Are Neural DSP plugins worth buying?
- Ralfs Bendrāts
- Dec 23, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 15, 2024
If you have an electric guitar, chances are you need a tone! Duh!

Today we are narrowing the spectrum of PC plugins into just Neural DSP. And I will be totally honest with you - they are my favorite plugins.
Yes, first argument will be to use just FREE plugins. But that is too narrow-minded and simplistic.
As a rule it's generally true that you get what you pay for (of course, if you actually know how to use it and want to use it)!
There are now a multitude of different and similar Neural DSP plugins available for purchase on their site.
I myself own something like 10 paid Neural DSP plugins at the moment of writing.
I don't have a strict favorite of mine, because different plugins are capable of getting me a different guitar tone.
But if you asked me which ones I now use the most of the time - I would say the Archetype Plini X for cleans and heavy rhythms and Archetype Abasi for hi-gain leads.
I have two primary guitars at the moment - Yamaha Revstar 820 and Jackson Juggernaut HT7.
Why are Neural DSP plugins so expensive
Yes, I agree that these plugins are not cheap.
But the reason why so expensive could mostly be that Neural DSP keeps reinvesting that money they earn into developing new plugins and also could be paying the artists back a percentage of profits.
Just so you know - they have Black Friday and some other times of the year when you can get 50% off or 30% off.
That's when a large quantity of purchase make the leap and buy.
A little hint...
If you have visited their website you now know that they have a 14 day Free trial to try out any of the plugins.
I think that's a cool little feature and very welcoming from Neural DSP's part.
If you don't like or don't find useful any of the plugins simply don't buy and continue using their stuff!
Grab one of their plugins...
and I promise you won't regret it!
As I said, there's now quite a LOT of plugins available on their website.
Simply use the 14 day FREE trial to adjust some knobs or just use the presets built into.
You don't have much to lose with the free trial periods. Of course, maybe you cannot get a good tone with the guitar or guitar pickups you have.
But you simply can check out other of their stuff in the line-up.
That's all for now folks!
Cheers and have a great day!
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