TRUE BYPASS into real amp

Quad Cortex
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Hello friends :slight_smile: I’ve recently acquired a new Orange Dual Baby and 2X12 cab for live rehearsals and shows.

In the my preliminary tests with the QC in front of the amp, it seems to drastically color the signal. I’ve been reading on here and Google but can’t seem to find an approach that TRULY BYPASSes, as if I were plugging straight into the amp.

Let’s say I just want to use the QC as a tuner, and have nothing on an entire row from in to out. I’ve read that I need to go out of the FX send into the amp, but the sound still changes.

Can someone help please?

Thank you in advance

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Unfortunately there no way to do that without additional gear.

You could use a two loop switcher like a JHS switchback or something similar to bring the QC in and out of the signal path.

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Digital device with ADC or DAC processes happening on all of the I/O. Definitely no option for true bypass without external gear.

Not sure what tone differences you’re hearing with and without the QC, or how you intend to use it with the Dual Baby (2 channels), but the whole point of the QC is to color the tone.

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A bypass looper pedal would work, put the whole QC into it, and switch in and out

I’d say a Keeley but they are discontinued

Maybe this:

I’d go into input I, output from Out3, Vol knob up full, delete all the blocks, just input and output

Theoretically you should be able to adjust the input gain and impedance and out volume until it’s unity gain and transparent…once achieved you won’t need the looper anymore

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If you had a switchable fx loop, I’d say run the QC direct into the fx loop return/power amp in, it sounds much better than into the front of the amp for amp captures etc

Then split your signal just before the QC with a Lehle P-Split, feeding the front of the amp with the other Lehle output,

and switch between the amp and the QC via the fx loop footswitch,

That’s exactly how I run my QC with my Diezel Herbert head, it works perfectly

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Thank you all for the feedback here. I recognize that the QC is designed to model amplifiers, and thus, colour the sound, however, I had also figured that a direct signal path, in to out would be transparent and not drastically effect the tone, which it is.

Ultimately, I am aiming for maximum flexibility and possibilities. On one hand, to be simple just using the Dual Baby, and QC as a tuner. But also, to run models and effects in while still hitting the Dual Baby power amp for some analog flavour.

Unfortunately, It seems I may have to use the splitter pedal to do so.

Thanks all

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I am no expert at all, but aren’t the levels completely different? I don’t think the QC is coloring your tone, but its output signal level should be 10 times higher than plugging in your guitar directly. So the amp gets a much higher input. Maybe this is your problem? Or I may be completely wrong or misunderstood the issue.