Ugh, thank you for making a video with pedals going into this unit. Every metal/blues/box store presenter is just only using it as a unit and it obv. looks like it is trying to be a part of a pedal board. Subscribed.
now that there's the app amp control, who needs a full sized QC? thanks for the great video!! as always, on point and amazing tones! love your content!!
@@JoshuaDeLaVictoria but definitely you can capture 4 preset of your pedalboard and get some final touches there, don't you? it would replace the pedalboard in most cases IMO, anyway huge fan of your work josh! waiting for more solo singles
Great vid. Wondering why you wanted to add two analog delays to the board when the Nano Cortex has an analog-style delay built in? I'm debating having the Nano as my only delay (and reverb?), so wondering if you think that will cut it.
Great vid and very nice new board! Do you find the NC outputs clip the inputs of your mako d1/r1 when place after it in the signal chain? (In my experience the D1/R1 don’t take line level well in the QC effects loop without adjusting down to instrument level volume). Sounded like there was a bit of clipping of the delay/reverb when you turned the D1/R1 on. Just curious if this has been an issue for you with the new board, or if you have found a work around? Love your videos btw!
I was kind of like "here comes the time I say goodbye to my HX stomp", but the lack of an FX loop kind of ruins it for my usual signal routing. Still it's good to see them put more hardware out, showing they are serious about it despite the many unfounded criticisms towards the Cortex
I just have it placed before my wet fx, but I hear where you’re coming from. Being able to use all my captures + cortex cloud captures is really the selling point for me. It also easily integrates with my pedalboard, which I’ve been really wanting to use again.
You could keep the stomp and run this in the stomps FX loop, that's likely what I'm going to do, use this as an amp + cab, maybe overdrive and use stomp as overdrive/compression and modulation delay reverb etc
@@JoshuaDeLaVictoriawell wet fx into an amp capture is what gives a lot of people their tone and saturation. You'd have to run a compressor Post FX to try and simulate that, but I imagine it would be weird anhway.
@@spawn302hmmm I don’t think I agree. Most people run wet effects after an amp block/capture. When running an amp with any gain, you’d want wet fx (reverbs and delays) afterwards. Unless you’re going for a distorted reverb sound
@@JoshuaDeLaVictoria I actually think this is very split in half. Most people I hear from that play live, want the wet effects straight into their amps, while recording at home or studio having wet effects post amp is the standard.
This is a really interesting way for neural to break into the budget market. It is put into a really interesting place in the market by both the features it has and the features it lacks. Lots of people critique the sole use of captures but I know plenty of players whose entire rigs are based similarly on worship tutorials' captures. Either way it sounds sick and makes for an interesting signal chain.
Yeah I’ve read lots of comments on the Neural NC vids. IMO this is competing with something like a Strymon Iridium or UA amp pedals, but with thousands of amps people have already captured + some extra effects. I’ve seen plenty of boards with multiple UA amp pedals, and 2 of those already costs more than this unit.
@@JoshuaDeLaVictoria Yeah I can definitely see that. People who are into pedals and what not are fine having a collection of all kinds of niche products, what's one more cool one?.. For anyone wanting a cheaper quad cortex, there are plenty of great options. That's a major reason I picked up the FM3 this year.
Of all the features they decided to keep from the QC , they kept the capture feature . This is the least used feature in my qc . I think they dropped the ball
Is that just like a regular laptop stand that you have the QC sitting on? I just got one last week and I hate it sitting flat on my desk. I want better access to the screen
