I will admit I am a bit jealous. We will be living vicariously through you when you get it. Gonna need clipsRead two different reviewers saying the modeled amps sound really good
but the included captures blew them away.
Then I spotted this. Gonna be a fun A/B.
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Dude I live by Guajome park. I too have the quad on order. Sweetwater though so no truck for me today.You know you're getting old when this gets you more turned on than thinking about sex.
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Sweetwater though so no truck for me today.
Not sure if you saw this over on the FB group but it's like it was designed with a desktop Quad Cortex in mind!
I picked one up and it's built nice and solid.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CZPVWKP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Throw some scraps to the hungry wolves...Well. Sounds like it is fun at least. I imagine I would stay on that preset too. I am a fairly simple guy. If I find a good sound, I don't fuck around with it too much.All.
Afternoon.
I'm on my way over. See you in 5.Cliff Chase and Christophe Kemper better both start studying up on ergonomics for the 21st century
because after folks get to play with the QC I doubt they will ever again fork over $1,000+ for a Fractal
or Kemper type hardware system in their current forms.
Will review tones later since I've only been hanging on preset #001 all afternoon (a 2203 model).
This shootout was posted at the Kemper forum.
This is one of MANY I think we'll see over the next 6 months. If you go back and watch enough of the XXX vs XXX videos
from throughout the years, and tally the scores, everything becomes a wash after a while.
I did a poll over on TGP a couple years ago that had options for the big three: Kemper, Axe-III, and Helix.
1. Bought XXX and still own it.
2. Bought XXX and ended up selling it.
Let the poll run for about 2 weeks and got lots of replies. Wanna guess which unit had the best retain value and which got moved the most?
I'm not going to post any clips of the QC, since there's already a ton of them that have much better production value than I can get.
I'm almost 61 with natural hearing loss coupled with the damage done via gigging SPLs. I was ready to hang with the HX Stomp out of pure
convenience. Sounds aside, the QC kills it in every other respect. Haven't played a Kemper in over a year, and my last Fractal was an AX8
close to 10 years ago so it'd be stupid for me to try and tell anyone about XXX vs XXX from a sound standpoint.
If I can close my eyes while playing, and the next thing you know 5 minutes have flown by, then it sounds good.
The fact I turned it on and was happy to explore the unit with the tones from the first stock preset says a lot.
(mostly that Neural was smart to put a really killer amp model in slot 001 as a first impression! )
The cleans sound great, as do the captures, but for me, the jury is out on the high gain stuff. (I mean the 5153, Recto’s, Diezels, etc)
You bring up a few good points. Everyone has different ears and will obviously have preferences, so its tough to say one sounds better than the other, but user interface, options and quality are other factors to consider.This is one of MANY I think we'll see over the next 6 months. If you go back and watch enough of the XXX vs XXX videos
from throughout the years, and tally the scores, everything becomes a wash after a while.
I did a poll over on TGP a couple years ago that had options for the big three: Kemper, Axe-III, and Helix.
1. Bought XXX and still own it.
2. Bought XXX and ended up selling it.
Let the poll run for about 2 weeks and got lots of replies. Wanna guess which unit had the best retain value and which got moved the most?
I'm not going to post any clips of the QC, since there's already a ton of them that have much better production value than I can get.
I'm almost 61 with natural hearing loss coupled with the damage done via gigging SPLs. I was ready to hang with the HX Stomp out of pure
convenience. Sounds aside, the QC kills it in every other respect. Haven't played a Kemper in over a year, and my last Fractal was an AX8
close to 10 years ago so it'd be stupid for me to try and tell anyone about XXX vs XXX from a sound standpoint.
If I can close my eyes while playing, and the next thing you know 5 minutes have flown by, then it sounds good.
The fact I turned it on and was happy to explore the unit with the tones from the first stock preset says a lot.
(mostly that Neural was smart to put a really killer amp model in slot 001 as a first impression! )
I plan on going amp browsing today and will let you know what I think.
Fractal can still lay claim to "Arguably, the best sounding modeler in the world." But,
I predict that once you have a chance to fully test drive the QC under good conditions
you'll be bitten. The UI is crazy easy, fast, and intuitive. I only opened the manual after
using the thing for an hour to make sure I was doing a 'save' properly.
Quickly checked the Mark III Red captures (there's 4 of them) last night and #4 sounds
close enough to 'my tone' that I'm not even going to bother firing up the real deal for an AB.