Dialing sick metal guitar tones with Neural DSP plugins

Spiro Dussias crafts some sick metal tones by utilizing multiple Neural DSP plugins, detailing the specifics of each section and how they all affect the tone.

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[causeunknownmusic]

if neural is watching: you shouldn't have to use three separate instances of plugins to achieve what's being done here. please give us an interface similar to THU, Bias, Helix, etc that allows you to use all of your purchased components in a single window / interface.

[SashaGarcia]

Approaching a more philosophical side of the tone chase was very cool to hear. We need more abstract talks about textures, intentions and aesthetic of sound. The mere fact that evokes 3-5khz is a testament to how useful these descriptions are.

[SBTones]

Wish he could show more about his bass tone with this particular Ibanez bass, as well as how he sets up the pickups and preamp before recording. Very limited information about the Ibanez multiscale BTB basses out there unfortunately.

[CrushingAxes]

Cool man, Will try this different tube trick! Nice! This plugin is really cool! Both Neural Cali and Omega are great!

[modernroyaljams]

Is it okay to have the noise gate on in each plugin or is it better to have them all off and the gate on only on the first plugin?

[zabtej]

6L6 and EL34 sounds mostly the same, and you can set both up to be whatever, it's all marketing. El34 takes a lot more plate voltage, which opens more possibilities with the design.

[satanistruth]

With real tubes, there is no audible difference. This plugin doesn’t mimic what a tube change sounds like, it just uses an eq curve to please people that think tubes make a difference.

[RiffGrimez]

I can’t get a good tone on the granophyre, anyone have any patches they’d like to share?

[sickmessiah]

Really wish neural dsp would take the Amplitube approach and have an all in one plugin for tomes.