NEURAL DSP QUAD CORTEX FOR METAL 

Super fascinating, not a guitar player but an IT person, great to see designs that are well thought out an usable for the intended audience.

I love watching your videos and seeing how happy you get when you are talking about something you are passionate about it makes me and a lot of other people happy, keep up the amazing work Ricky! thank you for the content you create :)

do i have any intent on using this? no, but i’m watching the whole through bc i’d like to know how it works

I love the happiness in his face, just like a kid with a new toy, I hope that we have new music with this! ❤

Ok but I absolutely love watching you talk about this stuff and your photography stuff you light up so much and seeing you happy makes me happy 😊 I really need to learn more of this stuff anyway to play too so watching you explain it helps me a ton thank you Ricky

Dude, I was dreaming every week about seeing you guys first time at Knotfest Brazil 😢 please comeback this year, I will fly across the country again to see you, just please comeback 🖤🇧🇷

Ricky you looks great! I hope you got better🙏🏻

Okay anyone else want to hear him play more from 3:56? Just me…?

I am not musically inclined so I have no idea what any of the video content means but just wanted to thank you for such a great video yet again! Your passion shines through and I can’t wait to hear what comes from it!

Insane the power of this little guy. The important thing you noted is playing through something that inspires you to play. Really hard to get that nowadays I feel like. Big thing is the live travel aspect of it as well. Hoping to have one of these in the future!

I am completely clueless on all of this, buuuut I watched the whole thing like I had a idea of what was being said 😂 sounds sooo sick though

Idk how to play guitar or any instrument at that lol 😂 but I love the video and watched it all the way thru it’s interesting to me and sounds so awesome… keep the videos coming Ricky and happy 2023 😊🎉🖤💜🤷‍♀️💜

Every time you post something it makes my day better! Are you going back to substack? I really loved it! After I finish this video I'll go back to my math homework 🤣

I'm a drummer and a vocalist so I know nothing about guitar lol But I enjoyed learning a little about this. Hope you're well and I like the haircut :)

I was watching the little When Love Met Destruction documentary this morning and now seeing this blows my mind how far musical technology has come

Hey Mr Ricky!! This Quadcortex is absolutely amazing! I’m dreaming to have one!!! You can do absolutely everything ! Really!! Cheers from Belgium 🤘🏻

We love your videos!! Keep them coming please ♥️

The sound fresh out of the box is amazing. I am and have been an owner of a Helix (twice) and Kemper (once). After doing some research on the Quad Cortex I am interested in getting one. The stock tone just sounds ridiculously good.

I don't understand any of this but nice to see you again Ricky

I've gotten my QC three weeks ago and absolutely love it. It simply sounds unbelievable. Do you plan on sharing your presets via the Cloud and if so what's your name on there? Greetings from Germany 🤘🏼

Since i am also a MMA fan i see that you are wearing a T-Shirt of Dustin Poirier's Hot Sauce! :P :D

Thanks if you read this message. Ricky, I want you to know that I look up to you and the rest of MIW. Please never stop making music. Even if you can't tour, I never want you to stop releasing your art. You and Chris have helped me through a lot of pain. You helped me believe in myself and be comfortable being an atheist. You've done a lot for so many others too. Never give up. Thank you, MIW. :)

Thanks for that video, I'll be able to make several sounds now, I love you Ricky ❤️🥺

What a cool little device! I love how good it looks and sounds, how intuitive it seems to use, and with all those features, they still kept it light and not chunky. Also, I'm the 666th like on this video. Nice.

I had the same exsperience with the kemper. Except I actually went from a Kemper rack mount to a Pod Go. I lost quite a bit of money in the deal just cause I had to take a loss to sell the Kemper. and people went nut asking if I was crazy or something. And my answer to them was, yeah, I'm bat shit crazy. so what does that make a person who will keep gear because he can get more pieces of green paper for it? You ought to take it from me since I'm nuts, but I think that shit it a far worse offense to human intellect. See, cause I don't buy any musical equipment for a monetary investment. I dont care how many dolalrs I get out of something, I only care about how much creativity I can get out of it and how inspired am I. Now, I hardly think Kemper is a bad product at all. however I look at this video, I recall my experience and I also consider many artists that I respect who do who do still use Kemper and it all seems to fit the idea that I came up with a left camper. and that is Kemper's a great piece of gear and it will inspire you if you already had an amp that was inspiring to you. because his main job was to reproduce the preexisting sound. however if you were trying to create your own sound it is very limiting because when you move any knob on the camera that's associated that's associated to the anterior affects whatever it may be, those changes don't represent what the changes would be like in real life because the Kemper doesn't know what to do what a 5150 would the mid scooped out Sounds like unless you profile a 5150 with Nizkel. you couldn't possibly know other variables and factors of every single amp that's been profiled So creating tone it was much more difficult if somebody had not profiled the sound that you wanted spot on right from the start. the helix was made to consider all those variables as you move the knobs in the quad cortex does that end You take a step further because it also does with the Kemper does. I've since stepped up to the helix LT But God knows I wish I had the money for the Cortex because I would have loved to get one of those. However, I am far from bombed about anyone of these three because I think about what I was playing through before I got the Kemper in it's hard to feel bad at this point because my setup is far superior to anything I would have ever thought I would have been able to afford before

It’s so much fun when a new toy inspires you (mine is a camera)! You just get lost in what you’re doing and before you know it, boom, it’s three hours later. LOL I don’t know about you, but to me it feels like falling in love with what I’m doing all over again. 😊 As always, thanks for sharing!

happy new year's to all of you in motionless in white keep rocking

I don't play guitar or understand most of what you said but the sound it was making was incredible.

I don't even play guitar and you've sold me on it lmao I love seeing videos where you're excited about a product 😁🖤

Great job on this tutorial and jamming while showing off the units Metal sounds which are frickin bad ass! Gotta get me one now. Thanks for your video. Because of you, I am sold brother!!!

If you’re not going to use a profile and just use amp modeling the axefx is way superior in modeling and effects. It’s also a 100 times more complicated to use. 😂. I had the QC and sold it after a couple months because it was just too far behind the Helix and axefx. I’m sure it’s way better now but I didn’t want to wait a year for it to catch up. I always thought your Kemper profiles tone was pretty awesome . the Kemper is so old an frustrating to use but I still have one and sold all the other stuff because I profiled all my amps.

Please make more videos with this thing because it’s so cool!

Am I the only one who was shocked at the F bomb when he always bleeps them out 😂😂😂 love your excitement over this!

Could you do like a gear tour? Would like to see your custom ibanez’s and wouldnt mind knowing about your kemper tones? Give us a run down on your rigs/set ups/etc!

I've been playing a Cortex for a few months now and I keep telling Ryan he needs to swap out the Kemper for one!

Thanks for making this video! I've had my QC for a few weeks now and I love hearing people better than me get great tones. What kind of pickups are you using here?

This is a cool piece of equipment. The simplicity of it is the best part, too.

It looks very nice and I hope it helps you out for the long run for when you use it. ❤ ❤❤🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻💋💋💋

Love love love love my Quad Cortex thus far. Easily my favorite piece of gear I own. Haven't gigged with it yet as I've been dialing it in but first one coming up this month.

Sounds amazing as always Ricky! Wondering if you wouldn't mind uploading your live presets and sharing your Neural DSP name so we can download these epic tones!

I got the same "problem" when i got my QC. Those factory sounds are so good and there are so many. What else do i need?

And they have cool skins you can get for them like diamond plate or skulls or basically anything you want just do a search for skins for the quad cortex

Hola Ricky, Feliz año 2023, éxitos siempre y saludos desde Paraguay 🇵🇾🗝️🖤

The Freeman is a Freidman amp, but yes, very similar to a marshall. They obviously can't put in Freidman, just like how they do "PV"

I wish I would have known about this sooner. Forget my suggestions on guitar tutorials or play throughs. I will never make a suggestion again. This is very informative for an intermediate player like myself. ❤

The format of the touch screen kind of reminds me of ge labs

Recently looked at your equipment and bought some myself, you're a fcking legend ricky

I’m sending this to a friend who’s a guitarist. Sounds like a must have! xo

Spit my tea out when those texts popped up on screen 😂Informative video. Thanks for sharing Ricky!

It's very addictive due to the simplicistic path to sound creation.

That's super fuckin cool, probably gonna invest in one of these when I get better at guitar

Ah yes! The constant disappearance of picks. It's like they open up rifts in time and space sometimes xD

Will you ever make tutorials on how to play the band's songs again? Maybe finding this new digital tool is a sign

The texts 😂 but I don’t even play guitar and I want it just to learn lol but can’t wait to see the magic that’s gonna be made with it 💖🎸🤘🏼

Man we've come far from back when all i needed was a Boss Metal Zone, and a Compressor. lol

my guitar isn't even in the same country as me, I'm just excited for a 10 minute video right now

He's like a kid on Christmas! This is awesome! That sounds so fucking good too.

I use petrucci and nolly’s neural dsp plugins and didn’t know they had this. I’ll have to check it out.

This thing looks awesome! I picked up NeuralDSP's Archetype Petrucci plugin over Black Friday, and the quality of the out-of-the-box presets blew me away. Something about the response (I'm guessing there's some machine learning modelling happening there) felt like nothing I'd really experienced from an amp sim before. I just used the "Heavy Rhythm" preset for like a week without changing anything. The transpose feature has also been game-changing for me. I can just leave my Strat in E standard/drop D and my 7 string RGD in B standard /drop A and reliably play anything from drop F to E standard. No more whacky string gauges to enter metalcore breakdown territory.

Wow!!! The guitar sounds soooo fucking good!! This is really cool!

Insane tone Ricky, so beautiful in my ears =)

The @neuralDSP has so much to offer, and lots more to come! 2.0 update should be coming out any day. Great video!

The simplicity of this thing is insane and fact you delved into it a matter of minutes and got a tone like that is crazy!!

Guitar model? Pickups?

yes dude! hope to see some presets from you pop up on the cloud!

What do u plug it in to? Is it connected to a cab or studio monitors?

First of all, I need that water bottle👀 Second, this really is an awesome piece of equipment, love how happy you are with it and how you explained it to us!

My guitarists use nerual dsp’s quad cortex and its the best thing for all of us in our opinion. No only is the tone and quality of sound still present. But its easy to go from the studio to the venue and you dont have to deal with loading in and out heavy ass gear.🖤🤘

Ricky its sounds sick I can't wait to see u play and to meet all of miw

Where can I buy such a strange keyboard? It looks like an old typewriter 😀

we need a video of you shredding on it for a while, gets me super inspired and i dont even play the guitar haha

What do you think about the Qc and Fractal in terms of Sound Tone feel and dynamic response?

Wait, did I just stumble across Ricky from MIW's channel while searching for some QC videos? Didn't know you had a channel! Love your music man

What about the lag when changing patches? What about the noise gates?

Wonderful !!! Well done , I like it !!!

Sweetwater is selling Quad Cortex with a free Plug In "Soldano SLO-100 Amp and FX Suite Software". They are different products: the plug in you use on your computer, etc. But I was wondering: is there a difference between the two Soldanos - the plug in and the one that comes standard on the Quad Cortex? I ask because, the Soldano plugin and it's effects already comes with Quad Cortex. So other plugins would be more interesting gifts - Petrucci's, for example.

It sounds astonishing 🖤🤍

Would you say this device is good for beginners? If not, what would you suggest? And would you ever consider doing guitar lessons for MIW songs on your channel? Thanks for another awesome video, Ricky! Can't wait to see what's next 🖤

Happy New Year with LOVE

Nice cortex, Ricky!

Ah the quad cortex has arrived, nice! Its funny to hear that it feels so natural because that is what most kemper user say about the kemper itself. That it has the most "real amp feeling" because of the exact profiling aspect. I'm a Line6 Helix user so far, but every time I see that kind of vids I am kicked haha. I am excited to see if the QC becomes your new live equipment. Would be glad to see more vids like that, more gear/guitar talk and maybe some riffing. Ok, enough babbling.

Do I play guitar nope, do I know what you’re talking about nope, but I do just love watching you be happy about your new gear

Had mine just over a year and it’s still inspiring. You should use scene mode for live, what I do I have each patch named by song and then have all your sounds for that song inside 1 preset.then you simply just have scene 1 have your rhythm stuff on, scene 2 maybe a clean for that song. Ect ect

I definitely did learn something new from this even though I may not have experience with this, it was new to me so thank you! Happy (late) new year and I hope you will have a great one! Also, are you feeling better from the weeks when you were sick? If that’s not the case, I hope you get well soon! Wishing you lots of fun for this year and we’re all looking forward to new interesting content this year!

You can also basically run a full band guitar wise. You set four blocks 1 for bass 2 for rhythms and one for lead Etc etc

Hey boss what do you use at home to test these tones? Just your monitors?

When he uploads on my birthday!! 🎉😁

Ricky!!!! My guitarists and I just got 2 of these and they’re SICK (the 🤘kind ofc) one for both guitars and one for my bass. Off the gate, I tried out one of the Darkglass presets and was immediately like “THIS IS THE ONE” this thing honestly blows my mind, AND it’s future proof. Great vid man.

Great review!! I'm definitely intrigued! Btw, huge fan of your music!!

I love you Ricky you make more videos playing the guitar & singing your voice set me in peace I want you say something to me Please !! LORENISTAN...

What’s your amp called?:0 Also is that smol box for any electric guitar and will any electric guitar make those awesome metal sounds? 👀

I'm digging mine a ton as well. Thanks for sharing!

freeman is a Frriedman haha not a Marshall. Ya know, they DO have list of what every model in there is based off of, if you cared to look it up you'd know exactly what every sound is supposed to be in that thing. p.s I have it too & love it

I literally bought mine after watching your video.

so basically...the guitars on the next record are gonna fuckin rip 😏😏😏

Poirier shirt, we need MMA content now

I know this is an old video and I’m not sure if you’ll see this Ricky but if you happen to, I was wondering which would be easier to get to drop a tuning or drop g for guitar wise if I should use my 6 string electric or get a 7 string?

HELP ME THE TEXT MESSAGE XD

Knowing its comes stock with the peavey 6505 distortion is killer! Does it have any delay when changing to different presets in preset mode for live gigs? ( going from distortion to clean)

Welcome to the club. Wait till you get into using IRs. The freeman is the Friedman BE 😀