The Annual NAMM predictions rumours thread 2024

[Ed DeGenaro]

 

[duzie]

Knob touching

 

[mbenigni]

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That stuff + functionality and not having to question "Can it do this?" + Reliability/Trust comes before my distaste of NDSP.

I totally get where you're coming from here. FAS absolutely slays NDSP for quality and variety of FX.

On the other hand... I so rarely wake up thinking, "How will I ever be able to play my guitar today without a 'The Cytherians' reverb model?? Oh the horror the horror." Sometimes it all seems a little bonkers. Could do with a happy medium, maybe.

 

[mbenigni]

I’d probably kick the tires on a Dual Cortex if plugins are ported by then, and it still does all the capture stuff. Just a smaller screen, no bottom row of footswitches, and two full lanes vs four.

For some reason, I was thinking about exactly this this morning. My guess is they would go with the same sized screen regardless, so they could get better price per volume on the part, and invest less in R&D for an OS and UI overhaul. Fewer switches/encoders, less I/O, and half the processing power (a la Stomp vs. Helix Floor) would seem likely, but...

 

[TubeStack]

I totally get where you're coming from here. FAS absolutely slays NDSP for quality and variety of FX.

On the other hand... I so rarely wake up thinking, "How will I ever be able to play my guitar today without a 'The Cytherians' reverb model?? Oh the horror the horror." Sometimes it all seems a little bonkers. Could do with a happy medium, maybe.

My thoughts exactly. Different players, different needs.

The only delays I ever miss are Helix's Transistor Tape and Reverse Delay. I missed them when I had the FM3 and FM9 too, as I didn't really love any of the FAS delays as much, even with that giant list of options.

 

[mbenigni]

No no, he specifically mentions an unit with all the capabilities of the Kemper Stage, but in smaller package.

In fairness, Kemper and Sweetwater said the very same thing.

 

[mbenigni]

I basically used mine as a dual cortex anyway, since I didn't feel like there was anything to add to the presets that actually required the other half of the dsp. I could've split the signal and added 4 basic delays and six instances of a shitty reverb along with X amount of latency, but why would I want do that?

I use the extra lanes of DSP the same way I used them on the HX Floor (since the architecture is fundamentally the same): for extra audio channels, e.g. vocals, bass guitar, etc. in the studio. QC is not going to be the device of choice for every application, obviously. (I've just cued up the "or any application" punchlines for ya. Have at 'em, kids. )

 

[SeeD]

I totally get where you're coming from here. FAS absolutely slays NDSP for quality and variety of FX.

On the other hand... I so rarely wake up thinking, "How will I ever be able to play my guitar today without a 'The Cytherians' reverb model?? Oh the horror the horror." Sometimes it all seems a little bonkers. Could do with a happy medium, maybe.

Maybe I should take a selfie of my happy face while on the toilet, as I just downloaded 2 captures of the Pussy Melter pedal from the Cortex Cloud
Man this thing is fun to use!

 

[mbenigni]

Was just checking a number of NAMM videos uploaded over the weekend and, man, Quad Corteces were everywhere. Pretty much everyone with guitars and gear to demo had one set up and hooked to a "FRFR" amp solution.

The only possible explanation is that QC's never work.

 

[mbenigni]

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Whatever's going on here, I think we can all agree, it's Funnier With Cats™.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Maybe I should take a selfie of my happy face while on the toilet, as I just downloaded 2 captures of the Pussy Melter pedal from the Cortex Cloud
Man this thing is fun to use!

Personally, I usually put on a happy face in the toilet for other reasons, but to each his own!

 

[SeeD]

Folks at NAMM having a nervous poop when opening the floor to the guests, letting them play through the QC`s.
..will it work
..ohh I hope it works
.....this must be a miracle..day 3 ...it still works....

 

[mbenigni]

Maybe I should take a selfie of my happy face while on the toilet...

Or maybe let's not?

I just downloaded 2 captures of the Pussy Melter pedal from the Cortex Cloud...

Alrighty, then. I'll just file that under "Things I'll need to Google After Work"...

Man this thing is fun to use!

1000%

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Folks at NAMM having a nervous poop when opening the floor to the guests, letting them play through the QC`s.
..will it work
..ohh I hope it works
.....this must be a miracle..day 3 ...it still works....

At least the noise level at NAMM covers up the dreadful ground loop.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Different take @Ed DeGenaro .

Trying to play at that skill level, to tracks, with a click, with another guitarist at that level, at that tempo and then dropping out at a random spot to adjust your master volume and then jumping right back in on cue is going to be next to impossible.

That's why he cocked his head for a microsecond to the guy in front and asked for a bit of help to my mind.

 

[TubeStack]

At least the noise level at NAMM covers up the dreadful ground loop.

However, I think this same "feature" allows me to use the QC in 4cm with my amp and not need a Morley Hum Exterminator?

(Which I did need with the FM9, to get rid of a huge ground loop hum when used in 4cm.)

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Different take @Ed DeGenaro .

Trying to play at that skill level, to tracks, with a click, with another guitarist at that level, at that tempo and then dropping out at a random spot to adjust your master volume and then jumping right back in on cue is going to be next to impossible.

That's why he cocked his head for a microsecond to the guy in front and asked for a bit of help to my mind.

In what universe? Like all of a sudden he doesn’t know what happens a few bars ahead.
By that logic they’d record every tune all the way through since punching in requires to much to remember where in tune one is.

God help us if he ever breaks a string.

Stuff goes wrong. Perfection is for guys editing rather than playing.

 

[metropolis_4]

I totally get where you're coming from here. FAS absolutely slays NDSP for quality and variety of FX.

On the other hand... I so rarely wake up thinking, "How will I ever be able to play my guitar today without a 'The Cytherians' reverb model?? Oh the horror the horror." Sometimes it all seems a little bonkers. Could do with a happy medium, maybe.

I would however wake up thinking “How will I ever be able to play these surf songs without a ‘spring’ reverb model??”

 

[SeeD]

At least the noise level at NAMM covers up the dreadful ground loop.

...noise-gate 81%
Ain`t nobody got time for all that buzz.

 

[JiveTurkey]

However, I think this same "feature" allows me to use the QC in 4cm with my amp and not need a Morley Hum Exterminator?

(Which I did need with the FM9, to get rid of a huge ground loop hum when used in 4cm.)

Noise gates and humbusters oh my.




Although really we both know it's analog up front and digital in the loop oh my