Not sure this is the right section, but…
I ordered the QC from Sweetwater on December 18, 2020. I had a Fractal FM3 on order, but decided to go with the QC as it looked amazing according to the specs and the limited videos and reviews.
Also, it was supposed to arrive on February…
I only received it on May… I used it initially with a Tech21 power cab60 I had before, trying all the presets. They sounded, honestly, quite bad…
I did research over the web, and decided to buy a full FRFR speaker (got the headrush FRFR-108). It improved the sound a bit, but still, nothing close to what I expected.
I was trying different models to get the sound I wanted (I had a LoneStar before, so I knew exactly how it should sound), but could not get it to sound the same, even when I used all my original settings.
I have seen reviews of the Neural DSP SLO-100 plugin on YouTube, but even when I dialed the exact setting on the QC, I could not get the same sound. I know how an SLO-100 should sound, and it was not even close.
As of now, I have two presets I made and I keep tweaking them to get the sound I want, but I’m getting very disappointed. My old Line6 POD 500HD (which is ancient) sounds better!
There are very limited effects, and most of the amp models sound so so…
Captures are another hype: It might work for someone who captures its own settings, but a capture is only good for the specific settings it was dialed for the process. If I want another settings, the gain and tone controls really do not work as in the real amplifier or real model.
I tried to use same settings as John Petrucci described in details for the JP-2C+; There are many captures of each channel of this amp, each with different settings, but nothing close to what JP described. I spent hours tweaking them, adding EQ together the tight sound (actually, it is the best sounding preset I had).
The same problems were with captures I got from the cloud. Some users made detailed description of the amp settings. In my case, I tried the MarkV, but again, the tone was way different than the real amp.
Bottom line: VERY disappointed. I wish I could get my money back…
There are some amplifiers that MUST be in any modeler (Mesa Boogie MarkV, Bogner XTC, Morgan AC20, DrZ, just to name a few). Captures do not help (see above).
I listened to some of the plugins by Neural DSP, and if the QC could just do that, I would be happy (especially the SLO-100 plugin with its effects).
I would appreciate an honest reply from Neural DSP.