I’ve had my QC for a few weeks now and am absolutely loving it. I also have a UA Apollo x4 that I was running my Kemper through. Am I crazy or is there not really a reason to utilize the Apollo anymore? The investment in unison plugins is what’s keeping me from moving on. Anybody using these two together in some cool way I’m missing? I’ve been able to use the Apollo to help me “capture” the tones from my plugins though so that is nice. Thanks!
I’m running my QC through an Apollo 8. I love the UA plugins I have but the guitar stuff is pretty limited (and $$$$), so I just have my QC running in stereo all the time through the Apollo (inputs 3 and 4). Makes it easy to play and share that audio with others over Zoom/skype, record in logic, or listen in headphones or my monitors.
So I think the Apollo is useful in that regard, less so for the guitar plugins (though capturing them is a great idea, I think I may do this with the Fuchs Trainwreck plugin)
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It works like a charm capturing plugins. I know eventually the QC will be able to run the neural stuff but I got antsy and I’m glad I tried it.
I just feel like the Apollo may be overkill at this point. I’d rather buy another guitar lol
Hi there! I’m glad I found your comment. I just purchased the Apollo X4 and I’m trying to connect it the best way to my QC and Mac.
Right now I’ve connected my guitar to the front Hi-Z input of the Apollo, then line out 1 goes to the input 1 of the QC. Im running a cable to my amp from the ‘Out 3/L’. I have both the QC and Apollo connected to my Mac. I am getting sound through the amp and pro logic. I’m trying to get UA console to communicate with Pro logic as well.
In your experience is this the best way to optimize the QC and Apollo? How have you connected yours?
Thanks in advance!
I have basically the same setup. Here’s how I use the QC and Apollo together. I am using Studio One (substitute you DAW here) I run the QC into My Mac VIA USB. I run my guitar directly into the QC Input One.
On Studio One I set my Playback Device as the Apollo and my Recording Device as the QC. In this scenario Console is not used as input for the QC. You could run Stereo out of the QC into the Apollo which is how I originally setup everything.
But I feel using USB gives me better quality by keeping everything digital. There’s no latency that I hear running USB. Let me know if any of this is unclear.
I have an Apollo, Great River Pre, QC and an FM3. I’m having great success Capturing tones created on the FM3 and running everything into the Apollo and using UAD Plugins. I also use Studio One and varius gtr Plugins and Capture them. The ability to route everything thru UAD and other Plugins and Capturing them is just great. I have found that the FM3 Fractal is just a great device for creating amp tones. The editing capabilities in Fractal are unparalleled.
If you can imagine an amp tone it can be created with Fractal. I can see why Fractal is used by so many artists. The quality is unbelievably good and the effects are some of the best I’ve heard. But I still prefer to use the QC as my live rig. But it’s great having the FM3 as a backup.
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Are you using the 4 method cable technique ? I don’t know what suddenly happend to my setup but in the Quad Cortex in the headphones my guitar sounds better and in my DAW (studio one pro 6.5) it sound different and it affects my playing , it feels sloppy , and i use Apollo X4. What could be the cause ? It was working fine before and now suddenly spoof it sounds muddy and sloppy. When palm muting the guitar on the headphones everything sounds clear but in DAW bad. Maybe i don’t know how to setup the Apollo X4 or maybe something happend in Studio one ? Also why are you using the 16 samples Block size ?
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I am wanting this answered too, I also get feedback with my stereo Chanels with QC in logic playback
Could be how hard you’re driving the preamp of the UAD. I would make sure it doesn’t have the preamp modeling stuff on.
The preamps of these interfaces aren’t amazing, so they will color the sound no matter what. I would run the preamp as clean as possible.
Have you tried using the QC as the interface itself? I would check to see if there is any sound different just using it directly into your DAW since there won’t be an extra AD conversion like with the UAD in the chain.
I would double check your routing with the interface. Also it’s possible that the guitar sound is feeding back because of the actual monitors being loud near the guitar itself. Also see if it doesn’t feedback with headphones since the playback isn’t feeding into the pickups. Also make sure the output in the QC isn’t clipping. Otherwise it’s might be an issue with the preset itself having too much gain.
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Thanks, I’ll double check this, Its just weird that It only does it on stereo tracks.
Checking output in QC again