This channel is supported by TrueFire. Trufire is an online library of lessons from some of my favorite players. There’s thousands of lessons on there. You can use the promo code JNC40 to get 40% off of any of their courses. Um, I’ve never actually bought a guitar plugin as far as I can remember except for I bought uh Sge Gear, Scuff from Sge Gear because a bunch of guys were asking me to demo that. Um, I think he he ended up refunding me. Um, but you get emails all the time just behind the scenes if you’re making YouTube videos from companies that are asking you to to promote their plugins and they’ll send you a free license and that’s like part of the way that they offer you like payment. But obviously I’ve never really felt like it was particularly a good tradeoff given that a plug-in costs them nothing to send you. So it’s it was one of those things where you know you get sent this stuff. Um, but these days normally I would ask for an actual feed to demo someone’s plugin cuz it’s promotion. So my first email back if someone asked me to demo a plugin is, is there any budget for this? Um, that’s behind the scenes. Now, Neural DSP uh actually sent or sent me licenses to Cory Wong and Plenny back in the day, but since the quad cortex came out, there’s no longer any sort of um feedback that I really get from them. I don’t think they particularly like my stuff. I think probably because I’ve been critical about a bunch of aspects of what they do, but I’m a big fan of the Nano Cortex. But I demo each and every P plugin as it comes out using their free trials. And the one that stuck out to me most of all was the Mata Sato plugin. Uh I think partly because Matteas Sato of all of the the players uh in the New York DSP roster is probably my favorite. Um, so it kind of made sense to to maybe revisit this. I wanted to jump back in and just check whether there was any other obvious choices for plugins that would suit me and my playing style more than this and then sort of give a demo of it. Let me know in the comments if you’ve got other favorites that you think deserve checking out. Um, let me know if you’ve yet to buy a plugin. Uh, it is Neuro DSP’s birthday apparently, so I used there’s like 50% off at the moment. So I think this cost around £60. I don’t know, does that seem expensive to you or does that seem quite fair? I think the full price neurodyp plugins to me seem a little bit on the expensive side. And generally what I feel with most of this stuff is that if you know roughly what these guys are using in their signal chain, it is possible to replicate these tones um potentially quite well with something like a Fractal FM3 or Helix Native, which I think is pound for pound like quite a better use of your money, but doesn’t look as good and isn’t as easy to use and doesn’t have the same level of like artist presets. going through this video, kind of clicking through Matias Sato’s uh presets, it they all sound really good, if you know what I [Music] mean. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Welcome. Welcome. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] You right be ready for the bath. Morgan amps again. Similarly with that that one actually a little bit more interesting. But the one that I think makes most sense for me um in terms of having some things that a lot of the other plugins don’t really have in some regards at least. I don’t know. This one seems to me to be the one that I should try. Start recording. Um, right. After a bunch of bothering around with Eyelock, which I hate, uh, we’re now in. Right. So, [Music] first Mater. Uh so for me I think it’s the the artist which most closely I would suggest kind of has [Music] tastes that align with mine in that you know uh I’m not saying I play anything like him that would be a nice thing but in terms of it being sort of a more based on some cleaner stuff. Uh let’s look at some of the artists in here. We got Josh here as well. [Music] So if he’s calling it nimbo stratus, this is because uh in the fractal FM3 there is a long reverb um called nimb stratus which is And he’s doing that classic thing that uh sort of modern tones uh like your plenty and stuff like that. Turning off a cab. I think Tesseract maybe were some of the earlier guys to do this. [Music] The the other thing for me that it kind of made sense was because this has like a tape style [Music] um delay section which actually sounds pretty good I think. [Music] The other thing for me, I quite like the idea of having these [Music] OD1. Um, you know, Matteas has used Jan Rays in the past and things like that. So, it made sense that these would probably be pedals that would align with the sort of stuff that I like. Here we can control the mid boost. [Music] [Music] [Music] If you want a bit more transparent, turn down that mid boost. If you want a bit more or [Music] [Music] less. So that’s really nice. Then the OD2 more gain. [Music] Obviously there’s a compressor on [Music] Yeah, to me I think this is I think probably more in my wheelhouse than either Plenny or um Cory Wong at this point. Vat here. [Music] [Music] Yeah, that’s pretty nice. So, let’s call that um JC mid lead. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] But it’s all really pretty dynamic and pretty like just I think really great tones. Um the thinking was that this is based on a messaboogi lonear. The clue for that is this thick thicker and normal thing, but I’ve never really seen Matteas actually using a Lone Star. Uh, so that’s kind of an interesting choice. Then we got something a bit [Music] more bit more um, let’s just turn off the OD. We’ll just move the compressor on the front. A bit more AC style. [Music] but quite low gain. Maybe I should put this input back to where it should be. So, this should be at n for me. I’ve got my uh interface down at zero. [Music] really good idea with [Music] this. Keep your cab the same as you’re checking these things out. You’re actually hearing the difference between the head [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] So that shift seems to be affecting like the [Music] [Applause] [Music] mid. That’s not my favorite amp. The Lone Star I really like. [Music] If I was doing that sort of thing, I’d probably do [Music] this. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat [Music] up here. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] But stacking this stuff might even be [Music] Definitely as soon as I get in that higher gain sort of range, I’d be thinking, do I want to stack all of that stuff? [Music] If I am, then I’m going to be trying to do something to treat the um either keep the gains a bit lower and push the volumes or start to bring down bring down the higher end. other artist stuff. Here we got Jack Gardner. [Music] So, which artist are we in by that point? Sky Blue Pink. [Music] [Music] But anyway, I think I think it’s got some other things that are Maybe a little bit more me than some of the [Music] other. Does it sound radically different from some of what I might be able to achieve in either Plenny or um Cory Wong? [Music] Maybe, maybe not. I think Matteas would be the things that the presets that really going to suit me better. [Music] I don’t know. I think it was a good purchase. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. What’s your favorite archetype? Catch you another video soon. Happy birthday, Neural DSP. Cheers for stopping by.
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