NDSP Quad Cortex

[Orvillain]

So have we come to a conclusion of the said category?

His phallusy is appealing to the Detriot Grand Poobah's.

 

[Frodebro]

I'm no steel man, it can sometimes obviously get to me when people take the opportunity to criticise. I'm trying my hardest though. I've managed to finally play a bar of E-major, then a bar of Gmajor, then a bar of Fminor, for a couple of loops. But it does hurt my fingers. I'll get better, just another 20 years of practice and I'm sure I'll be shred Lynchin' with the best of them.

Baby steps.

 

[Rock Chalk]

I have no dog in this fight, but reading the last several pages of this thread has me wondering, what happened to:

"We can all have our opinions without having to prove that we can do better." ?

https://thegearforum.com/threads/this-must-be-the-irritant-in-question.7150/post-291914

 

[Orvillain]

I have no dog in this fight, but reading the last several pages of this thread has me wondering, what happened to:

"We can all have our opinions without having to prove that we can do better." ?

https://thegearforum.com/threads/this-must-be-the-irritant-in-question.7150/post-291914

 

[Warmart]

 

[Mikael Dez]

Been playing acoustic for like a month straight - it was nice to get the 7 string out and remind myself how excellent this whole setup is.

 

[Rock Chalk]

 

[DrewJD82]

I don’t care at all what you give credence to and I sure as hell don’t have to prove anything with clips because they prove nothing.

I disagree. You can tell quite a bit about a player with just a few seconds of playing and it gives a frame of reference for their viewpoint.

IE- If you’re claim is that someone plays with too much gain and then you post a clip of say a metal tune being effectively played with what you consider a “right” amount of gain, you’ve added some credence to your point. If you came in a posted a clip of the “Enter Sandman” riff being played with a clean Fender Twin and claimed that’s the appropriate amount of gain to play that song effectively, everyone would know you’re a loon.

 

[Badonkey Kong]

I disagree. You can tell quite a bit about a player with just a few seconds of playing and it gives a frame of reference for their viewpoint.

IE- If you’re claim is that someone plays with too much gain and then you post a clip of say a metal tune being effectively played with what you consider a “right” amount of gain, you’ve added some credence to your point. If you came in a posted a clip of the “Enter Sandman” riff being played with a clean Fender Twin and claimed that’s the appropriate amount of gain to play that song effectively, everyone would know you’re a loon.

 

[ian_dissonance]

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Where’d you find this picture of me in middle school?

 

[deadpool_25]

Well fuck. As if the thread wasn't already damn near useless, now it's totally ruined (on page 264...not sure if I should bother scrolling through the rest to confirm).

 

[GTR37]

Well fuck. As if the thread wasn't already damn near useless, now it's totally ruined (on page 264...not sure if I should bother scrolling through the rest to confirm).

Reminds me of the Discord forum lately this one does

 

[deadpool_25]

I scrolled through the rest just to see. It's almost back to its normal level of uselessness. Still a little ways to go though.

Thanks for trying though Drew!

 

[Mikael Dez]

Added my THR to the mix on flat mode (headphone out of QC going into the THR input) - pleasantly surprised with how it sounds lol

 

[mbenigni]

TBH; the concept of "you're using too much gain" has ruined me in the forum age because I've spent all that time fighting my guitar more than just playing the dang thing

See also "are my mids too scooped?"

Tying a couple of different threads together: I seem to be the only DSL guy on teh intarwebs who a) likes Lead 2 better than Lead 1, and b) is about ready to glue the Tone Shift button in the "On" position.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Tying a couple of different threads together: I seem to be the only DSL guy on teh intarwebs who a) likes Lead 2 better than Lead 1, and b) is about ready to glue the Tone Shift button in the "On" position.

Probably a better choice than calling it the "Tone Shit" button

 

[Orvillain]

So tonight I did one of my synth gigs. One of my favourite UK bands was headlining, their album launch. One of their guitarists has moved from his Orange Rockerverb over to a Quad Cortex. IEM's, modeller routed to FOH. The typical thing.

It was very noticeable during soundcheck. Guitars sounded distant. The drums completely dominated the mix. Guitar lead lines just did not sit on top of the bass like they're supposed to.

And two or three people in the room I spoke to, they said things like the band sounded a bit flat, dull, lifeless. They couldn't put it into tech-nerd words, but I know what they were talking about - it just didn't sound huge and powerful, like a rock band should.

My stuff?? Lots of low-frequency synths and square wave dubstep type tones. It really punched, massively.

So I don't know why the guitars in that band didn't exactly. But what I do know is, this was one of the UK bands that I always loved to see live (played with them a lot over the years in my other band too) and whenever I saw them, their live tones blew me away. But this was definitely not as good, primarily because how distant and "behind everything" the guitars were.

I spoke to the guitarist after the show, and he fully admited he went to the QC for flexibility and weight reasons. He fully admitted that he missed his old amp and it sounded better.

No disrespect to them, because the songs were good, and having heard the album, it is a cracking post-metal banger. But tonight I really didn't get what I wanted from a live guitar band.

 

[deadpool_25]

That's probably more attributable to the sound engineer/room than the gear.

I've heard a few bands (Sleep Token, Intervals, Plini, Erra, The Band Camino, and certainly others I can't remember rn) play using QC and they sounded great.

 

[Mikael Dez]

So tonight I did one of my synth gigs. One of my favourite UK bands was headlining, their album launch. One of their guitarists has moved from his Orange Rockerverb over to a Quad Cortex. IEM's, modeller routed to FOH. The typical thing.

It was very noticeable during soundcheck. Guitars sounded distant. The drums completely dominated the mix. Guitar lead lines just did not sit on top of the bass like they're supposed to.

And two or three people in the room I spoke to, they said things like the band sounded a bit flat, dull, lifeless. They couldn't put it into tech-nerd words, but I know what they were talking about - it just didn't sound huge and powerful, like a rock band should.

My stuff?? Lots of low-frequency synths and square wave dubstep type tones. It really punched, massively.

So I don't know why the guitars in that band didn't exactly. But what I do know is, this was one of the UK bands that I always loved to see live (played with them a lot over the years in my other band too) and whenever I saw them, their live tones blew me away. But this was definitely not as good, primarily because how distant and "behind everything" the guitars were.

I spoke to the guitarist after the show, and he fully admited he went to the QC for flexibility and weight reasons. He fully admitted that he missed his old amp and it sounded better.

No disrespect to them, because the songs were good, and having heard the album, it is a cracking post-metal banger. But tonight I really didn't get what I wanted from a live guitar band.

What band?

 

[Aleksi]

What band?

The post metal pioneers One Of My Favourite UK Bands! They're touring their latest album A Cracking Post Metal Banger