Sit really well. The Blossum verb is dope, especially since there aren’t a ton of character verbs in the QC. Having a ducking control is big so you can really crank it into a massive swells but still sit with your playing. I wish all the verbs had a ducker. I kind of like Neurals shimmer. 
They give enough controls with the HPF and LPF to either take the top end edge off when doing the octave up thing, or brighten up an octave down. The H90 is still the king of anti-shimmers, but the QC’s is really nice. I used to use the Cave all the time as the only game in town for a big verb, but it’s funny how smooth that sounds to me now. All in all I think the Neural verbs are actually pretty good tbh. I think they could use one dedicated gigantic verb. A Blackhole/Supermassive type, but otherwise they aren’t really lacking for much.
On the bright side it’s razor thin between them and full credit to Neural for punching way higher then is generally recognized. That’s why I want the IIC+ PCOM
Is it a physical push button or is it a touch sensitive power like the big QCThe Mini’s unsung hero is the dedicated power button. It’s frigging lovely.
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Great post and positive reaction to this thing. Nice!Spent the morning going back over reverbs and delays.
I find the big thing that’s different between Neural verbs and delays vs FAS is with Neural you don’t need to be afraid to crank the mix higher. With FAS stuff if you approached 40-50% you be washing out. With Neural stuff you need to sit about 10-15% higher in mix to really get going.
Reverbs. I find a lot of these reverbs to be really good. The Nordic and Studio are super clean and classy.
Delays. Neural isn’t lacking shit for core delays. The analog delay is really badass, (soooo good) as are the Digital and Tape. That trifecta is really stronger than I remember. I’m not a big Circular Delay guy, so I kind of bailed on this one. The Dual Delay seems ok, it won’t rival the Aurora MTD in FAS but I think I can probably dial it in better with the time. One thing I do like about Neural delays vs FAS is that the Neural delays initial repeat is softer. FAS delays have an initial repeat that is much more pronounced, which can be tricky to sit without carefully setting the mix/feedback. This kind of make Neural delays slot in really nice. This biggest omission in my opinion is a Deluxe Memory Man. It’s been 5 years dudes.
Fun fact, I liked that Analog delay so much on the QC, I was like, I’m going to death match that with the FAS Icons analog delay, I know the QC’s is better and I’m going to prove it. I level matched everything, and… gawd damn FAS knows delays.
I didn’t bother with plugin reverbs and delays, but generally speaking I think the QC is in a really good place for verbs and delays. Some really inspiring stuff in there.
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The Mini’s unsung hero is the dedicated power button. It’s frigging lovely.
The SLO plugin amp shows the way, by nesting the channel and modes in one model. I wish every model, and all other modelers would do this. I want to select an amp, not micromanage a list of channels and modes of the same amp.
You can turn that off in the settings.
Spent the morning going back over reverbs and delays.
I find the big thing that’s different between Neural verbs and delays vs FAS is with Neural you don’t need to be afraid to crank the mix higher. With FAS stuff if you approached 40-50% you be washing out. With Neural stuff you need to sit about 10-15% higher in mix to really get going.
Reverbs. I find a lot of these reverbs to be really good. The Nordic and Studio are super clean and classy.
Delays. Neural isn’t lacking shit for core delays. The analog delay is really badass, (soooo good) as are the Digital and Tape. That trifecta is really stronger than I remember. I’m not a big Circular Delay guy, so I kind of bailed on this one. The Dual Delay seems ok, it won’t rival the Aurora MTD in FAS but I think I can probably dial it in better with the time. One thing I do like about Neural delays vs FAS is that the Neural delays initial repeat is softer. FAS delays have an initial repeat that is much more pronounced, which can be tricky to sit without carefully setting the mix/feedback. This kind of make Neural delays slot in really nice. This biggest omission in my opinion is a Deluxe Memory Man. It’s been 5 years dudes.
Fun fact, I liked that Analog delay so much on the QC, I was like, I’m going to death match that with the FAS Icons analog delay, I know the QC’s is better and I’m going to prove it. I level matched everything, and… gawd damn FAS knows delays.
I didn’t bother with plugin reverbs and delays, but generally speaking I think the QC is in a really good place for verbs and delays. Some really inspiring stuff in there.
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The Mini’s unsung hero is the dedicated power button. It’s frigging lovely.
The SLO plugin amp shows the way, by nesting the channel and modes in one model. I wish every model, and all other modelers would do this. I want to select an amp, not micromanage a list of channels and modes of the same amp.
this is a huge QC factor. Just fuckin sounds right with very minimal effects, no stupid EQ tricks or deep parameters to tweak. For me it’s noise gate, drive, a capture, IR, chorus, delay and reverb - done.
I am sure the other modelers out there sound great so not a knock on them at all. For me, the QC was just easy and that was a priority for me for it to actually be something that would stick around and get used....Honestly 1 minute to set levels at the beginning or switching a guitar and that was it. Best thing, coming back to the few sounds I made in my first hour the next and the following day and they still sound great and didnt do any further adjusting.
Re: Scenes, it's very intuitive once you get used to the fact that params (including bypass!) are not scene-aware by default. Press and hold until the little 4-square icon appears in the corner, and then scenes (for the parameters selected) will work effortlessly. This works for all kinds of things you might not expect, like levels and mutes in output blocks, for instance. Good stuff.
OCD pr0n.
