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.
Magic Nylon is the guitar processing suite built by Chrys Gringo for home recordists who don't want to become audio engineers, they want to play, release with confidence and hear their own guitar sound like a studio, now.
Hit Play, flip A/B and hear the same guitar, recorded in the same room, come out finished.
PRESET
Magic NylonNylon Guitar Suite
1
Start Here
Source
Input
0.0 dB
Power
35%
2
Creative
Body
35%
KK CLASSIC
Sparkle
40%
Wide
35%
Delay
10%
Space
40%
hall
3
Clean Up
Clean
30%
Tame
20%
Noise
25%
LO
LEARN
4
End Here
Output
0.0 dB
Launch price: $39.99The beta list buys for $24.99 when sales open. Buy once, own it forever.
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Find your sound
51 guitar sounds, organized by real styles.
Ten banks: Bossa Nova, MPB, Worship, Classical, Sertanejo, Fingerstyle, Pop, Flamenco, plus Essentials and the 8 captured bodies in the Guitars bank. Eight character tags filter on top. Favorites and Recent one click away. Try it.
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.
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
1
Start Here
Source
Input
0.0 dB
Power
40%
2
Creative
Body
30%
KK CLASSIC
Sparkle
45%
Wide
35%
Delay
15%
Space
35%
plate
3
Clean Up
Clean
40%
Tame
30%
Noise
35%
LO
LEARN
4
End Here
Output
0.0 dB
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 2 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
The master drive.
Feeds the whole chain harder. Low values stay transparent; past the middle it pushes density and sustain into the guitar.
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 the recording into 4 voices with mono-safe stereo width. 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
Three rooms on one fader.
Hall, Room or Plate on the selector, amount on the fader. From bone-dry studio to cathedral without opening another plugin.
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.
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.
290k+
YouTube subscribers
20 years
teaching audio
Full Sail
Ambassador
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.
$39.99$24.99
Launch-list priceClosed beta
Magic Nylon is in beta with a small group of musicians. The launch price will be $39.99. Leave your email on the list and buy for $24.99 when sales open.
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 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.
Which DAWs does it work in?
All the major ones. VST3 on Windows/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, the whole calibration. The steel sibling comes later. That dedication is what makes it the world's first at what it does.
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 11 (Big Sur) 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
- Light enough to play and record through in LO mode
- Runs comfortably on any modern 64-bit CPU
Magic Nylon by Gringo Audio — a Chrys Gringo project. Made in the United States.