For a moment I thought you were reading my resume - "a bit outdated and not so sexy" but then you said my XLRs werent in the way. Sounds like a great alternative and I LOVE the stereo FX return.
Those analogue cab sims always sound much better coming out of a big, loud PA system. At least that's what I find with my Quilter Superblock amps. For studio use it's definitely better to send the DI out through an IR instead.
It checks all the boxes for me. (Except maybe for size.) But I already have a Simplifier and am happy with it. I don't think I'd choose this over the Simplifier if I didn't already have the Simplifier, but I think it would be the only other option in consideration for analog amp & cab sim with DI, headphone out, and effects loop.
it's doesn't have to sound exactly like the given amps, is the zero latency and low power consumption there. i keep investing in analog solid state, and it keeps getting better. DSM Humbolt, Tech 21, Hughes & Kettner, and Quilter ... it's just a more sensible working solution.
Quilter made me sleepy! 🥱 Will rewatch. After surgery last Friday. Still recovering! Can lift a guitar for 2 weeks! 😢. Really interested in the stuff. Breaking Pre amps from Power amps, and mix and matching!
Looks brilliant at £300. Di box. Headphones. Sub in. Because it's analogue it will hold it's value and be relevant as it's own sound when the latest digital stuff is in the bin. Will always be very useful device. I've got the "latest" digital stuff from 10 yrs ago it was the bollocks now just old digital stuff. 👍😎🤘😃
Great video man. Very informative. Just wanted to ask you a question since mentioned that u gigged this pedal. Aside from the stereo XLR outputs, what do u use for a monitor? I mean the DSM SIMPLIFIER X has a 1/4 " out where u can go to a cab without using the cab simulation. When u r going straight to FOH, are monitors not really necessary? Thanks for your answer.
Thanks very much for your great unbiased review. I primarily gig with a Tech 21 Blonde and various pedals before the T21 basically as a DI 'Twin'. I recently bought a Quilter Phantom Block for back up and found it very good as long as you don't have the gain up. The Quilter is just OK with pedals IMO, my test is a Fulltone Full Drive 2 which sounds grainy with the Quilter but not with the Tech 21 Blonde. Quilter definately have their 'sound' AND the Limiter is very useful. I may consider buying the Quilter as it fits the bill for use in my genre of jazz/soul/blues in a small club/theatre gig setting.
Fine sir, you have given this unit an exceedingly thorough and fair shake, given us ample (very telling) sound samples and lots of honest thoughts on it. Your channel stands out of the crowd (as always). Back to topic: The market is now rich in choices (thank you, kind market!). Ease of use, also in a digital modeler? Now also available: See something simple like an ACSI1 (with the newer firmware), a Two Notes Opus (gets way too little love!), or even the stellar Katana Go plugged into a tuner pedal (so you don‘t have to dangle it from you geetar with a dinky little cable). Any of these will get you miles farther than the Quilt, and also with ease, no (or very little) „option paralysis“ and great responsiveness (low latency). That said, I like this blue box for quick-and-dirty. If I hadn‘t yet bought all of the above (and more, like the Ampero II Stage), and if I were kinda starting out, the Quilter would be quite attractive, especially because of its effects loop (stereo, plus switchable to mono - amazing!) and no-nonsense approach. I am now going to watch this video to the end - not as a potential buyer of the Quilter, but because I enjoy your honest reviews that truly give prospective buyers the orientation they need (i.e., that which a „review“ is supposed to do, but nowadays rarely does). P.S. I love how you work hard to ferret out and praise ALL of the unit‘s virtues, despite also finding its faults. Quilter can be very content with the this review, even if it doesn‘t just lavish praise on the unit.
@@scottbecker3485 Could you run it through a DI into a PA and get some good sounds out of it? I’m thinking about it for a low cost solution for the occasional times I play electric guitar in church. I normally play acoustic.
@@im58woody Yes and no. Yes to running into into a PA for electric (sounds quite good enough to my ears, when run into my EV Everse 8), but perhaps no to using it with acoustic guitar, as well. Somebody wrote that the jack is somehow not wired in such a way that it would work with piezo pickups as commonly used with acoustic guitars. I‘ll be testing that out next, though (as soon as my twin toddlers permit). That all said, the Boss Katana Go (if you can find one) might be a better option for mainly acoustic, since it offers all kinds of EQ pedals not available on the Micro Mustang +. The MM+ does, however, have a button on the side for stepping through EQ variations. Have yet to test that on electric. Back to acoustic: If a recall correctly, somebody else wrote you can use some kind of adapter plug/cable to make the MM+ usable with acoustic. We shall see…
@@scottbecker3485 Thanks for the quick response 👍 I was thinking about plugging the MM into my NUX Acoustic Stageman DI box and then running my guitar cable into it and just bypassing the acoustic preamp when using the MM for electric guitar. Then when I play acoustic bypass the MM if that’s doable. I probably wouldn’t play both guitars at one service simply because it’s a pain to switch between them. So I would just leave the MM out of the equation when playing acoustic.
Man, this reminds me of the interblock 45. I could not get a great drive tone from that direct. I like the DSM or even my sansamp direct compared to the direct tones from quilter. The amped stuff through cab though? Amazeballs. I like quilter a lot.
The logo is outdated in the way that It will become a nostalgia piece in 10 years or so, changing it would be a big mistake like when peavey changed their logo.
The LIMITER goes a long long way in making these sound and feel more natural. Supposedly akin to adding amp sag in the dynamics. It's what made me fall in love with my problock 200
I like it. Simple, handles dirt pedals, probably good in the mix. No, not amazing when playing on its own, but I can use sims or a 5 watt amp for that.
That's what I was thinking, the Classic Lead 80 speaker. That is basically a re-issue of the old Rola G12-80, which is one of my favorite speakers ever.
Since you're always honest, I will be too. Should be a very powerful unit (as they're a great brand) but they really need a redesign of their user interface and show a sensitivity to typography in their information design.
As guitarist have we gone nuts? Have we forgotten excellent devices such as the tech 21 fly rigs...... And this latest offering is only $400usd...nope....
Don't think I would miss the power amp since my SBUK has been my main amp (direct no cab) for a few years now. Now we finally get foot switches...great BUT no foot switch for amp selection. Would rather have that than limiter & reverb switches. Oh well.
So with the sound of the unit being - at least - questionable (to a degree that you suggest also buying a separate IR loader), the 2 XLR outs being what every mid-tier multi fx has anyway (or that could be done by adding a stereo DI box to one of the cheaper ones) I don't see any situation where I would chose this one over e.g. a NUX MG30 (which btw also has only a latency of around 2ms)
This thing is a semi-pro toy. $200.00 USD more you can get one of the Friedman real tube preamps and an Art SLA-1 260 watt RMS studio quality power amp.
Is still not good sounding enough and too HUGE… for simplicity I have the Tcelectronic deluxe 65 and sounds truly great, also my Tonex one it’s simple and sound truly good , sold my kemper Player and my UA after getting my tonex one and the TC . Thank you for the great review 🎸👏🏻❤️
@@natearchuleta2003 After thousands of hours of usage, I can safely say, there are no digital artifacts with this thing. I would challenge anyone to find any and present the evidence.
@@sirius_li How exactly is it not stereo? What exactly are we not "stereofying?" There must be something I'm not understanding here. If you're talking about stereo input, then I'm not sure why you would need that.
For a moment I thought you were reading my resume - "a bit outdated and not so sexy" but then you said my XLRs werent in the way. Sounds like a great alternative and I LOVE the stereo FX return.
Those analogue cab sims always sound much better coming out of a big, loud PA system. At least that's what I find with my Quilter Superblock amps. For studio use it's definitely better to send the DI out through an IR instead.
Thanks for the review! Sounds chilly. Needs warmth.
It checks all the boxes for me. (Except maybe for size.) But I already have a Simplifier and am happy with it. I don't think I'd choose this over the Simplifier if I didn't already have the Simplifier, but I think it would be the only other option in consideration for analog amp & cab sim with DI, headphone out, and effects loop.
it's doesn't have to sound exactly like the given amps, is the zero latency and low power consumption there.
i keep investing in analog solid state, and it keeps getting better.
DSM Humbolt, Tech 21, Hughes & Kettner, and Quilter ... it's just a more sensible working solution.
Quilter made me sleepy! 🥱 Will rewatch. After surgery last Friday. Still recovering! Can lift a guitar for 2 weeks! 😢. Really interested in the stuff. Breaking Pre amps from Power amps, and mix and matching!
We are coming back to sansamp idea!
Looks brilliant at £300.
Di box. Headphones. Sub in.
Because it's analogue it will hold it's value and be relevant as it's own sound when the latest digital stuff is in the bin. Will always be very useful device.
I've got the "latest" digital stuff from 10 yrs ago it was the bollocks now just old digital stuff. 👍😎🤘😃
been waiting years for you to check out Quilter
Great video man. Very informative. Just wanted to ask you a question since mentioned that u gigged this pedal. Aside from the stereo XLR outputs, what do u use for a monitor? I mean the DSM SIMPLIFIER X has a 1/4 " out where u can go to a cab without using the cab simulation. When u r going straight to FOH, are monitors not really necessary? Thanks for your answer.
Thanks very much for your great unbiased review. I primarily gig with a Tech 21 Blonde and various pedals before the T21 basically as a DI 'Twin'. I recently bought a Quilter Phantom Block for back up and found it very good as long as you don't have the gain up. The Quilter is just OK with pedals IMO, my test is a Fulltone Full Drive 2 which sounds grainy with the Quilter but not with the Tech 21 Blonde. Quilter definately have their 'sound' AND the Limiter is very useful. I may consider buying the Quilter as it fits the bill for use in my genre of jazz/soul/blues in a small club/theatre gig setting.
Fine sir, you have given this unit an exceedingly thorough and fair shake, given us ample (very telling) sound samples and lots of honest thoughts on it. Your channel stands out of the crowd (as always). Back to topic: The market is now rich in choices (thank you, kind market!). Ease of use, also in a digital modeler? Now also available: See something simple like an ACSI1 (with the newer firmware), a Two Notes Opus (gets way too little love!), or even the stellar Katana Go plugged into a tuner pedal (so you don‘t have to dangle it from you geetar with a dinky little cable). Any of these will get you miles farther than the Quilt, and also with ease, no (or very little) „option paralysis“ and great responsiveness (low latency). That said, I like this blue box for quick-and-dirty. If I hadn‘t yet bought all of the above (and more, like the Ampero II Stage), and if I were kinda starting out, the Quilter would be quite attractive, especially because of its effects loop (stereo, plus switchable to mono - amazing!) and no-nonsense approach. I am now going to watch this video to the end - not as a potential buyer of the Quilter, but because I enjoy your honest reviews that truly give prospective buyers the orientation they need (i.e., that which a „review“ is supposed to do, but nowadays rarely does). P.S. I love how you work hard to ferret out and praise ALL of the unit‘s virtues, despite also finding its faults. Quilter can be very content with the this review, even if it doesn‘t just lavish praise on the unit.
Now we have the Mustang Micro to play with too😮
@@im58woody Oh, yes, dear fellow GAS friend. 😅 And indeed, I got mine 3 days ago. Loving it a lot.
@@scottbecker3485 Could you run it through a DI into a PA and get some good sounds out of it? I’m thinking about it for a low cost solution for the occasional times I play electric guitar in church. I normally play acoustic.
@@im58woody Yes and no. Yes to running into into a PA for electric (sounds quite good enough to my ears, when run into my EV Everse 8), but perhaps no to using it with acoustic guitar, as well. Somebody wrote that the jack is somehow not wired in such a way that it would work with piezo pickups as commonly used with acoustic guitars. I‘ll be testing that out next, though (as soon as my twin toddlers permit). That all said, the Boss Katana Go (if you can find one) might be a better option for mainly acoustic, since it offers all kinds of EQ pedals not available on the Micro Mustang +. The MM+ does, however, have a button on the side for stepping through EQ variations. Have yet to test that on electric. Back to acoustic: If a recall correctly, somebody else wrote you can use some kind of adapter plug/cable to make the MM+ usable with acoustic. We shall see…
@@scottbecker3485 Thanks for the quick response 👍 I was thinking about plugging the MM into my NUX Acoustic Stageman DI box and then running my guitar cable into it and just bypassing the acoustic preamp when using the MM for electric guitar. Then when I play acoustic bypass the MM if that’s doable. I probably wouldn’t play both guitars at one service simply because it’s a pain to switch between them. So I would just leave the MM out of the equation when playing acoustic.
Man, this reminds me of the interblock 45. I could not get a great drive tone from that direct. I like the DSM or even my sansamp direct compared to the direct tones from quilter. The amped stuff through cab though? Amazeballs. I like quilter a lot.
The logo is outdated in the way that It will become a nostalgia piece in 10 years or so, changing it would be a big mistake like when peavey changed their logo.
Nice video, I wish these were class AB. That would have sealed the deal for me, for now staying with orange pedal baby for that reason.
This doesn’t have a power amp at all
I'm curious what your opinion on something like the Tech 21 PSA 2.0 would be. All analogue signal, Freq comp speaker sim, midi programmable, etc
... absolutely. thank you.
The LIMITER goes a long long way in making these sound and feel more natural. Supposedly akin to adding amp sag in the dynamics. It's what made me fall in love with my problock 200
I like it. Simple, handles dirt pedals, probably good in the mix. No, not amazing when playing on its own, but I can use sims or a 5 watt amp for that.
CL80 is presumably a Celestion sim
That's what I was thinking, the Classic Lead 80 speaker. That is basically a re-issue of the old Rola G12-80, which is one of my favorite speakers ever.
I wonder how this compares to the Strymon iridium? By the way, I love my quilter Mach II micropro.
That sounds really harsh. Surely they could’ve tailored the EQ in the speaker sim a bit better. Great video Henning.
Also - All rise for the Noodle! - We should collaborate on "That Poodle Show"?
Blocks of cheese are awesome.
How does it take dirt pedals? That's what I would use for distortion, so I would like to know. 🤔 Edit: I missed the Rattler part 🤦
Octopus at the beginning.
Since you're always honest, I will be too. Should be a very powerful unit (as they're a great brand) but they really need a redesign of their user interface and show a sensitivity to typography in their information design.
But if you want to send the L-R XLR's to FOH console and hear yourself on stage using a power amp, how are you gonna do this?
It sounds like my old Marshall DRP-1
Sounds like every solid state guitar amplification device made since the mid 90s. WTF is Quilter smoking??
At times it reminded me of the line out of my Peavey Rage 108 😅 I love the other stuff that Quilter makes, this one’s a pass for me.
❤ Solid state. When in the mix it at a gig it doesn’t matter so much. I think our man here has got some great sounding tones out of it?
Solid-state longevity versus digital inherent obsolescence.
Digital modelers offer LESS realism. Digital overdrive still sux.
As guitarist have we gone nuts? Have we forgotten excellent devices such as the tech 21 fly rigs...... And this latest offering is only $400usd...nope....
I’ve heard these units sound great. But never through phone speakers. BT it.
Just save up some money and go for the Fender Tonemaster Pro, easier to use and far better sounds and more possibilities
CL-80 = Celestion classic lead 80
The quilters sound great as clean amps... distortion is not too good.
The footswitches are sorely missing on the superblocks, just as the power amp is sorely missing on this amp pedal. So close.
Don't think I would miss the power amp since my SBUK has been my main amp (direct no cab) for a few years now. Now we finally get foot switches...great BUT no foot switch for amp selection. Would rather have that than limiter & reverb switches. Oh well.
So with the sound of the unit being - at least - questionable (to a degree that you suggest also buying a separate IR loader), the 2 XLR outs being what every mid-tier multi fx has anyway (or that could be done by adding a stereo DI box to one of the cheaper ones) I don't see any situation where I would chose this one over e.g. a NUX MG30 (which btw also has only a latency of around 2ms)
This came out literally a week after I crammed a second superblock on my board... Fffffffffffffff
Edit: I regret nothing.
This thing is a semi-pro toy. $200.00 USD more you can get one of the Friedman real tube preamps and an Art SLA-1 260 watt RMS studio quality power amp.
0:59 at least your face isn’t.
Such a simple solution to silent stage production
Is still not good sounding enough and too HUGE… for simplicity I have the Tcelectronic deluxe 65 and sounds truly great, also my Tonex one it’s simple and sound truly good , sold my kemper Player and my UA after getting my tonex one and the TC . Thank you for the great review 🎸👏🏻❤️
I see products like this and I keep finding myself thinking, "why not just get a Tonex?"
Simplicity. The guarantee of never having digital artifacts. But without a power amp it really does leave itself pretty limited.
@@sirius_li Not sure what you mean. I'm running mine in stereo absolutely fine.
@@natearchuleta2003 After thousands of hours of usage, I can safely say, there are no digital artifacts with this thing. I would challenge anyone to find any and present the evidence.
@@sirius_li How exactly is it not stereo? What exactly are we not "stereofying?" There must be something I'm not understanding here. If you're talking about stereo input, then I'm not sure why you would need that.
@@sirius_li For what?
When too much clear coat over an uneven sanding job goes wrong on an overpriced guitar😬 ouch
No tubes -> terrible sound wait ... somethings wrong here
... i feel so tricked and humiliated
12:55 sounds so bad
Tune yer guitar please...And why did you not plug it in a amplifier?
This doesn’t go into an amplifier… it’s just not what it’s made for.
Guitars out of tune is the reason why we love James Marshall Eytsch.
@@ingeronnabakk6844 I dont
@@EytschPi42 Have you tried it?