“I was worried about amp sims when Rick Beato says nothing sounds as good as a tube amp. Then he posted our song and said, ‘Sick guitar tone!’” When one of indie-rock’s hottest guitarists fooled Rick Beato with amp sims

Nate Amos and RIck Beato comp.

Rick Beato is something of a bastion for the glory days of rock recording, when tube amps were king. So Nate Atmos was taken aback when his amp sim-powered tones drew praise from the man himself.

The Water from Your Eyes guitarist recently released It’s Beautiful, a three-track EP that follows on from the 2025 album, It’s a Beautiful Place, and it’s had the producer turned YouTuber saying just as much about his guitar tones. It turns out he had no idea it came from a simulation.