Hi Guys,
I just got my second QC (went to analogue before 
) and putting it on a board but my band uses mono for the FOH and I use stereo at home. How do I quickly reconfigure my home stereo presets to mono for the band? Is it merely by selecting âoutput1â instead of âmulti-outâ in the preset? Or is there a better way? I dont want to be messing with cables.
Ta in advance,
Jim
Honestly, I think the easiest thing, especially if itâs going on a board is to get a Radial Highline Stereo. Not only is it a line isolator but it has a sum to mono switch which means less preset tweaking in the Quad
There is a Global workaround you can configure:
I made a blank IR Cabinet capture available on my Cloud account. If you put it at the end of your presets it will sum to mono without affecting tone.
If you have it in all your presets, all you have to do to switch them to stereo is disable cabs from the global Cabinet Bypass option
what did you name the IR. couldnt find it. ty for sharing.
Didnt they ay they fixed this on the last fw release? Or maybe i was having a dream.
Hi, I have just found this post and I think it could help solve my issue of sending stereo to FOH with outputs 1&2, and sending to onstage frfr cab with just output 3 on a separate row.
Do you know if this summing to mono through blank cab would cause any phasing issues? Thanks
Summing to mono will most likely cause phase issues if you are using effects like- doubler, stereo chorus, stereo reverb. Thatâs just how certain stereo effects work, even with other modelers. Unless youâre using pong pong delay I would suggest just using the left output of your single for a mono feed. Otherwise youâll most likely have strange phasing
How many presets do you use? Summing to mono can cause issues and Iâd want my gig setup to be the best sounding I can. Might be easier to have gig presets in mono and home presets in stereo.
I havenât noticed any phasing issues from stereo reverb when summing to mono usung Xushâs magic âmonoizerâ block. There will always be some phase artifacts from time based effects like chorus and flanging, even if you use mono versionsâŚthatâs part of the effect. Of course, the doubler isnât really usable in mono. Itâs so easy to use, just give it a try and see if converting your preset to mono is acceptable. If not, set up a mono preset and compare the two.
the biggest difference Iâve ever noticed is ping-pong delays. Not had much trouble with anything else, but of course, you have to run your setup thru it to really be sure.
If your chain depends on a syncopated ping-ponging stereo delay for a particular feel, collapsing to mono will ruin that feel. Basically it feels like doubling the speed of the repeats. However, if you donât collapse a ping-pong to mono and just use 1 output instead of the pair, you will only get one side of the repeats and your feel will be âhalved.â Same goes for any stereo effect- you will lose one side of the effect if you switch to a single Output.
Best bet is, as recommended elsewhere, to create your presets for either mono or stereo from the start. The summing workaround is mostly intended for emergencies where thereâs no time to edit/tweak.
Hi @xush I am having some trouble downloading this preset. I click the link and see it in the cloud, but when I download, nothing synchronizes to the Downloads folder on my QC. Maybe I downloaded it previously and forgot about it? When I search my device, however, it does not show up anywhere. Any ideas?
Maybe a more technical question - I thought I would recreate this block using the null mono IR file from Strymon available here, which they provide for a similar use case. Looking at the WAV file in the time domain, itâs what I would expect with an impulse near t=0 and nothing after. Using it on my QC, however, results in an extremely low output level. I will continue to play with it, but I would be curious if you had to adjust levels to keep things consistent when switching the IR block on & off.
I may have found a workaround, but still would be interested to hear feedback on the questions above.
Background: When adjusting the IR loader on the QC itself, there is a small power button just above the phase button. This disables the IR convolution, but (as far as I can tell) preserves all other processing within the block. I use this sometimes when I am switching between amp captures with & without cab, but I want to preserve the room reverb from tab #2 of that block. I donât see a way to access this feature within Cortex Control; it seems to only be available on the QC itself.
Workaround: IR blocks with the convolution disabled still respond to the global bypass setting, so it is similar to using an IR block with a null/neutral IR. I will play with it some more to see if there are any obvious downsides to this approach.
