I have an old harmony tube amp all original that I’m going to capture as well as a reel to reel tape machine, a heathkit fuzz/distortion. And will gladly share them with all.
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definitely first up: my early 80s Mesa Boogie Mark II-B at 3 settings: Clean - Crunch - Lead
then some of my pedals: REVV G2 & G3 | Sinvertek DriveN5 | JHS Morning Glory | perhaps a couple others
capturing pedals… what’s the best way?.. through the Boogie head… or my Quilter ToneBlock? will try both… and for a speaker cab: Port City 1x12 OS with 12" Neo Creamback…
and this will be a community of tone junkies sharing our stash with the masses… 
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Wait for the manual. My guess is, to capture a pedal only:
- Dial in a good sound with your pedal into your amp
- Connect the Capture Out (QC) to the pedal in
- Connect the pedal Out to the QC input
- Start capture
I don’t know if I’m right, but that would be the logical way to go.
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There is really only 3 of my amps that I plan to Capture, sane ones I profiled for my live gigs, Mesa Boogie TC 50, a Friedmam and an old Fender Twin… And for fun I’ll Capture my Kemper profiles… 
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Nice! I’m hoping to see a bunch of bass captures. I haven’t had a lot of experiences with micing amps, so I think I am going to start small first with bass preamps/DIs.
How is the Black Finger for bass? I often wondered if just getting an ART tube preamp would give similar results to the Black Finger.
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@D20 I like it a lot for use as a tube preamp honestly, I don’t really notice any relevant frequencies being lost and you get that slightly saturated tone everyone loves out of tube preamps.
My recording chain currently is a Starlifter for EQ into the Black Finger and that is my “DI”
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Super cool! Thanks for the info on it!
I forgot I’ll most likely try to capture my Atomic Bass Box DI also. Lately I have really been digging it.
I’m so excited to start making captures! Such an awesome time to be a musician!
I’m in Hamburg, Germany, but I will defnitely be visiting a buddy of mine in Malmoe/Sweden with the unit. I’ll capture his hand made “Lazy J Tweed 20” amp in his studio
I ordered with Thomann and their shop states delivery in “3-4 weeks”. I’m looking forward to this unit. I sold my AxeFx3 because it was a drag to edit it on the fly on stage. I just don’t want to see any navigation buttons anymore. And since the FM3 is basically the same with only 3 foot switches, the QC is more than welcome. I’m not at all worried about it not sounding great.
Cheers, Todde
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I just found a Music Radar video from Namm 2020 online, where they review and check the Quad Cortex. I could have sworn that I saw Marco Fanton of Fractal Audio fame on the other side of the table in the second half of the video, checking out the unit.
He might be “capturing” himself a QC in the near future, who knows … 
Cheers, Todde
Mmm still not sure how to capture a preamp or effect. I heard that you need a sort of loadbox for that , like a Torpedo Live? Amps with cabs of course do not need that, just a great mic will do the trick. But if you do not have a cab? Who has experience with this?
DI box from preamp out should do the trick for preamp if you can use your cab. If no cab then you need some kind of load instead of cab. Many load boxes also have di outs.
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Aha , or load an ir for a specific cab .
In Hamburg we will not be using cabs for anything. I have access to a studio with two well reputed sound engineers here in Hamburg. They want to check the unit too … 
Their plan is to use a UA Ox Amp Top Box. They say that they’ve had excellent results, in fact better than with real speakers and mics. I’ll be doing amps only at first. And I’m very curious if the captures react to the volume pot of the guitar, just like real amps do. Amongst various other boutique amps, the studio owner has a Komet head that kind of resembles a Trainwreck. A monster amp ! I’m looking forward to that amp along with the Lazy J Tweed from my buddy in Malmoe.
Cheers, Todde
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FWIW, the factory amp captures are without cab to allow use of user-selected cab sims.
I’m gona try to capture my newly bought ‘Blue sky’, would be cool to get a good capture of that.
who will sacrifice and capture a Klon Centaur?
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Reading your posts a question came to mind, would a reamp box, like Radial X-Amp, be beneficial while capturing ?
Because you could do
QC > hardware to capture > QC
or
QC > reamp box > hardware to capture > DI > QC
I’m willing to bet the Centaur is already on the model list. Myth Drive perhaps
now that you mention it…
I plan on borrowing a friends Marshall JVM215C and capture all channels and modes. Preamp only, full amp and DI.
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