Josh Scott on Neural DSP and John Mayer Breaking the Guitar World

Josh Scott: John Mayer And The Coming Simulacra : There’s a video making the rounds right now. John Mayer is sitting in his studio, switching between his amplifiers — his actual 1964 Fender Vibroverb, his Dumble Steel String Singer #002, his Two-Rock prototype — and a software plugin that a company called Neural DSP built by modeling those exact pieces of gear. He’s playing. He’s listening. He…