NDSP Quad Cortex

[nightlight]

Even a noob like me can get good tones out of the Quad Cortex.

This is a faux quad tracked song, which I did by recording two takes with the automatic double tracker on the Quad Cortex. Mix turned out really well, I think, thanks to the new strings on this guitar and the bass.

 

[Orvillain]

Even a noob like me can get good tones out of the Quad Cortex.

This is a faux quad tracked song, which I did by recording two takes with the automatic double tracker on the Quad Cortex. Mix turned out really well, I think, thanks to the new strings on this guitar and the bass.

Good tone, but a little tip. The more tracks you add, the less gain you need. So if you double track, your gain levels are probably fine. For quad tracking, you can and probably should dial it back a little. It will help with the overall tightness and impact. With too much gain the combination of four tracks gets a bit too smeary and your riffs lose some balls.

 

[DrewJD82]

My ass is enlarging just looking at this.

Ya might wanna find out if that meatball sub is an 8" or a 12".

 

[Orvillain]

Ya might wanna find out if that meatball sub is an 8" or a 12".

Especially if he's putting it in his ass. Like my old P.E teacher once said, every inch counts.

 

[nightlight]

Good tone, but a little tip. The more tracks you add, the less gain you need. So if you double track, your gain levels are probably fine. For quad tracking, you can and probably should dial it back a little. It will help with the overall tightness and impact. With too much gain the combination of four tracks gets a bit too smeary and your riffs lose some balls.

Thanks! I just used a preset, as my room has no sound treatment or anything. It’s very difficult to dial a good tone in that environment, unfortunately, so I just went with whatever I thought sounded good in my room.

 

[nightlight]

I’ve always wondered where that weird flavor on meatballs came from in the US…mystery solved!

The scientific term for that kind of behaviour is assburger’s syndrome.

 

[Jynx]

Wendy's is coming to Ireland in '25. Looking forward to trying it.

It's probably garbage but I'll try it once.

Best burgers in Ireland come from the Burger Cartel who operate out of a trailer in the Herbert Park food market.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

 

[TubeStack]

I'm gonna go right now and get a BBC… in your honor Drew.

 

[Achilles]

Nice!

 

[mikah912]

Yeah, my favorite current prog/tech/death metal band - The Zenith Passage - is using QCs and NDSP plugins as well. I don't doubt the roadworthiness of the units, despite some less-than-favorable rumblings on the power supply and reliability. People ARE making them work for professional use.

The size/form factor is great. I found myself longing for it this weekend when I had to do some gigging/recording in a tight space.

That being said, once I got my FM9 actually set up, its versaility and footswitching capability proved indispensable. I basically did an entire set of guitar-synth sounds (it's an 80s-leaning project), ambient cleans, modern fusion-y leads and straight up roaring Plexi rhythms (oh, and I recorded several different bass tones too) using nothing but factory patches. It chewed up everything I threw at it.

Feel like QC isn't quite there in offering such a palette, but the once the generic version of Rabea's synth is added along with much better delays and reverb....I'll have to take another look.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Even a noob like me can get good tones out of the Quad Cortex.

This is a faux quad tracked song, which I did by recording two takes with the automatic double tracker on the Quad Cortex. Mix turned out really well, I think, thanks to the new strings on this guitar and the bass.

Where did you ever find a left-handed Marshall?

 

[paisleywookiee]

Yeah, my favorite current prog/tech/death metal band - The Zenith Passage - is using QCs and NDSP plugins as well. I don't doubt the roadworthiness of the units, despite some less-than-favorable rumblings on the power supply and reliability. People ARE making them work for professional use.

Yeah, step one: get a Ciocks. Problem solved.

Well, normally step one is cutting a hole in the box, but here it'll have to be Ciocks.

 

[mikah912]

Yeah, step one: get a Ciocks. Problem solved.

Well, normally step one is cutting a hole in the box, but here it'll have to be Ciocks.

Are you referring to the $70 Cioks power converter + $250 Cioks DC7 combo? If I already had that for a pedalboard, I wouldn't bat an eye, but I don't (really dislike modular solutions). Can't see myself ever dropping that in add-ons for a $1700 piece of hardware.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Are you referring to the $70 Cioks power converter + $250 Cioks DC7 combo? If I already had that for a pedalboard, I wouldn't bat an eye, but I don't (really dislike modular solutions). Can't see myself ever dropping that in add-ons for a $1700 piece of hardware.

Or this.

Canvas Power HP

*The Canvas Power HP is on backorder. Units ordered today will ship 11/20* The Canvas Power HP allows you power the thirstiest of modelers and pedals with a massive 3A (three Amp, or 3,000mA) output. The HP also has 3 isolated power outputs delivering up to 500mA of clean power at 9v. The 3A...

www.walrusaudio.com

I mean yeah, it's another $200+ on top of the $1700. But if you want to fix the problem, there it is.

 

[GTR37]

Are you referring to the $70 Cioks power converter + $250 Cioks DC7 combo? If I already had that for a pedalboard, I wouldn't bat an eye, but I don't (really dislike modular solutions). Can't see myself ever dropping that in add-ons for a $1700 piece of hardware.

 

[Achilles]

JFC

 

[JiveTurkey]

JFC

Pretend it's something Fractal and you'll get it

 

[Achilles]

Pretend it's something Fractal and you'll get it

I dig Fractal products...

 

[mikah912]

This will surprise no one here, but there appears to be a wee bit of discrepancy between the press release of the TINA robot and subsequent disclosures from NDSP.

From the July TINA press release, Doug Castro says:

"We’ve successfully removed all human intervention within the amplifier modeling process – ensuring an unparalleled level of precision in every model by capturing every subtle detail in the amplifier's controls.”

From an article from Guitar World today about how they'd like to model a Dumble someday, Doug Castro also says:

“Until we’ve tried it, it's hard to say,” he explains, “Sometimes these models, you put it in the robot, and 24 hours later you have a model that everybody's like, ‘Yeah, that's it.’ “More often than not, you do have some iteration, where some designers give feedback to the machine learning guys, and they need to tweak things and try again. It really depends a lot on the amplifier.