Using the QC just for effects with a tube amp and cab

Quad Cortex
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Hey have my QC arriving in two days. I bought it mostly for ease of use for gigging. I also just purchased a Friedman BE 100 deluxe half Stack head and cab that I use for our practice room. My question is does anyone use the QC as just their multi effects? Ultimately I’d like to capture my Friedman and use this for gigs I don’t load in my amp to. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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I’m sure there are people that use it just as an effects pedal. I was like you. I captured my tube amp and now use my QC and nothing else. I love it and hope you have the same experience.

My Engl captures were so good I sold that amp. The other great part is that the QC is always evolving and new amps/effects will keep being added.

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QC might be overkill for a pedalboard replacement. Limited effects and not enough switches might also be an issue. Perhaps an HX Effects would be a better option for that scenario. But I’m certain QC would work very well too.

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Exactly what I may be doing, or using the QC as a switcher with a couple of other pedals, but substantially reducing my pedalboard size. Yeah, sounds like there is a lot of dissatisfaction with the pace of updates, but so far every demo I’ve heard sounds really good. Right now I have a Timeline, a Mobius and 2 H9’s on my large pedalboard, and I don’t use but a portion of all the effects on them. How many choices for delays, modulations and reverbs do I really want? I already can spend many hours trying to find ones I like on my existing pedals, and it really seems like most of the P&W, and Rock stuff I do use just a few “common” types of each. Hoping the QC will do all that by the time I get it, whenever that turns out to be!

I don’t fully understand the Hybrid mode stuff and need to, but not sure that will really impact the way I work, as I typically do presets for most songs or generic presets for types of songs - I have midi switchers on my 2 existing pedalboards because I don’t want to do the pedal dance, so I don’t see much use for me of the Stomp mode…

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Look for 4CM but just use send and return on the QC, don’t use the way it is wired in the manual ( it’s shitty) otherwise it works and sounds perfectly.

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Can you expand on the cabling here. How do you set it up?

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Sorry for the late reply…

Gtr>CABLE>QCinput>

{Frontblocs>}

QCsend>CABLE>(Pre)ampinput>

{tonestack>}

Ampsend>CABLE >QCreturn>

{Time-basedfxblocks>}

QCoutput>CABLE >Ampreturn>

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