I had HX Stomp and LT before QC. Every preset I made was done with desktop editor. With QC I haven't used it's desktop app once.

it's easy if the product is good!

Work with the man. Most of us watch his channel for the no-nonsense reviews.

Add the guy to your list :)

Any time!

exactly this. QC (and FM series too) sound so good its actually not a question of convinience only anymore. You literally sound better with it then with the same amp miced on stage, especially on a small/medium stage, where balancing backline and front is really an issue.

Just curious, as I'm considering the same thing you did, do you ever regret having sold any of your amps/cabs? I've gathered such a collection over the years that I hardly even use anymore and could really use the coin in my pocket (and the space in my home).

@@stephencolbert1511 I guess you are asking James but I have some input too. I bought a QC about three years ago or so. I made numerous tries to integrate some of my pedals into my to go signal chain and build a hybrid portal board. All of them were crushed by the fact that I am going to spend a hefty amount of money and lose a lot of ease of use for absolutely negligence changes. I was trying to convince myself that I need a better delay and a better reverb unit, but in fact I never did. I never once on stage or at the rehearsal had a thought like "oh if only I would have my Strymon reverb here that would be so much better". Never once. So I dropped the idea and now my pedal collection rests unopened for years. Gonna sell them actually, thank you for reminding me.

@@IgorMuller Sorry about that, but your reply was some really helpful perspective! Part of my issue is I spend far too much time tweaking and far too little time actually playing and enjoying the music. You're 100% right, is a better reverb / delay available? Yep - but will the average listener be able to detect even a hint of difference? Probably not.

@@stephencolbert1511 I feel you mate. Actually the question I ask is not if the listener would be able to detect a difference - in my humble experience, he will not. The question for me - is it going to make his listener experience better at any level? Would i, or my stage colleagues, or any listener, enjoy the music I play more if I have a dl4 mkii instead of a built in QC delay? The answer is 100 percent no. Again, when contemplating choices like this alone at home or at the studio, I can try to convince myself that I need something "better". When working or paying live I never ever had a thought that I actually needed something else apart from built in effects. I would really suggest that it might be different for someone else, we are all rather unique when talking about music perception. But for me it's just that. I was very picky about building my main sound profile with QC, it probably took me a year to settle, but once I did, I did very little tweaks. For studio work it's a different story, you have to get a sound for a producer he would enjoy most, not you. But again for those kinda tasks QC is unbeatable since the sheer amount of freedom you have while constructing a sound.

Absolutely! Having the Brit 2203 as the first preset is genius. I got my QC, booted up, turned everything up loud and played AC/DC riffs for a full hour. Bliss!

It really is that good !

I hope hes ok 😧

I'll wait for Immanuel. He's always on time. Besides I cant help it.

I mean… he did get it for FREE from Sweetwater. Still feel like it’s unbiased though.

Who takes a computer to a gig?! I’m hoping they’re working on an iPad version of the editor/controller.

How's the quality of amps and effects compared to your fractal?

@@touarec generally on par for my tastes, with the exception there’s way more variety with the fractal and way more options to tweak. But the QC is a lot quicker to dial in and less option paralysis for me.

@@JarickL Thanks for elaborating. Will probably grab a QC myself soon when they integrate the amps and FX of the archetype plugins.

run it through a guitar cab, but use a tube power amp... it is a MASSIVE difference... tried that with the UA Lion.... worlds apart

@@EytschPi42 do you emulate power section twice then, power section emulation from QC and another running into tube poweramp?

I think Henning means a Fryette Power Station. There you could leave power section on QC on as it is quite neutral for tube. Into a return of an amp… I don’t know … but my rather unsatisfactory attempt over the years stopped with the first gen of Axe-Fx. It’s a gamble.

@@EytschPi42 Does an amp work as well?

I run mine with a Fryette PS100 and a Bogner 212 oversized and couldn’t be happier 🎉

Plug in compatibility is so close as well

Hey Peter.... But are you buying it at Thomann? Are you using my link? Pleeeeaaaaase!

The same company makes several types of computer software that sounds really great for about $130 - $150 usd.

My neighbor across the street has one and I like it. I agree, it would be better for me with an expression pedal, but I do like the small form factor. It will fit in my electric gig bag, so that's the trade off I guess. Henning was sounding really good through this thing (his original POD Go series convinced me to get a POD Go instead of a Helix). QC may make me ditch my Line 6 stuff and switch to this someday. CGS had almost got me converted to a Fractal, but I stood firm with my Line 6 love. God bless and rock on 😎🎸👍

@@jcoulter43 im floating around between my podHd500 and my Katana mk2 but always searching for something yet undefined to make the leap into tonal bliss.

Good point 😄

Based on what Neural has put out there they are focused on the software updates and functionality rather than new hardware anytime soon. I was amongst the first batch of the QC owners from Sweetwater and this is the best out there (and I have the other major platforms as well) and has treated me well since day one. I haven’t tried the fender but everything I know about it, it’s going to be a lot more limited and simplified which is fine if you are mainly going for the typical fender stuff.

I have the QC, I've watched many reviews of the Fender TMP and from that, it seems that the TMP interface looks nicer but it seems that the touchscreen is less responsive. So i hope Neural-DSP doesn't go in this direction 😉

I don't see the need to use the plugins on it. it easily stands on its own. All the sounds the plugins would give you can be built with similar amps and effects

@@EytschPi42 Yep, plus if you have an audio interface and a PC and a plugin why would you buy this expensive box? The only downside my PC setup has is that my cheap guitar picks up a lot of noise if I sit square on to the PC on my desk. Ideally if you were trying to record and get the best quality you'd want to shield or move the PC away from the guitar. Other than that I can't see any reason to spend that much on a tin box with a screen. Especially when you effectively have exactly the same algorithm. I did get a podxt way back that I still own but which I think made little sense now. One thing it did provide was an audio interface to the PC - but obviously at a OTT price compared with just buying an audio interface. It's much like buying an expensive digital piano and then plugging it into your PC - you;ll generally do as well getting a midi controller for a lot less and buying a physically modelled plugin for your PC. The standalone stuff makes sense in other situations, but not really for the bedroom guitarist who is happy sitting playing with DAW and plugins listening through high quality headphones like dtpros. But my podxt cost too much but it was still only 1/5th of what Neural want for their tin box. Even counting for inflation it's ridiculously overpriced. If the reason for that is a 'Made in Finland' badge - why? No one has ever bought anything because it was made in Finland - I know they had a bit of reputation for building nuclear bomb proof mobile phones a decade or 2 ago, but they're infamous in that regard for the business failing miserably because they became overpriced and underperforming compared with everyone else's products.

Plugins are coming in the next software update, which is coming any day supposedly. I agree with Henny though that you can do much of the same stuff on the unit itself.

What about the response and feels ???

With or without a manual?

I LIVE on the toilet, that's where I learned all that stuff

What’s going on in there! Maybe more fiber in your diets!

In the toilet with a quad cortex, nice!

​@@PooNinjathat's where I make my fiber cables 😂

Try it first. You could be suffering from the grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side-syndrome. Or you may find it being perfect for you.

yes he mentioned the PC editor in the video.

just amps? About equal. ToneX obviously offers a lot less that QC, but ToneX's amps are very good. It is missing a lot of other things, but if that doesn't matter to you it is a killer deal.

Thanks for your super fast answer. I am using the ToneX Pedal in combination with the HX Stomp and a Morningstar Midi Controller. The Morningstar controls the Stomp. And the stomp gets the Amps via effects loop from the ToneX pedal. For me its a nice combination of the amp universe from ToneX and the Effects universe from Line6...