Re: Neural DSP Quad Cortex / Archetype Plugins Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:59 pm
There's a really helpful reddit thread identifying what amps were modelled for each of their plugins.
Petrucci: Per u/JimboLodisC "looks like the new Petrucci is an acoustic sim for the Piezo amp and the other three amps are the 3 channels of a JP-2C"
Nolly: all amps have been modded by Nolly himself.
Amp 1 is a Bogner Shiva clean channel
Amp 2 is a 2203 Marshall JCM800
Amp 3 is a block-letter Peavey 5150
Amp 4 is a Victory V30 Countess modded to the point where it is barely recognizable according to a quote from Nolly
Plini:
Roland JC120
Friedman BE100
EVH 5150III (some newer EVH iteration of it). [Although it's been said that one of the amps is supposed to be a Divided by 13 amp.]
Abasi:
Amp 1 is probably based on a Morgan AC30 with the added Blend control for piezo-sequel tones
Amp 2 is the one no one really seemed to be sure about. Lack of a Mids control led people to believe it was some Orange, but it could just be a custom sound.
Amp 3 sounds like another version of a 5150 with the contour switches added
From another user: "I'm pretty sure the second and third amp from the abasi pugin are respectively: a Morgan boosted with a Friedman BE-OD pedal, and a Morgan boosted with the Abasi Pathos pedal. That's what his tones are based on in real life and all the knobs and switches match."
Fortin NTS: Fortin Satan Natas.
Fortin Nameless: Fortin Meshuggah signature amp (absolute monster on extended range guitars).
Tim Henson
Pink amp is a JCM800
Black amp is basically an acoustic simulator
Henson said channel 1 of the white amp is a Matchless. Channel 2 is an amp sim
Cory Wong: ??? (The first one is an original creation (DI run through an SSL channel strip and probably something else), the second one is some sort of mix of clean amps (Roland and Fender?), and the last one may or may not be modelled on a Dumble amp).
Per u/rsmseries
My best guess is that the Cory Wong Amp Snob is this Dumble Overdrive Special (it’s not his ODS, the estate sale thing is obviously a bit… I believe Mason of Vertex isn’t the owner, but has had it on loan from the owner for a while). This video was posted not too long before the Cory Wong plug in came out IIRC.
Gojira
Amp one is a vintage tube amp, but we don't know which. Could be a Fender.
Amp 2 is an EVH Blue channel per Nolly. (Note the 2nd cab is an IR using a 1967 20 watt greenback g12m25! Source is Nolly in a video where he is mostly nerding out about Vintage 30s.)
Amp 3 is most likely an evh 5150 of some sort.
And as for the difference between Parallax and Darkglass: They are pretty different animals with different goals in mind. Darkglass is a simulation of two pedals (B7K Ultra and the Vintage Ultra; the Vintage Ultra is voiced differently than the B7K (a bit more mid-focused than high-mid)) whereas Parallax is more of a mixing tool.
Parallax is essentially bass processing in a box (i.e. it does the usual parallel (actually three way) processing of bass signals for you). The advantage is that it gives you fast results, the disadvantage is that it doesn't let you choose what distortion or compression is used, i.e. not really giving you much if you know how to mix bass (see here and here for example) apart from maybe being a bit quicker, but then you might also want to consider Aurora DSP's Mammoth for that (which has three types of distortion but a bit more limited controls).
And in all cases: There's a a 14 day demo, so you can always try before you buy.