Killerfridge

Fair enough. I know little enough about either company, but my initial thought when I saw the two-tone Headstock with the big "A" was Alpher - for all I know Alpher is based on their design!

The headstocks look like they've taken "inspiration" from Alpher, no? At least that's my first impression

Honestly I think there is a whole load of that "see digital, hear digital" problem, and its really difficult to get past. I know I suffer from it, and flip flops between my digital rig and my analog rig. However I definitely think this new era of modellers/capture devices (QC, Anagram etc.) have a very realistic "feel" to them. I know it's a rubbish comparison, but when compared to something like my old PodXT, the pod just feels dead.

100%. You can't necessarily hear a huge difference, but you can feel it when you play it. He did another video of "beginner with expensive Vs pro with cheap", and obviously the difference was in their playing. But the pro pointed out that he spent a lot of his energy fighting the instrument, rather than allowing it to be an extension of his body

I was asked to play this with a few days notice on a gig. Safe to say I didn't get it down by then, but spent another week or so trying to get it nailed down:

100%, really happy to see this in the update, was starting to fear they weren't going to do it! The speed and rate of these updates has really got me craving one

Honestly, they sound pretty much identical. The feel is significantly different though; I've always found the carbon fibre neck a bit 'sticky' compared the to the sanded maple neck. I've also now realised that every single one of my basses has a maple neck/maple fingerboard (apart from my currently out of action Warwick)

A buddy of mine was telling me he didn't like the chunkiness of the beautiful flamed and birdseye maple neck on his Stingray. By chance I have a Stingray with a thinner Status Graphite neck that looks a bit out of place on my honeyburst Stingray, so I offered to switch them. I don't have any photos of the red Stingray before, but I think they both look phenomenal now:

Look what you can now do... VID-20251128-WA0001.mp4

Having some fun learning some fills I've never gotten around to going - here's my go at the Thundercat/Mac Miller fill from What's the Use

Yeah I can't say how it works, but it definitely appears to work! It also turns out I "like" the settings I think I should like. I scrolled through the Cali76 captures until I found one I liked (no.29). When I saw that on CortexCloud they had annotated the captures with their settings, I went out to find a fast release/slow attack at a 4:1 ratio. Which capture was it? No. 29!

The new bass cabs should just be in the devices i.e. the cab block (I assume those are available on the nano cortex?)

Yeah you can't stack too many on any particular pair of rows without it having a moan at you

The monosynth is pretty silly:

Big update to QC - mostly in the free devices department. Lots of bass stuff in the update which is nice to see, inlcluding: New SVT Captures New Markbass Captures Aguilar Octamizer Mono Synth More bass cab IRs Big change in the way the captures work too (V2). A bit like the Helix Stadium, these are done in the cloud on a bigger machine and apparently appear to allow the capture of things like compressors(?!). Included in the capture list are the Cali76 (32 captures) and the DarkGlass Super Symmetry (7 captures) https://neuraldsp.com/quad-cortex-updates/coros-3-3-0-and-cortex-control-1-4-0-are-now-available

I've got a VTDI I can loan if you fancy doing a comparison. I think of the Sansamp as a "close enough" pedal. I'm using it to get the character of an SVT or B15, rather than trying to emulate an exact amp. I've found that just because something sounds more like the amp it's replicating doesn't necessarily make it better

The VT Bass has the 'character' knob that changes it from B15 to SVT to a mega aggressive drive (according to Tech21)

I enjoy them basically calling you out! 😁

Speaking of those 4 new blocks:

So that's really cool. I've had my reservations on the Anagram but this really gives me pause for thought. Not necessarily something I would use, but as @tayste_2000 said: that's a quick introduction. Not only that, but you can change the distortion engine, something the Parallax misses. Really cool

Sounding tight, really nice