Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Quad Cortex from Neural DSP. I want to love it. Can I? Should I? Here's things I like, things I don't like, and everything in between.

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0:00 Intro
1:32 Overview
2:00 Preset from scratch
3:33 My favorite feature!
4:28 The onboard FX and routings
6:34 Scene mode, dropouts
7:54 Two British sounds & Stomp mode
10:03 Output & presets misery
12:15 Two things I'm missing
14:03 KEMPER VS QUAD VS REAL AMPS
19:00 My opinion
21:24 Quad Cortex or Kemper?

Hi, my name is Paul Davids! I am a guitar player, teacher, producer, and overall music enthusiast from the Netherlands! I try to inspire people from all over the world with my videos, here on YouTube.

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