Quilter Elevate

[Cysquatch]

Thanks for the report and welcome to the forum!

It's a weird product from Quilter when most of their amps seem pretty well thought out and then they have this.

If you are still at NAMM, I'd love to see this sort of report from the BluGuitar booth about the Amp X, if they allow you to try it out how it is to use etc.

Thanks for the welcome, longtime lurker and figured this was worth jumping in for. I’ve got way fewer meetings than yesterday, so I’m planning to spend time with the elevate again just to give it another run. And I’ll definitely check out Blug’s stuff, my personal interest here is amps, so he’s on the list. Other amp/floor unit stuff you’re interested in?

It is a very odd Quilter offering. I typically feel like you can just grab any of them, set knobs in about 10 seconds and be on your way. I’m also not sure why they’d try to veer to the digital modeler realm. They occupy a strong spot in a moderate sized, but very worthwhile and healthy niche; now they’re just another middling offering in an absolutely saturated market. Honestly, they’d just be better releasing more of their typical sorts of things with a bit broader gain offerings for the modern heavy crowd, and developing broader I/O and control options there. But again, this is all a quick impression for me.

 

[JCW308]

The worst thing ever is when foot switch labels are silk-screened onto the unit, but you can CHANGE the functions of the foot switches, so then nothing matches up. AWFUL!

 

[Jarick]

IMO Quilter would be better served dipping their toes into the direct side of things by pairing their well regarded analog preamp designs with a digital cab sim, or having multiple preamp options that you could assign to different channels. You can easily add in a digital reverb and noise gate as well. Keep the knobs. Kind of like the Friedman IR line.

 

[jellodog]

IMO Quilter would be better served dipping their toes into the direct side of things by pairing their well regarded analog preamp designs with a digital cab sim, or having multiple preamp options that you could assign to different channels. You can easily add in a digital reverb and noise gate as well. Keep the knobs. Kind of like the Friedman IR line.

Quilter already offer a direct solution called DirectAmp.

Although it's an analogue cab sim, not IRs.

DirectAmp

The DirectAmp includes a 3-band EQ for sculpting your tone, a Limiter for keeping things tight and controlled in high-volume scenarios, and a footswitchable Boost for situations that require a little extra oomph. There's also a lush-sounding Reverb onboard to add depth and dimension to your playing.

www.quilterlabs.com

Note how DirectAmp looks like the rest of their product line and nothing like the Elevate.

I'm starting to wonder if they lost their product designer

 

[timbuck3]

Thanks for the welcome, longtime lurker and figured this was worth jumping in for. I’ve got way fewer meetings than yesterday, so I’m planning to spend time with the elevate again just to give it another run. And I’ll definitely check out Blug’s stuff, my personal interest here is amps, so he’s on the list. Other amp/floor unit stuff you’re interested in?

It is a very odd Quilter offering. I typically feel like you can just grab any of them, set knobs in about 10 seconds and be on your way. I’m also not sure why they’d try to veer to the digital modeler realm. They occupy a strong spot in a moderate sized, but very worthwhile and healthy niche; now they’re just another middling offering in an absolutely saturated market. Honestly, they’d just be better releasing more of their typical sorts of things with a bit broader gain offerings for the modern heavy crowd, and developing broader I/O and control options there. But again, this is all a quick impression for me.

If you see this unit at namm and try it let us know what you think

 

[jellodog]

Unrelated YT video: check ✓

 

[Cysquatch]

If you see this unit at namm and try it let us know what you think

At risk of sounding dismissive, it’s another expensive ambient pedal to me. Sounds good as all Walrus stuff I’ve ever used has, but I’m definitely not the guy to ask on this front. The sounds in it are pretty damn nice and it’s built like a tank. I wish I had more to offer on this front, man. I’d say if you’re eyeing it already, you won’t be disappointed.

 

[KingsXJJ]

Did you know he has a Hotone now?

It's just...

You might not have heard, yet. He doesn't mention it much.

Me too. Pretty awesome gear for the price.

 

[Snax Panther]

Of all the products I've seen released, this is one of them.

 

[holoholo]

Unrelated YT: check

 

[timbuck3]

At risk of sounding dismissive, it’s another expensive ambient pedal to me. Sounds good as all Walrus stuff I’ve ever used has, but I’m definitely not the guy to ask on this front. The sounds in it are pretty damn nice and it’s built like a tank. I wish I had more to offer on this front, man. I’d say if you’re eyeing it already, you won’t be disappointed.

Thanx just curious

 

[Cysquatch]

Thanx just curious

For sure dude. I hope that didn’t come across rude. That whole realm just isn’t my thing so I’m a really poor evaluator with minimal frame of reference. It’s definitely an interesting tool and Walrus is consistently high quality, I just don’t have a good set of experiences to give it any real rating.

 

[banned]

Thanks for the welcome, longtime lurker and figured this was worth jumping in for. I’ve got way fewer meetings than yesterday, so I’m planning to spend time with the elevate again just to give it another run. And I’ll definitely check out Blug’s stuff, my personal interest here is amps, so he’s on the list. Other amp/floor unit stuff you’re interested in?

It is a very odd Quilter offering. I typically feel like you can just grab any of them, set knobs in about 10 seconds and be on your way. I’m also not sure why they’d try to veer to the digital modeler realm. They occupy a strong spot in a moderate sized, but very worthwhile and healthy niche; now they’re just another middling offering in an absolutely saturated market. Honestly, they’d just be better releasing more of their typical sorts of things with a bit broader gain offerings for the modern heavy crowd, and developing broader I/O and control options there. But again, this is all a quick impression for me.

What else is out there? Anything else catch your eye - amps or modelers?

 

[timbuck3]

For sure dude. I hope that didn’t come across rude. That whole realm just isn’t my thing so I’m a really poor evaluator with minimal frame of reference. It’s definitely an interesting tool and Walrus is consistently high quality, I just don’t have a good set of experiences to give it any real rating.

Not at all. I am looking for a fun multiefx for ambient sruff and it looks interesting and i wish it was 299$

 

[dronerstone]

Quilter is a legit and pretty cool company I'd say, but this thing looks awful. Very retro, not in a good way.

It reminds me of the struggle of trying to dial in a Yamaha DX-7.

 

[Eagle]

Yes I’ve wanted an update to Yamaha’s REX50 since 1983

Actually looks more modern

 

[Sascha Franck]

Insert user interface comment here

Only stumbled over this now.
My improvement tip would be that they should take those silly click pads out as well. I mean, there's a clickknob. Why would you need anything in addition? Right, you don't!

 

[Sascha Franck]

The worst thing ever is when foot switch labels are silk-screened onto the unit, but you can CHANGE the functions of the foot switches, so then nothing matches up. AWFUL!

Well, every bit Boss GT style.

 

[dronerstone]

Only stumbled over this now.
My improvement tip would be that they should take those silly click pads out as well. I mean, there's a clickknob. Why would you need anything in addition? Right, you don't!

Less clicky pads, more footswitches, free signal chain -> win

But the way it's currently presented, I can't really make out a target group.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Seriously, this is an item where you *must* use a tablet along with it pretty much by default. Hence a big no-go.
Their UI designers needed to be fired yesterday so this unit wouldn't even be allowed to be released.