Killerfridge

Like, I get it, it just clearly isn't for me as an owner of it's big brother. I can see someone who just wants to utilise the huge capture library (and it is huge) as a preamp/overdrive/amp sim. But if I was in the market, I would get a Line 6 Helix Stomp no?

It's back, and it looks so so much better now that it's been finished:

I've been really enjoying the GOJIRA X plugin on the QC, you can get some really metal tones out of it:

She really shines in the "Sound Like..." series

Parallax is great if you like the multiband distortion sound (i.e. Djent), but it feels like the wrong tool for most other things. Not that you can't make it sound good, just it feels like you aren't using it for what it's supposed to be used for. The DG suite is essentially the VMT Ultra and the b7k Ultra with a cab SIM. Both sound really good, and I think it's a bit more versatile.

Yeah, something about it makes it look "cheap" to me. Like an old Peavey Grind, or the Harley Benton HBZs https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbz2005.htm

I assume you mean the Legendary87, which is based on a Urei 1176 (which is also what the Cali76 is based on), but it's attack times are about twice as fast as a Cali76, and as MrDinsdale mentioned, the Cali76 adds a fair bit of colour/saturation to the sound that the Legendary87 doesn't really replicate.

The Cali76 capture sounds great, I just need to pair it with an external compressor to get the full sound

That makes much more sense! 🤣

Interesting, how have you got a decent Cali76 replication?

I use the VT Bass for my general Ampeg sound. I think sometimes people conflate "has the Ampeg characteristics" with "sounds identical to this specific amp". The VTBass does a great job in giving me the general characteristics of the Ampeg sound (the way it drives, the way it responds etc.). If you put it side by side an SVTPro it won't sound the same, but neither does another identical SVTPro.

It depends on the sample size. But you're right that their conclusion was wrong. It reminds me of the times this happened on TB; testing tonewoods someone recorded a vintage P, then the same neck bolted to a piece of pine with the pickup in the same place (some of those details may be wrong, it was a while ago). It ended up being about a 60/40 split in the votes, so the conclusion was drawn: 60% percent of TBers have the golden ears to be able to hear the difference. 🤦‍♂️

I reckon paired with the Atlas you can get pretty close to the VulfPressor

There were a few things, and I'm not sure how much of it was the venues fault, and how much of it was the artist I was playing for: there was almost no push from the organiser (the venue), so the sum total of audience members consisted of the four bands; it was freezing cold; whilst the stage sound was great, the lack of audience (and the roof being the underside of a multistory carpark) made for 'interesting' acoustics; they wouldn't tell us the order of the bands in advance (I believe because they feared there would be no-one there if everyone just turned up for their slot). Everything else was pretty minor, like the venue looking closed from the outside so noone would even consider going in if they didn't already know of the event!

Christ, I hope you have a better session there than we did, one of the worst gigs of my life was at the AC!

I think I have an IR for either one of those Hartkes lying around somewhere...

I've only ever heard great things about these

Yeah the one thing I've not been 100% happy with were the compressors, but that was easy enough to fix on the pedal board The more you play with it, the more little tricks you'll find, I'm still finding new things with mine a year later (and with the new update bringing side chaining, I'm sure I'll find more)

I think the likelihood is "never". The problem is you would need to do a capture, change the controls, do a capture, change the controls etc. This would take an insane amount of time (assume 4 controls on an amp - gain, bass, mid, treble. In a really simple world each control can have 10 positions, and a capture takes 3 minutes. It would take 3 x 10^4 minutes to get a capture of every position, i.e. 500 hours. And those 500 hours would need to be man hours, as you would need to be there to change the controls every 3 minutes)

I'm not sure where you've been reading this - you are correct in that it captures a single setting (i.e. a snapshot of how your current device is setup), but you don't do anything in the capture process - creating a capture involves routing the pedal/amp/device into the QC and letting the QC do the capturing. It will then play a load noises/whistles at a range of different volumes/pitches/intensities through the device and listen to how the device reacts After the capture process is complete (a couple of minutes) you can then A/B the capture against the device (I'm guessing that's whatever you've read is referring to) to make sure it reacts the same way/sounds the same. Instantly, exactly the same as if you were turning a pedal on/off Easy answer to that one - the "modelled" amps in the device (the SVT/B15/GK800RB/Mesa 400 and a couple of others that slip my mind) are exactly that. You have the same controls for these models as you do the original amp, because as far as I understand they have just been captured at every possible position

Nothing super crazy, but I wanted to add a dedicated compressor to my Quad Cortex setup. After a lot of hunting and review reading, I narrowed it down to the Empress MK2 Bass, and the Cali76 MK2. The winner was...the Source Audio Atlas! I adore how much control I have in the Neuro app, and the ability to do silly routing options (such as running it as a 1176 at the start of my signal chain, and also an LA2A at the end) blows my mind. Great pedal, well worth the money.

I'm super interested in this one, but the attack times feel really slow (at least, coming from all the 1176 style compressors with <2ms attack as "slow")