NDSP Quad Cortex

[Los-D]

Cluttered today:

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That a Quilter?

 

[mbenigni]

That a Quilter?

Good eye! Yes, it’s an M101 I picked from MF when they were blowing them out for something legitimately “Stupid”. (I want to say $150?) Great little amp!

 

[Jarick]

Got some new sockets added to the home office so no more extension lead and cables in a mess on the ground. Painted the room while I was at it.

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Cables are still a mess but at least they're off the ground.

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Looks great! Similar color to what I have in mine, maybe a shade lighter. Flooring looks good too...I did most of my basement but need to do my office/music room still. We went with lighter color.

My room is a complete mess again, need to clean it up this week. I'm building acoustic panels right now so once those are done, I'll clean out and want to do some before/after quick clips.

 

[Jarick]

I sold my Boss GT-1000 to fund a couple hopefully improvements in my monitoring...

Picked up an Orange 1x12 cab (PPC with Vintage 30) so I can have a good quality speaker cab for use with modelers and a power amp, or a small tube amp if I go that route.

Ordered a Blackstar Amped 1 power amp pedal which can function as either a flat power amp for my modelers or as a simple amp to use with pedals out front. I looked at a bunch of options and people are pretty divided on the SD Powerstage vs Orange Pedal Baby vs others like the Blackstar. My big thing is I want something with some basic EQ so I can quickly adjust the overall tone, and I found one of these at a good price.

 

[Badonkey Kong]

I sold my Boss GT-1000 to fund a couple hopefully improvements in my monitoring...

Picked up an Orange 1x12 cab (PPC with Vintage 30) so I can have a good quality speaker cab for use with modelers and a power amp, or a small tube amp if I go that route.

Ordered a Blackstar Amped 1 power amp pedal which can function as either a flat power amp for my modelers or as a simple amp to use with pedals out front. I looked at a bunch of options and people are pretty divided on the SD Powerstage vs Orange Pedal Baby vs others like the Blackstar. My big thing is I want something with some basic EQ so I can quickly adjust the overall tone, and I found one of these at a good price.

I like my Blackstar Amped 1 a lot; I use it in 6L6 mode along with my Synergy preamps. I am wanting to get a KSR PA50 at some point (probably not this year, possibly next). Or sooner if I sell my 5153 6L6 50...

The only negative on the Amped 1 is no presence or depth controls...

 

[mikah912]

Yeah I have 23 hours to resist the urge to grab Parallax.

Went back and forth a bit, but had a come to Jesus moment. Not only am I getting most of what I'd be looking for in Archetype: Rabea from Helix Native already, but I still have unused licenses for Tonex and GENOME just sitting around.

Much better if I just shut up and play my guitar....

 

[Jarick]

I like my Blackstar Amped 1 a lot; I use it in 6L6 mode along with my Synergy preamps. I am wanting to get a KSR PA50 at some point (probably not this year, possibly next). Or sooner if I sell my 5153 6L6 50...

The only negative on the Amped 1 is no presence or depth controls...

I think I was reading some of your positive feedback on the Blackstar, which helped so thanks!

I played around with an Amped 3 over the weekend and it was not bad at all. I figured try this one first and if it doesn't work, can always flip it and try something else.

 

[mbenigni]

Cluttered today:

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Note to self: DO NOT post iPhone photos at actual size.

 

[Whizzinby]

Went back and forth a bit, but had a come to Jesus moment. Not only am I getting most of what I'd be looking for in Archetype: Rabea from Helix Native already, but I still have unused licenses for Tonex and GENOME just sitting around.

Much better if I just shut up and play my guitar....

Yeah I decided to sit out this cycle too. At some point you do have to ask what tones are you not getting with the gear you already have. I’ll take the found money (X’ification) with the plugs I already have.

 

[Jynx]

I'll admit I kind of hovered over Nameless but after testing it I think I like Fortin Cali, which I already own, way better. And that has the same Hexdrive and Grind pedals.

I'm still not seeing much benefit as a QC owner buying any more plugins than I already had before I bought it. The overlap is pretty substantial.

Of course on Discord they're all running out of the online store with virtual arm fulls of plugins because integration is just around the corner now.

 

[Mongillo19]

course on Discord they're all running out of the online store with virtual arm fulls of plugins because integration is just around the corner now.

All part of the plan

I'm still not seeing much benefit as a QC owner buying any more plugins than I already had before I bought it. The overlap is pretty substantial.

The core amp tones most likely aren't going to be the selling point for QC owners to buy plugins. It may be (and I really hope it isn't the case) that they don't like the QC reverbs but the Morgan suite ones are really good. Or the synth ambient stuff on Rabea. Or the harmonizer goodies from Henson.

So I view it more as plugins could subjectively offer better or unique effects that aren't available in the QC and the only way to get them is to buy the plugin

 

[Jynx]

Or the harmonizer goodies from Henson.

Already on QC. And you can stack them to get even more too.

Or the synth ambient stuff on Rabea.

A version of it coming according to Dan.

I think people just like buying gear tbh.

 

[Jarick]

Yeah I decided to sit out this cycle too. At some point you do have to ask what tones are you not getting with the gear you already have. I’ll take the found money (X’ification) with the plugs I already have.

Same. I’ll wait until QC is updated and see what happens. Although if they do announce Nolly X I may swipe right.

 

[Mongillo19]

Already on QC. And you can stack them to get even more too.



A version of it coming according to Dan.

I think people just like buying gear tbh.

I thought the harmonizer wasn't exactly the same as the Henson. But I have no way to confirm that.

All well and good but the fact remains that there is potential for certain features to be paywalled behind plugins.

Yes, people like buying stuff too

 

[Aleksi]

I thought the harmonizer wasn't exactly the same as the Henson. But I have no way to confirm that.

All well and good but the fact remains that there is potential for certain features to be paywalled behind plugins.

Yes, people like buying stuff too

The minivoicer on the QC is a very stripped down version. You only get a choice of major and minor scales or chromatic, only two voices and looks like a lot of other features have been removed as well.

 

[Jynx]

I thought the harmonizer wasn't exactly the same as the Henson. But I have no way to confirm that.

All well and good but the fact remains that there is potential for certain features to be paywalled behind plugins.

Yes, people like buying stuff too

The difference is the harmonizer on the Henson has four channels while the QC has two. But you could stack one on each lane for a total of 8 on the QC.

 

[GTR37]

Same. I’ll wait until QC is updated and see what happens. Although if they do announce Nolly X I may swipe right.

I am sure they will have another 50% later in the summer when PCOM is released and they get a handful of them into X

When/ if Dual Cortex is available maybe fall ?

 

[GTR37]

The minivoicer on the QC is a very stripped down version. You only get a choice of major and minor scales or chromatic, only two voices and looks like a lot of other features have been removed as well.

I think transpose is the poly shift coming in 3.0 that will take over the mini voicer
If I am correct ?? Anyone
Anyone

 

[Mongillo19]

The minivoicer on the QC is a very stripped down version. You only get a choice of major and minor scales or chromatic, only two voices and looks like a lot of other features have been removed as well.

Yeah I didn't know the specifics but I didn't think it was a 1:1

 

[Jynx]

Looking at the Henson now I do see some extra options like delay and panning but, of course, you could achieve things like that on the QC with a bit of ingenuity.