How to play NAM profiles on an iPhone
How do I play NAM profiles on an iPhone?
You need three things: an audio interface to get your guitar into the phone, an app that loads Neural Amp Modeler capture files, and something to listen through. Download a capture file on the phone, open it in a NAM player such as iNAM, plug in, and play. No computer is involved.
What you need
An audio interface is the part people miss. A guitar pickup puts out a weak, high-impedance signal, and a phone has nowhere sensible to put it. A small USB audio interface solves both problems, and gives you an output on the other side for headphones, monitors, or whatever the room has. Almost any class-compliant interface works, which is most of them.
After that you need capture files and an app to run them. Both are covered below.
Where do capture files come from?
Most people get them from TONE3000, which hosts a large free library of captures uploaded by other players. You can also capture your own amp, though that part does need a computer. Getting TONE3000 captures onto iOS is its own short guide.
How do I load a capture into the app?
Download the capture file in Safari on the phone. It lands in Files. From there, open it with your NAM player — in iNAM that adds it to your library and loads it, and it stays there for next time.
Why does it sound delayed?
What you are hearing is buffer size. The audio system processes sound in chunks, and a bigger chunk means more delay between the string moving and the sound arriving. Smaller buffers reduce that delay but ask more of the processor, and if you ask for too much you get clicks instead. Most apps expose this as a buffer or latency setting, and the useful move is to lower it until you hear artefacts, then step back one.
Does this work on iPad too?
Yes, and for a lot of people it is the better option — more screen, longer battery, and the same capture files. The connection is the same idea: an interface between guitar and tablet.