Neural DSP Nano Cortex | First Impressions With Kris | Thomann

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction and intro playing
1:15 Details and features
3:15 PLAYING | Checking out factory presets
4:56 Signal chain, IRs, tuner, capture, etc
7:45 How to tweak the pedal?
8:40 The transpose feature is crazy!
10:37 In- and outputs, connections
11:55 The app is kind of essential
12:38 Who is it made for?
14:20 Outro playing | clean LP

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[flixbert]

Naahh, I don‘t know what to think about this. The sounds are great, of course. But from a practicality standpoint… I wish they would have ditched the capture feature for an fx loop. Would have made much more sense for people who want to build their pedalboard around this (just like they do with the bigger Quad Cortex). I was pretty hyped about the rumors but now I guess I’ll stay with my hx stomp a little longer 🤷‍♂️

[Starscream]

Most comments seem to dislike this, but for me it’s absolutely perfect, if it sounds good. I’m short on space, and don’t use effects, just want one good pushed clean and one good chug tone, plus tuner and the transpose feature.

[markjohnson]

No compressor, overdrive pedals OR power supply.

[allboutthemojo]

Would be really awesome if they decide to do a unit with the exact same form factor as the original quad but without the tone capture feature for those that don't necessarily need that. That way maybe the unit price can drop by a couple of hundred bucks. Love having a big screen and the footswitches

[guitarpunkcovers]

I don’t think even the retailers are excited about this

[rovenordiales]

Without FX loop, all your wet effects/pedals after the nanocortex are not captured if you plan to use this as an audio interface, so without fx loop is really a deal breaker IMO. There is a space in the left side that they could've used..

Also I don't really see the point of the knobs in front if you would extensively use the phone app anyway for tweaking. In a live setting, you wouldn't generally adjust them anyway and even if you need to you can just adjust them using your phone. They should've put a touchscreen in there, ampero mini did this, no one really complained missing the knobs.

Then the signal chain is not really that much tweakable/re-orderable, the signal path is fixed as I understand. So I think an hx stomp still beats this functionality wise.

However, if the comparison is with Tonex...captures and stuff then I see the appeal. Just don't see it being the "heart" of small pedalboard builds without that fx loop.

[heikohesse]

is kind of cute - but no modelling? - I wish NDSP would finally present a decent live board (OctaCortex?), with 4 more foot switches, a full-size expression pedal, a full-size volume pedal and decent modelled amps - all these super mini mobile solutions are really starting to get a bit silly 😎

[adilsonobelard]

a big disappoint day and guess what FLOODING YOUTUBERS saying this shit is good and is not Double Cortex with display would be a WOW! but this shit?

[daya]

It sounds pretty cool for studio use, for live setup….hmm… I’m not quite sure how it will fit in my pedalboard. Simply redundant.

[tendingtropic]

are you playing stock/factory presets in this video? the last LP clean sounds great!

[iagobroxado]

I can't get over the fact this costs 550 USD and there's not a frigging simple display of any sort on the device.

[fincito]

The lack of effects and inability to play plugins makes this a bit of a turkey...

[jips]

When I want to engage the tuner and press and hold foot switch II: no tuner…..

[KaddysJamKave]

Is the succulent a cryptic message that this product sucks?🤣

[tendingtropic]

can this be powered by a strymon zuma?

[BlonderHans-keqt]

Two important questions.

Is this an actual plant on the table?

and

What's the name of the plant? (Not the botanical name!)

[DansMesCordes]

I'm glad to see the market is still offering tons of multi-FX. What a great time to be a guitarist !

[Souldoubtrocks]

Wonder when eventide is going to come with a modeler.

[AlexGiordaniMusic]

Inexplicably Overpriced...add 60 euro and you get an Ampero Stage....or Tonex plus Ua Ox Stomp. Neural pretend to be the Fender and the Gibson of the market

[SweetPablo]

I love his demos. He writes great riffs, and i like his style. Gives me a good idea of how I might like the gear.