Guitar Plugins | What Are They & How To Use Them | Neural DSP
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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This is my step by step guide to getting guitar tones with a simple interface laptop setup using Neural DSP plugins
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Hey guys, I’m Rabea. I'm the lead guitarist in Toska, Frog Leap & Dorje where I write music, make songs and have a great time with my mates. I also have my own line of guitars with Chapman Guitars, and I’ve designed numerous products with some really cool companies, such as the Victory Amps VX Kraken. Anyway, i hope you enjoy my videos, thank you for watching!
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The Neural DSP plugins are so far ahead of the competition They are all superb.
The thing that annoys me is the lack of effects
I am really finding this as well. Coming from guitar rig, the DSP plugins are fantastic. I am trialing the Corey Wong version currently and it's very good. It's not nearly as noisy as other ones I have tried and there seems to be less compression. Love it.
100% - 2023 and I just first tried Neural and was blown away. I demoed a few of their packs and Rabea's was a winner by far from the ones I tried. You can tell he put his heart and soul into making it. Yes I was looking for as close to as I could get to a real guitar tone but his plugin is amazing when it comes to sparking creativity with it's synth. Knocked it out of the part for sure
Patiently waiting for Archetype: Bea
a Kraken, a JVM orange gain channel, a 5150 mk1 and maybe a V30 Countess clean channel or a V40 Duchess?
Fuzz pedals + stereo delay and reverb, a Marshall 4x12 and some Victory 2x12s.
What a plugin that would be
@@EpicStuffMan1000^^^^ this ^^^^ you hit the nail on the head bro
Patiently? I'm hoping to spend the contents of my swear jar on it! 😅😅
I hope you are able to release a plug on with Neural. I would totally buy it. So speaking of buying. I am hoping to get a laptop or build a new desktop soon and get plug in. Which neural plug I. Would you recommend? I want versatility so I can play ambient all the way to metal.
sb632 Archetype Nolly
Do I already know everything about these types of plugin? Yes. Do I already own a neaural sap plugin? Yes. Am I going to sit and watch this entire video? Yes. Because you never know what you might be missing.
I watch just to listen to Bea noodle. Oh, and there will probably be some cool gear too :O)
yep :D
I always hope he explores the preamp settings on his Apollo :D
Relating to pretty much anything in music, this is really good advice. I stopped playing bass for a couple years, and then got back into it. When i came back i decided to start at the beginning as if i were new to it again. Was a great decision. There was so much that i skipped in my excitement the first time around.
Bro are speakers necessary because I don't have external speakers in my laptop
Never knew plugins like this could work standalone without a DAW, which was always a quagmire for me trying to make all of that communicate with each other, thus leading to endless frustration. I might be able to do this finally!
Same here!! But now we know!!
Thanks Rabea! I had asked for something exactly like this after one of your demos. I love your channel. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing your music and your journey with us.
Thank you Rabea, 54 here and this simple tutorial means the world to guys like me!
HELL YEAH BROTHER GOBLESS
Learned so much in 12 minutes and I'm an absolute beginner. Thanks Rabea ❤🔥
I'm so grateful to be living in this day in age of Music meets Technology! Thank you for sharing. Great Video!
It's one of the only good things in this day and age. Shame it comes with all the drawbacks connected with technology.
@@somethingelse1988 wha
roger that ... 60 here... cant wait to learn
@@theirishpotato6588 I think what Something Else was saying though technology is good there's drawbacks when it ends up causing problems like computer down, froze, etc. amps could have problems but more smaller connected problems with computer plug ins could occur. Pros and Cons to everything.
hell yeah brother
Thanks for the tutorial Bea! I thought the world of plugins was inaccessible to me before, I never realised how easy it was to set one up! I’ll be sure to give them a go now. 🙌🏻
Rabea thank you so much for making this video. I was really confused on whether or not this could be used for normal practicing but this clears that all up. Also that solo at the end was super nice!
Hi, i was considering this for just home practice and playing. How is it working for your so far?
@@mangoherpson Hi. Apologies for late response. I did not have luck with neural dsp and have lately instead been using guitar rig 6. The sound (through headphones) is decent enough to practice with but not the most enjoyable and certainly not a replacement for a real amp. Hope this helps :)
Thanks so much for this Rabea! Super helpful and easy video to follow. I just set up my first PC rig and I'm stoked. The Fortin NTS suite is killer 🔥
Just now getting into plugins and this has been one of my go to channels. KEEP IT UP BEA
This video was a big help. I played guitar for a couple years when I was a child and at the time only had a normal amp that plugged right into my guitar. Now in my mid 20s Im picking it back up again and all these plugins, amp sims, and all the different software thats available now can be a bit overwhelming trying to get setup properly for the first time.
hey Joseph, I am in the same boat as you. I was wondering how he adjusted the settings at around the 5:30 mark. It looks like he has a settings cog icon at the bottom left of his plug in but I am not seeing one on mine. Any way to access the settings some other way? Did I download the wrong version? I am running it in a DAW called Presonus Studio One on a Mac. Any help from you or anyone else in this thread would be great! Thanks!
@@danielpowers4787 He is using a standalone version of the plugin. This means he is not using a DAW to run the plugin. In the standalone version you can change the settings in the plugin. But if you run the plugin through a DAW, the plugin uses the settings of your DAW.
I hope this will help you.
@@danielpowers4787 As LtTaurus said, you're running it in a DAW, so you need to just change your DAW settings..
But the standalone is really handy if you don't plan to record, just start, plug guitar into interface, play to your hearts content..
Awesome vid, I've been slowly getting into this computer amp stuff and this vid is perfect to show how easy it can be!
Man. Your videos are very to the point, helpful and not boring. Thank you.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Rabea!
Starting to learn the ropes around plugins! Thanks for the help Rabea!
DUDE THANK YOU.
I had this idea that I needed and axe fx to use neural dsp, I already have a focusrite scarlett so this video lifted the barrier that I made for myself that kept me from looking into these plug-ins.
After effing about trying to get my guitar sounding good with various plugins over the last few weeks, I downloaded The Nolly one last night & a couple others. And just blown away with Neural stuff, it's pure quality. And it's worth getting a decent set of headphones too. Cheers.
As a first timer on plugins this video made it happen. Great content very easy to understand!!
You really are the mvp for making this guide. Thx man!
very useful video Rabea !! I wasn't sure if I needed a DAW or if the DSP ran standalone. Now I know it does both ! Great demo. Thank you!
Awesome video Bea!
Very informative...cheers mate!
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Thanks ! Been looking for this for a long time
Brilliant! Most informative! Thanks.
I like every bite of note rabea takes while playing!
Great video! Fantastic playing as always :)
Great informative vid, thanks Bea! 👍🏼😊
I found this video to be incredibly eye-opening. I didn't know plugins sounded that good! I might have to ditch my tired amp and pedals combination and embrace the modern day wonders of technology. Thanks Rabea.
I would tell you... not at all. Plug ins have their place as so do amps and pedals.
Edit: In gig situations plug ins are kind of a head ache so normal rig is the way to go. I personally plug my pedals into my interface (I have a pedal style preamp) and use IR loaders to play at home
@@thekramer1097why would it be problematic live? Just learning so I am curious.
Hey thank you so much for making this video man I'm old school amp guy myself now I'm woke to this it has changed the game
New to all this and dyslexic, so your visual demonstration was a god send thanks dude.
So clear. Beautiful.
Thanks my man ,always get a truthful answer about gear .When are you putting out your next solo stuff .Stay healthy .
Extremely helpful for this newbie to modelling plugins. Thank you! -Chris Thompson
Those tones are incredible.
Very helpful, thank you!
The Neural DSP sounds amazing!!!! I'mma have to get that eventually.
super informative, thank you!
Such a great video, just started learning the guitar and got myself and interface i liked. thanks for the info dude. 🤘🤟🤘
I love the simplicity of the plugins. Also its so easy to tweak and change IR, which is good when i cant have real, actual speakers at home...:)
Nice plugin sound and playing too.. tight!
very helpful video thank you! love the guitar faces 😎🔥🤘
Brilliant!! I used to be so against plugins as I thought they were not “genuine”. Old fashioned thoughts and opinions. But WOW! I am a total convert. How can I even argue with sounds like this?
I knew nothing about plugins! But now I do :-)
Officially compiling my shopping list for gear in 2021.
Bea looking CUT and SLIM. Good work man!
Wild.. put me in, coach!
Rabea, wish I had this few months ago. Great content though thank you!
I got the GGD Zilla Cab IR loader earlier and used it in conjunction with a Neural DSP Granophyre, bypassing the cab section on Granophyre and using the Zilla Cabs instead and the tones are godly.
Highly recommended for anyone using plug-ins like myself.
I second this
You can also export your Cab & Mic combo in GGD Zilla as an IR files and use it in the standalone NeuralDSP apps, really handy !
@@HypophyzH This i did not know... damn. You have just finally sold me into GGD Zilla.. THANK YOU
Never see the trem becoming out bro 👌👌
two years later you finally got your own! congrats
Hey Rabea, it would be awesome if you could do a playthrough / tutorial of the part after 9:40..amazing guitar play with a beautiful guitar!!
Great video! What tuning did you use for the ambient part?
Skip to 9:40 if you came for the tones.
I'm with Chappers on this one... Note selection. Damn Bea, you've got the awesomesauce heroes are made of!
You just keep pressing that upload button and the rest is history.
Hey Bea
Great video cause I'm new to all of this and know I understand what I need to do.
A short question: What amp head is the best for playing beautifull clean sound and metal sounds under €1500?
Keep up the great work!!!!
So good!!!
Hi Rabea! I’ve been using the Neural Nameless Suite and love it. Im now looking to find a clean plug in for John Mayer and blues tones. What plug in would you recommend for this? Thanks!
Thank you so much. I've been away from guitar for so long and I was gifted an interface today and now I'm jamming along with these plugins and they sound fucking awesome!!!
I knew I recognised you from somewhere. I have saved your album and will give it a listen!
Thank you!
Ive tried all the DSP plugins and I loves em all. I have to say the Plini plugin is my favorite right now cuz it's versatile. The omega is brutality at it's finest and for bass can't beat the parallax. But really you can't go wrong with any of the Neural stuff. I've tried other brands and nobody compares to the feel and tone from these plugins
Same here ! i own Bias 2 Fx for random situations but if we talking about proper beauty sounds & recordings Plini is my plugin to go !
@@michaelluczkowski7750 I like to use some of the fx pedals of BiasFX with Neural DSP on clean tones. I just bypass the amp and cab on Bias.
I don't use any distortion or use it in heavy setting though because Bias is garbage when it comes to high gain stuff and even just using the pedals pollutes the Neural stuff with its inferior quality.
The Omega amplifier and the Nolly suite have really covered most of my bases, I love the distortion of the Nolly, it's really dark and has a lot of clarity, but the Omega, as you said, is brutality at its finest. I'm looking at adding the Plini to the collection for more clean and lead options though
If you tried things like bias or amplitube or guitar rig then yes but there are companies like mercuriall that produce equally awesome stuff and more often that not at better prices...
This is awesome! Subscribed! what string caliber d'you use? I'm new here hahha
Hi Bea (BTW your new signature Neural DSP is awesome!!! And the video too!). I have only one question for you if i can: how do you use an interface (and his asio driver) for the standalone plugin and the same audio interface and driver for the recording process - i know, via the headphone out - on the daw software. As a little i know if the audio interface is used in one software (the standalone plugin) can't be used at the same time on another software (the daw). Keep in mind i'm on a pc platform with Cubase not Mac.
Great vid, as usual. The most interesting point for me was near the end when you gave your Chapman some trem-abuse, and it stayed in tune. Been a Floyd player forever, but I'm getting SO fed up with allen keys & running out of fine-tuner adjustment, and want to move to guitars with a 2-point trem, locking tuners, baked maple neck, hum in the bridge, and single in the neck. I wonder if you can guess what I'm thinking of? :O)
The tutorial for the next step would be the big one, so much can go wrong when you start combining it with DAW, especially if everything isn't in default directory. Although I ran into problems with these steps already originally when I wanted to use neural dsp and didn't have ilok manually opened for the first time. I was so confused why I couldn't get neural dsp plugin to even open or anything.
So I could potentially use the headphone out on the interface and plug it into my amp's aux port to get it to play through my amp? great video btw!
Spot on. Nice one Bea. Not seen you in aaaaaages. Hope you’re doing well.
Thanks for the video! I am wondering which plugin to get for my reaper. Two out of three I've tried in trial were sorta laggy and sounded awful, like little chunks missing in between. So thanks for explaining about the buffering size, that might have helped it.
I’m thinking of trying this with Reaper as well.. how easy is it over to reaper for recording?
It would be really cool to get some presets from you. I already got the ones you've done for the Archetype Plini (which are awesome by the way) but some more would be, i'm sure, much appreciated by all of us! thanks for everything Rabea, love what you do!
great vid as always!! can i use the neural plugins with an USB 2.0 interface??????????
I have just downloaded Trial version of Archetype and Cali suite but i am unable to record my guitar plus latency is also there when i am playing along with other layer.
I am using Logic Pro X
Kindly assist
Thankyou
This is really awesome and I have used other plugins but I do have a question. Is it necessary to get a professional to do the final mix? Some recordings really sound great like no way that came out of just using Cubase with plugins. I've tried some example by following the steps but I don't get that sound or certain sound that is professionally mixed. Any ideas?
nice job Marcelo,,,,
Bea, I have a host of great plugins from Bias Pro to S-Gear (Scuffam Amps). Thinking about the DSP thanks to you but have a couple of questions; do you sell your IR's as a pack as some of your cab sims are fab. What broadcasting software to UA-cam do you use, is it OSB? Cheers.
Hey man, amazing video, can we use these neural dsps with GarageBand?
Hey buddy’, Great video again! I saw you didn’t do any of the recommendation macOS system optimization? I’m trying the Nolly plugin, I am getting what is a loss, dropouts - say, for example, I stop paying the sound output bar drops, and no noise can be heard.
Since getting a good tone ‘and’ vibe is important, I would have addressed the elephant in the room, …latency.
Maybe some tips tricks to not get your vibe squashed by 11 ms of latency which you had it at. I would aim at 2-3 ms if you can do it. Anything more than that, and it kind of grinds my inner id to bits. ; )
How can you possibly dislike this mans videos? 😂 I don't understand.
You are so amazing dude!! I love the way You play and explain all things You try it
That guitar is too cool
Hey Rabea, what studio monitors do you use? And what cable to plug into your mac?
you totally remind me of neal schon back in the great 80's
Nice, breaking shi* down to molecules, concise. So are neural DSP plugins considered the best out there? is the new quad cortex unit, which Rabea with Andertons demoed recently, just these plug ins in a fancy box with a brilliant UI and those bullet proof foot switches, and the ability to share sounds with mates?
WHat kind of studio monitors are good for playing with this amp sim? Metal and ambient sounds will be played with it. Im poor, so not to expansive :)
And Rabea, I love your music! you are truly amazing!
Hey Rabea, any chance you could share the tones used in this video (particular the ambient and dirty tones at the end)? Peace
Hi bud great work, question how do you deal with latency as i have tried and get a second delay using the scarlett solo through my pc? thanks..
Last time I tried an amp sim (Guitar Rig 6) I could get my guitar to play through the sim, but Ableton was still only recording the raw guitar input. I had them both set up to point to my Scarlett as far as in/out is concerned. Maybe NDSP will be different.
Great video, Bea! Perhaps a quick follow-up video could be your personal thoughts on input gain staging with amp sims?
I've used IR loaders with real tube amps and load boxes for a few years now, but I'm dipping my toes into the world of amp sims now as well. One thing I'm struggling with is proper input gain staging. Rather than just plugging my guitar in to an amp and just messing with the preamp and master volumes, now I need to worry about: #1 the input gain of the interface, #2 the input gain of the amp sim itself, #3 the normal preamp and master volumes on the amp sim and #4 the output gain on the amp sim. Some people have said to stay under a certain input like -12dB, while others have said to crank it and just make sure you're not clipping.
Gain staging is soooo confusing for me... I hope someone take that on a video
General rule of thumb is to turn up the input gain on your interface while playing about as hard as you expect to play (hard palm muting is super effective here) until your interface input clips then back off.
Then in your DAW, just go ahead and play - you shouldn’t be clipping at that point and you should be set :)
Don’t overthink it, as long as you’re not clipping going in or in your DAW you’re set. Plugins like Neural DSP’s have an ‘input gain’ dial. If you wanted to, you could back off or increase the signal going into the plugins (I’ve never bothered BTW and have gotten great results with Neural DSP plugins).
Hope this helps and feel free to post any follow up questions you may have :)
@@scottydogg278 That is helpful, thank you. I'm definitely overthinking the whole thing. It's the input gain dial on the amp sims that is throwing me, as it's another variable I wasn't really expecting. The Mercurial amp sims even take it a step further by suggesting you set the input gain on the amp sim at different settings based on single coils, passive humbuckers, active HBs, etc. I'm used to just plugging different guitars into an amp head and maybe, at most, needing to set the preamp gain or volume differently to match the pickups :)
one thing that I needed to get a better signal and tone going into my interface was a DI. i used an old RED BOX MK III with cab sim and it worked great. Otherwise, the sound was way off and had no sustain or punch.
I tried to visit your store....it said there wasn't a secure connection available! Better call your web guy! BTW I purchased this plugin after watching this review! Completely satisfied!
I really want a way to play and record silently, VSTs are a good idea but I've always had latency issues. Very hard to play when there's a noticeable audio delay :(
Your a good dude Rabae (USA)
Did I just hear you play heat in the street by Pat Travis for a second that's a nice sound for a plug-in
Marcelo playing Guitar, =)
Rabea, man how long did it take to get all that gear. Was it through endorsements or just old fashion saving.
Internet must be fast af, I blinked* and it was downloaded :o
I got me plug in today
Rabea ...ty for the video ... just got a new ESP E-II M-II black and been wanting to do some recording and just understanding it all... Asus Z490-a w/ 32 gigs of ddr4 okay or will i need more for a PC? I don't want to mess up buying the wrong stuff... looks like u can make an expensive blunder... Can I run some of my old DOD pedals inline with the box
Great vid, I have a question.. is it possible to download a plugin to a usb to transfer onto another pc?
Is it worth keeping the Kemper when you have neural Dsp plug-ins nowadays ?