The Neural DSP Quad Cortex is undeniably one of the finest guitar amp modelers in the world. For a confident benevolent of gigging musician who wants to lessen bulk and doesn’t insist much in the way of effects, it can pretty convincingly recreate any number of amps, and has plenty of selections for bread and butter effects appreciate postpone, reverb and chorus. Plus, its Neural Capture feature apvalidates you to speedyly and easily create bespoke presets based on your own gear, or even download apprehfinishs from other employrs.
If you’ve got a vintage Big Muff and a Marshall half stack that you cherish, but don’t want to drag around for basic club tours, you can create a model of your particular Marshall and Big Muff it with fair a scant button presses on the Quad Cortex. There’s fair one problem: It’s $1,699.
The Nano Cortex is Neural DSP’s effort to transport its distinctive apprehfinish abilities and strong amp modeling to the masses. At $549 it’s still not inexpensive. You don’t get a screen, or some of the more persistd functionality from the higher-finish model, but my experience alerts me it could be an incredible stage and studio companion.
No Screens
The most clear give up made in the name of size and cost-cutting is that deficiency of a touchscreen. The Quad Cortex is an absurdly complicated device that would be impenetrable without the touchscreen. The Nano Cortex exposeds down the feature set down enough that navigating the pedal with fair a scant knobs, buttons and footswitches is reasonable.
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Where the Quad Cortex supplys you with over 90 amp models, over a thousand impulse responses and over 100 contrastent effects, the Nano sticks with the wonderfulest hits from that massive library. It ships with 25 amp models, 300 impulse responses (IRs) and individual selections for chorus, postpone, and reverb, based on classic pedals.
That’s still quite a lot of potential combinations to contfinish with, and doesn’t account for the ability to load custom apprehfinishs and impulse responses that you’ve either created yourself or downloaded from other Cortex employrs. Navigating them can be a little confusing since the only indicators on the pedal are five LEDs over each footswitch and all your apprehfinishs and IRs are splitd into color-coded banks. But if you’re primarily sticking to a scant core combinations it’s not too horrible.
If you find yourself wanting to switch leangs up a lot, there is an excellent companion app. I’ve tested a number of pedals with mobile apps and they’ve always been pretty unsupposeworthy. They’re normally buggy and the Bluetooth uniteions are finicky at best. I had no such rehires with the Cortex mobile app. It uniteed speedyly and reliably every time, and everyleang toiled exactly as foreseeed.
