Quilter Elevate

Quilter has quite a unique approach and the device is very well designed. It contains all your typical pedal board signal chain steps as "blocks" that you can tweak. There are a lot of presets and you can download more, but it is most rewarding to learn to create your own presets. You can take existing preset as a base and modify it, so there is no need to start from scratch. One important use case for me is to practice guitar with headphones and this is a great device for that also - just remember to adjust the headphone output levels properly to get the best quality sound! You can also connect audio via bluetooth so that way you can have backing tracks. Quilter has a great web app that you can use to manage the device with your web browser - that way you can also update the firmware very easily. So, there is no need to install any app on your computer or mobile device. Very nice approach! Now that I have learned to use the device I find this device very, very versatile and usable! I think you can get some truly amazing sounds out of it. It can replace your pedalboard and amps! Quilter has done amazing job with Neunaber! Can highly recommend this device, I don't think there are any competitor devices like this!

I had high hopes for this device, but I found it mediocre at best.

Pros:

- Amp tones are decent, ranging from clean sounds to high-gain djenty stuff

- Built-in effects are great

- Construction feels solid

Cons:

- It has a tiny, crappy screen. Navigation is difficult, and deep editing is extremely hard without a PC.

- The web app is buggy, very often it doesn’t register changes, or registers them with a 10 second delay.

- You can’t load your own impulse responses.

- Shaping your amp tone is complicated, and it’s unclear what to expect from the “Tilt” sliders.

- The signal clips at the input when I pick hard, even with passive PAF pickups. There is no input gain setting, and the manufacturer confirmed that I can’t do anything about it.

- No built-in overdrives or pitch shifter.

- No ASIO drivers, enjoy 100 ms latency.

I am sorry Quilter, but competition offers much more for less money.

Elevate is a genuinely exciting and forward-thinking unit because it actually does something different. Instead of being yet another digital box trying to recreate the usual Fender, Marshall or Dumble tones, it feels like its own take on modern guitar amplification — or an “anti-modeler”, as Quilter puts it.

The pre/post EQ and gain-stage architecture gives you a very deep level of tone shaping, especially if you enjoy building your own response and feel rather than just scrolling through presets. It does require some understanding, but that is also what makes it so rewarding.

The effects are excellent as well, which is not surprising given Neunaber’s involvement. Overall, Elevate feels like a next-generation approach to digital guitar amplification: compact, flexible, musical, and genuinely inspiring.