Can My Stereo Amp Rig Be ‘Distilled’ Into Quad Cortex?
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- In this video, my buddy Max and I are working on using Quad Cortex as my Stereo amp rig midi controller, effects processor and stompbox pedalboard!
On top of that, we’re also creating the exact same rig and tones within QC to demonstrate the two major differences in workflow that achieve the same tones - travel or tour!
Enjoy!
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00:00 - What we're doing
02:03 - CorOS 2.0
02:32 - Amp setup
03:41 - Pedalboard setup
04:52 - Tones
06:37 - MIDI setup
08:15 - Day 2 - Mic the cabs
09:09 - Comparing Amp with QC
11:19 - Wrapping Up
Video edited by John Hollingworth
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Thanks for watching everyone!
Loving the new space, this is just the start!
Max and I will be filming another video showing the rig and preset in it’s final form, at which point we’ll have refined everything and it’ll be available on the cloud 🙌
Thank YOU! Safe travels and I hope you have a good time at the event. You are a blessing to me for years now.
Awesome seeing behind the scenes. Sorry to get granular… where did you get the custom knobs for the QC? Definitely need those … QC rocks but the knobs are a bit close together… thank you!
Thanks Rabea. Your great work still inspire me. You're a legend. Cheers
@@mhudson no problem! They’re the mooer button toppers. I had to buy a few packs to get them all clear coloured. Just so the LED’s can shine through a bit if that makes sense
@@RabeaMassaad thank you !
I was at said presentation - just found this. Bought a quad cortex after your demonstration. Been waiting for a while but that made me pull the trigger. No one has beat your tone in that room to-date. Funny finding this after all that.
I love how all your gear has its own little history to it. I remember when it was 2 50w krakens and the original gig rig.
Same.
I remember when it was the 5150 and the JCM900
Kemper and Helix owner. Got my QC three days ago and have to say I’m very impressed. It’s far better than I was expecting and genuinely moves the game on. Love it. Hope Neural realised how much influence you have on people buying these things.
Never get tired of seeing you chew on the notes as you play. 😀
Thank you for sharing this video with us! And everything you do Reba is Awesome brother!!!! Rock on🤘
Would love to see you breakdown some Incubus or karnivool stuff. Maybe aiming to get their tones. Maybe not exactly the same but something you think sounds good for a section. Then maybe going and writing a riff or something using some of their ideas
The fuzz sound at 5:22 is just jaw dropping
O M F G This is just crazy. Amazing! Love the new space!
Much inspiration from you and everything you do
LOVE THIS! Thanks so much for sharing, I know I personally love these kinds of videos. Your new space is awesome and hope to be watching a ton more videos coming from your new creative environment. Will you upload these captures? Would be wicked.... just sayin.
Bea this is so damn cool! The capture vs real amp are SO hard to tell if at all which is which. Neural really keep knocking it out of the park lol Great video, love this style of content.
Darnit Rabea. I passed on the quad 3x because I was unhappy with the Kemper and helix. No feel or sound that I liked tbh. I love my amps and pedals but you came along and played that big festival and now I have 2 quads. I also saw a light speed. Now I’m getting one. I want to try it again. I’m a recovering pedal addict. I’ve been doing good since the quad. It keeps me busy. But now it’s starting again. The pedal buying is creeping back. Oh well. I feel like I worked yrs to get where I’m at. I used awful gear for yrs but as I got better and well, utube came about the buying became an issue. Most people would’ve quit if they had my beginner’s gear. It was unplayable. Now you can get a nice beginner’s guitar for cheap. So I’m going to enjoy my amps, pedals and my quad. Congrats on the Ernie Ball guitar. I saw it coming when u we’re trying one during the frogleap tour. And so many endorsements. A new chapter. Congrats. 🎉 ps don’t forget your funk, blues, rock. Love that stuff.
Killer tones Bea!
Wow…blown away..can’t believe how good the capture sounds to the real amp…I can’t tell the difference..amazing..
New studio looks awesome!
The studio is bad ass! Love the lighting
well done misters! I'm nearly shocked by its BEAuty...Have a good fun la Mer!
Killer tones 🤘🏼
Thanks for the behind the scenes look!!!
These EXACT types of videos (off the cuff/at the moment live) are what I miss. We don't get to have those much anymore.
Love that fuzz!
Dig the geeky stuff. End it with a jam next time! Congrats on the new gigs Rabea!
Very cool, so versatile.
Love the vibe, just messing around in the studio.
Sounded awesome.
Some jam sessions would be great maybe
Love love
Thanks for sharing
Cheers from Texas!
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Just got the grinding gears tab bundles, how bout the tones uploaded on the QC! Love your vids and your playing. Keep it up!
Love the OX neon light ❤
Sheesh... that is some tone right there. Be it from the amp or the capture on the QC. Nice stuff.
👌
Good job!
That was awesome
This is very cool!Thanx for sharing this process.🤘🏿😎🎸 Getcha Pull 🥃-CHEERS 🍻
Really enjoyed this video, will you be taking the QC rig to any gigs?
Have a QC since launch, and haven't had anything that comes close to it when it comes to capture an amp's tone, but, still waiting for the QC to be able to capture a fuzz pedal. My tone is 60% fuzz to an amp, and the other 40% it's just high gain stuff (actually a Kraken capture). When that time comes, that I can capture my fuzzes and use only the QC and an expression pedal, that will be one glorious day...
Hi Rabea, great video. Can you share this presets in your QC Cloud? It would be awesome. Cheers
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The final product will be so worth it to do quad to PA or "front of house"...
ideally what every guitarist wants...
their own tone in a stompbox 🤘
Awesome video!
Will you be reviewing the new Victory Sheriff?
Love to see you enjoying the new space, can't wait to what awesome pieces of music are you going to blow our minds with. Cheers man, love you and your work ❤
Awesome!!! Are you going to be able to do a quick meet and greet at Sweetwater? I'd drive out and say hi!
Are you still planning on sharing this preset/captures? I'm curious to see just how much info goes between scenes with a FOH and Cab setup, plus those captures sound absolutely mint!
QC got me to sell my Helix. Kemper is currently listed.
Please put the captures and patches on the cloud!
It's no practical for me to run stereo for the time being (using FrFr atm)... Those tones out have captured are to show for, totally blown me away as usual. 🤘😎🤙🕉️
Nabio! Haha, I remember that article.
Only seen to the Kenton midi splitter so far, it’s such a great unit that also works with the gigrig G3 as the G3 doesn’t have midi power to power something like the midi solutions Quadra through;) my big board wouldn’t work without it hahah😅
I don't really understand what you're doing, but it sounds interesting. :)
When will you be at Sweetwater?!
Man, as a Kemper player, I have really missed the option for stereo rigs. Not that I need a stereo setup in the band I currently play in, but the QC has a huge advantage in being able to be a complete in-the-box stereo solution. And as a bass player as well as being a guitar player, the additional internal signal routing is also a step above the Kemper.
Been loving my Kemper, and as an 'ecosystem' it works so well because the rest of the band uses the unit, but this video has me tempted to check out the QC.
nice gretsch! Great to see you back!
I wish they would make a smaller with less dsp version of the quad cortex, maybe a dual cortex? I'm always surprised by the captures these were spot on!
I wonder if you can get similar tones with the hx stomp and a couple of pedals. I've always loved Rabea's tone but don't have the money for the exact same rig
When are you going to be at Sweetwater? I work 5 minutes from there, so it would be cool to catch you there.
hmmm, i got seriously lost. whatever you were doing, the results were great. the extent of my ability to reduce the size of my single head and quad box is i've got a captor x coming. i hope to get a good di sound, turn it into stereo, and add delay and reverb after the stereo out of the captor x. retaining my core tone i love from the amp and the pedal board that is used in front of amp.
Hi Rabea, you mentioned you’ll be at Sweetwater next week, is that open to the public? If so, what day and time will you be there?
I'm gelous of the ox box light on the wall how did you get that ? I would buy that if they were available to purchase
Available to download when 😅?
Will you share this after the presentation? Thanks
Is it me, or does rabea sound best with a gretsch. Awesome as usual.
What day will you be at Sweetwater? Is that open to the public too?
I spy with my little eye Nabio stereocore 😂 Well played.
Nabio Stereoreo!
Wow ... that's identical ... will be this captures/presets available in your cortex profile ?
He mentioned it a few posts above this one... said when it is finished he will share it to the cloud! Is that cool or what?
I've got a Rivera TBR1M mate if you fancied doing a quick capture
I’d love to see those Kraken amp heads loaded to the cloud.
BEEEAAA! question. Do you prefer valve amps. Or would you rather run a helix type setup
Valve amps 100%
How is Rabea connecting his QC? Does he run the XLR's into his interface? Or USB?
Honest question.. i have an awesome mark V 25 with a matching cab and torpedo.. but almost never use it and the setup kinda kills the vibe as it takes so long to get running. i love this amp and when you play with a full band it sounds incredible… would it be worth it to swap the setup for a quad cortex? Also back issues will definitely make carrying around an amp+cab+torpedo+pedals difficult
Dude try the quad cortex with a bluguitar amp 1 iridium. It’s crazy !!
Can someone please explain why they used the shur reactive loaders to capture? What is the benefit of capturing the sound through them compared to capturing without them
Thanks
uploaded the backpack rig version of this preset to the cloud plz thanks
why is that hoodie now in the Neural mesh shop?!
Plot twist: yes cause it’s that good
When will these captures hit the cloud??
Rabea do you use 6L6 or EL34 krakens? cheers!
I think he uses both:) one with 6L6 one with EL34‘s. But dual 6L6 sounds great, I run a stereo „rig“ of those and it always sounds fabolous👍
are planning on using anything to get a doubler effect live ie TC electronic mimiq? Does the Quad cortex have that built in? Thanks and sick sounds by the way!
I stopped using it cause it messed with the phase and thinned things out a bit for what I was doing. But yeah QC can do the same thing, it’s just a sample delay
@@RabeaMassaad Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply! 🤘😎
I really want a QC. I just can't buy one until the N DSP plugins work with it. I mean, creating awesome tones and sounds with these plugins in the music lab is amazing... and then forking out a fortune to not be able to use the sounds I create live, its annoying me just thinking about it and I haven't bought a QC yet 😂
On a different note, I am curious about how anyone is using a QC with their pedals and how they switch between pedals like if they had a looper/switching system (like a Gig Rig G3)?
Litterally attempted to capture my kraken the other day in all settings of gain 1 and 2 to make a “toska” style stereo preset. Please tell me this is going on the cloud?
god i hope so
He mentions in one of the posts in this thread that when it is finished it is going to the cloud! I don't know if I would ever be able to use it, but it is really nice that they are sharing it with us. It will be under Rabea's name when they do post it.
Can I get one of those Neural hoodies please?
Man alive guitar is getting complicated! Sounds great though👏
I’m betting on Bea returning to full valve in two years.
Shame max isn’t using the charvel I sold him in this vid haha
That guitar rips!
Did he say ‘casa nabsy’? 😅
I did indeed!
why did you turn around and hide that Ernie Ball that was being played 🤔
you let us taste this amazing stereo rig and you leave us without uploading this preset to the cloud????
:( :( :( :(
I did read in a post from him on this thread that when it is finished he will indeed upload to his account. Nice!
I like that he says "Sex outputs" yeah....I like that.
Can’t believe CZcams is offering this to me 3 days after publication🤔. Wtf CZcams?
I don't feel that the difference was "so close". Can clearly hear - even after CZcams compression - that the amp has more gain, grit and trebles than the QC... Almost sounds like different amps to me.
Hmmmm……….back in my day you didn’t need an engineering degree to be a performing guitar player 😂🥴
Hahaha of course - it’s just nice to explore more options. I love my amps and pedals. But it was very cool to hear the same rig all in QC
Umm, Brian may…😁
@@ezdj …………………….ya whatever…………………..DOH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still like Kemper better...it has the best ecosystem with the Kemper Kabinet ....iMO.
Super clunky and dated tho with limited effects and only single amp the need to release a Kemper compact for pedal boards and a turbo/ profiler 2 that has double the amount of effects and dual amp
Nope. Try the quad and get back to us. I sold the Kemper. No feel. Sound needed pedals to help with both. Next up helix will be sold and thank goodness.
You can power quad cortex using the new cioks crux off your dc7. This will free up all 4 of the outputs you normally use when you chain power. I did it on mine. Much neater and loads of free outlets too
THAT HOODIE IS SO SICK THE GREY ONE WHAT IS IT FROM DOES ANYONE KNOW PLEASEEE
It has a Neural DSP Logo on it so check their website
The quad sounds like a digital mess.
How so?
@@Thegamer12342 he’s deaf