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HISTORICAL FACTS: Neural dsp - Caught on Camera

Darkglass becomes a surprise rival to Neural DSP and Line 6 with its first guitar-based modeler – but there’s a catch

The bass amp and effects specialist wades into guitar waters for the first time with a purpose-built Anagram

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“I’m not going to tell you which ones they are”: John Mayer has been using his plugin in the studio, and he doesn’t think you’ll notice

The tube amp purist joined the digital age with a Neural DSP plugin last year, and now it's found its way onto his records

Guitar World

“I’m just not gonna tell you which ones they are, and I don’t think you’ll know”: John Mayer says he has already used his signature Neural DSP plugin on record – but on which songs?

Your guess is as good as ours, but it was one of 5 things we learned from the superstar's demo video of his Archetype plugin suite

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"Who thought we’d look to the kings of gritty bass for silky neo-soul tones?" Neural DSP Darkglass Ultimate review

Neural revisits its origins with an expanded suite of Darkglass emulations that have the power to become your go-to bass plugin

Guitar World

“They’ve revived B.B. King’s first-ever guitar and made it $349. I know what my next acoustic is going to be”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including Chase Bliss’ “most foolish” pedal yet

The rebirth of B.B. King's first acoustic, a leading Dumble clone in plugin form, another spin-off of the famed Big Muff – all that and more in this week's round-up

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“From subtle warmth to aggressive drive, it adapts to any musical context”: Neural DSP unveils the Darkglass Ultimate plugin – a fully featured digital platform for studio-quality bass tone

Darkglass Ultimate expands upon the Ultra dual-preamp plugin with effects, cabs, full signal chain control and more – and it's a free update for Darkglass Ultra users

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“The most organic amp tones ever captured”: Kemper rolls out the latest evolution of its Profiling tech – and this update is free

The Profiler OS 14.0 update looks to level up Kemper's acclaimed Profiling tech, promising the “most complete, dynamic, and life-like amp captures ever achieved”

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“Everything you need to create truly iconic tones”: Fractal goes up against Neural DSP and IK Multimedia with ICONS – its first-ever plugin

ICONS is the first of a series of plugins, and offers 36 Fender-style amps and a load of effects lifted from Axe-Fx

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"It’s the full power of the Quad Cortex, just in a smaller box": Neural DSP Quad Cortex mini review

Neural DSP takes a different approach to a miniature modeller, but at a price point that may limit its uses

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“An incredibly powerful, immensely versatile pedal that crams gold-standard modeler experiences and sounds into the smallest form factor possible”: Neural DSP Quad Cortex mini review

Neural DSP's third hardware launch is the one everyone has been waiting for. But what does a stripped back control layout mean for the overall playing experience?

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“A brand-new guitar shape from one of the world’s oldest guitar companies. Will wonders never cease?” 10 things we learned at NAMM 2026

We scoured every corner of the Anaheim Convention Center to scope out the latest and greatest gear – and there were some telling signs about the current state of the guitar world

Guitar World

From Neural DSP's much-anticipated Quad Cortex Mini, to signature Yamaha guitars and Iron Maiden-themed wah pedals, here’s the best stuff you can buy right now from this year's NAMM highlights!

As we recover from the mind-melting amount of new guitar gear announced at NAMM, we take a look at the must-have items that are available right now

Guitar World

"I love that you don’t have to be a Mayer mega-fan to enjoy what’s on offer here": Neural DSP Archetype: John Mayer X review

Two opposing worlds collide in Neural DSP's latest plugin offering

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NAMM 2026 live! The biggest guitar news as it happened

All the hottest news and biggest surprises from the world’s premier guitar gear trade show

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“Our goal has been to define the standard for what an all-in-one digital rig can be”: Neural DSP’s game-changing Quad Cortex amp modeller just got a lot smaller – but it’s got the same sounds, the same power, and a 7” touchscreen too

NAMM 2026: It does all the things that the regular-sized Quad Cortex, only it's small, a lot smaller

Guitar World

“Size shouldn’t dictate what a professional rig is capable of”: Neural DSP debuts the Quad Cortex mini – putting the full QC experience into its smallest format yet

The Quad Cortex mini offers the full processing power of the flagship unit but crams it into a new form factor

Guitar World

“We live in an age where John Mayer’s famed guitar tones can now be accessed by anyone with a laptop”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a watershed plugin that the internet can’t stop talking about

Who needs a Dumble when you have Archetype: John Mayer X?

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“The engineer switched between them without my knowing. It fooled me”: John Mayer explains what finally convinced him that modeling tech was up to scratch in newly shared signature plugin test footage

Mayer teamed up with Neural DSP for an Archetype plugin that modeled his prized guitar gear in digital form

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“I was really concerned. I didn’t want to be like Nokia when the iPhone came out”: How Line 6 and Kemper’s early releases inadvertently inspired the creation of their biggest rival

Neural DSP CEO Doug Castro looks back on the company’s beginnings

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“Buddy Guy isn’t just our last living line to the real origins of the blues – he’s a hell of an actor, too”: 25 reasons why 2025 was a great year for guitar

Historic shows, a once-in-a-lifetime reunion, generational guitar talents, tonal revolutions, watershed gear drops… we won’t spoil it at all here, but a lot has happened

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It’s official! Neural DSP’s John Mayer Archetype plugin suite is here – and with Dumble, Klon and Reverberator captures, it is the motherlode for boutique electric guitar tone

Neural DSP bags its most high-profile artist yet and present players with a cornucopia of gourmet tone options

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“I just want to keep playing it” - Neural DSP Archetype: John Mayer X review

John Mayer teams up with Neural DSP to bring guitar tones from a modern icon to the masses

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“He sent me a video of himself playing the Slow Dancing solo through the plugin. That’s when I knew we had it”: Neural DSP unveils Archetype: John Mayer X – a landmark signature plugin that brings the guitar great’s sought-after tones to the masses

In a milestone moment for modeling, the new plugin offers models of Mayer's go-to amps, pedals and effects – Dumbles, Two Rocks and Klons included

Guitar World

"The Quad Cortex has solidified itself as the modeler to beat": Neural DSP Quad Cortex review

Review update: Including long-term testing and an overview of the latest CorOS 3.3 release

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“We are big fans of tube amplifiers. There’s no substitute for playing an amp in a room”: From amps to plugins, Tosin Abasi teases the next evolution of Abasi Concepts

Abasi also addresses the ubiquitous amp modeler versus amplifier debate – and why “nothing defeats the experience of plugging into an amp”

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