You all probably dont care but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I was dumb lost the login password. I would love any help you can offer me!
@Cole Harvey i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
Hahahahahah I thought of doing that at Andertons. When I was up there shooting the videos with the QC and them, I took a couple of cheeky pedal captures of pedals I wanted hahahah
Will be capturing my Revival Drive and Bogner Blue mini right quick! Just need this pre-order to ship. Great video as always, keep them coming. How about more examples of standard FX - chorus, flange, vibe, rotary, phase, delay, verb on clean/cleanish MODELS.
Wow! this video, was totally what i needed in the waiting of my direct preorder from neural dsp. You captured the type of pedals i would love to try to capture myself. You used same type of guitar i would use. Thank you Rabea great video and very nice Production as always. And one last thing that track of yours in background is killer. My only critic was the video was too short haha. I am glad you said series, that means you are doing more, i love them. Could you please try to capture a pedal like that tripple octave pedal pedals.
I think Quad Cortex can add an EQ match on top of the neural network to make the pedal captures sound nearer to the actual sound. The neural network gives the tone quality, and the EQ match gives that final EQ curve.
Hi Rabea, I have a little experiment I'd love to see you do with the Quad Cortex: Set up a clean amp model (fender deluxe reverb maybe?) Put a basic volume control in front of the amp/cab Put a basic volume control after the amp/cab Map both the volume controls to a single expression pedal, with the pre-amp volume mapped as normal and the post-amp volume mapped backwards to the pedal (heel high, toe low). The pedal treadle should give you clean tone in the heel position, and a "true overdrive" in the toe position. I am interested in hearing how well this works and how smoothly those intermediate transitions are. It seems like getting an expression pedal controllable, unity-gain "true overdrive" sound would be something a lot of players would want to check out! thanks :)
Damn QC does not cease to amaze... Thanks for all the great music and content Bea! Would love to see a vid on QC pitch, timebase, and verb fx's. Cheers.
miniscule differences. it's astonishing and everything you could ask for. i mean the guitar world in general is so much driven by the tiniest differences that any bedroom producer with an EQ can only laugh about. the cortex is a beast. can't wait.
Great stuff Rabea! Be interesting to see how this thing develops over time, but so far I'm blown away from these demos. Was looking at getting the FM3, but this is twisting my arm towards the Quad Cortex! Have you tried the drop tune capabilities of it yet? Would love to see a demo of it compared to the Digitech Drop Tune pedal if you have the time and haven't covered that yet. I use a Digitech drop on an almost daily basis, so if this can come close as it does with other pedals and effects, then it'd make it even more likely that I'm to pick one of these up!
Love your channel! Great inspiration and Yes - of course I ordered an Quad Cortex. Selling my AXE FX III and FC-12, but keeping my two Friedman ACM-12. Thanx, Rabea!!
Rabea awesome video! We need a live use demo! Go through it’s capabilities when used on stage with a frfr personal monitor. I and others I’m sure, want to see the different modes useful for live and dropouts, if any. Thanks!
I saw a video from someone (can't remember who, sorry) where as you change patches there is some drop out in the sound. So if you are wanting to make sweeping sound changes during a song you would need to use scenes/snapshots to achieve this as a patch change would cause drop out. Shouldn't be a big thing and updates may fix this but for now it is a thing.
Would I be able to capture an amp with an OD in front as boost in one capture? Since Mesa rectifiers and OD go hand in hand basically, it would be nice to have a capture of an already "boosted" recto sound, without having to boost it via the quad cortex. Does this make sense?
thanks a lot for the video! what I still don't quite understand: you were using a Vintage Stratocaster and we know its gain output is low. did you increase the guitar gain on quad cortex for capture? Neural's recommendation is to have as much volume as possible without clipping. but if I understand correctly the guitar input volume was hitting -21db? What do you recommend? thank you so much!
@@spylingual8573 Their delay pedals are pretty nice, and their helix pedals can sound amazing in a live situation. Their amps are mostly trash, some of the high end stuff sounds good if you know how to dial it in, but by and large it's not as nice as other similar options, and certainly not nearly as nice as the quad cortex.
So the QC won’t capture chorus pedals. If capturing the clean channel of an amp and you put a chorus pedal in either the front of the amp or in the effects loop and then did an amp capture. Would this work? Will the QC capture the amps clean channel with the chorus?
You know this is good when you see the other modelers lowering their prices, i think this is another level that nice crunch tone he had there thats so natural sounding. Now i have a gigboard (headrush) and it has nice crunch tone but the cleans aren't just right (weak). Heavy tone well most modelers will do no problem. This i want, this will make me sell my series 1 el34 and headrush.
Rabea, I've any of your videos on the cortex! Do informative and helpful! I sold my fractal ax8 and a few other musical devices I have to purchase the cortex. I know it cost a lot of money, in your professional opinion would you say this device is phenomenal in the sense that it will be supported in the future. Fractal III .. release the new operating system called cygnus ... I realize the cortex can capture pedals which makes it amazing. Is it a good buy? Thanks!
After watching Ola's video and yours as well would you say the difference of simulation is holding back the sound in any way? I have the Nolly plugin and have been wondering why it seems like the QC being the best of it's class, feels unimpressive compared to the plugins? Or have I had too many Cocoa Puffs that I've lost it lol?
The captured revival drive seemed to have more bass response. I feel like what we get from this is that you may have to try a couple of times to get the capture you want. I would also like to see someone take a pedal they use in multiple settings and a/b against those settings. I.E. if you can capture it once and it closely mimics those settings with one capture or if it will take multiple captures. If it can do it with one capture this would be great and only increase the value of the device and the amount of pedals that one might add to the library. I am really excited to see how pedal will start sharing their captures.
Hi Bea..... just a quick question away from this fantastic video... where did you get your scratch plate from, all the relic ones seam to be from USA, was it from the UK?
quick question: is the captured pedal gonna be stored as a preset or in the effects database? Let's say you capture a distortion pedal, is it gonna be stored in the "Distortion" database?
How would the DSP Quad Cortex work with a LOT of effects, adding Various Tonal Drive Pedals (for rhythm and lead sounds), different Modulation, many different Delays and Reverbs?
That's nuts - I didn't even think of what you did with the FatBee, where you captured it with the gain at 100% on the pedal, but then used the quad cortex to even further boost the gain with an extrapolation of what it understands the pedal to sound like
Thanks for making this, it's really great to see what the QC is capable of doing!! My 2 cents on the differences. They do sound really close, and based on your playing (and you said as much) they probably feel incredibly similar. The only thing I could note in good headphones (Beyerdynamic DT770 Pros) is that the real thing seemed a bit more..... dynamic? It's hard to describe and more of an X Factor thing, but it reminds me of what modeling vs. tube amp differences were like 10 years ago? The real thing had this "bounce" or "liveliness", where as the capture seemed more compressed and uniform.... that's the best way I can describe it. I don't think it's just a frequency difference as it's reactive to your playing. The Revival I noticed it the most for example as when you did the single note licks on the real pedal it had more response and bounce, where as the capture (while still being incredibly good) just seems a touch flatter? Granted, as you said in the video, it's more than great enough for using on records or live performance, and I'd be very happy with it all day :).
Great video. I would love to see you capture a pedal and then A/B it with the original pedal in front of a real amp, rather than into the QC. It would be great if I could capture and replace my pedal board with the QC when I'm playing the real tube amp, (no amp or cab sims switched on in the QC), as well as having all the other QC features. I would then use the QC amp and cab sims (and effects) for headphone use and recording
Would be great to see how the Quad copes with capturing more complicated overdrives like the Strymon Riverside and Sunset which both have configurable gates and bypass modes. Thanks for the content Rabea
I'm impressed with this things capture sounds. I still want to see what their firmware updates are going to do to the sims. Are they going to deliver on that end?
@Rabea Massaad Will it capture a distortion patch from another multi fx unit? I have an old fx unit where I don't use any of the fx. I do like one distortion patch on it though. Would love if the QC could capture that.
I really hope they can improve on the fuzz capturing. It’s got a similar enough frequency response but not that special fuzz compressing thing that I love so much. Could you demo the onboard fuzz models?
Do you think it's no worth to buy a Quad Cortex when one doesn't have pedals to capture? Like, just using the pedal effects in the Quad Cortex in the beginning.
Sick! So now that buddy of yours with that pedal you always try to buy off him, but he never wants to part with it.... "Aye Joe! I'm comin' over to Doctor Moreau yo sh*t!"
Are you using both XLR outputs into an audio interface and setting tones based on the audio from monitors or some other setup? Wouldn't it be cool if Quad Cortex would display an EQ curve in this process that you could utilize to adjust while trying to match the tones?
Can the QC capture other gain based effects like an EQ or compressor? If It can do the pedal format of those I'd love to see if it can do that with something like a real 1176 or 1073 (RIP Rupert)
What if you made multiple captures representing pedal settings? (Thinking out loud. Don't mind anyone listening in.) Currently, are all pedal captures featuring the same tweakable settings? (Might've missed that in commentary. Think, then - Don't mind me. I'm like this all the time with new gear.) - Seems like a whole other world of possibilities & opportunities awaits the explorers of soundscapes amongst us.
Does it only capture dirt pedals or can it handle wet effects as well? Wonder how it would do with something crazy and unpredictable like an earthquaker data corrupter. If this could get 90% close with pedals like that, the big sky / timeline / H9 then I'd seriously start looking at it versus my axefx.
Cool, although i will say the capture of then thunderclaw was a bit off. The original sounds more fuzzy, where the capture sounded more clean. Nonetheless impressive piece of tech, I’m sure future firmwares will improve the unit.
Yep, unfortunately new gear like this IMO is going to crush small music shops. It's an amazing piece of gear and I know there will always be people who prefer to have the actual pedal /amp but I fear the demand will drop. Between this and the Kemper it's truly become so good you don't need to own physical amps and well I guess now pedals. Just have to borrow them for a few minutes to profile lol.
@@roberta.3486 As someone who works in a small independent shop, I don't think this is a massive concern at the moment. A majority of my customers don't use tech like this - either because it's out of their price range, or they're a traditionalist and like an actual amp. As far as guitarists in my city go, I'm not sure I can name more than a couple who own a Kemper either. As far as I can tell, the demand for amps hasn't gone down since the release of the Kemper either (although the demand for large amps, any bigger than a 2x12, has dropped drastically in recent years due to venue dB requirements. I've sold lots of small amps instead as a result). As an independent shop, you're also a bit silly if you have a completely open returns policy. Unless there's a legitimate problem with a pedal, a shop is perfectly within its rights to refuse a refund to someone who was just trying by buying. A bit of a dick move to make to a small shop anyway imo. An unepexted refund can make the difference between the shop owner being able to make his mortgage payment that month or not, so it's often avoidable. For bigger shops, I imagine that kind of return isn't going to make a big difference. As the tech becomes cheaper and easier to produce, perhaps it may be more of an issue; but I think by then the independent shops may well be able to adapt. I think there'll always be no shortage of demand for real amps. People who use this tech are still in a minority, and I don't see it changing yet.
Really sucks no one has done a really in depth tutorial on capturing pedals in any setting. Amps with no DI, studio, in your bedroom with no amp (is that possible?? Idk cause no one has done an in depth on capturing!!!). I really need someone to explain the XLR outs for monitoring. I’ve had this unit for a year and still haven’t captured anything. Cause I can’t figure it out!!! And don’t tell me to follow the onscreen instructions. I’ve done that. 89 times. I can’t get it to work. Help!!! Please.
I said it can’t capture ‘some’ fuzz pedals, some fuzzes have internal gating. Like the sound of a Velcro fuzz? Or internal biasing can cause that effect too. So QC struggles a bit there for now. But they’re updating the capture all the time, so it gets better and better
@@RabeaMassaad gotchya, thanks, I've a Captain Coconut 2 with a germanium and silicon card, sounds like this will work as long as the bias control isn't set too splatty, great stuff! How about Octavia type pedals, tried any?
@@ianwhitehead5673 I'd guess that it can't currently capture an Octavia, there's just too much weird stuff going on in that circuit. It might be able to capture a part of it, but part of those pedals is how crazy interactive and unpredictable they are.
Joking aside on the whole buy and return pedals and amps ect ... this machine wasn’t designed in mind for that , it was designed to copy your rig at home and take it on the road with you without having to lug a whole lot of gear with you. I can see return policy’s changing in the near future on gear that can be ripped, captured and so on. Saying that though I can’t see this being a massive cog in the works of amps and pedals becoming obsolete , I think there will just be a slice of user base using modellers like the cortex more... there will always be purists and enough of them to keep the hardware being manufactured.
Presumably there was the exact same fears with the Kemper and it didn't materialize as an issue from what I've read. People just bought 3rd party profiles to save themselves the hassle. Whether that translates as a lost amp purchase is questionable, the same argument when Napster was a thing. Pedals & Amps will always be here because the endless GAS and conveyor belt of products is too tempting. There's something so unsexy/cool about modelers, from someone who just built a HX Stomp / Avalanche Run / Pharoah Fuzz / Powerstage 170 flyrig.
Even though I love the QC and agree with your points. I do think that it won’t make a big enough impact as a whole to cause an issue like you’re describing. I can’t see pedal companies losing tons of sales because everyone bought quad cortex’s and captured them instead. I just think, ultimately, like Kemper, people will do that, and make a load of captures of cool stuff, but I think the pedal/amp market doesn’t need to worry right now
@@RabeaMassaad I’m stoaked I have a QC on order too..... I can’t see it replacing some of the wah’s I like though or modulation which I think will be a lot harder to capture than OD’s ,DS’s boosts ect . Hell what will we capture if the QC was the terminator of all hardware gear. We will have to model the whole past lol ... not happening. There’s a lot to be positive about though for me with the QC, I can’t wait to try out Wet/Dry\Wet with it. Looking forward to your next video in your series Bea! 🤜
@@davidcjupp yea for me the QC is just the most practical thing right now , as soon as my kids grow up and I get more space back I will definitely own another amp and pedalboard.
I’m sure the differences are more noticeable in person, but over the Internet this is really impressive. Unbelievable how similar the captures are
I capture mine by getting their health low then throwing a pokeball at them...
You all probably dont care but does any of you know a way to get back into an Instagram account??
I was dumb lost the login password. I would love any help you can offer me!
@Gerald Asher instablaster =)
@Cole Harvey i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now.
Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Cole Harvey It worked and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thank you so much, you really help me out :D
@Gerald Asher glad I could help :)
Taking mine to guitar center to "TRY" out all their amps and pedal ;) Mwahahahaa
Let’s go together 😆
Hahahahahah I thought of doing that at Andertons. When I was up there shooting the videos with the QC and them, I took a couple of cheeky pedal captures of pedals I wanted hahahah
@@RabeaMassaad There's gonna be a new sound for them to hear over and oevr again, They will miss people playing Sweet Child O'mine! haha
🤣🤣🤣🤣 YESSS
😂😂😂😂😂 God damnit, that made me laugh so hard. 😂😂😂😂
As a real amps, real pedals snob I must say that the neural stuff is really impressive and loads of fun to play with!
As soon as you switch to the capture I just smile and laugh. It's amazing. This thing is wild!
Will be capturing my Revival Drive and Bogner Blue mini right quick! Just need this pre-order to ship. Great video as always, keep them coming. How about more examples of standard FX - chorus, flange, vibe, rotary, phase, delay, verb on clean/cleanish MODELS.
Wow! this video, was totally what i needed in the waiting of my direct preorder from neural dsp. You captured the type of pedals i would love to try to capture myself. You used same type of guitar i would use. Thank you Rabea great video and very nice Production as always. And one last thing that track of yours in background is killer. My only critic was the video was too short haha. I am glad you said series, that means you are doing more, i love them. Could you please try to capture a pedal like that tripple octave pedal pedals.
You're such a nice chap Rabea - always a pleasure to watch your videos and anything on Andertons etc. involving you.
I'm sold despite the nonsense doing the rounds. Will wait till its available, and will jump in a year later. Well done Neural DSP.
I think Quad Cortex can add an EQ match on top of the neural network to make the pedal captures sound nearer to the actual sound. The neural network gives the tone quality, and the EQ match gives that final EQ curve.
Wow, this is a pretty impressive bit of kit and will help traveling around a lot easier.
Thanks Rabea
Great video Rabea! Quad Cortex sounds amazing - I have one on order and after watching your videos, I feel like I can dive right in. Keep them coming!
Hi Rabea, I have a little experiment I'd love to see you do with the Quad Cortex:
Set up a clean amp model (fender deluxe reverb maybe?)
Put a basic volume control in front of the amp/cab
Put a basic volume control after the amp/cab
Map both the volume controls to a single expression pedal, with the pre-amp volume mapped as normal and the post-amp volume mapped backwards to the pedal (heel high, toe low).
The pedal treadle should give you clean tone in the heel position, and a "true overdrive" in the toe position. I am interested in hearing how well this works and how smoothly those intermediate transitions are. It seems like getting an expression pedal controllable, unity-gain "true overdrive" sound would be something a lot of players would want to check out!
thanks :)
Damn QC does not cease to amaze... Thanks for all the great music and content Bea! Would love to see a vid on QC pitch, timebase, and verb fx's. Cheers.
miniscule differences. it's astonishing and everything you could ask for. i mean the guitar world in general is so much driven by the tiniest differences that any bedroom producer with an EQ can only laugh about. the cortex is a beast. can't wait.
Great stuff Rabea!
Be interesting to see how this thing develops over time, but so far I'm blown away from these demos. Was looking at getting the FM3, but this is twisting my arm towards the Quad Cortex! Have you tried the drop tune capabilities of it yet?
Would love to see a demo of it compared to the Digitech Drop Tune pedal if you have the time and haven't covered that yet.
I use a Digitech drop on an almost daily basis, so if this can come close as it does with other pedals and effects, then it'd make it even more likely that I'm to pick one of these up!
Wow. The first Video that got me really exited about the Quad Cortex! Good thing I ordered one. Bad thing it will take some time ;)
Pretty awesome invention! Great to be able to separate the pedal component with the capture
Really excited. Hoping to get one around Jult when the updates are solid
updates happen all the time with any modeler its an ongoing thing. It will ship pretty dang solid.
@@r.llynch4124 begone EggMuffin
Love your channel! Great inspiration and Yes - of course I ordered an Quad Cortex. Selling my AXE FX III and FC-12, but keeping my two Friedman ACM-12. Thanx, Rabea!!
Rabea awesome video! We need a live use demo! Go through it’s capabilities when used on stage with a frfr personal monitor. I and others I’m sure, want to see the different modes useful for live and dropouts, if any. Thanks!
I saw a video from someone (can't remember who, sorry) where as you change patches there is some drop out in the sound. So if you are wanting to make sweeping sound changes during a song you would need to use scenes/snapshots to achieve this as a patch change would cause drop out. Shouldn't be a big thing and updates may fix this but for now it is a thing.
Hey Rabea, Thanks for doing these amazing informative videos :)
Rabea...love the music, love the integrity. Proud fan!
Can it capture modulation effects or just gain based pedals?
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this. You are so talented Rabea...I reckon that you could make a wooden spoon sound killer!
As usual your sound is amazing. Thanks for taking time to share with us all \m/ \m/
Would I be able to capture an amp with an OD in front as boost in one capture? Since Mesa rectifiers and OD go hand in hand basically, it would be nice to have a capture of an already "boosted" recto sound, without having to boost it via the quad cortex. Does this make sense?
thanks a lot for the video! what I still don't quite understand: you were using a Vintage Stratocaster and we know its gain output is low. did you increase the guitar gain on quad cortex for capture? Neural's recommendation is to have as much volume as possible without clipping. but if I understand correctly the guitar input volume was hitting -21db? What do you recommend? thank you so much!
Would love to hear a comparison between the amp models of this and the Helix
Better. Much better. Also twice the price, but, that's how it goes.
@@jttech44 nah. I hear something like a 5% difference, hekix all the way
Line 6 makes trash
@@spylingual8573 Their delay pedals are pretty nice, and their helix pedals can sound amazing in a live situation.
Their amps are mostly trash, some of the high end stuff sounds good if you know how to dial it in, but by and large it's not as nice as other similar options, and certainly not nearly as nice as the quad cortex.
I really love the Revival drive sounds amazing to me
So the QC won’t capture chorus pedals. If capturing the clean channel of an amp and you put a chorus pedal in either the front of the amp or in the effects loop and then did an amp capture. Would this work? Will the QC capture the amps clean channel with the chorus?
Would love to see tutorial on using stereo settings. Can you set up two different amps and capture in your daw demo. Thx Bea
You know this is good when you see the other modelers lowering their prices, i think this is another level that nice crunch tone he had there thats so natural sounding. Now i have a gigboard (headrush) and it has nice crunch tone but the cleans aren't just right (weak). Heavy tone well most modelers will do no problem. This i want, this will make me sell my series 1 el34 and headrush.
Rabea, I've any of your videos on the cortex! Do informative and helpful!
I sold my fractal ax8 and a few other musical devices I have to purchase the cortex. I know it cost a lot of money, in your professional opinion would you say this device is phenomenal in the sense that it will be supported in the future. Fractal III .. release the new operating system called cygnus ... I realize the cortex can capture pedals which makes it amazing.
Is it a good buy?
Thanks!
I assume it can't capture things like delays, or long reverbs. Is that correct?
After watching Ola's video and yours as well would you say the difference of simulation is holding back the sound in any way? I have the Nolly plugin and have been wondering why it seems like the QC being the best of it's class, feels unimpressive compared to the plugins? Or have I had too many Cocoa Puffs that I've lost it lol?
Neural have said they’re going to release the plugins for QC soon anyway, for what it’s worth.
Are you comparing the models or the captures? Ola's barely did anything with the unit at all.
@@TheDancingSaxophone I hope people don't have to pay for them. For a 1400€ unit they should be free or very much reduced.
Are you gonna share these captures? Please!
That fat bee sounds sick!
The captured revival drive seemed to have more bass response. I feel like what we get from this is that you may have to try a couple of times to get the capture you want. I would also like to see someone take a pedal they use in multiple settings and a/b against those settings. I.E. if you can capture it once and it closely mimics those settings with one capture or if it will take multiple captures. If it can do it with one capture this would be great and only increase the value of the device and the amount of pedals that one might add to the library. I am really excited to see how pedal will start sharing their captures.
WOW I am surprised how close it got. I could hear some changes at the lower end but over all it did capture the sound of a pedal.
That FATBEE tone is immaculate!
Yeah, awesome
Amazing what that piece of gear can do, those captures sounded incredible :)
Can i capture my ps5?
Hi Bea..... just a quick question away from this fantastic video... where did you get your scratch plate from, all the relic ones seam to be from USA, was it from the UK?
quick question: is the captured pedal gonna be stored as a preset or in the effects database? Let's say you capture a distortion pedal, is it gonna be stored in the "Distortion" database?
How would the DSP Quad Cortex work with a LOT of effects, adding Various Tonal Drive Pedals (for rhythm and lead sounds), different Modulation, many different Delays and Reverbs?
That's nuts - I didn't even think of what you did with the FatBee, where you captured it with the gain at 100% on the pedal, but then used the quad cortex to even further boost the gain with an extrapolation of what it understands the pedal to sound like
Please teach Ola how to dial in tones on the QC.
Can the Quad Cortex profile compressor pedals?
Thanks for making this, it's really great to see what the QC is capable of doing!! My 2 cents on the differences. They do sound really close, and based on your playing (and you said as much) they probably feel incredibly similar. The only thing I could note in good headphones (Beyerdynamic DT770 Pros) is that the real thing seemed a bit more..... dynamic? It's hard to describe and more of an X Factor thing, but it reminds me of what modeling vs. tube amp differences were like 10 years ago? The real thing had this "bounce" or "liveliness", where as the capture seemed more compressed and uniform.... that's the best way I can describe it. I don't think it's just a frequency difference as it's reactive to your playing. The Revival I noticed it the most for example as when you did the single note licks on the real pedal it had more response and bounce, where as the capture (while still being incredibly good) just seems a touch flatter?
Granted, as you said in the video, it's more than great enough for using on records or live performance, and I'd be very happy with it all day :).
Why don't you use the FX loop and two patches with the same Amps/Captures for the comparsion? So there would be an instand a-b check
Just curious as to which pickups you decided to leave in your strat?
good question
Great video. I would love to see you capture a pedal and then A/B it with the original pedal in front of a real amp, rather than into the QC. It would be great if I could capture and replace my pedal board with the QC when I'm playing the real tube amp, (no amp or cab sims switched on in the QC), as well as having all the other QC features. I would then use the QC amp and cab sims (and effects) for headphone use and recording
Would be great to see how the Quad copes with capturing more complicated overdrives like the Strymon Riverside and Sunset which both have configurable gates and bypass modes. Thanks for the content Rabea
I'm impressed with this things capture sounds. I still want to see what their firmware updates are going to do to the sims. Are they going to deliver on that end?
Great vid and so great playing as always 👍 It sounds pretty noisy though?? Is it just a matter of adding a noise gate?
@Rabea Massaad
Will it capture a distortion patch from another multi fx unit? I have an old fx unit where I don't use any of the fx. I do like one distortion patch on it though. Would love if the QC could capture that.
Yeah i guess it probably would!
@@RabeaMassaad Cheers for the reply. Loving the vids!!
Can you capture other pedals than drives? Like if I wanted to capture my earthquaker pedals would that be possible?
I really hope they can improve on the fuzz capturing. It’s got a similar enough frequency response but not that special fuzz compressing thing that I love so much.
Could you demo the onboard fuzz models?
Do you think it's no worth to buy a Quad Cortex when one doesn't have pedals to capture? Like, just using the pedal effects in the Quad Cortex in the beginning.
This sounds like the mothertrucking future. Freakin Mint tones.
Cheers Bea!!
Sick! So now that buddy of yours with that pedal you always try to buy off him, but he never wants to part with it....
"Aye Joe! I'm comin' over to Doctor Moreau yo sh*t!"
Next up the Quad Cortex captures actual players and writes riffs on the fly! LOL This is an amazing unit.
Revival... yes, yes, yes. Thank you for that one!
Agreed on first pedal...low end is lacking on the capture.. tone is there but the punch is less . Still sounded great
Fantastic video but, I really really want to see the Rita Relic Guitar back on the channel!
cool captures man, sounds really alive.!, how about the weight?, is it light enough to carry in a pack bag to a gig?
It weighs about 3/4 lbs I’d say. It’s very lightweight
that Fatbee sounds incredible....but your Wild fro pedal sounds awesome too....thanks man, great demo..!!!
Hey Rabea, may I ask what pickups did the Strat end up keeping? Great demo as always!!
They’re still the 63’ veneer board set by bare knuckle :)
@@RabeaMassaad oh ok thanks, yeah I watched the Rabbit Hole videos and really enjoyed them. Very instructive too!! Thanks mate!!
Could you compare a heavy channel from cortex with a neutral plugin? Very curious how different they are in terms of playability and response
Finally. My Ibanez Slam Punk will be immortalized.
Are you using both XLR outputs into an audio interface and setting tones based on the audio from monitors or some other setup? Wouldn't it be cool if Quad Cortex would display an EQ curve in this process that you could utilize to adjust while trying to match the tones?
You could run it into a DAW and use a spectrum analyzer to get it close by the numbers, but nothing really beats a good set of ears.
Rabea, your guitar sounds great in this video regardless of the captures. Is this the Bare Knuckle '63 Veneer Board set?
Thank you man! Yes they are the 63’s
@@RabeaMassaad Great, thanks so much for the quick reply!
Now the real question, will you start using it?
can you do auto filters or something like the boss FT1 dynamic filter?
the Fat Bee pedal was monsterous.
Can the QC capture other gain based effects like an EQ or compressor? If It can do the pedal format of those I'd love to see if it can do that with something like a real 1176 or 1073 (RIP Rupert)
I was wondering if it will be able to capture lead OD sounds with very slow attack meaning, smooth with almost no picksound thanks
What if you made multiple captures representing pedal settings? (Thinking out loud. Don't mind anyone listening in.) Currently, are all pedal captures featuring the same tweakable settings? (Might've missed that in commentary. Think, then - Don't mind me. I'm like this all the time with new gear.) - Seems like a whole other world of possibilities & opportunities awaits the explorers of soundscapes amongst us.
Does it only capture dirt pedals or can it handle wet effects as well? Wonder how it would do with something crazy and unpredictable like an earthquaker data corrupter. If this could get 90% close with pedals like that, the big sky / timeline / H9 then I'd seriously start looking at it versus my axefx.
I think for now no modulation pedals. I’m sure they’ll add it in the future.
Stella, thanks!
Ok, now, that's freaking magic.
LOL “...it’s wizardry...”. Can’t wait. Amp and pedal companies are scrambling for a new business model! This will be like the Napster of guitar gear.
Is it possible to capture a synth simulator like EHX Synth9???
Rudimentary playing my arse Bea.......wish my playing was that rudimentary
Yeah that was a bit a weird thing for him to say haha
Man, that was cool!
This is craaaazy. Can't wait till they figure out how to model delays/modulations etc.
Can you capture the digitech drop pedal?
Cool, although i will say the capture of then thunderclaw was a bit off. The original sounds more fuzzy, where the capture sounded more clean. Nonetheless impressive piece of tech, I’m sure future firmwares will improve the unit.
I see Amazon pedal purchases and subsequent returns in my future.
As a returns manager: please don't do this.
@@legendfpv ;P
Yep, unfortunately new gear like this IMO is going to crush small music shops. It's an amazing piece of gear and I know there will always be people who prefer to have the actual pedal /amp but I fear the demand will drop. Between this and the Kemper it's truly become so good you don't need to own physical amps and well I guess now pedals. Just have to borrow them for a few minutes to profile lol.
@@roberta.3486 As someone who works in a small independent shop, I don't think this is a massive concern at the moment. A majority of my customers don't use tech like this - either because it's out of their price range, or they're a traditionalist and like an actual amp. As far as guitarists in my city go, I'm not sure I can name more than a couple who own a Kemper either. As far as I can tell, the demand for amps hasn't gone down since the release of the Kemper either (although the demand for large amps, any bigger than a 2x12, has dropped drastically in recent years due to venue dB requirements. I've sold lots of small amps instead as a result).
As an independent shop, you're also a bit silly if you have a completely open returns policy. Unless there's a legitimate problem with a pedal, a shop is perfectly within its rights to refuse a refund to someone who was just trying by buying. A bit of a dick move to make to a small shop anyway imo. An unepexted refund can make the difference between the shop owner being able to make his mortgage payment that month or not, so it's often avoidable. For bigger shops, I imagine that kind of return isn't going to make a big difference.
As the tech becomes cheaper and easier to produce, perhaps it may be more of an issue; but I think by then the independent shops may well be able to adapt. I think there'll always be no shortage of demand for real amps. People who use this tech are still in a minority, and I don't see it changing yet.
@@KingNed thank you for that reply as it was loaded with a lot of great info I was not aware of! Makes me happy to hear. God bless 🙏.
Greetings 🤩 Good video ! 👍🤘🌟
IF you made amp with cab capturing by using more tran one mic ?
Does the Cortex's Noise Gate work like normal "after" the pedal has been captured? Important for noisy pedals set high. Thanks
Use your actual pedal (noisegate) in the cortex loop.
love your demo's!! Having so much doubts about my kemper now...
I think Universal Audio would appreciate you getting your hair cut :-))
Really sucks no one has done a really in depth tutorial on capturing pedals in any setting. Amps with no DI, studio, in your bedroom with no amp (is that possible?? Idk cause no one has done an in depth on capturing!!!). I really need someone to explain the XLR outs for monitoring. I’ve had this unit for a year and still haven’t captured anything. Cause I can’t figure it out!!! And don’t tell me to follow the onscreen instructions. I’ve done that. 89 times. I can’t get it to work. Help!!! Please.
anyone know if he uploaded a capture of these to the Cortex Mobile cloud?
Could it capture the Digitech Freqout?
You said it can't capture fuzz pedals but then said it can capture some fuzzes, can you elaborate on what types of fuzz currently work please?
I said it can’t capture ‘some’ fuzz pedals, some fuzzes have internal gating. Like the sound of a Velcro fuzz? Or internal biasing can cause that effect too. So QC struggles a bit there for now. But they’re updating the capture all the time, so it gets better and better
@@RabeaMassaad gotchya, thanks, I've a Captain Coconut 2 with a germanium and silicon card, sounds like this will work as long as the bias control isn't set too splatty, great stuff! How about Octavia type pedals, tried any?
@@ianwhitehead5673 I'd guess that it can't currently capture an Octavia, there's just too much weird stuff going on in that circuit. It might be able to capture a part of it, but part of those pedals is how crazy interactive and unpredictable they are.
Awesome. Thx
Joking aside on the whole buy and return pedals and amps ect ... this machine wasn’t designed in mind for that , it was designed to copy your rig at home and take it on the road with you without having to lug a whole lot of gear with you.
I can see return policy’s changing in the near future on gear that can be ripped, captured and so on.
Saying that though I can’t see this being a massive cog in the works of amps and pedals becoming obsolete , I think there will just be a slice of user base using modellers like the cortex more... there will always be purists and enough of them to keep the hardware being manufactured.
Presumably there was the exact same fears with the Kemper and it didn't materialize as an issue from what I've read. People just bought 3rd party profiles to save themselves the hassle. Whether that translates as a lost amp purchase is questionable, the same argument when Napster was a thing. Pedals & Amps will always be here because the endless GAS and conveyor belt of products is too tempting. There's something so unsexy/cool about modelers, from someone who just built a HX Stomp / Avalanche Run / Pharoah Fuzz / Powerstage 170 flyrig.
Even though I love the QC and agree with your points. I do think that it won’t make a big enough impact as a whole to cause an issue like you’re describing. I can’t see pedal companies losing tons of sales because everyone bought quad cortex’s and captured them instead.
I just think, ultimately, like Kemper, people will do that, and make a load of captures of cool stuff, but I think the pedal/amp market doesn’t need to worry right now
@@RabeaMassaad I’m stoaked I have a QC on order too..... I can’t see it replacing some of the wah’s I like though or modulation which I think will be a lot harder to capture than OD’s ,DS’s boosts ect .
Hell what will we capture if the QC was the terminator of all hardware gear. We will have to model the whole past lol ... not happening.
There’s a lot to be positive about though for me with the QC, I can’t wait to try out Wet/Dry\Wet with it.
Looking forward to your next video in your series Bea! 🤜
@@davidcjupp yea for me the QC is just the most practical thing right now , as soon as my kids grow up and I get more space back I will definitely own another amp and pedalboard.
How do you connect this to actually play not through a recording setup/computer etc? Do u have to get a power amp and cab?
No, but if you want to play live it needs to go through a powered desk or power amp and quad...
@@MickH60 Whats the best setup for in home use?