i’m struggling to get a decent metal sound which has bite / chug, so i wanted to ask you guys what’s your experience so far. Maybe what you’ve discovered by using the Quad Cortex too.
Yes, i’m using beyerdynamic headphones (DT770), but as a friend mentioned i should get some studio speakers (although neighbours may getting annoyed)
He has a Mesa Boogie Mark V plugged into focusrite interface and uses the signal in Archetype John Petrucci inside of a DAW and this sounded like heaven.
But we both tried to get something similar from the Quad Cortex but failed.
Bought some Impulse Responses (from jens bogren) and put them into the Quad Cortex but this didn’t change the sound for the better.
Have you looked at input gain in regard to the guitar you’re using? That may cause issues with how hard the input is hitting the amp. Literally 99% of the demo videos of the QC are it doing metal sounds, so there has to be something weird with your setup
I’m trying to figure it out right now, not that experienced obviously. What i found so far is that my 6 string passive pickups guitar tends to give me better metal sound than my 7 string active pickups guitar.
I’ve tried it again today, but most amps which could be used for metal just sound poor. There is always punch / attack missing and lot of noisy frequencies.
I realize this is an old post, but I was wondering if you (or anyone) has had any success producing a decent metal sound through DT770 headphones or any other set of mid-/high-end headphones?
Maybe this was your problem to begin with? I play through a set of Genelec 8020D monitors + DT770 headphones. QC and plugins sounds great with the monitors, but any metal sound sounds crap through the headphones. Seems like the headphones are not able to produce the necessary bite/chug as you say…
Maybe it’s just my ears, but I also find the DT770 isn’t great for producing metal tones. It’s hard to beat studio monitors in a conditioned listening environment!
