Hello.
Today I'm trying out the new Neural DSP Archetype Rabea Massaad plugin.
If you have absolutely no idea who Rabea Massaad is,
you should know.
In my opinion, one of the better guitar youtubers out there.
Why, you might ask?
Well, it's because of his insane and beautiful playing
coupled with really good tones in general.
For progressive metal, and you know, ambience.
Stuff like that.
Neural DSP worked together with Rabea Massaad to create this,
the new Archetype plugin.
What could it possibly have that other Neural DSP plugins haven't offered already?
That's what we're gonna find out today.
I'm using this AB1.6 HMBL
going straight into my Ensemble Apogee interface
and this is the plugin.
And the default preset is juicy as hell, man.
Alright, let's take a quick peek at the plugin and
if you're familiar with Neural DSP plugins,
it looks like this.
Basically you have the different segments and portions right here.
And what's cool with Neural DSP releasing more and more plugins
is that they incorporate more and more features
into their plugins that does not exist in the first ones, so...
Transpose...
I think I saw that for the first time in the John Petrucci plugin.
Just a really--
Just make it as available as right here, baby.
That's perfect, man, if I wanna tune down to C, like--
Perfect.
We also have the Doubler that we also saw in the John Petrucci plugin.
It just makes it a little bit more exciting.
Other than that, it looks like another Neural DSP plugin.
Except...
That in this one they have a synth.
Look at this.
How cool is that?
Ooh, listen, huh.
So one of the bigger features about this plugin
is obviously this incorporated guitar synth
or Overlord Synth, as they call it.
Basically offering an analog synth
that you can use in front of the amplifier section and the pedal section.
And combined with all these effects...
Let's check the effects.
You have a dual compressor, Chaos Bed octaver, fuzz, overdrive.
And then you have the regular delay and reverb.
You have some incredible possibilities to create a really sick tone.
I'm gonna go through Rabea's own presets.
And let's just check it out.
Shit.
That is freaky.
There, what do we have engaged?
Colossus fuzz and dual compressor.
That is indeed a wall of tone.
So, as you might expect, a lot of ambient tones
and a lot of airy tones.
And I definitely don't mind, tones like this definitely inspire me.
Maybe not necessarily this, but this is cool still.
Oh, there's a cat in there somewhere.
That's cool, man.
Buttery.
I like that chug, man.
What is this amplifier?
Let's check it out.
You have 3 amplifiers obviously, you have a clean one right here.
Some kind of a mid-ground right here.
Like an overall fit-everything type of amplifier.
Then you have a metal amplifier at last.
But I wanna continue through the presets.
Cool.
Chugg fest.
That's chugging.
Cloudy lead synth.
That's so cool, man.
Dude, that synth is so cool.
F**** yeah, man, that's cool, that gives me a lot of ideas.
Cone destroyer.
Oh, that's is gnarly, f****.
I mean, what I like about Rabea and his tone is that
you know, he's always playing around with the...
you know, broken up type of sound where it's like... it's just--
Spanking, you know?
He has a very spanking type of tone and--
That's so f**** cool.
Oh, dude...
That's the thing, with sounds like this, you can just play one note and it's cool.
Some shit happening in the background, cool.
Good song.
I think everything you play sounds like Rabea when you play this.
His playing is insanely tasteful.
Glitched riffs.
Dude, how awesome is that?
Dude... f****.
Oh shit, hello.
F****.
Well, that's fun.
You know that slight little distortion happening?
That is breaking up, is just so...
Alright, we went through Rabea's presets, let's...
Let's build something.
Check it out.
So this is the middle amplifier.
I guess these are tight filters.
Yes.
High and low-pass filter.
OK, nothing is on at the moment, it's only the amplifier and some reverb.
We have a 6L6 and a EL34 option.
EL34.
Cool, let's go to the metal amplifier.
That also has an EL34 and 6L6 option.
Tight.
OK, OK, OK, that is tight.
OK, let's check out the cabinet section real quick.
You have a couple of different microphones.
Alright, as usual, when I'm doing a plugin demo like this
I'm gonna try out the amplifiers with my own impulse response.
Because that just tells me a lot more about how the amplifiers in this--
you know, and the overdrives sound.
So, I've loaded up one of my own impulses, here it is.
That sounds pretty gnarly, we have it transposed, let's go to--
Guitar's tuned to standard E, by the way.
That sounds pretty good.
Damn, man.
Alright, there you go, that's my quick little demo
of the new Neural DSP Archetype Rabea Massaad.
You know what I really like about this plugin?
The amplifiers and all, they sound great.
They were probably thinking 'We need something more to offer'
and they did the absolute right thing here
by adding all of these extra synths
and all these different pedals right here.
To create or to be able to create a very
a broad and wide array of different tones
in terms of ambience--
But also, the metal still exists in there, you know?
For me, metal is very important.
But the ambient stuff in here,
that really inspires me.
I just love it, man, because it gives me a lot of ideas.
And isn't that what guitar playing is all about?
The price of this plugin lands at 139 euros.
Which might seem hefty.
But consider everything you're getting in this plugin
compared to back when Neural DSP released their first plugin.
The NTS or the Meshuggah amplifier.
You're just getting so much more now with the transpose, and the doubler.
In this you also get the synthesizer and all the extras.
I think it's a great deal.
And it sounds f**** kickass.
I still think Neural DSP makes the better-sounding plugins out there
compared to the rest.
I have no idea what they're doing, but they're doing something right at least.
So, there you go.
An incredible plugin suiting for an incredible musician, Rabea Massaad.
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