In this week’s episode, I sit down with the co-founders of Neural DSP, Doug Castro and Francisco Cresp. 

For those who aren’t aware, Neural DSP manufactures the highly regarded Quad Cortex amplifier modeler as well as a line of modeling plugins.

Even though Neural DSP is located in Finland, both Doug and Francisco are from Chile. They fell in love with the country and its music as high school exchange students and decided to relocate to Finland after school. 

After Doug developed the Darkglass bass pedals which he eventually sold to Korg, he and Francisco created Neural DSP with the idea of developing state-of-the-art amplifier simulator tools.

In this episode, they will be sharing with us how they founded Neural DSP, why they decided to focus on plugins before the hardware when founding their company, what sets them apart from their competitors, and more.

Are you ready?

Let’s dive in.

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Doug and Francisco’s backstory (01:11)

Using machine learning to change the industry (06:53)

Software first, hardware later (08:36)

How to learn the pedal (15:56)

A question about bass and guitar synthesis (26:09)

What you should know about Quad Cortex (28:43)

One last question (29:56)

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