I struggle with that sometimes. Not sure if I'd load up a $500 guitar with pickups that are $300+

@@davlavmusic7070 well, it´s because i have them, in a 50years old ibanez SG, that´s getting unusuable. On the other hand, the most more expensive guitars have pickups good enough...but, when i listen to this prs se ce 24 w. figured maple top, demo from off. PRS site, i find it sounds good, so maybe it depends of the amp used?

I'd go DGT or the McCarty 594 with the 58/15s. (I just added a video that compares those pickups).

All the effects are coming from my Quad Cortex.

Yep

I've never tried the Deputy, so I can't really say.

I sent it back to BK to get fixed but I think he just put in a new tube. I've since gone digital and sold off all my pedals and amps.

@ thanks for the reply. Did BK sort the issue?

@ did he fix the problem? Did you get a good price when you sold it?

@@dutchi15 It didn't seems to me that the pedal went back to sounding like I remembered. I think I sold it for $250.

@ that’s a shame. I have to do a lot of research and try and work out this issue because I want to keep the pedal if I can.

I airways just leave it at 0. But I know a lot of folks push it up like you're suggesting and get good results too.

@@davlavmusic7070thanks. Leave at 0 and then push via over drive or compression ?

@ Yes. All my presets are built with the global input at 0dB.

@@davlavmusic7070thank you !

I'm not an expert on Andy Wood's tones, but I believe that he's been heavily influenced by Eric Johnson and Andy Timmons. I've doe presets for both of those guys so you can check those videos out. In general, my opinion is that you can get great versions of whatever tones you want from either the Fractal or the QC. To me, my preference for the QC and Neural DSP is the usability. Fractal has more tweakability but I prefer the simplicity of the QC. I've done some videos comparing the two if you want to check those out.

Yeah, I think there is a level issue for going into the OD pedal. One thing you could try - a lot of folks believe in pushing up the global input level of the QC as a way of keeping the noise "floor" down. Maybe that would help. Honestly, I don't use drive pedals in the FX loop much - if I'm using them with the QC at all they just go in the front.

@davlavmusic7070 Thank you very much for the super kind and detailed reply. I really appreciate it. 👍

I'm not sure what you mean by stock tones? Do you mean the stock presets that Neural ships the device with? I don't think I've looked at those much since I first bought the device over 2 years ago. But I use the stock amp models and effects all the time and they are great. You can pretty much do whatever you might want without ever using the captures, IMO.

@ thank you, yes. You got it right. I just wish somebody would do a play through of all of the tones out of the box, especially for people like me who aren’t going to spend a lot of time witch brewing my own sounds.

Yep

neuraldsp.com/cloud/p/e400239f-4723-4f4b-9264-03bfa4e622b5

Sorry about that - forgot to make it public. You should see it now

@@davlavmusic7070 Thanks again. Always learning something new watching your videos.

If you chain them then you would not be able to access them separately. If they are midi you might be able to add some extra control that way but they would remain in the loop.

Thanks! Really appreciate it!

Thanks, I'll try it out with an IR.

Add on... I just tried to capture my Wampler Gearbox. The Overdrive channel (CH1) captures identical.CH2 -the Distored one I couldn't succeed in capturing until I reduced the Input level setting to 0db. Now it sounds identical

That works likely work the same so it should not cause any problems.

I'm using the mono tape delay and the plate lush reverb. You can download the whole preset from my cortex cloud account (link is in the description).

I'll look into it.

I'd go rosewood.

@ Thank you 🙏❤️

The Paul's Guitar got sold a while ago. I just listed the CE24 Satin.

Great video! Your PRS pickup comparison videos really help with selecting my next PRS. Thank you.

Just put the Tonex pedal in the capture loop like it's any other pedal.