Neural DSP Quad Cortex Real-World Experience: Kevin Samuel 

Fancy seeing you here!

I like it too.

You were born digital and only used digital. You're digital so how can you not process?

A Buddy of mine played shows with Bias FX on his smartphone. So works already 😄

@@csn-audio yeah, I’m aware of tablet and cellphone apps that are impressive for what they are. But just imagine this tech (neural, fractal, kemper, etc) on a smartphone. 😳 It’s a very real possibility.

@@Wargasm644 It's just a matter of processing power. The processor in your smartphone crushes the computers of yesteryear, but it's nowhere near what we have today. This cycle will probably continue, and eventually you're going to hit the point of diminishing returns. And hey, if you like the Bias and Amplitube offerings on mobile, then we've already hit it.

😁🙌

My fm3 is good but 3 foot switches means more tap dancing around changing scenes. Irritating!!

I’ve gone the opposite way since watching all of the demos so far. For a couple hundred $ extra I’m going with the Axe FX III and get instant usable tones vs waiting a year or so for Neural to get their updates/cloud exchange up to par.

@@mello2029 More like 1k difference actually. when you add the fc-6 or 12. I have the ax3 its great just not a few hundred more than qc.

can you post your samples on youtube? to understand better

After hearing this I will stay with the Kemper

Agreed Hype went down quickly

I love fm3

After hearing this i will stick with my Line6 POD XT :P

Late March.

@@bateriasautosil You mean March of 2022 😂

@@mello2029 bem cool Mel. I would rather wait and have a well finished product than waste money on an incomplete piece of crap

The hardware is done. They had a recall where they replaced something that was failing in some of the beta units, which set things back a little bit. The real work being done right now is on the software side. The will continue with updates as things go on but for right now, that is their main focus. Either way, Im pretty stoked to get one and I look forward to the updates.

They don't adjust anything unless you're in the middle of editing a preset.

@@TomCouture Gotcha !! Thanks Tom.

We were using an FRFR amp/cab for in-room monitoring, though we didn't record that. The room sound was really good... but the audio capture is just more tidy/less bleed when we do direct recording to our Zoom F8n. That's also a more accurate representation of the Quad Cortex's sounds since the speakers used, cabinet design, and amps (as clean as they are) in an FRFR cab would impart some different tone. Mic'ing FRFR cabs can be challenging since you'd want to mic both left and right and there are typically both drivers and tweeters that don't perfectly line up... you'd need a mic for the driver and a mic for the tweeter on each side (and then blend those accurately in the mix). You could pull the mics back a bit to try to capture both the tweeter and driver with one mic, but then you'll get much more bleed from the other side. Those challenges are probably why pretty much everyone opts to just record the direct signal out, either from the analog main L/R or from the digital USB outs. In practical performance application the challenges become irrelevant because you can easily just do both... run the XLR L/R as direct outs to the sound engineer for the FOH system, run your instrument level L/R outs to your FRFR cab on the stage for your own monitoring purposes/stage volume.

You can use this without being attached to your computer. And you can use it with your iPhone if you have one. Not sure about androids.

@@jklmopqtstuvwxyz5349 yes I'm aware. Thanks

This was recorded using the main XLR outs recording to a Zoom F8n field recorder. It would work like a USB recording interface when connected via USB to a DAW. You'd need to set inputs in the DAW for each output being used from the Quad Cortex via USB.

They’re still working on the cloud and firmware. Maybe looking at a summer release.

Not until the end of March and made in Finland.

@@DavidEidelberg You forgot to add the word maybe to your end of March comment. As you should know by now Neural isn't exactly known for meeting their projected release dates for the QC!

👍 www.sweetwater.com/about/sales-engineers/

Man ease up on my dudes at sweetwater

Good job, now they aren't gonna send you any candy.

It’s a pretty industry standard term for most technical markets. They are experts at the product but also deal with your order as a direct customer facing personnel. I am an engineer, and I deal with a lot of sales people who know surprisingly little about what they sell 😑 but their primary concern is to put orders in the system and communicate shipping info and then handle customer issues and field them to the proper folk. There are people who are “in-between” but we call them “system architects” instead who talk to the customer but don’t deal with logistics.

This guy clearly seems like he knows what he's doing and is probably a great guy and Sweetwater is a great company, but OH MY GOD SALES ENGINEERS???? HAHAHAHAHAH

Yes, you can change the eq after an amp tone capture.

Watch Rabeas or Olas vid for metal tones

@@colossaljack9509 I did . thanks man. wasn't impressed. wasnt criticizing your video though. yours was fine and all.

looks good on paper however, what if one guy needs to change the preset mid song and the other guy doesnt. You have to create a ton of scenes due to it just to circumvent that. seems neat for bedroom jammin but starts to get over complicated for live application. i dunno.what started out simple and now i have to get a protools live rig to control all my scenes cause im too lazy to carry a real amp

Coming very soon.

@@r.llynch4124 tnx for the reply man

try deactivating the gate on the plugins😉

@@aaron.alfaro I had it off

That's not true at all. The Neural plugins are stellar. check tom quayle demo.

There's a problem with something else in your rig, Neural plugins do that perfectly.

@@r.llynch4124 Tom does a great review of this. Makes it sound really good.

NO talk I have a tube amp sitting right here at low volume. I can compare the clips that is exactly what it sounds like , crank it and it opens up

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5kukagQF7oQ.html. there is the amp

After more than a dozen videos, you've realised it does all sorts of tones, right? i guess that's the sound this guy likes, and he can dial it, even if we don't like it... I'm cool with that. And I'm even more cool that we don't have to endure anymore the low mid rumble typical to Kemper.

@@randalljax nah my tube amps sound great. Depends what amp you have. I have a Kemper and a helix too. I spend too much time tweaking it and most of the time or just don’t enjoy it as much. Amps and real pedals plug in and play. The best overlooked modeler is the Yamaha 100hd double modeler. And the Iridium next. Yamaha bought line6 and the 100hd sounds and feels the best to me.

Yes it can, the plugins are meh

@@dividedbytimestudios Well that's just wrong

Seems like it can. But we'll see. The USP of this thing is form factor and usability, not tones.

Maybe you are all correct haha. Full disclosure, despite my disdain for overly digital sounding guitars, I do like modeling products. I find that the ability to instantly switch between disparate amps / effects provides lots of inspiration while writing. Not to mention I really dig the wide range of colors in my palette, opposed to a more narrow range of tones found in more “standard” tube or SS amps. That being said, not all modelers are created equal. I actually think Fender’s modeling amps are insanely good for the price. You get lots of tonal options AND it’s an amp you can practice / gig with.

If you think "soul" comes from the sound, you'll never be good...

Not 100%, but has some effect