I’m certainly still getting used to the quad. After many years of tube amps and analog boards I am happy so far with the quad on gigs, but still need some significant improvements: mostly for lead/solo presets and tones. More specifically once I get above the 12th fret (more or less) the sag, sustain, bite, growl, cut, etc etc thins out right when I need it most. Obviously this could be due to a number of factors—I’m wondering if the built in limiter is a strong factor? The signal is not clipping, my I/O settings seems to be healthy with decent headroom. My eq has essentially all the bass rolled off with the mids and treb boosted by +5-8 range. I am gain staging of course using overdrive pedals and gain settings and volume boosts on the amp captures—doing everything I typically would but I guess I am hitting a wall due to this my first time using such technology on gigs. I will say FOH techs are saying I’m cutting thru ok, but I definitely am not feeling the sag, sustain and dynamic contrasts that I am used to feeling in my hands. Long post! Thanks for any help!
Can’t necessarily speak to all of the tonal elements you are referring to dropping out, but too aggressive a setting on the noise gate in the input block (or elsewhere) can definitely kill your sustain. Try setting it off and see if that improves things. If so, you can activate it and fine-tune the settings. Same goes for a compressor set improperly.
“Having all the bass rolled off” may work for certain presets and on certain amp models but could also be impacting your tone on others.
Thank you—yes, all of those points make sense. I’ll look at all those parameters further