its all in the demo. IIRC its all custom amp sim based on (I guess??) what Cory supposedly owns. no brand stuff. i may be wrong.

Hi guys, maybe you can help me out.

I want to get an additional amp during Black Week Sale from Neural. I already have Nolly, Plini, Darkglass.

Can you recommend a new Neural amp to bring new colors in addition? I'm complete fond for the more experimental stuff (using amp sims not a only for re-amping guitars) and for the sound of the 50th - 70th. I usually don't need typical metal hi - gain amps. I'm looking for interesting and versatile new tones and great coloring amps with unusual distortion or saturation.

Thanks a lot. Cheers

Cory Wong is your ticket.

Hey, thanks. I got a feeling

Im having a great time with the Omega amp for SVR blues.

Thanks again
I already went with the Cori Wong package

Great choice! I feel like I can cover just about anything with Cory Wong and Fortin Cali, I'm still weighing in on Plini, I don't really need it but it sounds soo damn good too.

Yes, it´s really good
They have raised the bar very high.

High hopes for the new Thermionic from Kazrog. He stated in an interview, that Neural DSP is the bar for him to be measured by

Kazrog makes great sounding plugins, no doubt it'll be good.

Thanks again for the tip for Cory Wong. It's just beautiful and so versatile. I think the pedals alone are worth the price. Yeah, this really was, what I was looking for. Maybe the most beautiful and best sounding amp sim at the moment? Cheers

yeah. demo Cory Wong. you can get some very experimental tones out of it. its not just for funk and R&B tones. it comes with 6 effects and two of them are a delay and shimmer reverb.you can tweak those to get totally out these sounds.

Don't wanna sound like a broken record because I already wrote this in this thread, but try loading Ownhammer IR's, it adds that last 5% of realism and it sounds a little more open.

And yes, I think Cory Wong is their best amp sim so far too, very versatile indeed.

Yeah just a CPU hog on High setting and Stereo. Have to bounce for big sessions.

Yeah, it's too much usually with Neural and it's a big withdrawal. I think that can clearly be optimized. Sometimes when I build a massive sound design chain with a Neural plugin within it, this chain is the only thing I can use in a session. Fortunately there is a lower quality switch and most fortunately, those chains are directly slapped onto an audio or instrument channel and can therefore be frozen...what doesn't work on a stem for example.

That brings me to another thing. I wished the effects could be seperate plugins, so I can have the amp and cabs on the instrument channel plus the effects on a seperate AUX channel, so I can process the effects isolated further, eg with a compressor or even other effects, without affecting the complete instrument chain on the main channel. Neural, that would be amazing, as I like the effects usually.

Back to the topic. If you like to use a Neutral plugin as a pure parallel effect on an AUX bus for sound design purposes and finer control, you got a problem already within a smaller session.

Shane from Kazrog said in an interview he came to a point where he discovered he could optimize his code without sacrificing any audio quality for dropping CPU hit by half. This isn't an uncommon thing but it seems to be very difficult for most to do it afterwards, when everything already is coded.

A very popular example is the extremely high quality synth Diva from U-he. It ate CPU for breakfast and existed for years in that hungry state. They released an update recently and the CPU hit imidiately dropped by about 30 percent. Awesome.

I really wish Neural would find a way here either for all teir products. Even Darkglass is a devourer of worlds in that regard. I'm 100 percent sure the code can be optimized a huge amount.

so alive and amazing also on synths/synth plugins / strings
great BF purchase !

Hi.
I am especially looking for vintage guitar tones and very especially convincing bass IR. Can you suggest any from them? Thanks for helping.

Strangely, I use custom IRs for all of my ampsims, but never for Cory. Somehow the cabs just work perfectly for me there. So much that i sometimes just use the cab from Cory on other amps. The 3rd cab especially.
It has much more air at 7-8 khz that other cabs just cut off.

I have quite a few Ownhammer IR's but they usually not work for me. They all sounds soooo sameish.
Like 'Too good' and balanced, no character.

Thanks for the differentiated information. Very excited to learn from you guys. Cheers

Hi!

Well, Neural DSP stuff is really good for bass too, I've only used Cory Wong and Fortin Cali suite so I can't speak for the other emulations but the most often plugin I use for bass is Mark Studio 2 from Overloud.

Although I'm not the biggest fan of Markbass amps, this plugin sounds really solid when blended with the DI track.
Hope this helps!

Don't get me wrong, their stock cab IRs are great and absolutely usable, I guess it's just a preference thing.

Yes, most of Ownhammer IR's are usually pretty similar sounding, I guess it depends mostly on your choice of the mics used and the positioning but they sound much more open and 'palpable' under the fingers. But that's just my opinion. To each their own I guess.

Cheers

Thank you

Did anyone compare this to s-gear? I've been using s-gear for clean tones, but just found out about this one.

Try the demo

I think all Amp sims should be compared through a common CAB sim.

I did! Man, I don't know why, but I still feel S-gear has a better tone. Maybe because I'm used to it...

I have S-Gear too - but I like Cory Wong, esp the Dumble (the blue one)

Yes, the Dumble sounds pretty nice. Still, comparing it with S-gear, the Archetype feels a little bit more DI-ish or something, if you know what I mean?

I picked up Cory Wong after a long break when the demo expired. Glad I did. It's a nice compliment to Plini, and the other sims I have.

I don't know if I like it more than S-Gear. Like many, I feel that it's just a different option.

And great note about comparing sims via the same cab IRs. That's crucial if you want to know what the "amp" sounds like. Some amp plugins have better cab IRs than others (there's quite a range actually) so your ears will be listening to the cabs, for better or worse. I now use Celestion's SpeakerMix for all amp sims, so auditioning the different amps in each plugin is a breeze, and more fair.

Corey is definitely my favorite Neural product. I'm not crazy about the presets, but once I started tweaking a little, I realized how versatile it is.

That Big Truck overdrive (or whatever it's called) is really nice too - I like it with the drive all the way down on a relatively clean sound. Nice smooth harmonics.

I have taken to using Ownhammer IRs with it though, I have a couple of Vox cabs from them and they suit me better than the built ins.

Just got around to trying this today.

I'm mixing a post rock/chill style album and a few of the guitars sound a bit thin, thankfully I've been given DI's for reamping. I'm generally not a fan of amp sims, I always struggle with them, especially clean tones.

I was going to physically reamp, but thought I'd give this a bash first. To my surprise, this sounds really excellent and I won't have to physically reamp. Very realistic cleans, and the breakup tone is great too. I could do a full album with this if I needed to.

My issue with amp sim cleans is that they either sound too gainy, or just too close to a straight DI. This one nails it, for me anyway.

10/10