New to QC. Couple of questions

Quad Cortex
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Hey! Wanted to thank you for putting together this long post. I’m pretty picky about my gear and my sounds and I need to know how things are going to respond. Sure if I spent a year messing with the QC I could maybe get it close but the fact that it doesnt’ sound as good as my tube amps isn’t going to change yet and that’s not really my biggest hangup. Hate the form factor. Too many switches for what I need to do. As I mentioned in my other post, I would much rather have a Dual Cortex or something like that (I know it does not exist but I’ve seen renders of what could be). I don’t need scenes and different modes and etc. Just more stuff I have to mess around with instead of using a tube amp that sounds better (to me) and using my pedals that work exactly how I want to and sound better (to me). It feels like, at least at this point, there are many many sacrifices to make just to sell me something different and not necessarily better. Sure I don’t like lugging a tube amp around but a small 1 x 12 combo isn’t that big of a deal. It’s worth the supposed inconvenience to me.

That’s just where I’m at. I know there are millions of people that love this stuff I’m just not convinced. All this stuff is great until I turn my tube amp back on and I get that warm and fuzzy feeling and remember how good that sounds.

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You’re welcome. I hope you land in a place where playing through whatever gear you decide on is enjoyable.

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This is a good question and it cool reading others responses and takes. I had a modest board for the longest time playing in a rock covers band live and recording original stuff. At 1st I was determined to use my pedals in qc’ loops and it was cool but to complex for not enough upside. I quickly went qc only with a mission audio exp pedal for way and other things, using qc in scene mode with 1 or better yet 2 exp pedals I’d argue it will closely approximate even the most outrageous setups. But take less stage space, less power connections, and you can easily put it on your desk as a recording interface or as I use it like outboard equipment, for example you can set up a pretty cool vocal chain and with routing have dry and wet on separate tracks and all that jazz. Hard to do that with it fixed to a pedal board.

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