Has anyone tried the Quilter DirectAmp?

[Stratzrus]

 

[paisleywookiee]

Sounds pretty bad, tbh. Even Leon can't save it through his Legendary Powers.

 

[Blix]

Cleans are decent it seems, but oh my that overdrive

 

[jellodog]

Cleans are decent it seems, but oh my that overdrive

Yeah, they always seem to have the Fender / punchy cleans working well. I've owned a few Quilters and I always enjoyed the cleans / EOB.

I always thought there might be more of the Nuenaber stuff in their next release, i.e. delay; or maybe hybrid approach to gain tones with a digital drive on top of the Quilter analogue foundations.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Yeah, they always seem to have the Fender / punchy cleans working well. I've owned a few Quilters and I always enjoyed the cleans / EOB.

I always thought there might be more of the Nuenaber stuff in their next release, i.e. delay; or maybe hybrid approach to gain tones with a digital drive on top of the Quilter analogue foundations.

I kinda forgot they merged, or something?

 

[jellodog]

I kinda forgot they merged, or something?

That's right, they joined forces and merged. I've been excited about the possibilities since them, but haven't seen much yet. To be fair, it does take a long time to being products to market, so I'm probably expecting too much too soon.

 

[Stratzrus]

Yeah, they always seem to have the Fender / punchy cleans working well. I've owned a few Quilters and I always enjoyed the cleans / EOB.

I always thought there might be more of the Nuenaber stuff in their next release, i.e. delay; or maybe hybrid approach to gain tones with a digital drive on top of the Quilter analogue foundations.

I think Nuenaber did contribute something on the reverb of the DirectAmp. It sounds much better than the reverb on my MicroPro 200.

I'd been thinking about getting a SuperBlock US when I stumbled on the DirectAmp. Recently I've been running my Roland Micro Cube into the Presonus Eris 4.5s that I'm using for home theater with my bedroom TV. I leave the Micro Cube on at all times so all that I have to do when sitting up in bed watching TV is mute the TV, grab my guitar, and I can get in 5 minutes of practice time during commercials.

I started wondering if one of the Quilter offerings would be better in this application because all of the gain tones of the Micro Cube are really horrible. Whatever you think of the Quilter gain tones they are notably better. The SuperBlock has the advantage of having a 25 watt amp included but the DirectAmp has a better selection of gain tones, as limited as they may be.

But the "Fender/punchy cleans" that jellodog mentioned with the new reverb would be how I'd be spending 85% of my time because I'd be using it predominantly for practicing fundamentals not performance.

I'm wrestling with do I really need one of these since I have an Axe III and a FM9, both of which are significantly better in every way. The thing is, I don't want to leave either of my Fractal modelers on all the time and that's what I'd do with the Quilter so I can just pick up the guitar and play without having to turn anything on. That's the way I have the Micro Cube set up and I really like having that convenience.

The thing is, as crazy as it sounds, I'm really attached to the Micro Cube having traveled the world with it and as bulletproof as it's proven to be, I don't want to keep leaving it on all the time and risk burning it out. It's been on for two months now without a hiccup but I don't want to push my luck.

I haven't decided whether or not to get one of the Quilters, and if so which one, but I keep thinking about it and when that happens I usually end up buying the thing.

Decisions, decisions....

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Quilter product brainstorming session: “hey guys, what if we take what has always been the worst part of all of our products and…make an entire product based on that thing!!!”

 

[jellodog]

I think Nuenaber did contribute something on the reverb of the DirectAmp. It sounds much better than the reverb on my MicroPro 200.

Mayyybe?

But from the 3 demos I watched, the reverb sounded similar to how it sounded on the Aviator Mach 3 (except stereo). Maybe it was just the YouTube compression though, and it really is different.

I agree that if I was to be Quiltering again, I'd also be doing more clean and EOB with a fairly big dollop of the reverb though. But as you say, for direct non-power-amp applications the FAS stuff we already own is "significantly better in every way".

That said, the SuperBlock US was one of the best gear purchases I've made over the last few years and remains excellent value for money and a great base for delays and reverbs etc..

 

[paisleywookiee]

I just want a Toneblock-sized stereo/mono switchable power amp, with whatever secret sauce Quilter has. The Fractal into the Toneblock 201 I had was awesome (into the effects loop). I'd love just power amp-only, with stereo.