Played through a friends and loved the tones but wouldn’t own one until they get rid of the power adapter style plug. I have zero confidence in those tiny cords and wall wart adapters.

can i capture modulation pedal? such phaser, flanger, chorus..

Bro is so vanilla I wanna take him to a strip club ( I've never been to one either)

Supro owes you - you just sold me an amplifier

Hey I wanted to know how you got the expression to control the drive to get that ambience

Great video of the QC capabilities its a great unit ....but please Neural please make a larger unit with better spread apart foot switches for the love of God lol 😆...to me its the only giant weakness. Helix is perfect with that . Maybe next QC will address that issue. Id be happy with less switches and better spacing even. Otherwise all you Elf feet peeps lol will love a QC 😎🤘🏻

yo added an eventide H9 or H90 take away the magix and it will sound flat haha yo trickster

I worship all my guitar! Not really - I have a Glarry I plan to rebuild from the wood up. Tonewood does not matter in a solid body electric guitar with Solando-like distortion. But seriously... There is no guitar gawd but Jimi Hendrix and Eric Johnson is His Prophet!

What fender tele is that please?

A year later, I have to say the Falcon and Tele....

Use tone x ONE !! 😄

I’m running a QC but kept my reverb just because it’s so much easier to dial in good tones on it!

Tube amps are pretty great, that one looks awesome with your guitar. Ive been GASing for that supro lately, 15 watts, 112, one power tube one preamp tube and 28lbs i think, thats a good size, im jelly :)

What song is that at 3:43?

I love my strat. But i use my gretsch more often for worship. But recently put the Fender Tex-mex pickups on my strat and…..wow. I cut through everything. Glassy. I haven’t gone back to Gretsch.

Thats a beatiful sound! What song too?

Get a Tonemaster PRO man

Was about time dude...LoL. Enjoy it :) Nothing beats an amp, not even close, and you can still use your beloved electronic boxes with it. LoL

I loved watching your wife’s reaction 😂 She was right, the strat sounds good

I would love to see your recording/production process with guitar and videos, I know some KZfaqrs keep it secret but I’d love to see the way you record it to then mixing it through a software like Logic and editing too!

I love youre shared interest for switchfoot, I follow your personaility and person more than your gear interest. Although I would go to you for gear advice since I think we pursue similar sounds. Might film a longer video and send it to you with feedback. Thanks man!

Hey Justin! Could you post what algorithms you used for the A/B tests against the other pedals? I’ve been trying to get a good fuzz tone on my HX one and yours sounded soo good!

Just do what you do. You’re awesome and I like you. You’ve helped me be a better artist and Christian. Thank you. I do watch how-to videos on gear I use or am interested in, but I like your videos about things you like and experience. And your video editing is so good! Thank you.

Having owned and used many brands and devices including several iterations of pods, helix, boss gt, fractal, and just about every pedal you can think of outside some of the meris and chase bliss stuff, the quad cortex is by far the easiest UI to use. Now that being said, any UI that you put multiple hundreds of hours into will become very easy for you once you learn it but the learning curve on the quad cortex is amazingly simple especially if you already understand signal path and where to place your effects. Yes I would say that some of the delays and modulation have a long way to go before they are as good as stand alone units but the amps and drives and capture features are the best on the market to my ear. That is all personal preference so trust your ears and find your sound but I think you will be very pleased with the quad

Maaaan your guitar tones sound so good, I had to download NAM to try this out! I'm having the hardest time getting Impulse Responses that sound good though.. did you use all the same Amalgam IRs that they paired with their different NAM amp captures, and use the built in IR loader in NAM? I wanna try and learn how to get sounds similar to yours first just to make sure I'm using NAM and IR's the right way!😂

Honestly, I just want to see things that you enjoy the most. I watch a guy who does Japanese woodblock prints on KZfaq. I have absolutely zero interest in that topic, but that man is so passionate and excited about it that I’m now drawn into it. Do something that you genuinely want to do, air it, and your audience will love it so long as you do.

Fuzz into drive just sounds like mud.

Any electric will work. It's the heart of whose worshipping not the guitar.

I really love your storytelling videos. I would love to hear you talk more about your experiences in playing music. As for the more practical side of musicianship, I would love to see more of your production process. Two examples of my favorite videos you’ve done are the videos where you talk about your experience playing for Echosmith & your tutorial in how to add guitar into certain songs that aren’t guitar heavy. Hope this helps! Thankful for your content.

I really love your storytelling videos. I would love to hear you talk more about your experiences in playing music. As for the more practical side of musicianship, I would love to see more of your production process. Hope this helps! Thankful for your content.

Some of my favorite videos I wish there were more of are backstage vlogs. An inside look on what it's like to tour, etc. I'm pretty sure there's no playback engineers who have a youtube channel with videos like that right now. One of my favorite guys to watch is Matt Horn. He's a drum tech and he wears a GoPro on his chest and basically records his day. It's super cool to see what it's like behind the scenes. Mostly, I think you should just make the content you like to make and your passion will shine through. Eventually the people who need to see your videos will find you. I watch a lot of youtube videos because of the video, but I become a subscriber because I like the person and how dedicated they are to their work. I know that whatever video they've made was created with passionate intent. I enjoy your videos and your production quality and editing is great- on par or better than most youtuber musicians. And you're a great friend who I appreciate. One of the hardest workers I know.

When you do worship for hire gigs, take us with you. Tell us the how you are adding value to the team and what you like about their team. Maybe why you do it. How you learn sets at such places and then in ear monitoring and cam. Thanks man!

I’m pretty new here but what drew me in were the honest videos about being a Christian and playing in church compared with playing gigs outside of church. I also like your funny edits. They’re creative and different. I like lists too. I pretty much can’t stand lessons. If I want to learn something I’ll figure it out myself. Mostly I love honesty, and you seem to already be doing that.

I like your quad cortex vids because loads of us are still quite basic with our unit I’ve had mine some time learning but nobody is not doing any new stuff , hang in there guy ,like how you present your vids . Peeps need your help ,

DO PEPPER ANN PLEASE

Naaa u turned this into a Saturday morning cartoon theme

I know this must be scary, seeing the stats, but I can begin by saying: I am definitely not the demographics of this channel (I am pretty old, and I do not own the QC, I don't even play Worship music - yes I am a christian haha) yet, here I am! So you must be doing something great! Don't let numbers and stats discourage you. In my poarticular case, I've actually unsubsubscribed from all guitar channels that turned into gear review channels. I love guitar and music. As I commented before, I'd love to pick your brain on your compositions, your arrangements, how do you go about your drum programming, your mixes. That stuff fascinates me! I'd love to be able to compose a 1 min song with just drums, guitars and bass that would sound so full and complete as yours. 2 cents from an old dude! Keep it up man!

I think firstly, do the content that excites you. I would rather watch someone do XYZ thing but see them genuinely care than do it just cause. That being said, I would say maybe find a niche that you like and stick with it? I see channels like Rhett Shull and I see whatever he is doing, it comes off as genuine since it's just him talking on a particular subject. Tours, recording, gear, etc. That being said, I personally really like your QC content and picked up your preset on it since it sounded the most like me. Since I am new to the unit I wanted to see how someone more familiar with the unit sees it and builds things while I get into the all-in-one mindset again (had a Headrush for about 5 years and now analog for about 2). Maybe get into a new thing like mixing and bring us along for the journey? I personally like that sort of "learn with me" type of videos.

Hey Justin, I'm just a random person who watches your videos occasionally because I appreciate your perspective and laid-back personality. I think your editing is quirky and fun, and it comes across as authentic. Your natural and authentic approach is a plus! I would love to see more videos where you discuss the mindset and skills needed to play in different settings. Not many people who talk about playing in church have also toured in non-worship bands, but I believe many of us are interested in the differences and similarities between these two dynamics. I think your authentic approach combined with these perspectives could fill a niche. I'm not sure how big the niche would be or if you would be interested in exploring these topics, but there does seem to be some discussion about "can it do worship" in gear videos and the characteristics of worship guitar in relation to good technique in other genres. At least, that's what I find interesting. All the best!

Someone is asking the question we’re all wondering! I’ve noticed a bunch of larger creators have declined on their standard threshold of views per each upload. I imagine most of that is COVID fallout and people not watching KZfaq videos as much. But I’m glad you asked this question Justin.

IMO lean into what you like and be different! There are a million channels that do gear reviews and product launches. But there are only a handful of channels that talk about maximizing the gear you have, and using that gear to make more music. You are one of the few channels that covers Quad Cortex so that's what I like to see, but I'd be interested to see what you think deep diving into different types of effects, or building out tones to match a song (or not if that's your approach, sticking to your tone!), getting ready to play a gig, etc. Or even non gear stuff, like learning new songs and rehearsing and finding gigs.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who is supporting the channel! It doesn’t go unnoticed! If you’re willing to share some ideas on what would be your ideal channel, I’d be so grateful! 1. What types of videos in this space make you feel like you have to click on the video and watch it front to back? 2. What editing style do you like? Quick, fast-paced? Cinematic? Raw? 3. What in music do you actually want to learn more about? 4. If you could describe your dream KZfaq music channel, what would it look like? 5. What do you feel like you're missing from KZfaq Guitar, Gear, and Music channels? 6. Do channel memberships interest you? What would you want from a channel membership though KZfaq or Patreon?

I'm happy there are guys like you, promoting this kind of stuff so I can buy cheaper second hand tube amps haha :)

Really great video! Thanks for doing a demo and a walkthrough!

Can you add amp sim profiles of the amp VSTs in your DAW onto the Modeler? Or is it made to profile only hardware?

How are your initials JM and you're a guitarist and you don't have a Jazzmaster?!

I still have that same sweatshirt! And I love this take. I went through the same thing, but I purposely avoided Strymon pedals and Gretsch guitars 😭 and I even sold my compressor pedal because it was ALWAYS ON and I realized I lost all dynamics in my playing. I also agree that some church guitarists are absolutely amazing, but I have realized I am not that guy.

Maybe I missed it, but is the Strat yours or was it borrowed? Surprised you even have one if you seem so against it. Great video, it was really fun! I love the point--if you have a guitar you can play worship :)

yo se q muchos guitarristas puristas no van a poder superar q el quad cortex suene mejor q un amplificador real desde de aqui con mis cascos en la prueba dije no puedo creer q el QC sea A sin ver el final oseo ya sabia q era el QC y en verdad ya no se trata de q el QC suene a el acs1 antes al contrario como hacer sonar el acs1 como el QC duelale al q le duela el QC suena mejor q el amplificador real y eso lo han dicho ya muchos

Don’t forget that you’re allowed to use the tone knob on a strat.