Will The Quad Cortex Capture My Amp?? | Tube Amp vs. Neural Capture vs. Quad Cortex vs. Amp Pedal

Can The Quad Cortex Capture My Amp?? | Tube Amp vs. Neural Capture vs. Quad Cortex vs. Amp Pedal
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Today is the day. We’re gonna test out the flagship feature of the quad cortex: the neural capture. Now, I’m definitely not the first, and I won't be the last to demo this feature on YouTube. But what I’m curious about is can you at home, with pretty basic equipment: I’m talking an amp, an sm57, and the neural get an amazing capture. Cause with the Kemper, as I’m sure many of you have seen, it’s profiling feature is great, but it seems like the guys with studios and tons of outboard gear and consoles are the ones that can make the profiles actually sound great. Those of us doing it at home, not as much.

First off, a great capture starts with a great amp tone. So for the first time in probably two years, I’m going to break out my Immix Eleven VS15. This is a hand wired hand built AC style amp with a single 1x12 cab with a Celestian Alnico Blue Speaker. You heard me give the full talk in my why guitarists are getting rid of their amps video: but basically, I love this thing. It looks cool and sounds even better.

Alright, so the neural capture is clearly impressive. Is it exactly like my amp, I mean… I’ll let you decide but to my ear it’s so dang close that I think you would never know. The dynamics are there, the character is there. It almost seems like the tonal differences between the real and the capture have more to do with how I attack my guitar than the capture being off.

But, the question I think we all want to know is how does it stack up? To answer that I’ve recorded a few demos for us to test out. So we have the real immix eleven Tube Amp, the Neural Capture of my amp, a stock Quad Cortex ac30 amp that I’ve dialed in to sound similar to my amp, and just for fun, we also have an AC style amp from the walrus audio ACS1. And before anyone gets too hyped to claim that the volumes are different: let me assure you that I’m level matching and keeping all processing the same.

I have thoughts. I can confirm that my experience playing on all 4 was essentially the same. The dynamic response is really similar, the tones are really similar. I don’t think you cant go wrong with any. If I had to rank them: I’d say it’s real amp, capture, QC, then ACS1 this round. It’s sort of like how you can line up a bunch of mint chip ice creams. Sure, they taste slightly different, but you know it's a mint chip ice cream.

But I’m curious how much of our biases are influencing our hearing. let’s do this blind. I've got a clean test, a dirty test, and an ambient test for you.
Now I’m sure a lot of you watching will be like, oh I could tell the difference- That’s fine, but to me, they all sounded solid. And I like sound design. This whole experiment is so crazy to me. Not just that the QC can do a pretty great job of capturing the sound of an amp, but that these stock sounds and even something like a 400 dollar amp pedal can also give you highly competitive tones.

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Chapters
0:00 Can You Get a Great Capture At Home?
1:56 The Capture Process
2:35 Neural Capture vs. Real Amp
5:37 Tube Amp vs. Neural Capture vs. Quad Cortex vs. Amp Pedal
8:22 Blind Test 1
10:05 Blind Test 2
12:35 Blind Test 3

Gear:
Fender Telecaster w Elliott Telewacker Pickups
Gibson Les Paul Standard 2008
Walrus Audio Deep 6
JHS Moonshine
Strymon Timeline
Strymon Bigsky
Walrus Audio ACS1
Immix Eleven VS15
Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Apogee Duet 2
Logic Pro X

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