Quad Cortex Factory Captures with Tuomas Wäinölä & Matias Kupiainen 

The most impressive part is the Les Paul staying in tune after that savage assault by the player.

Beyond the quality of the captures, it's just very pleasant to hear Tuomas" playing !

Finally, a demo that we could call demo and listen in a better way this QC. It seems sounds at very very top level.

I’ve always been skeptical of modeling profilers but this one I’m really really really impressed! I’m happy that I waited for a one of a kind product. I can’t wait to have this...

This sounds absolutely brilliant!

Thanks for posting this....very exciting. The LP and Strat are such tone machines nd combined with this amp, some beautiful tones.

Great video, bravo. Sounds immense.

I think that the capturing function is really fantastic!! Great Job.

Sounds killer, can’t wait to hear some extensive effects videos!

All I've been thinking about this month is the Tier 1 pre-orders shipping. I'm dying over here.

My whole recording life and true love has been amps because they were the only thing that gave me that true slight, chimey break up. Til Cory Wong, and now I use that almost every time I need lead and rhythms. Neural is the first company that has brought me to that sound in the box except for the kemper I had and certain profiles. I cannot wait to get this box, the ability to capture my amps, but also contain other users captures and Cory, effects, etc all in one is awesome, congrats!

Lawd - those strat tones from 14:00-15:00 were killer!

Sounds great! Cannot wait for mine to ship :)

Man! I cannot wait to get my hands on this thing

Great Guitarist!

Ridiculously good! Very impressed 🙏

Sounds awesome

Just amazing.

Sounds pretty darned good to me! In my opinion, it actually doesn't need to be better than the Kemper, even if it's "as good" that will be sufficient. Some people already say the Kemper is so close to the real sound, there is not all that much room for improvement. This product will be a winner if 1) The models are as good as the plug-ins. 2) The capture is as good as the Kemper. 3) The interface is as easy to use as shown. IMHO, if those 3 things come to fruition, this will be a killer product. It will be as if the Helix and Kemper had a baby, so you get all the effects and routing of the Helix, the amazing tones of the Kemper, and best in class modeling via Neurals plug-in tech. All in a modern, durable, and just really damn smart engineering package, with wifi and USB built-in, in a smaller form factor. Next level stuff really.

This is awesome!!!

I really enjoyed listening - good sounds and foremost: very good playing.

Finally! A good sounding demo..

This sounds really really good! I wanna hear Matias play too!! =)

Just as good an advert for the Bognor too!

I think it's safe to say that transistors have now cought up with tube amps.

First time I've heard it where it actually sounds good.

Its disgusting that I check for new videos of this product everyday now. Lol. NEW CONTENT. JUST RELEASE THIS BEAST ALREADY!

Impressive!

Damn, if i ever go back to tube amps it would be cause of that bogner, sounds freaking amazing at everything.

Epic !

Cortex sounds great but man that a delicious CS strat.

Count me impressed 👍

Got damn :) Luv the sound :)

Sounds awesome!

Love that tone @ 10:08...

I'm pretty sure its its own thing here guys. Its not a Kemper, an Axe fx or helix. Its its own thing and does sound great

Worth the asking price for the tones on this video alone. Unreal!!! Killer player as well!!! What pickups are in that Les Paul?? Man are they good too!

Wäinölä 🤘

It would be cool to have in future a plugin interface of the quad cortex, like the helix native for example

Genios

Looking forward to more demos! Oz Noy, Scott Henderson, Larry Carlton?

19:57 i really hope the refine function is able to listen to the player noodle on the higher register of the fretboard with single note lines and match the EQ for those registers in isolation, and be able to tell the difference in bandwidth if it's being fed chords or single notes. With chording it's legit hard to tell the difference between amp and capture, but with single notes in the high register, the real amp has all of its headroom available to push the single notes, the power amp isn't under load like it is when given the whole chord, there is an extra high chime and a slight scoop to the single notes when it's just single notes by themself... When it switches to the capture, the single notes on their own are reproduced with the same EQ color as the chords, two characteristic differences stick out to me in the single notes, 1. maybe 3dB of extra low mids around 250Hz, and 2. maybe 3dB less of the glassy high end chime, like around 3k or 4k. If the refine function can learn to grab those singled out bell tones up high based on recognizing what bandwidth it's being fed to adjust it's EQ, you couldn't tell at all. Not sure if it's dynamic like that.

Leon Todd needs to deep dive this unit send hime one.

Fuckin awesome. Since nothing is perfect, its amazing to see that this is so incredibly close. Scrolling down to read the comments and I honestly could not tell which one was the real sound and which was the profile. Im sure if I was watching I would see them hitting the button and I would say "Aha! There is a difference! I can hear it" but honestly its so minimal its going to be left to the cork sniffers to say how drastic it seems to them. Im glad my ears arent as good as theirs. It would make me miserable.

What distortion or overdrive pedals do you have plugged in front of this? I’m just guessing on the gold one. Is that a honeybee? And I can see the other one. The overdrive.

It's a great device , for what I can see/hear. Still no bass players for this one? If you know some please write a comment ;-)

since i couldn't find nowhere any info about this, neither it was mentioned anywhere yet, then i'm asking it here: the Quad Cortex is presumed to provide 48+ phantom power to be used with a mic, then what are the A/D that you guys have put in there? Since you have aimed for a highend line, are the digital audio converters of the same or any comparable quality level of what can be found in RME, APOGEE, Lynx or Prismaudio audio interfaces ? TIA

That sounds incredible......\\NN//

A W E S O M E !

How it this unit configured to the amp? is it via mics on an out of shot cab?..

How much does the rack gear come into play with the finished sound, ? Kemper can get good results with a DI box but amazing when dome in a studio , wondering if this is same. Meaning how much more $$$$ will I be out on profiles .. again hahah. Ordered mine day one at Sweetwater . Dec 3rd it’s hopefully landing in my mailbox. Great stuff crew. Some fun in 2020

Can the Quad cortex do a good “surf tone”? Most demos on yt lean towards the high gain heavy stuff.

Would like to hear a Soldano

Very much appreciate the more detailed video this time around. Demonstrating more tangible and encouraging detail. Seems to be respectfully close, but so far I feel like I am hearing a fairly noticeable lacking in the high end detail (e.g. bite, clarity, note separation, crispness in palm mutes). This observation reaches the level of being close enough to call it a small blanket over the speaker kind of thing, or to say the difference between okay tubes vs great tubes, or perhaps more simply new strings vs old. But it is at least better than Kemper as far as I can tell at this point. On the other hand, it seems to be neutering some of the most critical details that are the reason why I spend an excess amount of money on higher end amps, guitars, pickups, cables, monitoring equipment, etc. Worst case scenario is it seems like this could be a good convenience option but not good enough to become a replacement for the real gear for this who need/want and can afford the expense to get the last 5%.

pre order list just got 1 longer

Will we ever heard some bass please ?

What Speakers or monitors are used?

One of the many things I cannot afford 🤣 I hope you have a sale on your vsts and by that I mean a decent sale 👍🏼

Ordered it. Maybe next year, 2022. What?!

I would like to see how those high gain captures clean up compared to the reference as the guitar volume is turned down.

hot damn.

Would love to hear how it captures a direct amp capture into a power amp into a real cab

Ok...this sound really fuckin amazing, the interfaz looks so easy!! but...i really want see a video from a "client" a "final customer" or "youtuber" ...beacuse im still thinking about buy this amazing quad cortex but theres not enough videos, info and a tremendus delays on the deliveries who scarry anyone...please do more videos in normal situations in regular studios or home studios because not everyone have a fist class studio

I dont know what the naysayers are talking about.. I think the unit does a great job here. would love to see if anyone could call the amp or the modeler in an AB situation

WOW

Where is it ? Still not available ? Thought it’s due out Nov ?

Need!

Guys great work but why can't it have a name display like helix and headrush. Wud be one extra point isn't it. It Wud help on gigs while it's very hard to see on the main display

Does anyone know if preamp circuits were modeled without the poweramp section? And is it possible to capture just an amps preamp (like you could on the Kemper) for using with an amp and cab?

So, was that the video for the grand'pas who worried whether they could have the sound to play their 3 blues licks ?

I hope it can tone Capture the Acoustic guitar

Great job there... It sounds amazing!!!.. :D Only detail I'm curious about is the palm mute 'bite' difference. Is slightly noticeable from the minute 4:24, but I think is very important I'd describe it as a high sound at the very beginning of the contact of the pick and the string. It gives that delicious "knife" to the sound of distorted riffs For example, some weeks ago I tried to "get close" to the guitar riff sound of Dream Theater's "Count of Tuscany", from the first verse. But there's no Amp plugin that can give that "bite" in the attack. It would be great to clarify that in some future video. Regards and congrats!

Quad Cortex does not yet Capture delay or reverb... YET??? That would be a game changer for me.

Yeah

awesome device, order is placed. but first, i'll be putting my head in a freezer for next 3h cause of 23min non-stop noodling on sounds my grandpa loved so much -.-

Can you use it thru a guitar cabinet? Yes I realize that it’s not really meant for that but that’s how I want to use it. Thx. As far as size it wins on that alone. But we will see. Tube amps and a good pedal for me but I do own the Kemper and helix and imo they need a real pedal in front of an amp block or in front of the Kemper for feel and to enhance the sound. That’s just me and my opinion. Kemper comes with power which I like too. Yes I know many plug into a computer but I like that you can plug this into a cell.

Anyone know the amp at 14.40?

Are any of your beta testers bass players? Can we get some kind of bass demo? I know there's gotta be at least a couple of bassists somewhere close who can throw something together. Maybe just swing by Darkglass HQ and grab a couple of those guys....come on!

holy shit

Can this thing capture individual pedals, too?

Now make a cortex with one input and sell it for a quarter of the price! 😛😛😛😛😛😛

For Me same weakness in captured signal like with Kemper. Captured signal: A bit more gain, more copmpressed in tone, and less dynamic on palmutes parts. Also what Cab, mics were used here? Important info For Me. Here 2 short samples from video: brickwall.pl/cortex/

I really don’t give a fuck about the tone, digital products of these sort are the same to me but I got used to work out a decent tone of most things anyway. I’m more impressed by the small format and the accessibility of things so I may buy this once traveling the globe is back to somewhat normal...and the KP stays where it is.

Ship one of these to Ola please!

and this is why there's no point me making my own captures with my sole SM57 and crappy £50 interface. :-)

Love how they never show any presets.

Can we get some classic clean amps and their sounds captured as well? most of this is mid to high gain.

Too much for the likes of me. I like simple basic fx, distortion, wah, amp, cab, see ya! I'm sure this is great for people who understand it all.

Good demo. - more vintage classic tones is better, dudes who will spend 1700€ and go from Kemper/Helix/fractal World aren’t the same who djent on plugins ;) - less harsh that previously, that’s a lot better BUT STILL HARSH HIGHS ADDED IN CORTEX VS REFERENCE. - maybe a little more definition in the ooomph range of the eq (60-120Hz) but the punch in the bass is here. Very encouraging!

Why is there NO DIGITAL output on this $1500 US device?? No SPIF, no AES EBU, no Optical? WTF?

virtual woman , for virtual guitar players

Simón peg with hear

Popcorn in my desk and waiting for fractal-kemper and old tube farts fanboys to enter in the comments

4:23 the QC doesn’t sound half as good as the real deal on palm mutes. Bummer. Come on Doug/Francesco can’t you hear the pre eq is not right on those chugs?? Whyyyyyy

I'm on the 1st tier of the pre-order, but I don't care how much longer I have to wait for actual shipping started. I'm not even interested in this capturing feature - think about it, how many actual consumers can use capturing feature like the video? This is fucking nonesense - , so just show us some of the 'basic' features like the "others" have. We need a small sized multi-effect processor, not a "copy machine". Please just do what you have to do!!!

A couple of you made comments about grandpa licks. Yea really? I’d like to see you put up your videos against this guy. He’s a really good player and he’s not a grandpa as far as I’m aware. If anybody’s grandfather can play like this you’d be dam lucky. Stop with the ageism and it’s also obvious all you can do is chug. #boringimo. Learn some licks why don’t you. It takes time, lessons, patience and practice. But those chugs take about an hr out of a day to learn. Worry about the product and stop picking apart a great player that you’ll never be. FYI that’s why he’s sitting in a studio with a new cool product and you’re insulting let’s call you #chugs are sitting in your bedroom forever going nowhere. Probably can’t even afford it in the first place. I’m putting an order in for one. I think it sounds great and I don’t need reverb or delay or chorus etc. clean, crunch, high gain for lead. And I definitely don’t need to chug. FYI and no I’m not old but you’re insulting people’s parents and grandparents so shut it. And newsflash you will grow old one day.

Also please stop with this noodling nonsense and use the same DI reamped to shootout amp vs QC. Preferably some riff so its very clear how it handles low end

Sounds like guitar rig... nothing impressive.

tone 100% there. but dynamics. specially on cleans and crunches no dynamics whatsoever compared to real amps. why??? dynamics for music besides metal is very important