The Nano Cortex from Neural DSP Is...

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Get your Nano Cortex here: ndsp.co/ab_nc Sweetwater: sweetwater.sjv.io/21oDGg

[@THEDJAG-gt1tz]

Awesome, maybye i will buy this in the future🙂

[@BOTx5]

Man loves the colour green so much, he went to the forest.

[@klaymeister]

2:30 sounded like you said drop U. Which I would believe lol

[@BaenaCarcosa]

I mean it does have a transpose feature so you could make that happen lol

[@M3tal_matt]

The playing in the woods gives me old baena video vibes and I'm totally here for it 🔥

[@xBLK_LOUDx]

That guitar looks more sick every time I see it 🤘🏽💯

[@asserali4771]

Love your tones. Sick guitar! Huge fan from Ottawa. Congrats on your new single Righteous Man! It slaps soooo hard. 🔥

[@boost219]

I’d only be interested in this if It had all the amp profiles and plugin support like the quad cortex. But if I were ever looking for something to emulate my real amp on the road this would probably be my top choice if I didn’t have the beans for a quad cortex

[@josephmaglio5411]

Exactly the reason I picked it up

[@SerienChiller86]

I was online and set this on my Thomann wishlist.. didn't know that it was released literally 3h ago lol

[@SamBrockmann]

Amazing tones. It's very clear and articulate.

[@Stevil3113]

They need to add the Cortex control from the app to the quad cortex.

[@northtimo666]

But doesn't it need a BT connection in order to work?

[@Stevil3113]

@@northtimo666 yea. I’m aware it can’t really happen.

[@CZitoMusic]

That guitar is a vibe of it's own 🔥🔥 Also, love the in-depth details you provide. Seems easy to learn

[@AvgDoomGuy]

Awesome vid! Super nostalgic and informative🤘🔥

[@BlackpitfatherLech]

It's possible to temporarily disable the rotary functionality of knobs and footswitches to avoid unwanted parameter switching when performing, by just parameter Lock - holding up for3 sec. "exit" button

[@AlfaFirefox]

Very informative, kind sir. Definitely going to purchase this later this year. 🤘

[@benwarr4374]

That song you did at the start sounds fucking beautiful

[@benwarr4374]

Reminds me of the start of L$D by asap rocky

[@msi1985]

Definitely a cool little unit although I am kind of disappointed that your options for selection in front of the amp are limited to 2 choices, which are not interchangeable... Really hope that they do a software update so that we can put a capture of an overdrive pedal in place of the pitch shifter etc.

[@BaenaCarcosa]

I think a lot of people would def love an overdrive so I’m curious to see if they’ll add that in somehow in the future as well

[@msi1985]

@@BaenaCarcosa I will bet it is something that is doable considering the pitch shifter is way more DSP intensive than an overdrive

[@alvarg]

this is really cool, I currently have the ampero 2 stomp and although its cool with its touch screen and numerous features, I feel like most of them are useless, 90% of the cleans sound the same, you have about 2 sounds with the crunch amps and about 3 different styles of high gain amp ( actually amounts are way higher but in terms of noticeable difference) my main issue is the firmware/software of the unit, its just glitchy AF. I also don't like the lack of updates from hotone i've gotten 1 since I bought it a year ago, which added scenes which I feel should of been a feature from the get go, but its not perfect and it added more bugs and the app crashes a lot I love how simplistic this one is, and how I can easily setup and swap between a nice clean with no effects then one with certain effects on and a dirty channel no effects then one with say a delay.

[@dandylion6]

$5,000 worth of equipment in the woods. I’m sure the trees, birds and underground network of mushrooms appreciate it.

[@BaenaCarcosa]

It pleased the cordyceps hive nearby

[@khay2210]

@@BaenaCarcosaBest reply to give the troll, plus it favors the algorithm on your side.

[@OfficialDreamTheater]

Waah waaah. Go cry somewhere else. If you think Andrew is an eco-terrorist, you've got bigger problems in your lifs.

[@matthewf9500]

Dumb ass comment brohym

[@PippPriss]

@@khay2210 I don't think it was a troll, but a rather funny comment. I laughed at least! Don't take life too seriously,it will stop for us all eventually anyways! 🙂

[@chrisfry6054]

Crazy! I just got the email of its release! This thing is great.

[@MattColwell-q2n]

Carnage released in the woods….AND I FKN LOVE IT! Shii is fire 🔥 some heavy shit💥🤙🏼

[@balmain2496]

Damn, this is actually huge for me. I’m looking at KPP, HX stomp and now this to buy next. Wonder which is the best bang for your buck …

[@gertjangoetynck5074]

I have a Kemper Player, was both worried and hyped hearing the teases of the nano cortex (worried for having to spend money, hyped because I was intered in the Quad Cortex ecosystem) but it left me heavily disapointed. I can see no reasons at all to get this over a Kemper Player.

[@balmain2496]

@@gertjangoetynck5074 Can you elaborate? I’m still thinking of getting the Kemper but I want to know other people’s experiences with it. Why would you choose it over the rest?

[@gertjangoetynck5074]

@@balmain2496 The 2 main downsides of the Kemper player: No capturing ability and limited effects. I have nothing worth capturing so that's no issue for me, and the limited effects are still enough for me and most people. I prefer the tones of Kemper over those of Helix. The Helix offers more effects and amp tweakability, but the onboard effects of the Kemper Player are enough for me as mentioned above, and I own a HX One for unique one of effects I may need. The reduced tweakabily of amps is no big deal for me, since I really prefer the Kemper profile sounds. And if I really do want to tweak more, I can just get a liquid profile. Those are the reasons I got it over the Helix. Tonex has good profiles, but I want my unit to be as much all in one as possible so that wasn't an option. This Nano Cortex is in a weird place in between the Tonex and Kemper Player. It has more effects than the Tonex, but it still lacks some really important ones like overdrive pedals and compression which the Kemper Player does have. It makes the nano cortex a bad choice imo. If you want all in one, the Kemper player is a better option since the nano cortex still requires you to use external pedals. But if you want to use pedals, the tonex is a lot cheaper while giving equal (or to some better) captures. If they added models and capture playing to the nano cortex I would've been all over it. If they added at least equal effects to the Kemper Player (and no modeling) I would've considered it to get into the cortex eco system. But it doesn't offer any of that.

[@ejw3006]

@@balmain2496more effects options and Kemper has a people making professional captures for years. ngl if you want something like this I’d get a tonex and use the extra money you would’ve used on the nano to buy an effect pedal you like, unless you really want the extra effects

[@lavenderxlovely]

Sounds so sick! 💚😮‍💨

[@dhawalshah9580]

Cant look away from that green amp 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@natorious314]

If you like the idea of this but can't stomach the price, check out the M-Vave Tank G that Andrew reviewed recently. It is nearly 1/8th the price and offers remarkably similar features. Biggest difference is the effect types being more basic reverb, delay and modulation options. No pitch shifting or octave functionalities. Amp and cab sims are fully customizable as of the current firmware update, so if you have cab .wav files or AM2 amp files (you have to convert these to AM2Data files) laying around you can swap them in and out as needed. I won't sit here and say it's as good or better than the Neural, but for the price it really can't be beat. Great piece of gear for those on a sub $100USD budget.

[@MaxPowersTastyTones]

Awesome intro song my friend ❤

[@baumansound]

Man, the forrest song is awesome!

[@Patrick-mg3jp]

JANNIIICCCEE, ITS ANOTHER ONE OF THEM FOREST GUITARIST . CALL THE SHERIFF. 😂😂😂

[@jessewest2109]

Ill stick with my fm3

[@MusicChannel-rf5zz]

Black Friday come soon!

[@LucasLeCompteMusic]

This is pretty cool!

[@adamwilcox6405]

Apart from the profiling hasn't this been done better by literally all the competition?

[@BlackWylde]

Even the profiling has been done better by some competition lol. However, one feature that Neural DSP does that no other device does as well is transposing. A lot of metal players use the QC just for that feature alone , because it's the only one that doesnt destroy the tone after transposing. Aside from that, most of the modelers/capture devices are just preference. I use a helix now just because i like the interface better than the QC. But i will use the QC for certain things still.

[@Modus4]

The HX sounds cheap. 😢

[@adamwilcox6405]

@@Modus4 no it doesn't.

[@eaglesmann024]

Isn’t that beginning riff from asap rockys LSD song ?

[@honktm]

question: will stuff like parallax x work on it, like it with the quad cortex, or would I have to capture it?

[@djguzzy10]

cool little device. also good call on changing the thumbnail. would be cool to have done this at the airport while waiting for the plane. idk something cool lol

[@kevinwhite6172]

The input is clipping. Specs say it +10bd while the QC is +15db. No drives either make it worthless for high gain and hot pickups.

[@zeronine-eightyfour]

Was interested, then I saw it can only work with amp profiles but no modeling, makes it suddenly a ridiculously priced devices for such huge limitations.

[@formallynamed85]

Hmmm no boost or drive available oh well

[@klap00]

You can have it in the captures...

[@TheWRCS]

Could you make the guitar sound like turntables

[@nasirtawfiq9267]

is it same as multi effects unit ?

[@grapefruitsimmons]

Does it only do captures? Id like to run the Gojira X through it

[@BaenaCarcosa]

Captures only yes

[@all1n1]

Does this pedal support bluetooth audio to play backingtracks?

[@rosemorningstar5368]

Can this somehow capture neural DSP plug-ins like the gojira one?

[@BaenaCarcosa]

You can do that - watch Charlie Robbins' video

[@the12gage37]

Please for the love of all that is holy tell me that intro is going to be a full song if it isn't already

[@BaenaCarcosa]

It may or may not show up in a new Carcosa song 🤷‍♂️

[@the12gage37]

​@@BaenaCarcosaPlease 😩

[@Yomilazzo]

Ima so glad I didn’t order a cheap multi fx last month. For sure gonna scoop this

[@SeaW4rrior]

Was in the fence for a Hotone Ampero 2 Stage... Still can't decide 😂

[@Yomilazzo]

@@SeaW4rrior I was also looking at hotone but in my opinion neural is gonna be the better choice because of consistent updates to software and such . While hotone is definitely nice the neural team seems to be a little more active.

[@Surrey_01]

Is it possible to use Bluetooth earphones like AirPods with it?

[@Return2TheLiving]

No, you wouldn’t want that for latency anyways

[@Hiei999]

Lol, that pedal is giving me JTravis vibes

[@dima__rx5fw3rm1n]

What is the intro song's name and band?

[@BaenaCarcosa]

I wrote it, my bands name is Carcosa

[@dima__rx5fw3rm1n]

@@BaenaCarcosa it sounds really insanely cool 🤘

[@Zilvia47]

I feel like the sleeper feature of this is the fact you do everything from your phone; this allows broke bxtches like me who don’t have a modern computer can upgrade from a metal zone into an Amazon ir loader. I want toans more than I want a ‘puter. Also like my dream chain starts with a digitech drop and ends with a DC2W so this thing was like made for me specifically thanks neural

[@ryancarrollguitar]

Can i put my setups from neural plugins I've created on pc to this? Edit: It's also sad to see absolutely no display. This requires a phone app, which i just personally find annoying

[@simbro32]

Looks like it's a negative on it running any X plugin. And can't be used with cortex control, you have to use the phone app.

[@ryancarrollguitar]

@@simbro32 ooooof. In the process of selling old heads to finally move into the digital world. Was interested if this was gonna be a half powered cortex. Seems, though, it's just something different. Somehow even with all the videos on it I'm slightly confused. Interested to see a real comparison between the quad and nano from someone outside of it's direct marketing. But the tones coming from it aren't bad by any stretch of the imagination.

[@eliaskapravelos7171]

Yes but with a capture, you have to capture your IR-less/cab-less amp plugin tone with an interface loop (like it shows in the manual for pedal captures) and then make an in-the-box IR of the cab emulation you used. This thing makes way more sense if you treat it as a high end preamp replacement for a pedal rig.

[@ryancarrollguitar]

@@eliaskapravelos7171 I can see it being used on a pedalboard rig for sure, but in that case, why no effects loop?

[@eliaskapravelos7171]

Honestly no clue for that, they probably want it being more of a portable interface for Macs (good luck having two asio drivers on PC unless they have fixed the change interface and get a blue screen thing from win 10) than a pedal pedal. Makes the lack of PC editor all the worse if that's the case. They'll figure it out neural does listen to feedback.

[@Lidocain777]

It was just a matter of time before NDSP releases an even more compact solution. I can see a lot of use cases for this one, yet it's not for me. The classic QC fits my needs much better. Still, heh ... Same sound on both units, though !

[@wstn7938]

Does this stream audio via Bluetooth for practicing to backing tracks?

[@jesseparrish9198]

Don't quote me but I think you would use the usbc port to stream audio. I could be totally wrong though.

[@revmarshall]

does it have plug in compatibility?

[@BaenaCarcosa]

It does not, it is only for using captures

[@DavidAllenMD]

whats the price?

[@BaenaCarcosa]

$550 USD

[@BeardKnight420]

Great unit. But no output xlr is a huge deal breaker for me.

[@xlilxillx]

Why? Every sound guy has a DI.

[@BeardKnight420]

@@xlilxillx I plug into a splitter or digital mixers that don’t always have 1/4 inch jacks. I really wanted this to replace my fm3, but it won’t unfortunately.

[@xlilxillx]

@@BeardKnight420 fm3 is better anyways

[@BeardKnight420]

@@xlilxillx probably, but there was some really great potential for this product before it launched like this. No xlr, no pcom. This is babies first amp modeler territory really.

[@adamsteelproducer]

TRS to XLR adapters are cheap

[@wanderergrim]

Would you consider it a more affordable and smaller quad cortex? Just with fewer features like a screen and multiple foot switches etc.

[@TommyToboggan611]

it would be way better if it ran the amp models. NOT the captures

[@MetalMan1245]

Insightful, useful video on a pretty interesting product. The title legitimately pissed me off in such a way that I disliked. I'm a follower, I like your content, and I get that clickbait gets clicks, but something about these titles just makes me angry in a way I can't explain, so please stop.

[@AmericanNationalist852]

Ah, Nueral released a new PR nightmare, I see

[@PotatoKing86]

What

[@AmericanNationalist852]

@@PotatoKing86 really?

[@PotatoKing86]

@@AmericanNationalist852 ye. I don't get it

[@AmericanNationalist852]

@@PotatoKing86 it took like 3 years for Nueral to get their plug-ins working on the QC (that was basically designed for their plug-ins...), and i believe they still arent working correctly.

[@michaelj.anderson1116]

What is the supposed PR nightmare? I don't get it. If you don't like Neural DSP or are not a fan of the quad cortex and nano then just say that. When you make the type of comment you did it's not doing you any favors. It's just kind of pointless. Just say what you really mean.

[@Airtrooper719]

So the input clips on a set of hot pickups in 2024. Yeah no thanks.

[@Donald_Trumpin_onem]

If you’re a pedalboard guy like me, this makes total sense. I love my pedals, and only really need one amp tone at once. This plus a Seymour Duncan powerstage 700 is a perfect budget rig.

[@DanielKatt]

Is it better then the ToneX Pedal tho? I am using a ToneX as my preamp. The Nanocortex is really tempting.

[@ejw3006]

Capture wise, no. It’s on par with tonex, only thing you’d get with this is a few effects which I’d personally keep the tonex and invest in the pedals you want. In fact, the Kemper player has a larger range of effects for you available if that’s what you’re looking for.

[@tertozer3543]

Nobody asked for it and this device is so limited.

[@Paroketh]

Funny how you can bring it anywhere to connect this to a pc and record...oh no wait, I have my plugins, it's useless 😅

[@jamesslossar3865]

I mean yea if you only wanna use your plugin sounds, QC itself has so many more sounds than a couple plugins

[@Paroketh]

@@jamesslossar3865 "couple" plugins? There are so many on the market right now it's ridiculous. Funny thing NAM is free and you can have all the captures you want to play with...

[@klap00]

But a sh*t ton of Cloud captures for cirtually any sound and you can just take it with you on stage, unlike the plugins tho

[@Paroketh]

@@klap00 but you're stuck with the capture, you can't do much with it, they're not models. And to be honest, who changes 20 different amps for a gig? And with so few FXs? If I need something super simple (but still with more FXs and tweakability than this) I would buy a Boss GT1000 core, if I really need those captures a IK ToneX is cheaper.

[@klap00]

@@Paroketh For a portable gig rig it is insane value tho. Nobody goes gigging without presets. Who changes 20 different FXs or anything mid live, anyway? Do you use 10 different delays from all the plugins to produce one song or wdym? You just capture the sound you have set for your songs from the PC and that's it. Bass, mids and treble are also adjustable on the go (and FOH), if the room demands it. Also, "take it anywhere" for a laptop requires an interface anyway, plus all the plugins etc and midi control for footswitching or automation from the daw... Weird arguments.

[@braxal6983]

Hmm....PASS. I cannot see it worth what they are asking for. There is better out there for less with more features.

[@DeadGuitarDude]

Omg! What a great day for broke boiis like me!!!

[@jorgeaguirre7346]

Queek.

[@shinokugt]

Sorry this thing sucks and doesn’t even support their own software or plug-ins and costs more than the products that already exist for the same purpose. Who even cares about captures that much? They’re literally a modeler company.

[@adilsonobelard9690]

over price and no computers pp