NDSP Quad Cortex

[eggpl@nt]

Pickups and guitars are huge factors. I spent years trying to make a silhouette sound like an Axis. In the end, I have no patience for dead wood...

What did you not like about the Silo? It’s probably the guitar I grab most. I think the pickups are a bit wimpy, and I’ve considered many times what changes might be an improvement, but it’s still a fine guitar, IMHO. Do you think you had a less than stellar example?

My Axis has P90s in it, so I don’t quite have a reference there. My Albert Lee HH has (I believe) Axis pickups. I would say they’re a bit thiccer compared the the Silo, but the Silo is also a smaller/lighter guitar, so that’s a contributing factor as well.

 

[dean701]

What did you not like about the Silo? It’s probably the guitar I grab most. I think the pickups are a bit wimpy, and I’ve considered many times what changes might be an improvement, but it’s still a fine guitar, IMHO. Do you think you had a less than stellar example?

My Axis has P90s in it, so I don’t quite have a reference there. My Albert Lee HH has (I believe) Axis pickups. I would say they’re a bit thiccer compared the the Silo, but the Silo is also a smaller/lighter guitar, so that’s a contributing factor as well.

Can of worms open....
I think the Silo is the most comfortable guitar body on the planet.
However, I prefer the neck on the axis.
I'm a bit of an ebmm nut.
I have an assortment. I have learned to accept guitars for what they are and not to try to make them into something else. Don't get me wrong, within the reason a guitar can be modded slightly. The silos I have had have all been warm with lower sustain. (Even with about 20 different pickup trials)
Even with the Axis guitars I own, some just sustain and pop more than others. At this point I've owned over 100 guitars but never more than 15 a time. There's some wisdom in that but it's mostly just madness.

Sidebar:
I'm currently on a tear with the evh relic series. A total unadulterated rock machine wthout even trying. Very comfortable. The one I have now simply rips. Currently putting an air norton S in the neck and it has a custom custom in the bridge.
I was slicing my hand on the mini pickguard so, in keeping with the theme, I put a full clear on and painted its interior in an evh tribute style

Now that same custom custom sh11 was in my silhouette and it was awful there. In the no frills basswood strat body, it's a blast.

 

[sleewell]

Huge agree on pickups making a big difference. My two favorite guitars (mayones and reverend) dont sound as good at home into studio monitors as my cheapo agile with dimarzio 36th annis. I love those 2 guitars into my recto when I'm playing live but for some reason the agile sounds better at home.



I saw something about the new synth sounding better without an amp block in the chain. I tried it and kinda agree lol. Anyone else try it with no amp or cab block?

 

[Dez]

Huge agree on pickups making a big difference. My two favorite guitars (mayones and reverend) dont sound as good at home into studio monitors as my cheapo agile with dimarzio 36th annis. I love those 2 guitars into my recto when I'm playing live but for some reason the agile sounds better at home.



I saw something about the new synth sounding better without an amp block in the chain. I tried it and kinda agree lol. Anyone else try it with no amp or cab block?

Yup! I like it without an amp or cab block

I did download this preset because I don’t know wtf I’m doing with these parameters lol

 

[Orvillain]

Gonna have to eat some humble pie a bit here... that's a really interesting video.

 

[Richard_G]

Is he doing free V2 updates for QC like he is for Tonex?

No, I’m afraid not.

 

[LCW]

 

[LCW]

Last I used a QC was with 3.1.0… did they disable saving factory presets?? Forces me to “save as new”… unless I’m being dumb… ???

 

[sleewell]

OK can we talk about the cave reverb for a sec???


Holy fuck.... I'm in love hahaha. Max the decay. Lower damping and pre delay. Lower either the high or low pass so that more lows come through.

It just keeps going lololol really ethereal with hints of organ kinda in the lows. I wanna have that going for a bit and then cut it as a riff slams in.

 

[Dez]

Last I used a QC was with 3.1.0… did they disable saving factory presets?? Forces me to “save as new”… unless I’m being dumb… ???

I haven’t ever loaded up a factory preset lol

 

[Dez]

OK can we talk about the cave reverb for a sec???


Holy fuck.... I'm in love hahaha. Max the decay. Lower damping and pre delay. Lower either the high or low pass so that more lows come through.

It just keeps going lololol really ethereal with hints of organ kinda in the lows. I wanna have that going for a bit and then cut it as a riff slams in.

The reverbs, delays and chorus imo are just as good as fractal fx - just not as many models and less parameters to tweak

 

[Jynx]

Last I used a QC was with 3.1.0… did they disable saving factory presets?? Forces me to “save as new”… unless I’m being dumb… ???

You always had to save as new. You can't overwrite factory presets.

 

[LCW]

You always had to save as new. You can't overwrite factory resets.

Hmmm… guess I don’t remember that part.

 

[Richard_G]

How do the effects in the Nano Cortex compare to the effects in the Quad Cortex?

 

[Jynx]

Hmmm… guess I don’t remember that part.

Yeah, was always that way. You can't do anything with that folder. You can't delete it, or delete presets within it, or create new presets in there.

Makes sense, really.

 

[Dez]

How do the effects in the Nano Cortex compare to the effects in the Quad Cortex?

If I remember correctly, the effects from the Nano come from the Quad - it just doesn’t have them all: Nano Device List

 

[sleewell]

The reverbs, delays and chorus imo are just as good as fractal fx - just not as many models and less parameters to tweak

I don't have much experience w fractal but yeah they are amazing. It took me a second to be honest, maybe I'm wrong but the default settings aren't always that good lol. I have to mess with them most times which is fine but when they come alive it's really really good.

 

[mbenigni]

Last I used a QC was with 3.1.0… did they disable saving factory presets?? Forces me to “save as new”… unless I’m being dumb… ???

As far as I know, it's always been this way. The only thing that may have changed is the addition of the Save As icon in place of the Save Icon. (You used to have to select Save As from the ellipsis menu at far right.)

 

[mbenigni]

OK can we talk about the cave reverb for a sec???


Holy fuck.... I'm in love hahaha. Max the decay. Lower damping and pre delay. Lower either the high or low pass so that more lows come through.

It just keeps going lololol really ethereal with hints of organ kinda in the lows. I wanna have that going for a bit and then cut it as a riff slams in.

This is a really nice reverb, and somehow I've never tried it before. Is it something they added recently?

 

[Dez]

This is a really nice reverb, and somehow I've never tried it before. Is it something they added recently?

Nope ‍