ALOT of people are about to buy this and find out exactly how hard it is to mic a guitar cab and have it not sound like AIDS. Dont get me wrong. This a cool product and all but they make it seem like getting great captures is easy peasy ........ people are about to find out it's not lol
@@fleekwoodmac3705 yep, neural didnt know how to get more sales with this product...people just want some unit to use their plugins live or modelers in a tiny option, most of guitar players dont have the space to get a good rec of an amp to get a good capture, and they need to buy the capture from profesional studios....not a good deal
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.
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 🤷♂️
You know what I'm thinking... Line 6 is watching this and would probably release a revamped version of the hx stomp with all the bells and whistles and with a touch screen. That Fx loop I think is a miss on this.
@@parmeshgurung right? Especially with this unit. With the tonex it’s not quite as bad because it doesn’t have trs outputs (as far as I know) so you have to use a DI box with it anyways. But with this having trs outputs Neural DSP wants you to use it at the end of your chain and that doesn’t really make sense for me.
@@flixbert it would have been great pedal platform. Using with other pedals would have been super-nice. For the cost a FX loop could have been easily adjusted. I love neural products but lately their product has been miss for me.
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
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.
@@MrNeedlekillerI think by “capture” OP means that without an fx loop for putting wet effects, they won’t be sent to your computer when using the unit as an audio interface because they are after the pedal.
Everything Nano with a Cortex is ... .... sounding great ... This ain't no marketing BS but comes with captures from well respected pro musicians like Rabea Great stuff with a very reasonable price tag
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 😎
Yours is a very helpful look at this new unit - thanks. I was totally into it, especially due to the brilliant inclusion of the drop tune feature - something I otherwise accomplish with a Digitech The Drop. However, I‘m totally sad that Neural forgot to think of us singers who also play guitar, with our need to route the guitar‘s signal to a vocal harmony pedal for proper harmonies. How to route the Nano for that purpose? When the drop tune function is on, one would need to send that signal out to the vocal harmony pedal BEFORE any other effects, including amps and cabs. No apparent way to do so. :-( As otherwise have pointing out, the lack of a Send is a glaring omission. Otherwise the Nano would have been a huge hit among singers who play guitar and want something flexible on their pedalboards. For me, it will be a pass.
Haha, agreed, very important question. I have to disappoint you though, that's a fake plant and I don't know the name. Maybe we should call it Rudolf. Rudolf, the fake plant. Sounds good to me. :) //Kris
A basic readout of some kind with a minimum of the preset name and num would be very useful, maybe even necessary. In the place of the lds, this could have been done. And why did they not put a drive block along with a capture block. As is you can either have a preset with a drive pedal capture, an amp capture, or a drive pedal and amp capture.
It's crazy how literally every single video about this was uploaded exactly 6 hours ago. Like, holy damn, does the marketing really need to be THAT controlled??
I'd go for a bit warmer lead tone for the second part, but looks very cool unit, when starting out to gig, for anyone looks like a nice priced ones. The most I used plugin is Petrucci Archetype, I wonder if they go parallel with the plugins, or how much tone differs in the hardware unit, and have no idea if I could see the tone differences when compared to others, can one exactly know which hardware modeler sounds this way, or sounds better? Nice vids Kris&G Very nice playing!
Since this is clearly designed to be the tonexs competitor and they are both designed to be on a pedalboard, can you please compare how they take drive pedals please?
Interesting, but isn’t it getting a bit silly with all these boxes? How many different ones do we need? I feel like this is territory that HX Stomp, Axe-Fx, and others have covered 🤷♂️
Yes, there are presets already and with the app you can change and tweak them. You don't even have to capture your own amp or pedals, there are tons of captures in the app already, made by others. You can choose from those too and use them as you like. Cheers //Kris
So...as we await the day when a single piece of portable hardware (with massive DSP) can load all of our 3rd party plugins latency free...is my understand correct that this thing can capture any signal? As in, could I run my guitar into my DAW, then output into this device and "capture" any given tone that I might want available for live use? Or is the "capture" limited to drive pedals, amp/cab?
This is also probably the ultimate acoustic guitar pedal. Anyone with a high-end acoustic is going to want to take advantage of the capture feature so they can run their expensive baby through it's own custom IR.
Thanks for the honest review! The Full QC has the ease of programming on the device, I can’t imagine it would be easy on the Nano. How long before people start calling it the Nemo!
An Effects loop is something the audience will never hear any sort of difference on. This pedal is simple and sounds amazing. The Hx sounds cheap. This pedal is worth it if you want good sampling with clarity. I don’t need a screen, or an effects loop, I need something that sounds like Neural.
A demonstrator for a retail store doesn't have the luxury of openly liking or disliking what they've demonstrating. Their job is to inform you about what it can and possibly can't do, how and where you might use it, and how it relates or differs from similar products. It's up to you to like or dislike it.
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
i am incredibly excited about this, i can finally afford to have all those amazing captures 🥹 people hate on this lil thing way too much, because their expectations were set too high with the short movie, but for me, this is EXACTLY what i needed, i have NEVER been this excited about a piece of gear other than my guitar
If ToneX one didn’t exist it might have looked like an okay deal. Nicer than ToneX pedal in some ways such as effect quality, worse in others no screen, capture quality, need to use your phone etc. This is more like a bigger more expensive ToneX one due to its lack of screen.
I never have been a Neural DSP fan and this toy hardly will make me to one. Much too digital, synthetic, plastic tones for me. With real tube amps they have little to do, at least not for me. But I anyway never used such a pedal instead of a real tube amp.
Kemper can't manufacture the Player units quick enough to keep up with the demand. The PLAYER has 10 banks/performances with 5 presets/rigs per bank, switchable with footswitches. The Player has 4 pre FX loadable from a selection of dozens of delays, reverbs, chorus, flanger, vibe, Leslie, pitch, compressor, Boost, overdrives, Octaver, etc etc, and two post FX and a switch to turn FX on/off...all adjustable on the actual unit. Plus an XLR Out. Plus thousands of IRs and Cabinets, Bluetooth audio, Kone technology, and it hasn't had one update yet. How is the Nano a Kemper killer?
Hell yeah, great demo Kris! 👏
Dude, thanks so much. Right back at you, really great job with this Solar. Epic guitar! 🤘Cheers buddy //Kris
ALOT of people are about to buy this and find out exactly how hard it is to mic a guitar cab and have it not sound like AIDS.
Dont get me wrong. This a cool product and all but they make it seem like getting great captures is easy peasy ........ people are about to find out it's not lol
@@fleekwoodmac3705 yep, neural didnt know how to get more sales with this product...people just want some unit to use their plugins live or modelers in a tiny option, most of guitar players dont have the space to get a good rec of an amp to get a good capture, and they need to buy the capture from profesional studios....not a good deal
I don’t think even the retailers are excited about this
The only overexcited things are the revenues of Neural
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.
Tonex One does exactly this for £150.
@@davidcjuppuhm… no?
@@davidcjupp Tonex is not in the same league, it sounds ”ok” but does not _feel_ at all like Cortex or Kemper, Tonex feels hollow
@@PetePohjanniemiscientific reasoning behind your argument ? I don’t think so. Source , trustmebro
@@PetePohjanniemi Sure.
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 🤷♂️
You know what I'm thinking... Line 6 is watching this and would probably release a revamped version of the hx stomp with all the bells and whistles and with a touch screen. That Fx loop I think is a miss on this.
No fx loop in modern times is just a huge miss.
@@parmeshgurung right? Especially with this unit. With the tonex it’s not quite as bad because it doesn’t have trs outputs (as far as I know) so you have to use a DI box with it anyways. But with this having trs outputs Neural DSP wants you to use it at the end of your chain and that doesn’t really make sense for me.
@@flixbert it would have been great pedal platform. Using with other pedals would have been super-nice. For the cost a FX loop could have been easily adjusted. I love neural products but lately their product has been miss for me.
To make this gigable you need to add at least 2 or 3 pedals, which would be already more land state than the Quad Cortex. Missed opportunity indeed.
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
There would be zero savings for Neural so why would they drop the price?
I'm glad to see the market is still offering tons of multi-FX. What a great time to be a guitarist !
It's not multi FX.
It's 3 fixed FX presets.
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.
What effects after the nano would you want to capture? You can't capture any modulation, delay or reverb...
@@MrNeedlekillerI think by “capture” OP means that without an fx loop for putting wet effects, they won’t be sent to your computer when using the unit as an audio interface because they are after the pedal.
This is EXACTLY the type of Demo I was looking for!
Thank You Kris!
Glad you liked it! //Kris
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.
Thanks so much man, really glad to hear that. 🙌 //Kris
Not again Kris.. I want one 🤣🤣
Good straightforward demo
Thank you Kris
Appreciated as always👍
No compressor, overdrive pedals OR power supply.
Whaaat, we had no idea about this was coming :D.
I like that you can use your phone as a screen. slick.
This is great ! I did well to wait and Neural DSP delivered a good product for the price ;)
Everything Nano with a Cortex is ... .... sounding great ...
This ain't no marketing BS but comes with captures from well respected pro musicians like Rabea
Great stuff with a very reasonable price tag
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 😎
Wonder when eventide is going to come with a modeler.
Why didn't you mention the limited signal chain?
Yours is a very helpful look at this new unit - thanks. I was totally into it, especially due to the brilliant inclusion of the drop tune feature - something I otherwise accomplish with a Digitech The Drop. However, I‘m totally sad that Neural forgot to think of us singers who also play guitar, with our need to route the guitar‘s signal to a vocal harmony pedal for proper harmonies. How to route the Nano for that purpose? When the drop tune function is on, one would need to send that signal out to the vocal harmony pedal BEFORE any other effects, including amps and cabs. No apparent way to do so. :-( As otherwise have pointing out, the lack of a Send is a glaring omission. Otherwise the Nano would have been a huge hit among singers who play guitar and want something flexible on their pedalboards. For me, it will be a pass.
Two important questions.
Is this an actual plant on the table?
and
What's the name of the plant? (Not the botanical name!)
Haha, agreed, very important question. I have to disappoint you though, that's a fake plant and I don't know the name. Maybe we should call it Rudolf. Rudolf, the fake plant. Sounds good to me. :)
//Kris
Hi Kris! Did you record direct to the DAW with it?
You sounded marvelous as always (you have a great tone every time I hear you play).
Thanks for the vid but can you please bring back Julia. we miss her (i am guessing she is out touring and/or too busy)
The lack of effects and inability to play plugins makes this a bit of a turkey...
A basic readout of some kind with a minimum of the preset name and num would be very useful, maybe even necessary. In the place of the lds, this could have been done. And why did they not put a drive block along with a capture block. As is you can either have a preset with a drive pedal capture, an amp capture, or a drive pedal and amp capture.
Great review, it’s not run through several items mucking things up.
Kris, how can I achieve the kind of delay used in the clean intro part with a pedal? Is this effect so spacious because it's in stereo?
I just use modellers for recording, and I don’t use effects (I always use my plugins in post production. Will this be what I need?
I have and H90, Can I use the IR before FX ? Will it work stereo ?
It's crazy how literally every single video about this was uploaded exactly 6 hours ago. Like, holy damn, does the marketing really need to be THAT controlled??
i mean they cant upload a video on it before it is revealed, and when it is revealed, everyone wants to be the first to cover it, its just how it is
I'd go for a bit warmer lead tone for the second part, but looks very cool unit, when starting out to gig, for anyone looks like a nice priced ones. The most I used plugin is Petrucci Archetype, I wonder if they go parallel with the plugins, or how much tone differs in the hardware unit, and have no idea if I could see the tone differences when compared to others, can one exactly know which hardware modeler sounds this way, or sounds better? Nice vids Kris&G Very nice playing!
Thanks man! //Kris
Since this is clearly designed to be the tonexs competitor and they are both designed to be on a pedalboard, can you please compare how they take drive pedals please?
Interesting, but isn’t it getting a bit silly with all these boxes? How many different ones do we need? I feel like this is territory that HX Stomp, Axe-Fx, and others have covered 🤷♂️
So does this unit have presets already in it that are ready to use at your disposal
Yes, there are presets already and with the app you can change and tweak them. You don't even have to capture your own amp or pedals, there are tons of captures in the app already, made by others. You can choose from those too and use them as you like. Cheers //Kris
So...as we await the day when a single piece of portable hardware (with massive DSP) can load all of our 3rd party plugins latency free...is my understand correct that this thing can capture any signal? As in, could I run my guitar into my DAW, then output into this device and "capture" any given tone that I might want available for live use? Or is the "capture" limited to drive pedals, amp/cab?
This is also probably the ultimate acoustic guitar pedal. Anyone with a high-end acoustic is going to want to take advantage of the capture feature so they can run their expensive baby through it's own custom IR.
Thanks for the honest review! The Full QC has the ease of programming on the device, I can’t imagine it would be easy on the Nano. How long before people start calling it the Nemo!
Did you run it in a FRFR cab ?
I wonder how it compares to Tonex pedal. This one is definitely more expensive.
I Just Bought the Tonex Pedal 8 hours before the release of the Nano Cortex. This hurts me...
Lol, return it
An Effects loop is something the audience will never hear any sort of difference on. This pedal is simple and sounds amazing. The Hx sounds cheap. This pedal is worth it if you want good sampling with clarity. I don’t need a screen, or an effects loop, I need something that sounds like Neural.
to much options for a non display unit in my opinion ...cool Demo by the way😊
Lack of stereo input was a huge mistake.
Tune with an evertune guitar 😂. But we got it 😉
If they were to match the price of a ToneX pedal, sure.
Does anyone if you can use the plugins on this?
You cannot use the plugins on this.
@@svelle37 I don't get why not?
Capture them. @@samerbata
You can capture the tone of any plugin actually same as any amp
This or The Kemper Player?
Kemper player. It has more available effect blocks
Wololooooo
Do you ever test something you don’t like? 🤔
A demonstrator for a retail store doesn't have the luxury of openly liking or disliking what they've demonstrating. Their job is to inform you about what it can and possibly can't do, how and where you might use it, and how it relates or differs from similar products. It's up to you to like or dislike it.
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
OMG
No compressor! What! Buzz kill...
Crap - unusable device :D
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Its good to be a guitarist now..., not so good to be a musician.
500 beans for this 😂 cant move blocks stuck with how it comes and cant model . What the fuck are they thinking
i am incredibly excited about this, i can finally afford to have all those amazing captures 🥹 people hate on this lil thing way too much, because their expectations were set too high with the short movie, but for me, this is EXACTLY what i needed, i have NEVER been this excited about a piece of gear other than my guitar
If ToneX one didn’t exist it might have looked like an okay deal.
Nicer than ToneX pedal in some ways such as effect quality, worse in others no screen, capture quality, need to use your phone etc.
This is more like a bigger more expensive ToneX one due to its lack of screen.
fucking looses no computer app
Thank you Romans 10:9-13❤
Fifty fiftieth hehe
Last. 🤘😆
//Kris
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses 😅👍
overpriced tonex pedal
The Tonex has effects?
@@thelolguy007 yes compressor, noise gate and reverb
15th
I never have been a Neural DSP fan and this toy hardly will make me to one.
Much too digital, synthetic, plastic tones for me. With real tube amps they have little to do, at least not for me.
But I anyway never used such a pedal instead of a real tube amp.
I like buttons but to many buttons is to many buttons is to many buttons.
Second!:)
Kemper dead (again!)
Kemper can't manufacture the Player units quick enough to keep up with the demand.
The PLAYER has 10 banks/performances with 5 presets/rigs per bank, switchable with footswitches.
The Player has 4 pre FX loadable from a selection of dozens of delays, reverbs, chorus, flanger, vibe, Leslie, pitch, compressor, Boost, overdrives, Octaver, etc etc, and two post FX and a switch to turn FX on/off...all adjustable on the actual unit.
Plus an XLR Out.
Plus thousands of IRs and Cabinets, Bluetooth audio, Kone technology, and it hasn't had one update yet.
How is the Nano a Kemper killer?
fourth🎉
Second, hehe
First, hehe
when will be available????
Now on thomann
@@vincentbourely71 BOUGHT IT!