DankStar
Her Little Mojo Minion
I know some people don't like "impressions" type reviews, so if that's you, you may want to bail at this point.
My brother got a quad cortex and I got to play it last weekend. We connected it into the effects return on his mini EVH head and 1 x 12" EVH cab.
It loads up on the 2203, which I didn't quite care for to be honest, even with in-the-box pedals in front of it.
However, the other amps sounded killer (the roland sounded very close to a real jazz chorus, and the trem-o-verb was outstanding).
One thing that really blew me away was the user captures. I randomly selected an ADA (mp-1 I think) capture (some sort of modded marshall tone) and it was crazy good. I briefly owned an ADA in the past and hated it, but this thing sounded wonderful. It was hard to make sense of the user captures unfortunately from a file-sorting perspective. There would be like 30 captures of an amp with similar names, then another 25 with the same amp on a different setting, then another, etc. There wasn't much of a description that I could tell so after awhile you're like where the heck am I in this guy's 100 captures of this thing? BUT, when they sound that good, I'd say that's a small price to pay.
It was super easy to make a chain with reverb, delay, etc. The cab options were really cool - changing mics and placements. I could see getting lost in that section alone with all the features. The delays and reverbs were like a wet dream, I loved the ones I tested.
Oddly enough, I liked it best with the cab sim on even though we ran it through an actual cab. It was a little too trebly or something without the cab sim (like too in-your-face). I guess it would work for a live situation, but I was having a blast noodling with the internal cab sim, sounded perfect to me.
Would definitely be a piece of gear I'd use and probably shun all my other gear for quite a long time.
My brother got a quad cortex and I got to play it last weekend. We connected it into the effects return on his mini EVH head and 1 x 12" EVH cab.
It loads up on the 2203, which I didn't quite care for to be honest, even with in-the-box pedals in front of it.
However, the other amps sounded killer (the roland sounded very close to a real jazz chorus, and the trem-o-verb was outstanding).
One thing that really blew me away was the user captures. I randomly selected an ADA (mp-1 I think) capture (some sort of modded marshall tone) and it was crazy good. I briefly owned an ADA in the past and hated it, but this thing sounded wonderful. It was hard to make sense of the user captures unfortunately from a file-sorting perspective. There would be like 30 captures of an amp with similar names, then another 25 with the same amp on a different setting, then another, etc. There wasn't much of a description that I could tell so after awhile you're like where the heck am I in this guy's 100 captures of this thing? BUT, when they sound that good, I'd say that's a small price to pay.
It was super easy to make a chain with reverb, delay, etc. The cab options were really cool - changing mics and placements. I could see getting lost in that section alone with all the features. The delays and reverbs were like a wet dream, I loved the ones I tested.
Oddly enough, I liked it best with the cab sim on even though we ran it through an actual cab. It was a little too trebly or something without the cab sim (like too in-your-face). I guess it would work for a live situation, but I was having a blast noodling with the internal cab sim, sounded perfect to me.
Would definitely be a piece of gear I'd use and probably shun all my other gear for quite a long time.
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