MrDinsdale

Gonna have some fun with this 👌

If you have no interest in replicating the sound of any specific effects or amps and are completely happy with the built-in effects on your current modeller, I'm not really sure what you were hoping it would give you? I've spoken to plenty of people who were perfectly happy with the sounds they were getting from their modeller of choice. I really didn't get there with the GT1000 or HX, certainly nothing that came close to my pedals, so capturing them is a perfect way to scale down for me with minimal sacrifice.

Well, I just plugged it in, and straight out of the box it sounded great on guitar, much better stock sounds than any of the other modellers I've tried. I'll hopefully get some time to get properly stuck in and make some presets and explore some of the community presets and captures later on 🙌 First impressions are solid though.

I'm not planning on selling off my pedals, I use the same across guitar and bass, so having captures of the settings I need for each is a huge time saver. Not to mention cheaper to replace! I know with AIDA I’d have a low, mid, and high gain, for example. The built-in gain and EQ parameters were sufficient for any extra fine tuning. My low gain Capo capture actually sounded great with higher gain applied in the plugin. It's not the same character as the real thing but surprisingly close.

They're great; although you might be able to get similar results with the Infinity via an eq block.

It's still related to the input signal. There are no trails or repeats etc.

Yeah, I've done some captures on the MOD Dwarf. It worked great with overdrivess and distortion pedals, great for preamps like the Capo. Really struggled with stuff like fuzz pedals once they start getting into the spluttery territory or where you start getting heavy compression. The AIDA-x models are much smaller than the neural ones, I believe.

Well, I caved and grabbed one. It ended up being £850 2nd hand with some discounts through work schemes, etc, so it was hard to turn down! I think it's the captures that sell me on it. The HX stuff seems good for fx, but the drives I just couldn't get onboard with. If I can capture my fave drives and get like 90% there, I'd be sorted. I've seen there are already some pretty solid captures of most my favourite pedals already have captures uploaded, which are apparently super close. If anyone has any good patches, send over your usernames for the cortex cloud. It'd be a handy starting point 👌

Never had a V1 but really enjoying the V2 after an hour of fiddling. I loved the Lusithand Alma before eventually selling it on and making do with GT1000core built in comps. When I sold that too it left a sizeable gap for compression, I think this is a keeper though.

Another day, another pedalboard iteration. Still not sure if the Black Math will stay on here or go on my mini guitar board. Thinking I’ll rig up the Thru on the Olympic incase I want to run guitar through this board into the Science Mother preamp.

Not had chance to try them (aside from 5 mins with the Black Math on guitar) but very excited to completely rebuild my board again to accommodate these beauties 🙌

Walrus Canvas Tuner, EAE Halberd, EAE Longsword, A Boss envelope filter 🤷‍♂️, Boss OC5, Boss Dimension C, Shift Line Olympic mk3, Non Human Audio Slow Loris, EAE Model Fet

Cioks DC7 + Crux. The Crux is designed to power the the QC.

Ace that's super useful! TBH I'm always wrestling with using my pedalboard for both guitar and bass, means a lot of re-dialing in settings and values when switching between them. If I can capture my bass/guitar settings on my favorite pedals, even if it's just 90% of the way there, that'd be fine for rough recordings or demo stuff. I always have the option to re-amp it with the real pedals but it'd save me hours of faffing day to day. I think I'm probably just gonna bite the bullet. I've sold a few bits and raised enough money to grab one, if it works out and replaces some more of my pedals then it could work out significantly cheaper. Curious about what the drives are like for bass too, I've never really been sold on the GT1000, MOD (the Rude drive nearly won me over) or the HX drives. Certainly not when compared side by side with my analog drives.

Yeah, the deeper parameter control (assigns on the GT1000 or Control Voltage emulation on the Dwarf) is a tricky one, it's cool to have that deeper level of control but if the effects were better then I'd feel less inclined to need it. I do love the interface and the blend of touch, form factor and rotary controls seems perfect for me. It's also pretty overkill considering I'm not in a gigging band so it's just home use for the foreseeable.

I've been getting impulsive urges towards the Quad Cortex recently. What's the community like around it? What sort of setups are people using? I'd probably pair it with the SLO, Cali76 and a couple of drives (unless I could get a decent capture) for a Hybrid setup. Are you curious if you're using it for pretty straightforward tones or if anyone has been using it for more experimental stuff? I've previously had the MOD Dwarf and the GT1000core, the QC seems to take some of my favourite features with the captures and routing flexibility. It looks to lack some of the lower-level stuff that those two could do like assigning parameters to input levels, the Dwarf even let you do some crazy stuff with CV emulation so you could have random value generators bound to controls allowing for some fascinating stuff. Can the Quad Cortex do any slow ramping between values? I guess like the HX One "Flux" functionality.

Well this is where we settled for now: Will hopefully switch bits around once I grab a Cali76, will ditch the Ditto and squish it in at the top. This gives me a few options, from the SLO I have the DI along with the output and thru wired up to the patch bay, I also have the power amp/DI signal from the Mother making it super easy to use this for guitar however I need.

I love the way they've separated the Bluetooth app connection from the audio. It means you can connect the app to your phone and edit patches while playing audio from another source like a laptop. Seems to be the cause of most people’s issues getting it set up though.

Have you connected both the Midi and Audio Bluetooth connections?

WIP reshuffle, cannae decide what to include and where. Part of me is tempted to grab a RB 2.2 or something and having just the Canvas tuner > HX One > Dagger > Model Fet > SLO and keep it a little more compact. Then keep the Science Mother, Halberd and perhaps the MOD Dwarf on a second small board. Its all very stressful!

Ace, will try and take a closer look later! Cheers for the help folks, will update if i find anything!

I couldn’t see any dry joints but I’ll take another look! Cheers!