GRACILIANO PÉREZ
Flamenco from Córdoba, in three flavors.
A luthier-built Graciliano Pérez Carrizosa, captured in three character variations. The dry, percussive attack flamenco and fingerstyle ask for.
3 captures · base, M and Q
By Chrys Gringo · The world's first plugin dedicated to nylon-string guitar
Your guitar,
mixed in one click.
You record with a mic and the room comes with it: the fan, the neighbors, the street outside. Or you go direct from the piezo to save time and it hands you that thin, plastic sound. Either way the take never sounds finished. Then Magic Nylon steps in: it learns YOUR room's noise in 2 seconds, dresses your signal in captured bodies of real guitars and you hear your own guitar sounding like a studio, now.
Magic NylonNylon Guitar Suite
Start Here
Source
Input
0.0 dB
Power
35%
Magic
Creative
Body
35%
Warm Shelf
Sparkle
40%
Magic
Wide
35%
Magic
Delay
10%
Magic
Space
40%
Concert
Clean Up
Clean
30%
Magic
Tame
20%
Magic
Noise
25%
LO
Learn
End Here
Output
0.0 dB
Magic
The finished guitar costs $19.99 at launch. With its steel sibling, $29.Buy once, it's yours forever. No subscription, no monthly fee.see everything in the suite
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Find your sound
51 guitar sounds, organized by real styles.
Ten banks: Bossa Nova, MPB, Worship, Classical, Sertanejo, Fingerstyle, Pop/Ballad, Flamenco, plus Essentials and the 8 captured bodies in the Guitars bank. The style presets carry the fine-tuning an engineer would dial, from the compressor to the delay figure. Inside each bank the DI sounds come first and the mic ones after, so you cycle fast with the arrow keys, browser closed. Try it. Stereo mode brings its own bank, 50 more presets recalibrated for the mic and line pair.
Interactive mockup. Filters, search, favorites and recent all work with the same logic that ships in the plugin.
The part nobody else has
Record through a line input, a bad mic, a noisy room. Hear an elite guitar, mic'd to perfection.
The BODY fader carries captured bodies of real guitars. In DI mode, your piezo's line sound is shaped into the body of a real instrument recorded with studio microphones. It is the difference between pickup quack and wood ringing in a room.
K&K CLASSIC
The direct classical, no room.
Two captures of the K&K system on a studio classical guitar: one neutral, one matched (Match) built to sit where the plain line sound was. An honest starting point for any nylon DI.
2 captures · KK Classic and KK Match
BURGUET 2F
A Spanish concert guitar, three microphones.
The same Amalio Burguet 2F captured through three studio classics: DPA 4011, AKG and a Neumann M147 tube mic. Three readings of one body, from surgical detail to tube warmth.
3 captures · DPA, AKG and M147
8 bodies in the BODY selector. Captures apply in DI mode; in Mic mode, BODY becomes a warm low shelf. And the Your IRs bank loads captures of your own: drop a WAV in the folder and it shows up on the BODY page.
The big-record trick
The mic hears the wood. The line hears the string. Your guitar is both.
When you record mic and line together, the usual move is picking one in the mix and muting the other. Each one hears half the instrument though: the mic brings the wood and the air of the room, the line brings the attack and the outline of every string. On the guitar records that sound huge, both are playing, one on each side of the image. ST mode does that right here: mic on the left, line on the right, each side with the treatment it asks for, and the pair becomes one guitar, big the way you hear it on records.
What the mode gives you
- SET · 4 SECONDS
You play for four seconds and the plugin matches the line to the mic, time-aligns the pair and fixes polarity. The image sits centered and stays mono-safe. Dialing that by hand usually eats a studio afternoon.
- PER-SOURCE MIXER
Pan, level and solo for each side on the BODY page. You solo the mic, solo the line, hear what each one brings and balance it by ear, not by guessing.
- TWO MICS
Got two microphones? Click the R pill and the pair becomes a true-stereo mic rig, with mic voicing on both sides. One mic and one line work too, use whatever you have around.
- 50 STEREO PRESETS
A whole bank calibrated for this mode, style by style. The browser shows the right bank for the mode you are in.
ST mode asks for an interface with two inputs, the same one you already use when you record mic and line. We went looking for another guitar plugin that does this complete pair, with per-side voicing and automatic setup, and we did not find one.
Try it yourself
Now try it yourself.
This is a mockup of the plugin: try the buttons, roll the body and space selectors, run LEARN. Icons are per-effect bypasses; faders light up as you push each effect. Mixing becomes a sonic, tactile process, simple and fun.
Magic NylonNylon Guitar Suite
Start Here
Source
Input
0.0 dB
Power
40%
Magic
Creative
Body
30%
KK CLASSIC
Sparkle
45%
Magic
Wide
35%
Magic
Delay
15%
Magic
Space
35%
Plate
Clean Up
Clean
40%
Magic
Tame
30%
Magic
Noise
35%
LO
Learn
End Here
Output
0.0 dB
Magic
Full control, on the rare day you need it
One click for the preset. One more for everything else.
Presets cover ~90% of the cases. The other 10%: learning YOUR room's noise, bypassing one effect, letting AUTO match the volume. All one click away, in the same plugin.
LEARN · NOISE
It learns your room's noise in 2 seconds.
Click LEARN and stay silent for ~2 seconds: the plugin captures your room's noise fingerprint (fan, AC, cable hum) and cleans deeper with fewer side effects. One fader handles the rest.
Clean Up zone → LEARN pill under the Noise fader.
BYPASS PER FX AND PER ZONE
Click an icon and kill that effect.
Every effect icon is a bypass button. Zone titles too: tap CREATIVE and the whole group goes silent at once. Useful to hear exactly what each piece does without undoing the preset.
Icons and zone labels are bypass switches.
AUTO GAIN
Honest volume: what changes is the tone.
The AUTO pill matches the processed level to the raw signal. If a fader move sounds better, it is actually better, not just louder. The kind of honesty plugins almost never have.
End Here zone → AUTO pill under Output.
What each fader does
Nine faders. Calibrated for guitar, not for showing off.
Each macro does one specific, musical job, tuned by Chrys for nylon strings. No endless menu: nine decisions you can hear.
POWER
Studio-grade steadiness.
A parallel compressor: it evens out the dynamics on a copy of your signal and blends it under your dry guitar. Your touch stays yours, phrases stop sinking in the mix, and sustain shows up.
BODY
Wood, not a cardboard box.
In DI, it blends your line signal with a captured real guitar body, the antidote to piezo quack. In Mic, it becomes a warm low shelf that gives a thin recording its chest back.
SPARKLE
Fresh-strings brightness.
Lifts string attack and air without turning squeak into pain. The sound of strings changed yesterday, in the right dose.
WIDE
A guitar that hugs.
Doubles your take with a 7-voice symmetric doubler and stretches the image with a mono-safe imager. The second page picks the voices: 1, 3, 5 or 7. Push it in the chorus for a wall of guitar; pull it back for the intimate verse.
DELAY
Space between the notes.
A short, musical delay tuned to sit behind the guitar. A subtle throw at the end of phrases, never rhythmic clutter.
SPACE
The MAGICOM in one fader.
56 convolution reverb spaces in the selector, amount on the fader. From dry studio to cathedral without opening another plugin. The full story just below.
CLEAN
Un-muds the middle.
Clears the region that makes home recordings murky: the small-room low-mid buildup. The guitar steps forward without getting thin.
TAME
Tames the harshness.
Holds back harsh attack peaks and fret squeak. Works with SPARKLE: all the brightness you want, none of the sawtooth.
NOISE
Noise, solved on one fader.
Gate and spectral reduction together. LO (~8 ms) to play and record while monitoring; HQ for maximum cleanup at mix time. With LEARN, it cleans using your room's own fingerprint.
For the day you want to go deep
A fader up front. A lesson underneath it.
Every fader hides a second page: click the style window under it and the full technical control appears. On the dynamics pages YOUR signal draws the graph in real time; on the delay, a rhythmic timeline; on the body, captures that keep your attack. You learn by mixing, on the material you are recording right now.
PAGES THAT TEACH
The compressor shows you where you stand.
The POWER page draws your level live and you drag the THRESHOLD right on the display, the way classic studio compressors work. A gain-reduction meter with the sweet zone marked, a tooltip on every knob, and a GUIDE ME that walks you through it, validating each step with your audio.
Every module has one: delay with a rhythmic timeline, body with captures, master with a draggable ceiling.
READY-MADE STYLES
Magic is the house ideal. Custom is you.
The style window under each fader cycles fixed styles: Gentle, Magic and Tight on the compressor, figures on the delay, strengths on tame. Magic is the setting Chrys calibrated; the moment you fine-tune the second page, it becomes Custom. One click on the window opens the lesson.
The window arrows switch styles without opening anything.
TOUR AND KEYBOARD
Sixty seconds and you know the house.
On first open, a guided tour walks the zones in the right order, from noise to honest volume. After that, pick in hand: the arrow keys change presets from anywhere in the plugin, B toggles bypass, A toggles AUTO. The mouse waits for when you want it.
To replay the tour, click the Gringo Audio logo and choose Run the tour again.
The noise floor
Your room makes noise. Your recording won't.
Every home studio has a noise floor: the fan, the AC, the street outside the window. The microphone picks up all of it along with the guitar. The Clean Up zone attacks that floor on two fronts, spectral reduction to pull the noise out from inside the sound and a gate to hold the silence between phrases. And that setting belongs to the room, not the song: once you calibrate NOISE, no preset ever touches it.
The three moves
- LEARN
Memorizes the noise print of YOUR room in 2 seconds of silence.
- SPECTRAL
The reduction pulls noise out from inside the sound, frequency by frequency, and the notes stay.
- GATE
Between one phrase and the next, it holds absolute silence. No hiss creeping up when you stop playing.
Built for constant noise: fan, street, AC, the neighbor through the wall. That covers about 90% of home recording cases.
The reverb inside the plugin
Ordinary reverb imitates a room. Ours photographs it.
Almost every plugin reverb is an algorithm guessing how a room might sound. Convolution works from different raw material: an acoustic photograph of a real space. Your guitar starts sounding inside that space, with the exact character of the original. It is the most faithful reverb technology there is.
MAGICOM is our convolution engine, and its library is authorial: we captured every space in true stereo and kept, by ear, only what sits right on an acoustic guitar. That is 25 spaces across 8 families, each with a job: the dry wooden room for bossa, the frontal plate for percussive playing, the hall that holds your guitar in place with air around it, the vintage concrete chamber you hear on soul records, the dense steel plate for ballads. Generic bundle spaces do not get in. And each space carries its measured reverb time written into its name.
Click the reverb's name inside the plugin and the full editor opens: pre-delay, decay, filters, width and gain. And if you have your own IRs, load them right there. Every factory preset already comes with the space chosen for its style, you just decide how much.
The 8 families
Magic PlateRoomDark ChamberSmall PlateRich ChamberHallBig PlateEcho Chamber
The tuner
You tune where you record, on the signal that goes in.
One click on TUNER in the header and the tuner takes over the page: giant note, cent readout, frequency in Hz. It listens to the raw signal before any effect, so what you tune is exactly what the recording receives. Tune, go back to the faders, record.
The Creator
Built by Chrys Gringo.
The plugin the nylon guitar never had.
Music producer, educator, plugin developer and Full Sail University ambassador, a reference for 290k+ creators learning to make better music from home studios, not million-dollar rooms.
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YouTube subscribers
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After 20 years teaching audio and music production, I realized the most-recorded instrument in home studios was the one with no tools: the nylon-string guitar. Every acoustic plugin assumes steel strings, dreadnoughts, country.
I wanted to hit play and hear MY guitar sound like the records that taught me to play. Bossa, MPB, worship. So I built it.
— Chrys Gringo
After years helping creators rescue thin, muddy or noise-drowned guitar recordings, Chrys made the process simple:
- 1Choose Mic or DI.
- 2Pick a style.
- 3Shape the sound by ear.
No EQ curves. No endless tutorial hole. No subscription trap. A complete guitar chain you buy once for a fair price, own forever, and reach for every time your guitar needs to sound finished.
Final step
Stop fighting your guitar.
Start releasing.
VST3 / AU / AAX. Installs alongside your DAW in under a minute. Buy once, own forever.
Most popular
Complete suite · 2 plugins
$79.98$29
Magic Nylon + Magic Bronze for $14.50 per plugin
- • 2 specialist plugins (nylon + steel)
- • 196 style presets, mono and stereo (Bossa, Worship, Folk, Country…)
- • 15 captured studio guitar bodies
- • MAGICOM reverb: 25 authorial spaces from a legendary '80s hardware unit
- • Free updates forever · Mac & Windows
No subscription. Buy once, it's yours forever.
Mac & Windows · VST3 · AU · AAX · Works with Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Studio One.
Questions
Everything you're about to ask.
Is that the real plugin up there or just a mockup?
The interface you drove above is the real Magic Nylon UI, ported to the browser. The playground processing is visual; the real plugin runs the DSP in your DAW, with the actual captured bodies.
Does stereo mode need special gear?
Two inputs on your interface, mic in one, line in the other, the way you already record when you capture both signals. SET matches levels, aligns time and fixes polarity on its own. And in mono mode nothing changes, you keep using mic or line and the output stays stereo through the effects.
Does it work with a cheap piezo pickup?
That is exactly who it is for. In DI mode, BODY blends your line signal with captured bodies of real guitars, and the plastic sound becomes wood. If you record with a microphone, Mic mode handles the rest.
Do I need to know how to mix?
No. Pick a preset in your style, hit play, move on. If you want to tweak later, it is nine clearly-named faders, not an engineering menu. And when curiosity hits, click a module's style window: the second page teaches the technical control on your own material.
My Mac is old. Will it run?
It runs from macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) up, Intel or Apple Silicon, universal binary. Version 0.3.0 fixed compatibility with older Intel Macs; if you already bought it, download the new installer for free, same license.
Is it heavy on CPU?
The full chain measures ~5% of one core on an M1 Mac at 48 kHz with a 128 buffer. Plenty of machine left for the rest of the session, and NOISE's LO mode keeps latency low for tracking.
Can I use my own captures in BODY?
Yes. Drop WAV files in the user IR folder and they show up in the Your IRs bank on the BODY page, level-normalized. Captures of your guitar, borrowed IRs, experiments: it all goes in.
Which DAWs does it work in?
All the major ones. VST3 on Windows and Mac, AU on Mac, AAX in Pro Tools. Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon) and 64-bit Windows.
Will it replace my whole guitar chain?
Yes. Magic Nylon was designed to BE the chain: Mic or DI input with the right filtering, a captured real guitar body, brightness, width, delay, ambience, cleanup, harshness control and noise solved, ending in a limiter with honest volume. It is the whole road from recorded guitar to finished guitar, inside one plugin. Generic plugins treat a guitar like any source; here every fader is born calibrated for nylon strings. Open it, pick your style's preset, and the full chain is already built.
What about steel-string guitar?
Magic Nylon is dedicated to nylon: bodies, presets and the whole calibration. For steel there's Magic Bronze, the steel sibling, with 7 captured bodies and 48 style presets. The two together cost $29 in the Magic Acoustic Guitars suite.
Can I get a refund?
14-day refund, no questions asked.
What will be included in the price?
A lifetime license on up to 3 of your machines, every update within the major version, and priority email support.
System requirements (macOS / Windows / formats)
macOS
- macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later
- Apple Silicon (M1–M4) or Intel 64-bit · universal binary
- 4 GB RAM
- Host supporting VST3, AU or AAX
Windows
- Windows 10 64-bit (1809+) or Windows 11
- Intel or AMD 64-bit CPU
- 4 GB RAM
- Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime — preinstalled on Win 11; installed automatically if missing
- Host supporting VST3 or AAX
Plugin formats
- VST3 (64-bit) — macOS, Windows
- Audio Unit (64-bit) — macOS
- AAX Native (64-bit) — Pro Tools (PACE-signed)
Audio
- Sample rates: 44.1 kHz – 192 kHz
- 32-bit float internal processing
- Zero latency, except the NOISE reduction: LO ~8 ms · HQ ~64 ms (reported to the host)
CPU usage
- Full chain at ~5% of one core (M1 Mac, 48 kHz, 128 buffer)
- Light enough to play and record through in LO mode
Magic Nylon by Gringo Audio — a Chrys Gringo project. Made in the United States.
The family
Most nylon players keep a steel-string within reach.
Magic Bronze is the steel sibling: the same philosophy recalibrated for bronze strings, with 7 captured studio guitar bodies from dreadnought to OM. And the two together cost $29 in the suite.