Posts by Silvio Ricci

For Metal i like the Lasse Lammert Packs the most!

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I just wanna say that is great Support here from Kemper!

Maybe the Quad is better when its about Profiling/Capturing, but this guy really didnt do the refining and his answer for this is this:

In my experience, refining may work well for some low gain profiles, but not for hi gain profiles.

So in my opinion thats not true! Look what Guidorist did with refining.

Beside this the Profiling and Capturing is not the biggest reason to buy a Kemper or an QC. In the Kemper you have a lot of more options to tweak your sound....Clarity, Tube Shape, Tube Bias, and so on and on.And the Output Menu from the Kemper is to good for me.

Maybe all that stuff is coming in the future for the QC. We will see!

The USB Hub was my Problem.

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I heard that Neural are going to use their Neural Engine inside the QC to play the guitar for you....

Whattt? I have to play the Guitar by my own? Shame on the Quad Cortex!

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I asked doug during a livestream, forgot which one, he said there were no plans for the moment ...

Is there a neural forum to discuss about the QC or is the kemper forum the place to be ?

Just kidding, love reading this stuff !

Probably at some point i'll own one myself ... just traded my helix stomp and 2 dvp4 mini's for a helix LT, so i'm busy for a while lol

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Thanks for the Info! And yes the BEST QC Discussion is only here

I know but maybe somebody heard sonething ?

It would be interesting, if the Quad Cortex is coming in the future in different types. Rack? Head?

Kemper started with the Head and then the Rack and the Stage came out. Are there known plans from Neural?

Thanks for the info!

Tried it out on Win 8 and its working! Do you uninstalled all other Kemper drivers before you installed 58? On the first Page here someone told what you should doing!

I had the problem that Rig Manager was suddenly really slow!

Finally i got the answer for myself.

My Problem was Cardreader from my USB HUB which i installed on my Desk and then connected to my Computer USB.

When there is no SD Card in my Card Adapter and the Card Adapter is plugged in my USB HUB there is some USB trouble going on!

Now Rig Manager is working fine and fast again !

Okay....that was just my thoughts!

I tried out Rig Manager on my Laptop. On my Laptop i did not do an Win Update and Rig Manager is running perfectly. So it is definitely an Win 10 Update problem that Rig Manager is not running good anymore!

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In such rare cases i sometimes remove all USB Controller system drivers and let the win install them again. New KPA driver is a standard WinUSB driver. I belive the whole driver layer is moved to RM binary.

That is something i could try out! Installed the Version 58 but its not working good....still need 15 to 20 seconds to activate a Profile! Not a good workflow.

So i will try to reinstall the Windows USB Driver....maybe they changed with the last Win Update and thats the Problem.

Maybe i should buy a Mac

The thing is we compare the Kemper which is over 10 years old.....of course with Updates.....to the QC which is Brand New. The difference in tone is not that big on Profiling or Capturing Amps so the Kemper is a hell of a unit for that age! That are my 2 Cents!

In the manual you can read this. The QC can do both pc and cc. When im remeber right!

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I was impatient lol. Sorry. But really.... I think the results speak for themselves. I was very impressed with the QC.

So here's my opinion on the unit...





1. Very easy to use. I feel a little dirty admitting it, but the touchscreen is amazing. MUCH MUCH MUCH quicker to get around a patch than the Helix and Kemper. Didn't need to look at the manual once.



2. The footswitches feel great. The way the caps turn feels solid, and I don't think they'd fall apart at all. The caps wobble a little bit, but they're definitely not flimsy. And they're very intuitive to use in terms of changing parameters in a selected block.



3. I was very worried about the delays and reverbs, since they're a core part of my sound. Okay, so the choice is very limited... but they actually sound very good, and are easier to dial in and get the sound I want than the Kemper. Also, the way the mix and feedback parameters work is much nicer to my ear than the Helix. The Helix gets too washy and lacks definition and cut at high mix and feedback levels. The QC does not. I was very pleasantly surprised, because I expected to be bummed out by the QC's options here.



4. Neural Capture - in a word, very impressive. It takes a lot longer to run all it's test signals, but once it's done.. no fucking around with refining, no second guessing yourself .... all of the did I do it right? Why doesn't this sound closer? How can I make it better? type stuff that I always think when I'm profiling with the Kemper.... just not a thing with the QC.



5. Footswitch proximity.... yeah... this one is a real concern for me. I think it would get better over time, once I became more familiar with it... now it isn't really the horizontal spacing between the switches, it's the vertical. A few times I meant to hit a switch on the top row, and ended up hitting a switch on the bottom row as I took my foot away. Something to think about.



6. The power supply... yes.... annoying that it's not an IEC. But I think I can live with it. Once the QC is on a board, make sure that the PSU cable is properly secured, and it shouldn't ever come out accidentally.



7. Naming presets - again... touchscreen makes this a piece of piss. Both the Helix and the Kemper are way more annoying to use. Kemper is more annoying than the Helix in this respect. In fact, the Kemper user experience is from stone age compared to both units.



8. The pitch effects on the QC ... they're serviceable. The whammy has the warbly whammy thing to it.... it's okay... good enough for my needs, but if you're super super super picky about this, you might wanna keep your whammy hanging around! For me, the QC is better simply because the whammy block offers a wet/dry mix control, which is essential for a few atmospheric pitchy things I do.



9. EQ's are great. Not a lot to report here - they do what you'd expect, and don't destroy the sound of your guitar. Nuff said.



10. Drives - I didn't go through these exhaustively. But the tubescreamer sounded like a tubescreamer to me!



11. Stock 'neural captures' - they have tons of stock neural captures.... I paid attention mostly to the Fryette Sig:X ones because I know that amp like the back of my hand. They sound just like the real amp - and this is an amp that the Kemper has a lot of problems capturing for some reason.



12. Built in amp models - the Friedman BE100 was LUSHHHH.... I really loved it. The Hiwatt was better than the Helix one, sounded more 3D and real and in your face; all the usual tripe we all say about amps.



13. The QC in general sounded more "believeable" than the Helix to me; which I grit my teeth to admit, because I really am a huge Helix fangurl.



14. The tuner on QC is better than the tuner on Helix. Without a shadow of a doubt. I actually can't believe the Helix tuner sometimes. I just stopped using it - coz it fucks with my brain. I hate it.



15. Final point - pedalboard friendliness...... yessss m8...... floor real estate and weight are real concerns for me. I know I can do the same thing with the Helix and Kemper.... add in a few pedals.... but for a live show.... it's just a huge pain in the ass. So I always take the hit on the sound quality in favour of simplicity. I wont have to do that with the QC on a board.

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Thank you for this Review!

A QC Rack Unit would be something great.

But your normal QC for live usage you could put the QC behind the stage/in your rack and plug in a midi Controller so you have just your Midi Controller in front of you. So you dont have to be afraid that your QC will be damaged on stage and if the Controller is damaged because of beer and whatever than the Midi Controller is the much cheaper one to buy!

Yes and i never thought its going that way! Crazy!

So many years i have the Kemper but today its the first time i tried your profiles and they are unbelievable great! Awesome!

Yes i have seen this Video! Great Video and makes me think about the Kemper!

I Love the Kemper Workflow with the Rig Manager, but when the QC have an Editor in the future it will be hard for the Kemper!