Signal chain - Where to place looper

Quad Cortex
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I’m running a QC with a stereo fx loop and just got an Aeros Loop Studio. The loop goes to an ML10X so I can switch in different combinations of pedals.

My first instinct was to run the output of the QC to the looper, and then the output from there to my interface. The downside is that I use the headphone output on the QC quite a lot and I could not use to hear the looper output this way.

Now I’m wondering if perhaps I should add it to the fx loop, after the ML10X. The downside here is that it somewhat limits the placement of the fx loop block to near the end chain within the QC, and I’ve gotten quite used to running most of those pedals at 100% wet and using the mix on the fx loop to mix them in, and I’d lose that ability when looping.

Anyone here that has done something similar? How did you do it? Should I just go with the first thought and run the QC output to a headphone amp like the Slow Gear or Walrus?

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I run a couple pedals after the QC. I run into a mixer and use the headphone out of the mixer. That might be useful to you for other reasons too but maybe a small mixer would be the most handy if you hadn’t thought of that.

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Yeah that’s one way to go, at least I think I’ll have to place the looper after the QC, and figure out a headphone monitoring solution after the looper. Could be a mixer or a headphone amp pedal.