What are your thoughts on using standby vs. shutdown when not using the QC? Obviously, if you’re taking it out on the road, you’re shutting it down anyway, but what about just sitting in your studio day after day? I’ve been putting it in standby if I thought I’d play with it again that day, and shutdown at night. But now I’m thinking, why not just keep it in standby all the time?
More or less the same power consumption in standby as with the unit on. It just mutes the outputs and turns off the display.
Just don’t want to degrade it’s life by leaving it in standby vs shutdown for longer periods of time. If that’s a thing…
I shut it down if I know I am not going to be using it all of the time. The startup time is quite slow, but I have noticed in standby mode that my Quad Cortex gets really hot and heat is devastating for electronics in the long run. I tend to just shut down most of the time.
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Mostly i shut it down
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Standby if connected to audio gear (e.g. FRFR, PA etc.) to avoid the pop when starting and I believe someone measured the power draw when in standby and it was considerably less than being on etc.
I contacted customer support and asked this question. They said that it’s fine to leave it on standby for extended periods of time. Speeds booting up considerably.
Mine stays hot in standby mode so I only use it for small amounts of time. If its longer than an hour I’ll just shut it down. Thats just me
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I don’t use Standby (mainly because I’m a bedroom player and don’t need instant start 
) , but I read elsewhere that somebody had the same ‘stay hot’ problem with StandBy , and he was able to reduce the heat by switching to an empty preset before going to StandBy …
Honestly, the ‘StandBy’ mode should be enhanced to be a ‘real’ standby mode , and not only a ‘screen off’ mode … (but that’s one more Qol feature that should have been here since v1.0 , and the backlog is pretty long at that point...)
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My Quad Cortex has regularly stayed in standby mode for weeks and months at a time since buying it in 2021. In the summer I’ll opt for shutting it down because it gets hot here, but for at least 8 months of the year when it’s cool, it remains in standby most of the time and it’s a tank. Four years and counting.
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I start and shutdown the unit several times per day or leave it on sometimes while I’m away for an hour or so or not playing. All good so far. The unit seems pretty solid a year in. The promised effects and functionality not so much but that’s another story covered endlessly.
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