Neural DSP Nano Cortex

[paisleywookiee]

Or being at a pizza parlor and ordering a small plain cheese, then bitching about how bare bones and little it is when it gets to your table.

Yeah no. This isn’t even a Totinos.

 

[Achilles]

See that’s a pretty solid win
7 out of 20 is great considering most factory presets usually don’t work
Intresting so you did not like the Bogner red or Silver Lead?

Is the cab the Marshall GB25
That was my fav on the QC when I had one that and the Zilla v30

Just to be clear the 7 out of 20 is captures, not presets.
To be honest I paid zero attention to the names and just listened to what sounded good.

I didn't look up the IRs.
Just tried it through my Mackie monitors just now with some decent volume.
Stopped playing and immediately looked down at the KSR head and Boogie cab thinking why do I have these?

This digital shit is just getting so scary good.
That or my hearing is so shot that I no longer pick up on any negatives.

Speaking of footswitches.

I've really grown to like footswitches that are close to the housing edges. At first the Duality seemed too cramped
but you just need to use the edge of your foot and not the whole thing like we're all use to. Love the tap tempo one
being so close to the bottom edge. Nano improves even more on the idea.

The RC is the worst placement out of these. Too damn close to the knobs.

 

[Elf]

Very cool product, but if I was still touring and doing flying gigs I would still take a HX Stomp! Neither of which existed in my twenties and early thirties.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Just to be clear the 7 out of 20 is captures, not presets.
To be honest I paid zero attention to the names and just listened to what sounded good.

I didn't look up the IRs.
Just tried it through my Mackie monitors just now with some decent volume.
Stopped playing and immediately looked down at the KSR head and Boogie cab thinking why do I have these?

This digital shit is just getting so scary good.
That or my hearing is so shot that I no longer pick up on any negatives.

Speaking of footswitches.

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I've really grown to like footswitches that are close to the housing edges. At first the Duality seemed too cramped
but you just need to use the edge of your foot and not the whole thing like we're all use to. Love the tap tempo one
being so close to the bottom edge. Nano improves even more on the idea.

The RC is the worst placement out of these. Too damn close to the knobs.

Well, it sure is nano. That's tiny.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I think if they can throw in an 808 choice instead of say the pitch in a future update that would be great

Most likely that'd compromise gapless switching here and there, so I'm not sure whether they'll do that.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Exactly. I have to think many more would have use for a drive block vs a transpose.

Absolutely. If it had a drive block, it'd be something even I could consider (regardless of all the other things I seem to find way less than ideal). I play standard tuning 99.9% of all time, most of the guys I know do so as well - and in case they're serious regarding the tuning malarky, they're using different tuned guitars or maybe a Drop pedal in order to not having to compromise their otherwise perfectly working modeling patches.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I have to think they’ll add things, change things around as time goes on. Perhaps they’ll allow swapping out of the pitch for OD. Pitch is about as useful as tits on a bull for me.

 

[Achilles]

I play standard tuning 99.9% of all time.

100% here and DEFINITELY AGREE the transpose block could have been much better used.
To be honest, after hearing the high gain options it has I never once thought about needing
to add an OD in front. The gate is a must though so I'm glad they added that.

Personally I'd have used the transpose block for chorus instead of having it post and then maybe added a crazier 2nd delay option in its place.

 

[Mongillo19]

I didn't look up the IRs.
Just tried it through my Mackie monitors just now with some decent volume.
Stopped playing and immediately looked down at the KSR head and Boogie cab thinking why do I have these?

Have you tried capturing the KSR? Or any pedals?

 

[Sascha Franck]

To be honest, after hearing the high gain options it has I never once thought about needing
to add an OD in front.

For me, a drive in front isn't about the amps missing anything - it's just a second sound, still related to the main sound, sometimes just with a little more hair, sometimes to create a lead sound out of a rhythm sound, whatever. I find that kinda stuff to be incredibly convenient.

 

[Achilles]

Have you tried capturing the KSR? Or any pedals?

Once I'm settled a bit that's the goal. I also have the Mark III Red SRG tucked under my bed!

Not going to bother with the pedals for now cause I plan on keeping the one board.

 

[Mongillo19]

Not going to bother with the pedals for now cause I plan on keeping the one board.

Is the nano going on that board or will it float on it's own

 

[Foxmeister]

Exactly. I have to think many more would have use for a drive block vs a transpose.

If DSP is an issue, I'd take a compressor over a pitch shifter every day of the week!

 

[Mongillo19]

If DSP is an issue, I'd take a compressor over a pitch shifter every day of the week!

Or even that lol tbh a pitch shifter is last on my list of a pre effect. How are you liking the NC?

 

[quadgear]

I read that in order to include a drive block they would have had to remove the headphone jack........

Joking aside, my guess is that a choice of a few Drives could easily replace the pitch shifter. Computationally, they can both be expensive.

 

[norminal]

Assuming the drives on the QC are captures as well (betting they are), that would require the Nano to be able to load an additional capture, yes?

 

[Achilles]

Assuming the drives on the QC are captures as well (betting they are), that would require the Nano to be able to load an additional capture, yes?

Pretty sure the QC has a number of models of those too.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Assuming the drives on the QC are captures as well (betting they are), that would require the Nano to be able to load an additional capture, yes?

They have a bunch of OD models in the QC for sure.
In addition to captures.

 

[Sedaxel]

I understand all of your opinions about the drive and transpose block.

Obviously, both of them would be ideal.

However, I prefer the transpose to a drive block in this singular kind of pedal.

My reasons:

I don't see it as an all in one unit. Even with a drive block, it wouldn't be. For me, it should have at least a compressor and one more block and effects choice. So a drive won't solve the "all in one" thing.

I almost never needed a transpose. So I don't have a pedal for that. And the multieffects I have don't have a good working poly pitch. However... I've got plenty of drives (analog pedals and digital models). Given the fact that, for me, the NC would be basically an AIAB pedal to integrate with a pedalboard or a multieffects, if I needed a drive, I can use whatever I already have. But what if, overnight, someone asks me to change the key of a song to play the next day and I have no time to learn it? Or if my skills are not so good to play transposed on the fly? Yeah, no problem, I change the key in the NC. Yeah, if I had to use a drive AND transpose, it won't work perfectly, but given it would be just a emergency, I can play without drive. It wouldn't be the perfect tone, but I would have been able to save the song.

To sum up, if I planned to use the NC as an all in one, I prefer a drive block. But as I'll never consider it an all in one, I prefer just the way it is because I have lots of drives and not a transpose. And honestly... This unit is NOT an all in one.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Once I'm settled a bit that's the goal.

Just dropping in here to ask..., how exactly does one do that?

Like, do you mike up your amp?

Sorry if those are dumb questions (around these parts, lol), but I'm totally in the dark on the whole 'capturing' thing. I'm just curious is all.