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Mentions personal use of Neural DSP.

1 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

“On my laptop here when I travel and things like that, I use Neural DSP, which I just did a video at their headquarters in Helsinki.”

— Rick Beato

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Rick Beato
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1 Mar 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Are you using any emulation? Any amp sims or it’s all real amps? No, I use amp sims. On my laptop here when I travel and things like that, I use Neural DSP, which I just did a video at their headquarters in Helsinki. And their CEO, Doug Castro, is a friend of mine. I actually talked to him today as a matter of fact. And I have a Kemper amp sim, you know, a modeler. I have an Axe-Fx, I’ve got a Helix, I pretty much have all these things. But for me, I can… I have 100 amps in my studio, so… And I have mics set up all the time, and cabinets, and stuff. Oh, what do you mean?…

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