is best.
A microphone in the room won't work for the amp: it would hear the amp and feed back. The games still work with a mic, just without the amp.
A word about latency
Latency is the time your guitar's sound takes to travel through the computer and back to your ears. Web browsers add some, more on Windows than on a Mac. Most players find it fine for learning, but if your playing feels a little behind, try this:
- Set a smaller buffer size in your audio interface's settings (128 or 256 samples).
- Use wired headphones. Bluetooth adds a lot of latency.
- Close other programs that use audio.
Want zero latency today? Play through your own amp or amp software and let the game listen alongside: the setup guide shows how.
Want almost no latency built in? The Fret Arcade desktop amp is coming soon for Windows: the same amp tones at about 5 ms. It's included with Early Access.
Questions
Is the amp free?
Yes. The amp is built into every Fret Arcade game and runs in your web browser, with nothing to download or install.
What do I need to play my guitar through it?
A guitar, a computer, and a way to get the guitar into the computer: an audio interface, or a guitar-to-USB cable. Plug headphones or speakers into the interface or the computer. A microphone in the room won't work for the amp, because it would hear the amp and feed back.
Does it work with my audio interface?
Any interface your computer can see as an input works: pick it from the list when you turn on your guitar. Plug the guitar into an instrument (Hi-Z) input and set the gain so the level meter stays out of the red.
Why do I hear a delay when I play?
That's latency: the time your guitar's sound takes to travel through the computer and back to your ears. Web browsers add some, more on Windows than on a Mac. Lower it by setting a smaller buffer size in your interface's settings, using wired headphones (never Bluetooth), and closing other programs that use audio. A desktop app with much lower latency is something we're asking players about.
Does the amp change my score?
No. The games always listen to your dry guitar to judge your notes, so you can play through any amp and any settings without it affecting your score.