Quad Cortex Mini

[Lysander]

Are you referring to all the people that bought all the units from the first batch?

No

Ah, ok.

No prob!

I suppose some people might have been disappointed by the price point, but "every single" seems a bit of an overreaction .

The "every single" applies to the people who complained guys, jesus h christ in a chicken basket... at least @Whizzinby got the meaning correctly.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Pondering the "interest free isn't REALLY using a credit card though, right?" argument

 

[mbenigni]

It says it’s a combo TRS port.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that means it will handle balanced mono over TRS cable. If it's actually stereo, than the QC effectively has two more inputs than I was aware. :O

 

[paisleywookiee]

Pondering the "interest free isn't REALLY using a credit card though, right?" argument

Well it definitely is, but there’s no drawback as long as you pay it off in the time period (and you don’t mind having that open credit sitting on your reports).

 

[Dez]

Pondering the "interest free isn't REALLY using a credit card though, right?" argument

I actually always have something charged to them. I can afford the $ month I limit myself to and I don’t eat out for lunch or anything. Fuck it.

 

[Dez]

Well it definitely is, but there’s no drawback as long as you pay it off in the time period (and you don’t mind having that open credit sitting on your reports).

That open credit has actually helped me, my credit is really good and I’m like “uh ok I pay my bills and keep ordering from SW” lmao

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Well it definitely is, but there’s no drawback as long as you pay it off in the time period (and you don’t mind having that open credit sitting on your reports).

Yeah, I doubt very seriously I'd do it, but . . . might. Wife has taken a little time off work and while she isn't the primary bread winner in the family, she is the "buy gear you want without worrying tooooooo much about it" bread winner.

If she's not gainfully employed again in the next 12-18 months, we (the general economy, not just my fam) got bigger fish to worry about than a remaining ~$700 outstanding balance on a Synchrony card.

 

[Dez]

Yeah, I doubt very seriously I'd do it, but . . . might. Wife has taken a little time off work and while she isn't the primary bread winner in the family, she is the "buy gear you want without worrying tooooooo much about it" bread winner.

If she's not gainfully employed again in the next 12-18 months, we (the general economy, not just my fam) got bigger fish to worry about than a remaining ~$700 outstanding balance on a Synchrony card.

Maybe society will collapse, and you’ll always wish you charged that damn card so you’d be able to play your QCM with your homemade generator.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Maybe society will collapse, and you’ll always wish you charged that damn card so you’d be able to play your QCM with your homemade generator.

THAT is what I hate about this QC Mini. It's not battery-powered for the apocalypse!

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Maybe society will collapse, and you’ll always wish you charged that damn card so you’d be able to play your QCM with your homemade generator.

If that's the case, I'll have all the time in the world to hit shift, scroll left, dive three menus deep, hit page right half a dozen times and then slightly turn a knob, then page right again and turn a different knob, to slightly increase the gain in a drive block on my Axe Fx without changing the output level any, so we all good

 

[Whizzinby]

at least @Whizzinby got the meaning correctly.

And to be clear, I totally get your view point, I just think it’s cool they approached this from the perspective of “let’s make a small form factor unit as badass as we can” versus purely “how much can we remove to hit a number”. The tradeoff for either approach is inevitably price.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

And to be clear, I totally get your view point, I just think it’s cool they approached this from the perspective of “let’s make a small form factor unit as badass as we can” versus purely “how much can we remove to hit a number”. The tradeoff for either approach is inevitably price.

How many requests for Stomp XL with full Helix processing power around here?

 

[AZG]

Good question! I’ll compare when I get home this evening. If you have a QC preset you want me to test, DM me!

i no longer own one due to bad signal to noise and other noise issues. Just wondering if the new unit might resolve some of those problems?

 

[Whizzinby]

How many requests for Stomp XL with full Helix processing power around here?

Dude I think fans of every platform would love the choice to get full powered small form factor version.

AM4 sized device with a full grid and FM9 processing power.

HX Stomp running full Stadium.

 

[deadpool_25]

The "every single" applies to the people who complained guys, jesus h christ in a chicken basket... at least @Whizzinby got the meaning correctly.

This is why I’m so careful with my words lol. FWIW I understood your intent just fine.

We have a saying in the military (that probably isn’t limited to the military and probably didn’t even originate there but w/e): words mean things.

 

[dbagchee]

Does this have the huge laptop power supply?

 

[R590]

i no longer own one due to bad signal to noise and other noise issues. Just wondering if the new unit might resolve some of those problems?

My conclusion is that the noise floor is essentially the same between the two devices given their shared internals. Here are my very unscientific findings:

1. I wanted to reduce the number of variables, so I went with guitar straight into the device and used some DT770 cans to monitor. No XLR or balanced connections as I vaguely recall people having noise issues early on if their QC wasn't connected to something else with a grounded plug.
2. I started with a completely empty patch, just a straight connection from input to output. With volume of each device set to 85/100, there was practically no noise at all. All I could really hear was my own minor tinnitus
3. Then I loaded a preset that uses various captures of my Synergy IICP + Fryette 2902 rig at different gain levels. Noise gate was disabled all throughout.
4. As I switched through various scenes that have increasing levels of gain, the noise floor increased accordingly. To my ear, this didn't sound any noisier than running the real tube rig at decent volume (without a gate). I switched back and forth between the two devices several times as quickly as I could, and the noise levels were very very similar.

That being said, that may be too much noise for you given your original experience with the QC. I didn't find it overly noisy for even my high gain scenes without a gate, but I tend to live in that higher gain side of the spectrum. Maybe I'm just used to it

I hope that is helpful.

Edit: For kicks, here's the rig.

 

[mbenigni]

THAT is what I hate about this QC Mini. It's not battery-powered for the apocalypse!

It will be when I’m through with it. But yeah, I wish it had a USB-rechargeable battery out of the box. :)

 

[Dez]

It will be when I’m through with it. But yeah, I wish it had a USB-rechargeable battery out of the box. :)

At least with an external battery, the external battery can fail/be replaced and not have an effect on the QC!

Edit, you ordered one too?

 

[mbenigni]

Does this have the huge laptop power supply?

OMG the original never had a huge laptop power supply. That’s a weird rumor that refuses to die. It’s just a typical little wall wart.