I know there’s probably a way to finagle multiple EQs to do something similar to the Lusithand F1 Filter Bass Preamp, but it would be very useful to have all the controls in one block, and more similar to how it notches the frequencies.
You can already do this with the Parametric 3 or Parametric 8 blocks:
- Low-pass, high-pass, bandpass, notch filter, low shelf, high shelf selectable for each channel within the block
- Choose the frequency for cutoff / notch / boost for each channel
- Each channel has adjustable Q (Resonance)
- Each channel can be activated or deactivated separately, including with Scenes
- [I haven’t tried it yet but you should be able to] Assign frequency controls to an expression pedal
Parametric 3 alone already gives you more control than this pedal does. Parametric 8 is one of the single best blocks in the entire QC effects lineup. Get in there and tweak!
True, but you’d have to move both bands (since one band is working as the LPF/HPF and the other working as the notch) on each EQ separately and it just makes dialing in a tone a bit cumbersome. It would probably be easier if they updated the EQs to have the option of adjusting the res Q at the cutoff point of the low and high pass, for the sake of simplicity.
You can sign multiple Q points to Scenes or an expression pedal.
That doesn’t make it any less convoluted of a process, though.
Switching between two EQ channels within the same block is “convoluted”. Sure.
How is it not convoluted? I appreciate the suggestion, but the method of assigning the bands to expression pedals would require you to have 4 expression pedals to have complete control over it, and obviously, the QC doesn’t currently have that capacity. Even then, for it to work similar to the Lusithand, you’d have to be able to link both the cutoff band and the notch band to move together as one, and as far as I know, you also can’t do that on the QC either. I’m not saying your method is convoluted to be snarky, it’s just a statement of fact. It’s less convoluted if you’re just setting it and forgetting it, but that gives you much less on-the-fly control. The notch and the cutoff have to work as one, and your method unfortunately does not address that. That’s kinda the whole idea behind what Wal or Alembic style preamps sound like. As I said before, it would be an easier fix to include a Q control for the LP/HP cutoff frequency, but that’s also currently not possible.
You may or may not be able to do alm the stuff you want, but you can control 2 or more variables with one expresssion control. E.g. on my eq, i have a setting for neck pickups (trble boost) and for bridge puckups (slight teble cut and mids boost), and the expression pedal shifts the eq from one to the other, and of course settings in between. So 9 variables are being changed at the same time with one xp pedal.