QUAD CORTEX | TIPS FOR NEW USERS! 

Thanks for watching!

Glad you liked it!

I am following you on the cloud, you can find me at MarkV....no presets yet, just received my QC, FRFR speaker coming soon!

Agreed!

Nope no latency that I can notice!

I switched from a Kemper, and I think the latency was where it was starting to show its age. Zero on the QC.

Glad you enjoyed! The preset is available on my Cortex Cloud Profile, link in description

Yes exactly. Thanks for watching!

Exactly. For the best signal to noise ratio, Neural recommends the volume knob being at max. Obviously more difficult to achieve if you’re a headphone user, but for live performance to front of house, always at Max

@@DCFGuitar thank you for the suggestion!

Thank you-that is just one concern I had.

I have my studio monitors connected to my interface (Antelope Audio Zen Go TB) and just find it easier to use daily as it has a large volume knob. The QC sits on a board 100% of the time so it would be a pain to hook up a ton of things to it every time I sit down to play

Can you turn down the gain on the inputs you’re running the QC into? If you gain down those inputs on your mixer, you should be able to run the QC at full volume. I wouldn’t necessarily worry about having your mixer channels at unity gain, rather I’d want the best signal-to-noise ratio on the QC (by running it at full volume) and adjust the mixer as necessary

@@DCFGuitar is that true? full volume is the preferred or best sounding method? I noticed helix was the same but i never got to crank the dial as my sound team always flipped. thank you for these tips! ive had mine for a while but just jumped in and started gigging not really learning the how to's

I’ll take a look at that today and either report back here or I’ll post a video for you of the process!

I’ll see if I can post a video this week addressing that!

I have made a video addressing this, let me know if that answers your question

Without seeing how you have your preset set up, the first thing is to make sure you don't have an amp OR cab block in your chain. In the 4CM, the QC acts as an effects processor only, therefore if you have amp/cab blocks in your grid, you're effectively running an amp into an amp and cab into a cab. This is from the QC manual, see if it matches what you have set up: The four cable method allows you to use effects in different stages of the signal chain (pre and post) in conjunction with an amplifier and cabinet. The Quad Cortex will be used as an effects processor, therefore the Presets created for this purpose don’t need amp or cab device blocks. This method allows you to place pre effects tools such as overdrives, noise gates, and pitch shifters before the amplifier. Post effects such as reverbs and delays will sound after the amp. 1. Add an FX Loop device block. Choose FX Loop 1. 2. Add device blocks before and after the FX Loop block. 3. Set the output block as Out 3. You will need four TS cables for making the connections: 1. Connect your instrument to INPUT 1. 2. Connect OUT 3/L to the amplifier’s FX return. 3. Connect SEND 1 to the amplifier’s input. 4. Connect RETURN 1 to the amplifier’s FX send.

I will be uploading a video on Global EQ later today or tomorrow!

Good, man. I’ll watch your video. .

@@DCFGuitar man, my quad cortex failed. the problem was hardware failure of the volume that started to appear on the screen without triggering it. I have already sent it to neural support in Filandia and now I just have to wait to receive a new equipment or the repaired equipment. the shipping freight was paid by neural by UPS. Neural's customer support service is amazing. I live in Brazil.

I’m sorry to hear about that! I agree, their customer service is fantastic! Hope they have you back up and running ASAP!

It will be the same as the helix. There is no way to automatically level the sound with the Quad Cortex

@@DCFGuitar thank you

Yes, as of this moment it is not possible. CorOS 2.0 may have this as a change but it’s anyone’s guess right now

You’re going to introduce some latency if you record from the QC into an interface into a computer, more so than if you just went directly from the QC to the computer. You’re also omitting an extra A/D -> D/A conversion by going directly from QC to PC.

Consider that if you're playing with a band, that that bass might interfere with the sound of the actual bass. I've had multiple soundguys tell me to remove some bass so it all sounds a bit tighter.

I followed this video and increased the input gain when I nou that the QC. 2 months struggling with muddy tone, a lot of noise, very boomy bass. I sett it back to 0db and it sounds excellent. I was amazed that even the factory presets sounded better, increasing the input gain made palm mutes sound like machine guns… so, if it were up to me, I would not increase the input gain and leave the metter to below the indicator. I use medium and high output pickups. My feeling was also that factory presets suck. And don’t sound like in the demos done by artists (obviously paid and probably have post production). But now I think it’s a lot better.

Also, tips here are good. But for others, increasing the input gain might help. Depends on pickups, guitar etc

Shure GLXD-16+ I have a video review on the channel

Touch the number (eg 1A) in the top left corner of the main “grid” screen. Scroll the left column until you see factory presets. Touch that folder and then go to the right hand side and select the preset you want

The manual is available on neural’s website. To connect QC to a Bose system, I’d use the XLR connection on the qc->Bose

@@DCFGuitar A user that creates Quad Cortex videos that actually answers my questions??? Holy Shite-You just earned a free steak dinner:) My most humble thanks as I have been wrestling with this purchase (its a lot of money) Wishing you the very best. Thank you again.

@@michaelpal7641 I try my best! Let me know if there’s anything else you’re curious about

Why not have both? Peasant.

I just got the QC, I cant imagine what something sounding better than this thing would sound like. Its fucking amazing imo

@@Johnny-ki2oiLOL well I own a FM3 axefx3 and 12 amplifiers to start with. So who’s the peasant?

Is the Mesa strictly a power amp? I’m looking for something like that. Is it better than running it into the return effects loop of an amp? Thanks.

Ok, Pops.

How would this Cortex delay sound playing through a Evh 50 watt El 34 head with a 4/12 cab in your opinion

Thanks for the idea. Will try tomorrow with the power amp and cab