Fortin Cali Component Breakdown | Tone Demo and Presets
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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In this video, Steven breaks down the components and features of the new Fortin Cali Suite.
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Explore & Dominate
The Fortin Cali reflects the history of Fortin Amplification, culminating in a 50w amplifier that covers the cleanest vintage tones, classic hot rod British styles, and rich high gain distortion. Fortin is one of the most desired boutique brands in the industry, and the Fortin Cali delivers the full range with a classic approach to sound texture, giving you all the possibilities to shape the tone to your needs. A control station to be explored and dominated.
Three Channels
The Fortin Cali features three channels - Clean, OD2, and OD1.
Violence Switch
OD2 and OD1 channels have an assignable VIOLENCE stage for increasing the overall gain.
Push/Pull Bass Pot
Passive interactive low-frequency equalization for all channels. Pull it out for global saturation and more gain and compression. It is normal for the level to drop a bit which causes less volume fed to the power amp. On the clean channel, the saturation does not take effect until the clean gain control is at 2 o’clock and beyond.
Thump Switch
3-way switch for negative feedback control of low-frequency interaction between amplifier and speakers. Left: Low; Center:High; Right: Medium. With less feedback there is less power amp saturation and a more scooped sound. Control at a lower master volume position for more defined differences.
Hair Switch
3-way switch for negative feedback control of high-frequency interaction between amplifier and speakers. Left: Medium; Center: Low; Right: High. With less feedback there is less power amp saturation and a more scooped sound. Control at a lower master volume position for more defined differences.
Bright Switch
3-way bright switch for each channel that provides a high-frequency boost that becomes less active as gain control is increased. Combine this with the Clean/Gain 1/Gain 2 controls for endless tone-shaping possibilities!
Grind, Zuul & Hexdrive pedals
A model of Fortin Amplification’s GRIND pedal was added to the virtual signal chain to create a complete suite that incorporates all the necessary tone-shaping tools for the modern guitarist.
Besides additional gain, GRIND adds an incredible amount of clarity and articulation to the sound, making every note defined and present, even when highly distorted. Use on more low end rich amp sounds to add tightness.
The Cali also features the Fortin ZUUL pedal. Widely regarded as the epitome of noise-gate performance and transparency! This virtual studio-grade noise gate gets the job done with a simple straightforward operation. ZUUL will respect your fast play stops and your long releases without interfering on your interpretation.
The HEXDRIVE adds further tone-shaping possibilities, bringing classic and modern overdrive tones to the plugin suite.
Cabsim
To offer maximum flexibility, we engineered a very comprehensive and adaptive cabinet simulation module featuring six virtual microphones, which can be positioned around the speakers. The cabsim section features 125 IRs captured by Adam “Nolly” Getgood.
This module can also serve as a standard loader for your favorite impulse response files.
These features can be used on both mono and stereo configurations; the latter allows for a second microphone to be added with full panning, microphone level, and phase parameters in addition to position and distance, for ultimate control and endless sonic possibilities.
Standalone
The Standalone feature allows you to quickly install, plug and play. Standalone is perfect for practice on the go and live use.
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Loving the Cali Suite. I thought I’d not be into the clean channel but with dimed master volume, dimed gain and a boost sounds so good.
You guys killed it with this amp sim! The different voicings are awesome. So much variety in tones in one plugin.
I have this and it is amazing once you learn the controls and how they interact with each other. I’m not a big fan of any provided presets with any of these types of plugins, regardless of company, so I always start from scratch. Although the included delay and reverb sound really good, I prefer using such effects via my DAW. I tend to use “Amp Room” in ChromaVerb in Logic and dial back the mix a bit. I use Cali Suite for plexi type of cleaner crunchy sounds then add the pedals provided in the suite for more gain. I played semi-professionally from the age of 17 to 33 and I’ve owned many great amps over the years, and, from my personal experience, this Cali Suite is extremely versatile and can be made to sound fantastic. Anything from punchy clean to crazy gain. I have the Tone King Imperial MK2 as well, which I thought would be able to get me some real good clean tones, but I guess I assumed wrong of the purpose of that amp. I get better clean tones from the Cali Suite.
Ah the presets are gone 😢
Glad you broke out some classic riffs in this one. Great demo!
Great run-through. Still got those presets somewhere? The dropbox link went dead.
Fantastic tones, amazing plugin.
it's a pity that there are no reverb and delay pedals because the way I use it in standalone mode are indispensable especially for clean and lead.
Diego M.
If you have the Plini amp you can turn off the amp/cab/EQ sections and just use the pedals. If they add the pedals to Cali it will just cost more
you can swap and share pedal effects, I abasi and wow, you can use other plugins.
now it has :)))
@@mayhemmm I have to check. I need time effects 😊
lol i totally forgot that was how that riff in Jambi was played. cool technique
Really digging all the tones, especially Steven's preset pack (thanks for that)! I had heard Aaron Marshall was customizing a couple of presets as well, where can we grab those?
Install the new version. The presets rolled out in the Monday update.
I have reinstalled every day this week they have not showed up in my presets yet
Just got this! Ridiculous plugin just like the others. I think this is my favorite of the Fortin releases. Amazing job guys!
Great video Steven! I still worship NTS the most but Cali is just so much fun! :-]
If it had delay and reverb I'd buy it now
You add that in your DAW
I know it's 3 years late, but it has delay and reverb pedals included now.
I play blues-rock, stoner rock, southern rock. I am your typical boring low gain, tube amp only kinda guy. I tried a quite few plug-ins and sims (even profiling amps but that is a matter of another topic) to use at home but they just didn’t work for me. But i had to find an alternative since a tube amp is a hard beast to tame when you’re playing in your living room. Well, a few weeks ago i tried WONG and the 3rd amp model in that suite really impressed me. It also took pedals well (an Xotic AC Booster and a Strymon Deco in that particular case) and for the first time in my life I was able forget that this was not an actual amp but a software. Then i tried Nolly, Soldano and this one. Nolly was not my cup of tea. Soldano is really good but it is a one trick pony (as it was designed to be). This one, man! This one is awesome. I only use the crunch channel with two pedals (Xotic ACB and Strymon Deco) but i also use the software drive and boost too. I don’t stack them except Deco is always on with minimal tape drive but it provides enough tape saturation. The drive and the boost in this app is superb. The amp has so many cool voicing options. As my fellow people here i also believe that a reverb and a delay wouldn’t have hurt. So, if you are a blues rocker like me give this one a try.
Awesome. Love your videos!
Thanks! :)
This thing seriously is badass
Bought this a couple of weeks ago... as someone who has Plini, Nolly, Nameless and a couple of Nembrini plugs, honestly if I was looking for my first guitar sim I'd buy this and save myself a fortune! You can get just about any tone out of this from gorgeous cleans to filth that even leaves Nameless behind, and I never thought I'd say that! If you were to buy this plus a couple of Ownhammer or Dr Bonkers IR packs, you could get literally ANY tone you want from this amp... and it plays in such a nuanced, real-amp kind of way I seriously don't think you would ever need another amp... apart from obviously the gear-slut "gotta have new stuff" insanity that infects us all.... 🤣
I totally agree however with all the comments asking for a basic reverb/delay etc. in the standalone... c'mon Neural - at least just give us 4 empty VST slots on the ends of the standalone plugins!
Great video and amazing Hapas🤩
All great.. just need a simple Delay and Reverb pedal... that no one understand WHY is not there, if there are two ODs why not a simple FX too ;)
yeah, I think everyone would have paid an extra $10-20 for any of the reverb/delays coded in.
Agreed, especially for those of us who are looking to use the plug in on a standalone basis.
What does everyone use for their reverb/chorus/delays for solos? Just curious. Thanks!
Great vid! I'm 3 years late to the Cali party, but it feels like this could be my perfect amp and plug in being a Marshall and 5150 fan. Seems this amp is so versatile for all I need :) How do I access the presets...the link is not working??
Steven, Hope all is safe and healthy with you these days! It was nice to meet you and Paul at NAAM. I just got the Yamaha HS5’s, and to be honest they really don’t sound all that great with my Plini plugins via my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (Gen 1). Just not coming over with that punch and clarity you hear and see on RUclips these days, its better through my Sennheiser headphones. Should I bite the “bullet” and upgrade to the HS7’s? Or is my interface the one that needs an upgrade:> Be safe and stay healthy my Friend.
Running through a Scarlett 4i4 3rd Gen with HS8s and it really slams!
@@FooFighter77 Hey Jason, Thanks for the reply. You think I could get by with the HS7 and just a 2i2 3rd Gen. Don’t have any other instruments to utilize a 4i4 to its full capacity..unless I need it to drive and get more sound though.
If you're comparing your tone to youtube, try listening to both with the headphones and compare. You say the headphones sound better than your HS7's? It may be that you need to do some treatment in your listening environment or use something like sonarworks to calibrate/compensate your speakers for your listening spot. It won't "fix" the room, but it will come out more neutral in your listening spot for a more accurate representation.
It's better to make sure you're getting a neutral sound from your room and speakers first, then see where you can improve your signal chain along the way.
It would suck to spend money on bigger speakers or an interface and have the same issues with the sound. Or trying different pickups and heavy EQ'ing that sounds good in the room, but terrible on everything you try to play it back on
Jason Brogly I have a Scarlett 1st Gen 2i2 and with the plini plugin the sound would sometimes jump, especially with the clean sounds with delay. Would this have anything to do with it being a first gen model and possibly struggles to cope with the plugin? My Mac is about 3 - 4 years old.
@@chrisstrong3748 The room and environment is fine, its got to be the 1st Gen 2i2 I’m running it through. I’m upgrading to the HS7’s. I purchased the HS5’s to save a few clams and need to upgrade the interface with a more robust preamp that are designed in the newer versions. I tried to cheap it out and thats my own fault.
.sooooooooooooooooooo...It might be time to sell my Kemper (..I have a Boogie half stack in the garage for when I need to move air and melt flesh...)...I mean, you get so much for so little...bangin!! Hey Steve! : )
I will say, effects pedals aside, Cali and Granophyre are the two best metal amps that have been produced be Neural DSP so far. I originally bought the NTS Suite, for it's 3 gain knob versatility. But overall these last two plugins sound so much better, for my tastes anyway. Deathmetal tones all day!
After messing with it the Cali seems to be a beefed up Nameless
Is there some reason the Cali is overloading Cubase by itself? Ive tried everything & i can run 50 plugins with no problem but cant run this as just one? Every other Neural plugin i have works fine except the Cali, Im bummed out because its the one ive been waiting for! EDIT: Found that the problem is the Cali's cab IR, when both are shut off it performs as the other plugins! This is the only Neural plugin that does this & im forced to use a external cab IR loader not the internal one with the Cali!
PLEASE MAKE A NEURAL DSP REVV PLUGIN THE WORLD IS IN DESPERATE NEED!
Besides Nolly, Fortin Cali has to be one of the best for Pop Punk tones!
Can you run and record all neural DSP’s plug ins through a DAW when using the free 14 day trials?
yes
Ian Arsenault thanks.
Love this plugin! I was wondering, do you have any recommendation for the gain level of the DI going into the plugin for optimal performance?
absolutely loving the Cali suite, thanks for the presets!
completely off topic, but do I spy Betrayal at House on the Hill??? ;)
No problem, glad you're digging the presets!
Yes! My girlfriend and I are getting into board games and we got that and Arkham Horror recently. :D
@@TheRealStevenWard Nice! Yea I got betrayal right before the corona situation intensified and only got to play it twice, but it's a fun one👍
Praying for an X update that won't take 2 years.
Sounds great but this suite still needs a reverb and/or a delay. I like to use it in a standalone mode and I miss just a touch of reverb on my leads and cleans. Wondering why it was omitted...
I still don't know what the difference between gain 1 and gain 2 are, besides 2 having a bright bright switch.
Its based on the original Marshall Plexi amp...that had 2 gains... for two separate channels you could plug into or use a patch cable to jumper them...and use BOTH gain knobs...that's all. They just decided to use them towards 1 crushing tone here.
@@GeoffSweet Yeah, he should have showed some classic rock tones using only one gain stage as that is for me the appeal of Cali Suite, it's extremely versatile and not only focused on metal like most Neural DSP releases.
It reminds me A LOT the Friedman BE-100 that is my favorite amplifier ever for that versatility
Love the Hapas guitars. Is the red one a discontinued model?
The link to the presets seems dead… any chance of making them available again?
Thumbs up for Jambi
I love that red 7 string guitar. I wonder what guitar is that?
Are there limitations when you get the trial ?
I can't get mine to sound good at all its sounds muddy and muffly or do you have to use the plug in through an actual cab to sound good ?
awesome!!!
🤘😎🤘
Are the presets still available?
Difference to nameless? I hope you relase an Acoustic plugin. Love Your plugins so far!
The switches it seems, beefs up the Nameless a bit
This one is more versatile, it does sound more british and it can even sound more brutal.
is this standalone capability?
I bought the plugin and I love it but what is the difference between the ZUUL noise gate and the plugin noise gate, are they placed in different locaiton in the chain etc ? Would like some explanation to use both of them together properly.
One of the main differences is that the ZUUL isn't available in non-Fortin plugins, and there isn't another noise gate pedal to replace it in the other Neural DSP plugins. I'm not sure if there is a difference in the location within the chain. I would assume not, as that would defeat the purpose. I guess it's the same thing as having an output knob within the amp and another within the plugin.
The curve of Zuul is a bit more gradual, the plugin noise gate is in front of everything though.
@@XiyuYang ok thanks ill experiment with it over time and figure the differences out.
I have a question; i got the plug in on release day, and it didn’t have the Rebea Massad presets. Should i re-download?
I don’t want to have any issues with this! I love this amp sim best of all right now!
Also, when will Ndsp come out with a stand-alone guitar pedal suite? Effects, wahs, comps, etc?
The Last_Saint
Go to website and it will have the presets in the download section. Then take the downloaded folder and drag and drop on the plug in screen :)
any chance you could reupload the preset link? it's giving an error 404 for me :/
The link to the presets doesn't work anymore. Is there still any way I can still get those presets?
Why cant you include the switches, (thump, hair, etc) decription and what they do in each position, in the user manual?? Do i have to watch this video everytime I need to remind myself.
Wat real amps are these based on?
Still unclear on how the two gain knobs interact and why you'd turn one up and the other down or vice versa.
Would be cool if you made plugins for people that don't play 20 string guitar djent music. Maybe try that maybe.
Metal Nights there’s more than enough plug ins for that
Archetype CORY WONG!!!!!
Less words per minute would it made easier for me to follow your explanations 😉
Inly thing missing, a compressor IMHO, reverb and delay i don't care, i can have them frim my daw
You can add a compressor in youe daw too
So sad that only heavy dudes make demos of this amp. We should have David Glimour make one as this amp has so much more tone than spaceship guitar tones.
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With a snooty voice. It is least you could dooooo🤣🤣🤣