Neural DSP Quad Cortex review

One of the most hotly anticipated floor modeling units is here to make you rethink your rig

Neural DSP Quad Cortex
(Image: © Future / Olly Curtis)

Guitar World Verdict

A digital all-in-one rig with seemingly limitless possibilities, top-quality sounds and a user experience that makes tweaking both rewarding and pain-free, the Quad Cortex represents a new standard for floor-based amp modeling and multi-effects units.

Pros

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    User-friendly design.

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    Big screen can display entire signal chains.

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    Endless supply of tones.

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    Compact, tough and portable.

Cons

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    No desktop app or looper yet.

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Neural DSP is no stranger to delivering high quality amp modeling – see its stellar roster of plugins for evidence of that. So when the Helsinki-based firm showed up to last year’s NAMM with the Quad Cortex floor modeler, you’ll understand we got pretty excited about it – in fact, the whole guitar-playing world seemed to get positively giddy over the prospect. Not just because a revered software company had released its first hardware product, but what lay within its aluminum unibody.

From the off, the Quad Cortex promises unrivaled power in such a small footprint that Neural DSP calls it “the most powerful floor modeler on the planet”, stuffed with 2GHz of dedicated DSP power straight out of its Quad-Core SHARC processor.

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