Good tips for dialing in your live tone on the QC

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Some great tips, especially for those who are new to modeling. Even some useful concepts for digital veterans.

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Best one for me is - dialing in the ā€œfinalā€ settings within a live environment.
Having a good pair of studio monitors at home is one thing, but hearing the sound iā€™ve created at stage volume is a completely different world. (iā€™ve learned this myself at the first show with it haha)

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My relatively simple solutions:

  1. gig volume sounds drier. I have delay and reverb mix on an EP. Easy to make things as wet or dry as I want on the fly.
  2. gig volume is edgier. When I made the modeler jump I used HPF around 80hz, LPF around 6-7khz. I still had way too much fizz for my taste on a gig. Now I use an LPF around 4khz on the cab block. and also have an eq block last in the chain that I can tweak on the fly. While 4khz sounds low, the filter isnā€™t a brick wall, and I find that is much closer to a real guitar cab.

Everybody has different preferences, but for me, I really donā€™t want much above 5khz getting reproduced. Ymmv.

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Excellent tips, thanks for sharing! I also recommend checking out the presets shared in the video, they seem to be dialed in nicely!

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I used Josh Middletonā€˜s video to dial in my tone. And itā€™s the first time Iā€™m happy with my sound. https://youtu.be/HkSgTTGhwk0?si=CAnadx0gljoAKtej

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