Unbox to first gig, in order
Ten lessons. Read them in sequence the first time — gain staging comes early on purpose, because levels you never set will get blamed on the amp models.
- 016 min
What you actually bought
Thirty-two slots, two parallel paths, and a touchscreen that is the entire interface. What that buys you and what it costs.
- 027 min
Your first fifteen minutes
Power, cable, input level, a sound. The shortest path from box to playing, with the two things that stop people at the first hurdle.
- 039 min
Gain staging, properly
The most-asked and worst-answered question about this unit. Five stages in order, and why the two pieces of advice that appear to contradict each other do not.
- 048 min
The Grid
Four rows, two paths, thirty-two slots. How routing actually works, and the one build worth learning first.
- 057 min
The DSP budget
Why the unit refuses a second reverb while the CPU meter shows a third, and why deleting things does not help.
- 068 min
Modes, scenes and setlists
A preset is a rig, a scene is a snapshot of it, and a mode decides which your feet are switching between. Get this right and the gaps disappear.
- 076 min
Playing through a real amp
Which output, which jack on the amp, and the one switch that saves you editing every preset by hand.
- 089 min
Your first capture
The two level controls that do completely different jobs, and the numbers that make your captures sit alongside Neural's own models.
- 096 min
Cortex Control and backups
The free desktop editor, what it does that the unit cannot, and the only sane disaster plan for three thousand presets.
- 107 min
Playing live
Gig View, the expression trap that bites mid-set, Wi-Fi that works in a venue, and a checklist for the door.