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Not quite. But xmas is coming up, and G66 UK and Fractal might have a pre-Santa prezzie for me that I need to pay for!!Is it gear purge time
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Mongillo19
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Thinking the VP???
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Someoldqueenorother
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They finally got the relic Fractal hats in, right?
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They're doing me a custom one that says "Voldemort drinks Bud" across the top.
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My biggest concern would be heat, but I love it otherwise. I’ve considered replacing the battery under my QC pedalboard with my TC BAM200. But again, heat. (Decided to go FR10 instead.)Have anyone seen this before? It's pretty clever. I only stumbled upon it when I was looking for a stereo combo amp for my modeler. I don't even own the QC, I just thought it was a really neat solution. Basically, it's a 280W stereo power amp that you place underneath your QC. Seems very compact. Only downside, I guess, is that it might be a little unintuitive to step on the footswitches when they are raised like that...
QC Amp Base 280
With the QC Amp Base 280W, you transform your Quad Cortex into a compact, lightweight, and portable guitar amplifier setup.shop.ritteramps.de
Edit: It even features a power outlet for the QC so you only have one power cable going to the board. And an option to include an additional power output in case your incorporating it with other pedals/wireless unit/whathaveyou.
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I'm having so much fun with the Axe3 and MarkV that I am truly thinking that the QC might get sold.
I've been teetering on the edge of selling my QC for months. It's still a very fun device but yeah just quite redundant for me.
Slightly OT but I've never really played the Recto models of any modeler since like the Pod XT days. I started messing around with the one in the Axe 3 and tweaking it with LT's video suggestions and really digging it. Even had me checking in on prices for the little Rectos...
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Somehow I completely missed the memo here: OMG THE PLUGIN BLEND BLOCK INTRODUCED IN V3.0 ACTUALLY HAS ALL THE USB AUDIO CHANNELS, AND ROUTING CAN BE ASSIGNED PER SCENES!!!! This is about 90% of the functionality I'd begged for from Helix for about a decade, and from QC for about 3 years. And when it finally showed up... I didn't notice for a couple of months. 
By my way of thinking, "Plugin Blend" is basically the same thing as "FX Return", except way more versatile. I think it would be more straightforward to do away with Plugin Blend, Transparent Blend, Return 1, Return 2, Return 1/2, etc., and just have a "Return" block with all of the routing options found in "Plugin Blend". Then add a "Send" block with same. But I'm not going to split hairs here, since what they've done is so close to exactly I'd hoped for in 3.0, and something that I assumed the architecture couldn't support (since HX and QC both omitted it for so long.)
Previously, if I wanted to "inject" USB audio from an external source back into QC, and apply QC effects, I'd have to use an Input block, thus clobbering an entire lane. And depending on how I wanted to manage the send to that external device, I'd have to clobber another lane and fiddle around with Split/ Merge assignments. Now I can drop one block inline with an existing guitar amp/FX path, assign an expression pedal to the "Blend" control, and Bob's my uncle. AWESOME!!!
Pro-tip: The blend control doesn't (yet?) feature any kind of Log/ Linear/ Curvature control, which can make crossfades a little abrupt, depending. I was able to tune this by also mapping the expression pedal to a preceding block's (e.g. amp cab EQ) level control, then adjusting the minimum value to dampen the QC signal vs. external signal as external signal is faded in. Works perfectly!
Quad Cortex - the Modeler So Nice I Bought It Twiceâ„¢
By my way of thinking, "Plugin Blend" is basically the same thing as "FX Return", except way more versatile. I think it would be more straightforward to do away with Plugin Blend, Transparent Blend, Return 1, Return 2, Return 1/2, etc., and just have a "Return" block with all of the routing options found in "Plugin Blend". Then add a "Send" block with same. But I'm not going to split hairs here, since what they've done is so close to exactly I'd hoped for in 3.0, and something that I assumed the architecture couldn't support (since HX and QC both omitted it for so long.)
Previously, if I wanted to "inject" USB audio from an external source back into QC, and apply QC effects, I'd have to use an Input block, thus clobbering an entire lane. And depending on how I wanted to manage the send to that external device, I'd have to clobber another lane and fiddle around with Split/ Merge assignments. Now I can drop one block inline with an existing guitar amp/FX path, assign an expression pedal to the "Blend" control, and Bob's my uncle. AWESOME!!!
Pro-tip: The blend control doesn't (yet?) feature any kind of Log/ Linear/ Curvature control, which can make crossfades a little abrupt, depending. I was able to tune this by also mapping the expression pedal to a preceding block's (e.g. amp cab EQ) level control, then adjusting the minimum value to dampen the QC signal vs. external signal as external signal is faded in. Works perfectly!
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Yes you did !! The only maniac in the entire solar system with "dual quads"
This makes you the undisputed leader of the new school !!Now go and rock the nation !
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Umm, pretty sure I could say something here, but I'm abstaining - more or less.Yes you did !! The only maniac in the entire solar system with "dual quads"
Now go and rock the nation !
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Actually, I doubt this is even true.
Don't leave us hanging. Say it!Umm, pretty sure I could say something here, but I'm abstaining - more or less.
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TRIO QUADS FOR EVERYONE
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I mean, ya gotta have something to play in the bathroom, amirite?
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You're killing me, man.
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I... think so?
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What do you use it for?Somehow I completely missed the memo here: OMG THE PLUGIN BLEND BLOCK INTRODUCED IN V3.0 ACTUALLY HAS ALL THE USB AUDIO CHANNELS, AND ROUTING CAN BE ASSIGNED PER SCENES!!!! This is about 90% of the functionality I'd begged for from Helix for about a decade, and from QC for about 3 years. And when it finally showed up... I didn't notice for a couple of months.
By my way of thinking, "Plugin Blend" is basically the same thing as "FX Return", except way more versatile. I think it would be more straightforward to do away with Plugin Blend, Transparent Blend, Return 1, Return 2, Return 1/2, etc., and just have a "Return" block with all of the routing options found in "Plugin Blend". Then add a "Send" block with same. But I'm not going to split hairs here, since what they've done is so close to exactly I'd hoped for in 3.0, and something that I assumed the architecture couldn't support (since HX and QC both omitted it for so long.)
Previously, if I wanted to "inject" USB audio from an external source back into QC, and apply QC effects, I'd have to use an Input block, thus clobbering an entire lane. And depending on how I wanted to manage the send to that external device, I'd have to clobber another lane and fiddle around with Split/ Merge assignments. Now I can drop one block inline with an existing guitar amp/FX path, assign an expression pedal to the "Blend" control, and Bob's my uncle. AWESOME!!!
Pro-tip: The blend control doesn't (yet?) feature any kind of Log/ Linear/ Curvature control, which can make crossfades a little abrupt, depending. I was able to tune this by also mapping the expression pedal to a preceding block's (e.g. amp cab EQ) level control, then adjusting the minimum value to dampen the QC signal vs. external signal as external signal is faded in. Works perfectly!
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For me, this is almost always about routing audio to Jam Origin MIDI Guitar on iPad, then getting audio from a soft synth back into the QC signal path, as simply and flexibly as possible. But it applies to any effects plug-in where you’re sending audio in and out via USB (i.e. to a computing device in absence of another audio interface.)
