NEURAL DSP QUAD CORTEX
Total Guitar|July 2021
One of the most hotly-anticipated floor modelling units is here to make you rethink your rig
Simon Arblaster
NEURAL DSP QUAD CORTEX

£1449

Neural DSP is no stranger to delivering high-quality amp modelling, you just need to check out its stellar roster of plugins to see that. So when the Helsinki-based firm showed up to last year’s NAMM with the Quad Cortex floor modeller, you’ll understand we got pretty excited about it, in fact, the whole guitar-playing world seemed to get quite giddy over the prospect. Not just because a revered software company had released its first hardware product, but what lay within its aluminium unibody.

From the off, the Quad Cortex promises unrivaled power in such a small footprint that Neural DSP calls it “the most powerful floor modeller on the planet”, stuffed with 2GHz of dedicated DSP power straight out of its Quad-Core SHARC processor.

All that power doesn’t mean a thing if it can’t deliver sonically and you can be rest assured that it can, in spades. But that’s not all, one of the biggest surprises on using the Quad Cortex for the first time was how intuitive the interface layout is. As soon as we’d plugged in, we were instantly surfing the huge number of presets, cycling through and adding various effects as if we’d been using it for years. With the 7” screen, there is plenty of screen real estate to fit the whole signal chains, without the need for different menus dedicated to just effects, or amp models, etc.

Diese Geschichte stammt aus der July 2021-Ausgabe von Total Guitar.

Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.

Diese Geschichte stammt aus der July 2021-Ausgabe von Total Guitar.

Starten Sie Ihre 7-tägige kostenlose Testversion von Magzter GOLD, um auf Tausende kuratierte Premium-Storys sowie über 8.000 Zeitschriften und Zeitungen zuzugreifen.

WEITERE ARTIKEL AUS TOTAL GUITARAlle anzeigen
POSITIVE GRID SPARK 2
Total Guitar

POSITIVE GRID SPARK 2

The sequel to the world's most popular smart guitar amp is here

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
JACKSON PRO PLUS XT SOLOIST SLAT HT6 BARITONE
Total Guitar

JACKSON PRO PLUS XT SOLOIST SLAT HT6 BARITONE

We get low with this fast-playing, all-black modern metal machine

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
GUILD POLARA DELUXE
Total Guitar

GUILD POLARA DELUXE

A’70s staple gets a bit of are-jig, o4 years after it was introduced

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
NEURAL DSP NANO CORTEX
Total Guitar

NEURAL DSP NANO CORTEX

Neural DSP's second pedal might be the ultimate compact all-in-one rig

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
EPIPHONE JIMI HENDRIX LOVE DROPS FLYING V
Total Guitar

EPIPHONE JIMI HENDRIX LOVE DROPS FLYING V

Prepare to kiss the sky with Epiphone's latest 'Inspired By...' model

time-read
4 Minuten  |
November 2024
JIMMY PAGE
Total Guitar

JIMMY PAGE

\"I was using what was really meaty!\"

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Total Guitar

EDDIE VAN HALEN

“You either capture the vibe or you don't!”

time-read
2 Minuten  |
November 2024
MYTH BUSTERS: THE CABLE DESTRUCTION TEST
Total Guitar

MYTH BUSTERS: THE CABLE DESTRUCTION TEST

Need to know whether gear is worth your cash? Who you gonna call...

time-read
3 Minuten  |
November 2024
JOHN FRUSCIANTE'S LETTER FROM AMERICA
Total Guitar

JOHN FRUSCIANTE'S LETTER FROM AMERICA

Our July 2006 issue featured none other than John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the cover, with a line of text promising discussion of meditation, drugs, Hendrix and some chat about the band’s then-latest album, Stadium Arcadium.

time-read
3 Minuten  |
November 2024
CHALLENGE CHARLIE
Total Guitar

CHALLENGE CHARLIE

Ata time when TC's staff were getting, frankly, rather silly, one man stood up to take on the daftest of all our challenges...

time-read
1 min  |
November 2024