Best guitarist/singer setup

Quad Cortex
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Shout out to the guitarist/singuers here: what is the best setup you found or ended up with, so you can (relatively) freely sing, without getting too much worried with stomping in the wrong switches on your boards?

Lemme explain a little more: right now my band (kaleidoskope) is basically a power trio, with me as the guitarist/lead singuer, a bassist (some harmonies) and a drummer. My setup consists of a Quad Cortex, a TC Helicon Voicelive 3 Play (image below only for representation), a Fractal EV2 expression pedal (remnant from an old setup), a Boss Compressor, MXR wha and the Shure wireless, all (hopefully) powered by the Cioks stuff.

First question: how do you guys reccomend I physically set up this thing? All in one bigger board, and find a way that is most confortable for me? Divideit in 2 smaller boards, one in each side of the mic stand?

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Second question: up until this point, my quad cortex setup was basically one preset per guitar (basically the same preset with eq adjustments) with 8 scenes:

  • ​4 scenes in the bottom switches (clean, edge of breakup, rock and heavy)

  • 4 scenes on the top switches, same as the bottom, but with some effects (clean with rotary, rock with doubler, solo with harmonizer, etc).

The expression pedal is used for soloing: it brings in a 3 db boost, a little bump in the mid freq, a little drive and the delay.

That’s the setup I use in all the songs.

Now I’ll incorporate the VoiceLIve thing and I want to find the easiest way to use everything, have a good sound, and no worry (too much) about the logististics of the whole thin, just focus on playing the best music for the audience.

So I am curious on how you guys in similar situations, with more experience handle this. It doesn’t have to be the same gear, obviously, just the concept. Did you divide the stuff? Do you use one thing to control the other (quand cortex controlling the Voicelive or vice versa, via MIDI)? Do you use a “per song” programming (I a lot about that, never tried it)? What else should I look into?

THanx a lot in advance for any pointers and tips.

Peace!

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First question - do you need the Voicelive?

I believe the QC can do everything it can but better, and you can probably get all of that on row 4 with input 2 if you wanted?

I’m toying with this idea myself as I might start doing backing vocals in my band.

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Not that I “need”, but I already have the VoiceLive, and some of my guitar presets use some effects in the parallel rows, so…

How do you program your QC? Per song? Scenes? Other?

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Ahh fair. Definitely don’t need to use it, would just mean you can have specific effects per scene etc.

I have a preset per song and then use scenes for different sections.

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