So my QC kind of sat idle for a while. I decided to hook it back up and see how the updates changed things, if at all.
Anyway, tried to capture the Beetronics Tuna Fuzz and the capture sounds terrible. It loses the top end sparkle and just sounds bland in comparison. Am I doing something wrong? I’m sure this has been posted a million times.
Just surprised. Seems to do much better with overdrives. No way I would use this capture for fuzz.
Fuzz doesn’t capture because of the clipping/gate circuits they use
Oh. For some reason I thought the QC did fuzzes and overdrives. Hmm.
It can handle some fuzzes, I captured a bunch of Big Muff variants last week.
It’s generally more accurate tonally than response/feel-wise
It just can’t replicate the bloom.
That ain’t really true. Listen to the “Magma” captures found on the factory captures that are captures of the Plasma Pedal which is a heavily gated fuzz and they work.
I have made several tries and found that a perfect in/out balance levels make a better capture.
It’s obvious that the machine uses compromises during the capture; sometimes they work better, other times they work worse. Additionally, there’s the issue of impedance: these pedals work well when the incoming signal has the impedance of a guitar pickup, not a line level. That’s why it would be much better if the impedance could be adjustable per preset rather than as a global parameter.
I’m being nitpicky here, but having adjustable impedance select per preset doesn’t change how the capture works. What you’re asking for is the ability to choose impedance during the capture process.
Even if that was possible, it may not be the only thing needed from a programming/neural network perspective in order to get more accurate fuzz captures.
this. a capture is not a model, so impedance won’t work
Would using an impedance correction pedal in line with the capture help? I have a pedal that allows me to change input and output impedance.
Tried adjusting the impedance at the QC level on input two to match the pedal output and that didn’t seem to help.
If The capture software can be updated at some point to capture fuzz that would be an actual game changer