“We thought they were quite fun and funny. We weren’t thinking, ‘Oh, people are gonna hate this’”: Neural DSP co-founders reflect on the negative response to their Nano Cortex video campaign – which went viral for all the wrong reasons

Neural DSP Nano Cortex.

Francisco Cresp and Doug Castro, the co-founders of Neural DSP, have finally opened up on the controversial Nano Cortex teaser videos the company launched in September, which perplexed the guitar community.

The promotional videos were written, produced, and directed by British music producer George Lever and composer and producer James Sanger, and also featured a cameo by Neural DSP artist Rabea Massaad – and can best be described as comedic in nature.