Neural DSP Quad Cortex VS Marshall JCM 800 (Capture & Demo)

[@digitalchris6681]

Great comparison. Thanks. I've had one on order for over a year. Perhaps one day I'll be able to try for myself !

[@resurrectionfitness5711]

So professional dude

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

You’re the man bro!

[@0megalul309]

Every time i see a player with a serious amp collection, they always have a fryette ps2 with them. shows you what a trusted piece of kit it is.

[@JamieSlays]

This sounds beautiful mate

[@GoreGrid]

Definitely an amazing piece of gear that i can definitely see the advantage of having. IMO tho on those clips, to my ear, the actual head sounded better. Great video Danny! Love that axe!!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks so much buddy! The Marshall is always gonna be THE original! I have Marshall in my blood at this point! The quad is such a fantastic inspiring tool too! Both awesome 😎

[@deanathan]

I tried capturing my 6505 and it sounded a little more compressed and fuzzy(?) idk it’s def like over 90% accurate and sounds much better than a lot of previous sims/plugins though. Great vid 🤘🏽

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

That’s interesting! I found with my captures it actually lacked a tiny bit more gain every time! How are you finding it?

[@alekseylopez]

Perfect demo, perfect playing, perfect guitarist 😍

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Dude 😳😍😎 Says you 👽🛸

[@jesscruzofficial]

Awesome, I want one now!!!

[@omnitheory]

You're the man!!!!

[@456or7strings]

Just a tip - when setting Inst and In 1 levels before starting the capture, it’s a lot easier to use the physical switch knobs...at least for me! Anyways, love your playing!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Ahh man... Why didn’t I think of this! Thank you for that Tip! And thanks for watching!

[@IvanBassist]

Love your playing!

[@jamiehuggett]

Great video. Really want a Quad Cortex!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks Jamie! They’re awesome 😎

[@pbthebart3291]

Cortex vs Marshall.... and winner is.... BluGuitarAMP1 ;)

[@morellasgeorgios8449]

lol I can report your post as misleading

[@BenHirons]

Very helpful video brother, good job 🤘🏼

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thank You Ben!!! You’ll love it :)

[@AaronPetrini]

Nice vid man, keep em coming.

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks man!!!

[@khay2210]

great video man, could you do a JVM capture video.

[@alekseylopez]

My guyyyyyy 😍😍😍

[@KnaggsGuitars]

Great Danny - thank you!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Much love guys ❤️ 😁

[@joshanderson4098]

Sounds awesome dude! I think all it's really missing is a bit of bottom end grunt, maybe try turning up the bass a little bit and it might sound a bit closer! Love the Satch style intro licks to the jam too! 🤘

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

I think I a bit more bass would have worked well actually yes! 😁

[@Tiger1016.]

@@dannydelacruzguitar6519 Might be less treble instead? Seems like the QC is missing a little of the warmth (i.e. a bit too hifi compared to the head). Asking b/c my QC is sitting unused so far while I am down with a bad wrist injury. Can't wait to start capturing my 3 Wizard amps and am just trying to get a head start on the learning process. Great vid BTW!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

@@Tiger1016. Could we’ll be the case, I found it harder to draw the line on where the differences were when I was playing it, listening back the amp sounds very slightly darker. What’s your Neural Name via the app? I would love to hear those wizards when you get those captured 😁 Thanks for watching

[@Tiger1016.]

@@dannydelacruzguitar6519 Listened to it again and I am starting to see what you mean. My Neural name is Tiger1016 as well. Will try to get some uploads as soon as I am healed up and have enough time. Going to be months until I am able get everything that I have planned and uploaded. Will be sharing everything that I wind up doing. But as you already stated in the vid, nothing beats being able to tweak and dial in your own real amp just the way you want. And for those with this luxury, the impressive performance of the Capture results is a dream come true. BTW you seem like a really cool dude and a great player. Sub'ed and hope you have a bunch of success and fun on your journey.

[@MARTHIAN13]

HOLA PERO NO DICE DONDE VA EL CABLE DE LA GUITARRA LOS CABES DE LOS MICROFONOS. QUE SE CONECTA EN LA SALIDA 1 Y 2 ? MINUTO 2:30, QUE CABLE VA EN EL CAPTURE OUT 1 , QUE CABLE VA AL MARSHALL?

[@mickjang7]

You do look like Slash! Nice playing btw

[@nathanaelwheatley4322]

Great video bro

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks Nathanael! 👌

[@CIRCLEOFTONE]

Great playing and tone man.

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks so much !

[@miles_walker]

You're such a good player you could make anything work 🤘 but gotta have a wall of Marshall cabs for the aesthetic 😄

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks Miles! The great thing is, we don’t have to pick and choose , there’s no better or worse! Gear is inspiring 😎

[@berndkiltz]

I have to say it, too: Head sounds better. More "Mojo" or whatever you would call it. But wayyyy close enough for Live and hearing it in the mix. You should also check the fm3 and the jcm 800 modell in there. Probably closer ;) Great Video though!

[@MrJohji]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@Swinglehurst-Guitars]

Sounds awesome, I need one haha

[@ShreddingFinn]

Sounds pretty great to me

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Me too! Thanks for watching!

[@AnthonyJamesGuitar]

Amazing man. I want one!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Dude! You’d love it!

[@axldanneels418]

Hey, first of all thanks for the amazing video and explenation. But I have a question for u. Would you recomend the quad cortex for playing at home and record as a hobby, get al the tones you want? Or do I just buy a more metal kind of amp, paired with an blues/clean amp (which I already own, it's a fender blues deluxe)? Ps.: keep up the vids man, just keep pushing!!!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

I would recommend it! As it’s also a fantastic recording tool! Super easy to use and tons of sounds on tap not to mention FX too! All depends how you’d like to run it tho!

[@axldanneels418]

@@dannydelacruzguitar6519 thanks man!!!

[@damnationdefied777]

notice when doing reference to the cortex and the real amp, how the green is highlighted and you say you're on "that" one? If you notice other peoples videos, they have it backwards as to the reference.

[@RiloRox]

could you use the Send of the FX Loop if you have one?

[@Burkhimself]

Dumb Q, is there a gain knob on the QC that you could raise slightly to compensate and make the 2 sounds equal in gain/distortion ? Or is the gain on QC already on 10 ? Also, how is the feel/dynamics when you roll the guitar volume down a little (fractal noise gate can sometimes chop off or fade off notes)....that’s my biggest curiosity.....

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Yes could absolutely raise the gain on the QC, had loads more give, when rolling down the volume it cleans up nice, maybe harder on higher gain models like EVH, MESA etc.

[@staceybaum8749]

Do you use a noise gate? The amp has no hiss coming through the monitor speakers! Sounds great!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

I do sometimes! However I wasn’t here :)

[@Ninuzzo]

Great man! What would you say about the dynamic of the capture and quad cortex overall? Is dialing in tones with the guitars voluming possible and good enough or does the sound have less punch/bite/quality then?

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Definitely works really well on the Marshall type stuff and cleaner stuff! Not so much on a mess boogie rectifier type but that is expected to be honest! Can definitely roll your volume and get great tones but nothing is stopping us from profiling different settings also with the same amp :)

[@Ninuzzo]

@@dannydelacruzguitar6519 thanks man!!

[@r.llynch4124]

Have you uploaded your captures for everyone to use yet? Thanks

[@vinniecolla7172]

Yeah man! 🔥🔥🤘🤘

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

My broski star!

[@jesscruzofficial]

The dislikes are from people who were so amazed by the video that they started crying tears of joy and accidentally hit the dislike button instead of the like 🥲

[@lukefromtonight]

So good! Have you ever used a Line 6 Helix?

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thank you! I have and the FX are great but as far as emulating amps neural are on another level. For me :)

[@EddieMetal68]

Well said man... For recording purposes, use whatever you have the best, but for gigs and moving around all we need is some quality and light luggage... Plug and play is the way!

[@gstvermilion]

lovely playing dude! are you uploading that capture on the cloud by any chance? also what camera are you using in 13:25? that video close up looks great with those harmonizations

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thanks man! I will be uploading this capture to the cloud! It’s a lumix G7 with a lieca lense!

[@scottbrown9008]

I have a question for you, Do you have to have a power amp to Run the Quade Cortex to a 4-12 cab or do you just plug it straight into a 4-12 Cab?

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

You need a power amp to run a cab, such as the fryette power station or Seymour Duncan do one too that’s really portable.

[@jasonkerr931]

Great tone! Please upload to cloud! Awesome!

[@mrnaypz]

nice one g!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Cheers mate! 😎

[@jodykite5009]

Great video buddy. Have you tried using the stock neural capture distortion pedals with your real amp? If so, how do they sound/react?

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thank you Jody! Thanks for watching! I have messed around with the stock OD’s and they work great! They’ll only get better too. For me tho I just found it was easier to profile my own pedals close to how I run them! Great unit!

[@jodykite5009]

@@dannydelacruzguitar6519 - loving mine so far. Might book a day off work to capture my 4 Victory amps and upload them to the cloud. I have a fryette power station too. Presumably you just came out of the power station line out to make your capture?

[@ReelGoodAudio]

Cool video! I feel like what it's really missing are the subtle overtones you get with the real amp..but man is it a close match!

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Thank you Matthew! I agree! They’re small details but it’s amazing how close it gets! Love both 😁

[@polviggen]

Does it also capture how the tonecontrols of the amp react ? Or does it put the same basic eq on top of how you dial the amp in for the capture ? Sounds great btw.

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Think of it like a snapshot of the amp at the time of capture! If you have a few sounds on the same amp I would recommend profiling a few different sounds!

[@OrangeMicMusic]

Guitar rigs today are so amazing, and I'm so glad that we're living in these times. Metallica did this for live shows. Since few years ago they're using AxeFX on guitars and bass. The units were set up by the guys from AxeFX at Metallica head quarters. There's an interview about this.

[@jbag4289]

Hi Danny, great video. But making a comparison in the QC with the reference button is not a good comparison in my opinion. Because the real amplifier already doesn't sound the same anymore in the capture loop ( you got to do a real A/B comparison) And next time try to capture a real vintage amp or a old Fender Tweed amp.

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Hi Rik! Thanks for watching! Yes I did notice there is a slight difference when staying within the loop and using the reference. That being said the side by side just before the conclusion was actually recorded straight into the amp, no capture loop happening there. Hope that’s what you meant 😁 I’d love to do some more videos on this unit in the near future

[@raziel2b]

great song !!!! preset please

[@joshsmith7033]

If you would have just turned the gain up on your capture it would have sounded exactly the same. It bugs me so much that you did not do that. I don't know why but it's making my brain itch

[@notalkguitarampplug-insrev784]

The real amp sounds just a lot better. Thanks

[@pvsnoir]

Do not forget that it’s gonna sound more and more close to the reference amp with the firmware updates

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Right! Exactly!!

[@jbag4289]

Why is that?

[@pvsnoir]

@@jbag4289 because we are only at the beginning of the feature and it’s software mainly so updates will just bring more and more quality on the already incredibly good sounds and capture

[@jbag4289]

@@pvsnoir I don't think you can improve a Capture or Profile, it's an old method that they've been using for decades .. it's very good .. the only problem is you can improve it .. or it should be on some other method.. And otherwise Kemper would have improved it a long time ago..

[@sungeunhwang515]

Cortex is compressed, and less headroom but nice tone

[@truthfactreality6814]

I want to capture my jvm

[@fernandodecarvalho3304]

Cortex a litlle bit more highs in my opinion. But in a band this difference is not listened

[@jessetate9701]

This thing is so close! Way better the kemper

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Agreed!

[@guitartoneSA]

@@dannydelacruzguitar6519 Do you have any videos of Kemper Profiles you've made?

[@euphoriaguitar4001]

I HAVE TATTOOS

[@marvelharris9540]

The Marshall sounds better

[@fritzhieke7209]

why you always say it is "pretty close"? It is 100% nailed, just adjust a tiny tiny bit gain and presence on the QC and it 100% and not "pRetTY cLOSe". Jezz, stop lying to yourself. ;-)

[@zaldum386]

wow, not even close, i expected much better

[@milanmilicevic4618]

All that modern technology still can't replace tube amp 😑 I can hear the difference on iPhone speakers

[@robmurrah3224]

Real amp sounds better

[@kimseniorb]

the real amp is so much better. its easy to fall into that trap of eq matched bullshittery comparing them side by side. but the real deal just sounds right in terms of those little nuances and compression. QC sounds like your average thin plugin without balls, undergained, underbeefed and with those ugly mids getting through, the real amp is compressing and sagging and sticking out the speakers in such a pleasing 3d way, borderline ASMR kind of nuance to it.

[@geoffpeters5802]

do you like using makeup and dressing like a girl

[@dannydelacruzguitar6519]

Yes