Neural DSP

I use a variety of Neural DSP plugins:

• Archetype: Plini X

• Soldano SLO-100 X

• Archetype: Petrucci X

• Archetype: Nolly X

• Archetype: Misha Mansoor X

• Archetype: Mateus Asato

• Archetype: Rabea X

• Parallax X

• Mantra 

For the most part, Plini is my go-to plugin. The clean tones are magical, and my lead tones have mostly been with this plugin. For my first four songs (Evergreen, Three, The Void, and Echo),  I used Soldano for the rhythm parts. Starting with Echo, I began to use Nolly, Petrucci, and Rabea plugins. With Born to Rise Again, Petrucci was more prominent, then with The Wonder and The Majesty - pt II, I used lots of Petrucci tones. 

The ever-evolving options in these plugins is a game-changer, and if you play guitar and have not yet tried these, do not hesitate. You will find every tone you could dream of, and create your own.

Summer Rain is my first new vocal tune in years that is fully done and I use Mantra on that (Ghost In The Machine is still being written, and will be a four part opus). I have always built my vocal chain from scratch, and it is generally a pain to do it, but with Mantra, I did almost nothing to get it done. I pride myself on being a good vocalist, but that song had me singing much softer than my normal metal vocal, so it helped a lot with the visuals to be able to manage noise and compression. Well done, guys.