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Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492

Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492

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Claude

Anthropic (inferred)

“Claude's way better at lyrics”
“I did it in ChatGPT, the image. Then I went to Claude and I wrote the lyrics, 'cause Claude's way better at lyrics than Suno is.”— Rick Beato
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ElevenLabs Music

ElevenLabs (inferred)

“is also great”
“there's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song”— Lex Fridman
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Neural DSP

Neural DSP

“I use Neural DSP”
“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.”— Rick Beato
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Pro Tools

Avid (inferred)

“I'm an expert in Pro Tools”
“So I use Pro Tools. For the most part, but I also use Logic and Ableton. I've got all those.”— Rick Beato
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Ableton Live

Ableton

“Ableton's amazing”
“Ableton's amazing. It really is.”— Rick Beato
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Studio One

PreSonus (inferred)

“Studio One has been a little bit nicer for me”
“this is why Studio One has been a little bit nicer for me, because it's simpler, made for recording more so.”— Lex Fridman
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Immortal Beloved

Bernard Rose (inferred)

“It's an excellent movie”
“I saw this movie called Immortal Beloved. It's an excellent movie with, uh, Gary Oldman.”— Lex Fridman

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Rick Beato ear training / relative pitch course

Rick Beato

“my course, it will play you an interval, and then you identify it by clicking on whether it's a major third, or minor third”— Rick Beato

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ChatGPT

OpenAI (inferred)

“I did it in ChatGPT, the image. Then I went to Claude and I wrote the lyrics, 'cause Claude's way better at lyrics”— Rick Beato
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Suno

Suno (inferred)

“if you write a prompt in Suno and it spits out a song, which I've done, made a bunch of videos on this.”— Rick Beato
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Udio

Udio (inferred)

“there's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great.”— Lex Fridman
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John Mayer Neural DSP plugin

Neural DSP

“I just got the new John Mayer Neural DSP plugin today that I have not tried out. He did a modeling of all his amplifiers”— Rick Beato
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Kemper Profiler

Kemper

“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.”— Rick Beato
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Axe-Fx

Fractal Audio (inferred)

“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.”— Rick Beato
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Helix

Line 6 (inferred)

“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.”— Rick Beato
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BIAS FX

Positive Grid (inferred)

“This is gonna be embar... Yeah. I use BIAS FX. I'm sorry.”— Lex Fridman
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Logic Pro

Apple (inferred)

“a lot of pros use Logic. You know, I fire up Logic every couple days and I use it for things.”— Rick Beato
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REAPER

Cockos (inferred)

“I've used REAPER, I've used Studio One, that's the most recent that I've used”— Lex Fridman
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iZotope RX

iZotope

“the whole iZotope RX group of software that does a lot of the de-noising... they integrate machine learning extremely effectively”— Lex Fridman
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Zoom 9030

Zoom (inferred)

“It's called the Zoom 9030. I put out a short where he talks about it... It's like a kind of '90s modeling, early modeling thing.”— Rick Beato
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Binson Echorec

Binson (inferred)

“this is his Binson Echorec that he played through, and this is this. You know, these are all the same effects pedals.”— Rick Beato
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Marshall JCM800

Marshall

“I have this Marshall JCM800 that's modded that does this one thing. It's got great mids and it's good for this kind of a tune”— Rick Beato
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Mesa Boogie

Mesa/Boogie

“I need more of like a scooped metal sound that's more like Metallica or Dream Theater or something, so, oh, I'm gonna pull out my Mesa Boogie.”— Rick Beato
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Vox AC30

Vox

“I need something that's chimey that's more like Brian May or like The Edge, I'm gonna pull out my Vox AC30.”— Rick Beato
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Shure SM7

Shure (inferred)

“when my band was on UMG and they bought me a G3 and an SM7 and Pro Tools Digi 001, the first prosumer Pro Tools thing.”— Rick Beato
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Gibson J-45

Gibson

“And I have a J-45 Gibson, and I have a Martin D-28. So I only have three nice acoustics.”— Rick Beato
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Martin D-28

Martin

“And I have a J-45 Gibson, and I have a Martin D-28. So I only have three nice acoustics.”— Rick Beato
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Fender Stratocaster

Fender

“they brought in this American Strat that had these different shades of... It was like a silver. And I just... I just fell in love with the guitar.”— Lex Fridman
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Virtuoso

Joe Pass

“he made a record that this is off of called Virtuoso in 1973 that my dad gave me for Christmas when I was in 10th grade.”— Rick Beato
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The Beatles: Get Back

Peter Jackson (inferred)

“The Get Back documentary, they're smoking constantly.”— Lex Fridman