Had Walking On the Moon stuck in my head so set out to learn it. Naturally I wanted to get an Andy Summers tone happening and for some reason thought he ran a JC-120 and Memory Man. But was able to put a QC patch together in a couple minutes, added an EQ pedal in there and it was pretty solid. Made a similar patch on the Axe 3 and it was just not happening.
Then did a little more reading and found out it was a Plexi with the gain low and Echoplex. Put that together instead and much better. This time the Axe wasn't bad but the QC still sounded a little better for it. Also the generic Flanger on the QC sounded more like Andy Summers than the Electric Mistress model. Maybe that's because there was like 25 parameters on the Fractal and I'm not sure what was the range or color knobs.
Also props to the HX Stomp, that was super easy to dial in and sounded great too.
I half decided to sell the QC yesterday and did a factory reset and was getting ready to take pictures and list it...but now again not so sure.
I get your general point here, but, uh, Fractal's factory Andy Summers patch is pretty bang on, and it has 8 scenes covering some of the subtle shifts he's made across the years.