Which Power Amp? for the Quad Cortex... 

Holy hell that's a lot of gear. Great video

Great work on the video. My only complaint is everything in the demo is using the chug monster ice pick tone.. I guess my ears aren't used to hearing differences with so much saturation.

Nice vid, brother I was in the garage at Tom’s pad when Slayer wrote that song, …well when they did it live for the first time…grew with them …was looking at Fryette ..synergy fit my rig a lil better

PA-50 all day. I sold my 2:90:2 for it and never looked back. Yeah, less power, but I haven't ran out of clean headroom at stage volume yet, so 50 works.

Me and the other guitarist in my band just bought the Fryette ps2. He was torn between that and the KSR but decided the reactive load was better since he has some lunchbox heads. He's using it with a victory kraken preamp for band practice and it sounds incredible and has plenty of volume

Dissection 👍🏻 Reinkaos is underrated

Where do you have the volume knob set on the Quad Cortex when going to the power amps?

Hey Devin great video! I know I’m late but hopefully you or someone else viewing this video can chime in. I have a Quad Cortex and also both a PA50 and Powerstage 200 as well as a Synergy amp which I have not yet tried with the QC. Prior to the QC I had been using a Fractal with the Powerstage and was quite happy. The last 2 practices, I brought the PA50 to use with the QC through either my Mesa 4x12 or 2x12 vertical. It sounded pretty damn good overall but I had a couple of questions: Where are you setting the main QC volume knob? I would assume unity is all the way up but when I do, all the LEDs on the PA50 are lit red. It doesn’t clip but concerns me. I’ve backed the QC volume down to about 80 but then lose a significant amount of volume and my PA50 volume knob ends up around 3 o’clock or so to make it loud enough. I fear I’ll blow a speaker or two. Also, do you only use direct amp captures that are just the preamp or are they both preamp and power amp captures? In my Fractal, I could turn off power amp modeling if necessary but with the QC, I’m more limited and some captures seem like they have too much power amp coloration before getting hit again by the KSRs own power amp color. Luckily the HiFi switch helps. Sorry for the long message but it’s seems you probably have some good experience with this stuff! Thanks!!! 🤘🏻

great video ! was the power amp modeling on or off in QC ? fryette ps is designed to work nice with power amp modeling, whereas with ksr power amp modeling should be off, because it’s not as flat as fryette. thanks for info.

If you rely on QC and can only for your metal shows, which of the 3 would you go for? Powerstage200, fryette 100, or KSR50?

For metal band situations 2x guitar, loud drummer, and classic 8x10 bass do you feel the PS-100 can keep up and be loud enough to punch through?

So, usually 100 watt power sections sound bigger, have a more pronounced bottom end and headroom. Is this the case with the fryette? Does The ksr sound like a 50 watt vs 100 watt? I know you said it sounds just as loud, but are the other inherent characteristics of the 100 watt there in the fryette where it sounds bigger?

I assumed the hifi mode was for using an FRFR cab but I'm not sure who would really do that. For me I generally flip it to the guitar mode at band volume because otherwise it's just so extremely bright

What tubes are you using in the KSR ? What would you recommend ?

I have a silly question as a QC newbie. How can I run a signal with IR to front of house simultaneously while sending a feed to a power amp and cab with no IR? I’m not familiar with the quad system enough to swiftly do it

Slayyerrrrrrrr

But you can use power station 100 as power attenuator and load box right?

Fryette 3:58 KSR 4:18 Line 6 4:38

If you run into the Fryette FX return rather than the line in, you need far less input level. You can also get much more volume out of the Fryette.

Do you feel that the ksr is lacking a bit of low end compared to the fryette?

Great video! I am so confused now. If powerstage 200 is the same loudness of pa50, and the fryette you felt is as loud as the ksr, kind of bums me out with the QC a bit. Was looking for something to make it loud stand-alone (without PAs) for smaller gigs where they don’t mic the cabs. The fryette was my hope being 100watts, but now, I don’t know!

Hello, I have a question for you... Why do you accumulate amplifiers at home? are they for rent? Or do you have a professional recording studio?

How does the Quad Cortex feel under the fingers compared to a real amp?

The fryette sounds the best the ksr is more punchy.

Wouldn't you wanna use a stereo power amp with the quad cortex though? And use 2 half cabs like 5 feet apart?

100 watts solid state is not the same as 100 watts power tubes in volume…

You need a 12bh7 , thank me later

Owned a Line 6 amplifier, what a joke! The biggest waste of money I've ever spent on gear. Records great but it just feels like sh*t! If yer a superficial, one dimensional, plastic tone kinda steeple then by all means!