Studio gear capture

Hello, I wanted to ask if the Quad Cortex could also sample studio recording gear such as hardware compressors or equalizers, is it possible? Thank you :slight_smile:

Yes, although compression will not be captured as an effect, only the coloration the circuit imparts- if any.
We’ve captured several chains of EQs and preamps at my studio, and other users have stuff on the cloud too.

I call the results “subtle.” Some like the flavor they impart, esp for vocals or acoustic guitars, but in most cases you really only get a minor, slightly noticeable result. Nothing’s really impressed me personally as worth the trouble.

Unless you’re going for saturation- there are some great captures of tube preamps and plugins for getting a warm saturation.

There are also a few captures of euro-rack synth modules that yield a distortion unlike any guitar OD I’ve encountered, those are kind of cool.

I think you could capture the EQ at a specific setting but you would only have the standard controls in the block so you wouldn’t have the multiple bands from the original EQ. I don’t think you’d have much luck with a compressor since a capture is somewhat of a “static snapshot” of a device at a specific setting. Any gain or EQ changes in the block are estimates of those changes on the actual device, within the limits of the block’s parameters. You’d have no control over things like ratio, attack or release. Not sure how well it would capture the dynamic modifications of the comp. You might have success with something like a mic preamp, if you just want to add the “flavor” of that pre to your signal chain. I’m only speculating. There’s one way to know for sure.

Thank you guys! Is all as i imagine, yeah maybe is cool with just preamps and stuff like that :call_me_hand:

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Check out STL Controlhub. It basically does this in a proper UI.