I’ve bought amps much more expensive than the Quad and only had 1 amp! I uses 3 or presets and that covers what I need, but have the option for more. Still much more cost effective than pedals and amps. Plus, don’t feel like you’re not getting you money’s worth!
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I use the same 3 tones for everything, (clean, gainy, solo) but change the FX and vocal effects on a per song basis.
So I have a preset per song, with 3-8 buttons is use depending on the song.
But the 3 core sounds are always the same.
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dang, didn’t know gorillas were such a demanding audience.
They go ape sh*t for good tone!
…I’ll show myself out
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I use a small number of presets mainly for instruments or songs that have something unusual - an acoustic tone, or some unusual effect. For gigs, I mostly use one preset all night. When covering a song, I attempt to get the spirit of the tone and feel of the song, but add my own interpretation, hopefully adding something to the song through playing it live with some variation. I like to use a consistent, predictable setup with consistent footswitch layouts so there’s no guesswork during performances. I don’t necessarily play the song the same way every time with the same tone, adding to the variation and interest for me and the audience. Its nothing extreme, just something to keep the music alive.
The preset has gain staging options for clean, drive, overdrive and lead with various effects like wah, phasor, compressor, Uni-Vibe, flanger, fuzz in front of the amp and chorus, Leslie, delay and reverb after the amp.
I used to do this with mostly stomp mode using two drive blocks to handle the gain staging into a mostly clean amp block. I like this because it gives a lot of flexibility. But lately I’ve switched to hybrid mode to use scenes for the gain staging, using the amp model to get the different saturation levels. I go back and forth about whether to gain stage through pedals, using the amp or both. They’re all good, but different.
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