Using Amps With Quad Cortex | Live Tones

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00:00 - Intro
03:17 - The Rig
07:37 - Rigged For This Video
08:55 - Patches and Tones
15:33 - Baritone Patches and Tones
18:32 - Master Volume
19:48 - Summary
Video edited by John Hollingworth
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[@andertons]

Sounds absolutely incredible man!! Loving the whole Vower thing 🤘🤘🤘

[@user-by6eb6zo7g]

Amazing how much presence and clarity the cabs add. I was never sold on modelers and cabs together with a real power amp, but this blend sounds great

[@user-df4gg1yx6f]

A few months ago I switched my tube rig for a QC with a PowerStage 200 running into my Zilla 2x12. I did it precisely to fit with this philosophy; cab for stage volume and XLR's for consistent sound to the console. I've always admired the tones you get both on and off the QC, so it's rewarding to see your presets are very similar to what I hashed out as I went. Thanks for sharing this Rabea!

[@stevemaass3074]

I’m a new QC owner, so this was a clear and fascinating explanation. Thanks, Bea.

[@BobSince1981]

Same 🙌🏻

[@herbfowler8046]

Looking forward to downloading these to my QC and playing around with them. Thanks, as always, for being so very awesome.

[@dalibins]

Im gald Im not the only one who adjusts the master volume knob with their foot.

[@StupidGuitar]

This is so great. Thanks Rabea

[@TheOut1awTorn]

Thanks so much for the video Rabea! Amazing! Keep up the top notch work! Its so appreciated and I look forward to seeing Vower on tour soon :D.

[@PaulWarrenMusic]

Nice Rabea! This gives me lots of cool ideas!

[@bogg4n]

Man, you always make great tones. Nice rig and rundown!

[@jasons.3921]

I really dig the new tunes.You've got lots going on right now. The Victory amps are monstrous sounding...but, what I'm completely in awe of is that badass wall of amplification in the background. Congrats on the studio and all you've accomplished. It's definitely been a journey.

[@Eddy-tx9wn]

Brilliant run down of your rig! Thanks for the time spent on it!

[@JarickL]

Loving my QC. I’ve had all the other modelers and this one is so fun and easy to use and the amps sound killer. Finally started capturing my pedals this week and it’s super easy and sounds great.

[@youknowhuwitis]

I love seeing you play your signature Ernie Ball, Rabea. Beautiful guitar and those were some very nice sounds indeed!!!

[@SlyRyFry]

Thanks a ton! I've been looking for this kind of info

[@Christian.Means.]

Very excited for the upcoming release bro! Really loving the two singles. 🤟😁

[@fabschinko6900]

Now I need a full video on that baritone tuning 🔥

[@mr8r3nd0]

Cant wait to download them dude, sounds absolutly killer.

[@dibpower]

This is a really nice content, dude!

[@christophermcclelland1556]

Also. Worth noting you can get the same effect with a good power amp and 2x12 cab. I run a Duncan power stage onto my 2x12 zilla fatboy and it sounds absolutely epic

[@sothisisadulting]

No disrespect, but stop building such incredible sounding rigs and gorgeous guitars. I can't afford being subscribed lol

[@CMFO83]

Dude thank you so much ….. this answers so much for me personally as I have been wanting to run my rig FOH + Amp on stage

[@vincentbourely71]

11:04 very Deftones's vibe. I love it, like all the presets. Impressive as usual, i can't wait to download them all ! Thank you

[@DaltPlaysGuitar]

Making me feel like a peasant when I show up with my super crush and like 4 pedals 😂 super cool rig and video!

[@thunderbirdcalls]

Huge fan of these sounds and this talk. Really getting into the post-punk meets hardcore and shred.

[@JoshCastleTCM]

Can't wait for this to appear on the Cloud!

[@eskilseter]

Loving the sound of those IRs; much more open and airy than your mic'd sound, which is usually not the case.

[@christophermcclelland1556]

Ok. Put this on the cloud. Thankssss

[@rayz5508]

James is the MAN!

[@Parariddle]

Great video dude I am doing similar with less tonal mastery, one output to FOH with IR and One Out to a Blackstar Amped 1 into a 1x12 cab. Its awesome! Loving Vower, roll on the 8th July!

[@Williamstanway]

I can't stop listening to Vower mate , such a fantastic band , I'm a h7ge black peaks fan , so it's a perfect progression from that band , with added Rabbea-isms , the vocals are fucking sick aswell , love them

[@AngusClarkGTR]

Great setup! I’m doing a very similar setup using an FM3 for fly dates with the Ultimate Queen Celebration. We just backline a pair of AC30’s which I run in stereo either using the fx return or a Seymour Duncan stereo power block. (older ac30 models don’t have an fx loop)

[@lycancatt4248]

funny enough, the thing that stood out to me in this video was the room verb on the drums in the single previews! haha the things audio nerds hone in on..good tones as usual though!

[@mydayis5]

After watching this I’m wondering why the hell I’ve never tried delay in front of overdriven amps!! Sounded amazing! That’s my evening sorted.

[@msi1985]

You know it seems the quad cortex works well no matter where you put it. Personally I've kind of fallen in love with just using a 1000 watt FRFR seems to work well for both bass and most guitar work from what I have found. Now I kind of just show up with my paddle board which is self-powered, along with the FRFR and my guitar.

[@jacobkaye7322]

Hugee! What a great rundown! I am curious how you dial in the thunderclaw for the fuzz tone? It sounds absolutely filthy yet has so much clarity and definition. Thanks again Bea!

[@drummingmuppet]

Those amps sound killer! I totally get the direct to foh (we do it also) but I reckon you should do a live blend of amps and direct… it’ll be sweet! So much air movement out of the cabs… love it!

[@MRxr400]

i agree with cabs on stage, much more inspiring than just an in ear monitoring of your guitar. in this video, i feel the mic'd tone for me is more powerful, cutting and clearer string separation/definition and would sit better in a mix.

[@SamF-vc9gh]

Just comenting to say vower is f awesome. Hope you guys can land a opener on a tour for a big name. More big acts need to endorse bands like yours even if its just for a small leg of their tour. This is what i loved about nirvana. Kurt always put bands on their bill that had a small following/unknown. But he knew they were awesome and then they got a bigger following.

[@SkylerMills]

This is how I run too! Interesting thing is, I'm going to europe and running myself, guitar player and bass player all through the QC. Not able to have everyone do the split tho.

[@frankielangford]

Oh Rabea, I love this setup so much and I’m very inspired by your sound. I'm thinking of running my rig the same way when I finally get the QC. Also what tuning is shroud?🙃

[@Jakub88317]

Great video Rebea, I can't wait for the preset on Cortex Cloud. I have a technical question for you. Doesn't it bother you that in such a configuration, the sound you hear on IEM headphones (IR) is different from the one from the speaker behind you when using the QC+AMP connection? Perhaps a better solution to get the same sound behind you as you have in IEM and PA would be a high-quality FRFR speaker? Then it would only be necessary to use the Victory capture instead of modulation. And one last question, even if you turn off the preamp in the QC, you still duplicate two power amps (quad cortex and the physical amp) - doesn't that affect the sound you hear from the speaker? Regards.

[@siongunn4002]

Hey Rabea, fun vid! Glad the Vower/Karnivool shows went well! Just curious, if you're using the preamp sounds from your original Krakens in QC, why bring the mkii's to the show instead of a poweramp? (like a Seymour Duncan powerstage stereo.) Is it just for the valve power section and for fun, or is there something I might be missing. Thanks!

[@RabeaMassaad]

So i plan to preamp swap between QC and MKii but also it’s for valve power through the cabs on stage ;)

[@siongunn4002]

@@RabeaMassaad Very cool, thanks!

[@TheGuitarEffect]

Hey Rabea. Amazing video. It’s just gold seeing how people use tech to get stage sound and FOH sound simultaneously. I have a question. With the amp model and the fuzz model. If you get to a gig and find for some reason you want to tweak the gain or EQ on the amp, can you tweak the model once and it’s updated across all the songs / scenes or do you have to change it on every song / scene individually?

[@karlreimann4950]

Great video Rabea, thanks! This may be a silly question but I'm just wondering how you have the analogue Krakens set up, are they just on a clean hi or low gain channel because all the tones are coming through the QC? What are the gain, treble etc. settings on the amps? Thanks again, I really love this background iinfo 👍🙏

[@LordPodlington]

The way i took it, the preamp on the physical amp is completely bypassed so only the master volume knob actually does anything.

[@sebastianaviles3359]

As your rig develops, are you going to include more amp models like the matchless stuff you did at sweetwater? If so, what additional considerations have to be made for the ease of foh? As always, love your work.

[@darkhorseO3]

Is there going to be a full list of gigs? I missed the Varnivool gig as i didn't know about it. I live in Bexhill-on-sea so its normally Brighton or a trek up to London for gigs unless you happen to play at the De La Warr pavillion.

[@gabrielxgtr]

Hi Bea, your first splitter, the stereo session says split but on your 2nd splitter (row 3) the stereo session says normal. What’s the difference? Cheers

[@tylerscott9329]

In every instance I preferred the micd cab sound over the direct signal. Most likely the power tubes are just adding some saturation with the high end that it just seemed to have more energy.

[@JoshCastleTCM]

Edit: With running the out's into the Amps, Are you running into the returns of the VX's and just using the power amp stage? I'd imagine if it was straight into the amps it would have that "boxy" sound?

[@ColinParks-g5j]

Scott Dixon case for the win

[@TGK_Music]

Where can i get those knob covers for the QC? I need those in my life so bad, now im pressing 2 buttons with my giant boots lol

[@antoinelebel4504]

Sick rig dude ! Do you turn off the power section of the amp sim on QC before hitting the power section of the kraken ? I even don't know if it's possible 🤔

[@rockinrollshow1]

plz tell us what the delay settings are before the amp thanks

[@davidyates8880]

A question, are you running the capture of your Kraken, both preamp and power amp into your physical amplifiers, or just the preamp section of the capture (if that is possible)?

[@JJJohnsom]

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[@Suffocation03]

Hey man, I have a question. I hope you can answer for me when you’re going out to front of house. There’s no speaker simulation. How does that work out?

[@RabeaMassaad]

Hey man, I do have an IR block sent to front of house. That’s the last thing in the chain

[@darkcid22]

I thought this video very interesting, with my band we are planning to get a QC , we had all our shows this year played through two EVH 5150 III 50W heads with 2 4x12 cabs , this sounds massive BUT is heavy as hell, and on top of that it takes a lot of place, when we go to a gig we have to take more than one car and it became a pain in the a... for us, that's why we plan to get a QC, but just one question , even though I get the idea of having cabs onstage for the feeling of it when You play , is having just a QC through the front of house enough ? we also plan to get some in-ear system as well, i'm a bit afraid that our live sound gets less massive (The only real sound that we can ear on stage being the drums...), even if we give all the intention that we always give onstage , i'm afraid that something's gonna miss onstage ; we want the QC for being quick and light when we travel as well Cheers

[@davidstokarski7382]

Any chance you're willing to share these IRs? That would be killer!

[@davidjoel111]

How are you powering the QC? Are you using the included power brick?

[@csn-audio]

Massive sounds! Any chance that you’ll upload the preset to the cloud? 🥹

[@justin_obrien]

Hey, man! great video! What kind of pedal board is that? I love how small it is

[@jasonbenjaminmusic9939]

Please put your presets on the cortex cloud! Excellent video 🤟

[@SpaceBaloo]

Do you plan on uploading this preset to the Cortex cloud? Thanks!

[@slash196]

Interesting and quite noticeable difference between the mic'd cabs and direct out through the IR in terms of feeling of depth and stereo image. Did you pan the mic'd cabs left and right in the mix for this video? The direct signal is a blend of two IRs but straight down the center, whereas the cabs sound like they're hard-panned.

[@mbryan829]

Who makes the the pedal board you are using? I really like that tiered board and want to get something similar for my QC!

[@nathanmachine-]

it looks like schmidt pedalboard

[@meistariaron1854]

any chance you might upload those presets to the QC cloud so i can try them out ?

[@AnonymousCookie709]

Hey man, not sure how often you check the comments but have you encountered any nuances going into the FX return? I find my preamp captures on the QC runs far hotter than my preamp, and running hybrid comes with an odd immediacy that the amp itself doesn’t have especially with captures of other preamps (still spongier than the QC through an IR cab, and not quite as immediate as the real thing. It’s odd). Trying to overcome somewhat with an compressor and around -8dB on the output. Running into my 6L6 V40 too, so I’d assume there’d be similarities. Bro tell me I’m not going insane.

[@Chris_Mckean]

Been running a similar setup for a year or so now, FM9 into a DSL40 Combo return, works great.

[@patrix_guitar2920]

I think it's time to dust off my kraken and cab. For last 2 years only used qc direct. Are these stock v30s in your cab?

[@grumhagen8385]

Victory needs to make a tube power amp head with an EQ and a four stage bright switch for modlers and pre-amp pedals, I use a vintage peavey monitor head now running into my jcm 800 bass 4x12 bottom cab with V 30's with a koch superlead tube pre-amp pedal with super low noise now, Isold my jcm 800 head.

[@dylantolan1108]

I’m curious on one of the last things you said “one cable into the effects loop” is this not the 4 cable method? Sorry if it’s a dumb question lol

[@LordPodlington]

No, 4 cable method you'll still use the amps own preamp generally, just running the modulation in the loop after it. With this the preamp is bypassed entirely so it's only using the power section.

[@dylantolan1108]

@@LordPodlington oh I see! so guitar into QC and then QC out straight to effects return?

[@thesteamycreamofdualjabbar6486]

Is there any reasons for using amp heads instead of a power amp for the cabinets or is it just preference?

[@RabeaMassaad]

I’ll be switching between the preamp of the actual amp and preamps in QC going forward, but I didn’t have time to get it all set up before these gigs so I just wanted to show you the process starting from here

[@spinaltap22]

@@RabeaMassaad Will be interesting to see what differences you can dig out between the actual amp and the models, as a potential future video idea?

[@karlreimann4950]

@@RabeaMassaad Will that mean the cabs will always need to be miced because without the QC preamp on the front of house will be different depending on which preamp is taking over?

[@ambientcotton7066]

Are the Krakens just set to a clean channel tone, then just amplify the signal coming in from the effects loop?🤔

[@midirok]

I have big issues with latency from any brand of digital equipment. I can always feel the latency difference and will never use anything digital in front of my 2555 or 71 twin rig. I’m surprised after all this time you haven’t made a video discussing latency that happens regardless of any brand of digital equipment.

[@ileutur6863]

Idk man, thousands of guitarists are gigging and recording all over the world with digital equipment that has latency and it doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Plus there's the extra latency that happens with adding cables, microphones and everything else in the signal chain.

[@ericruiz8175]

By any chance does anybody know the IR hes using here?

[@BronsonBragg]

I'd trade my Halo 2 memories for a structured and organized tone-building/recording masterclass. Discovering the tone, writing with the tone, recording the tone, mixing the tone... etc etc. or like... idk... tree hunnit. whatever's clever.

[@evilnudibranch]

Were it so easy...

[@BronsonBragg]

@evilnudibranch Oh, it's definitely not easy; my Halo 2 memories are a high ticket item!

[@paulcarter105]

Have you ever tried a rat in front of the kraken as a dirty boost

[@NeuralDSP]

Huge 🔥

[@TheOriginalApex37]

Yo! Get your shit together! Your sound is to good, especially the last one! I mean just get a regular job and give us others a chance! Love your sound, i wanna sound like you #fanboy❤

[@wolvesandguitars]

Nice!! just asking but couldnt you use a Stereo power amp?? just saying not dissing . I am dipping into the power amp realm myself.

[@godwithagun]

Are the victory heads just being used as a ‘power amp’ for the QC?

[@RabeaMassaad]

Currently, but the plan is to do preamp swapping between QC and the MKii’s

[@godwithagun]

Loving the rig!!! Cheers👍🏼 might have to get a QC haha

[@lancecraigworship]

Any chance you would upload this to the Cortex Cloud? 👀

[@lancecraigworship]

Well I should have waited until the end of the video!!

[@JuanchoMetal]

The Cabs sounds incredible.....the QC or the IR can't compite with the live sound....(i'm a QC user 😆)

[@1siriuswolf]

Tones as deep and wide as the grand canyon

[@MrBadGrim]

Please please put the this in cortex cloud!!

[@rockinrollshow1]

The light or warmth of the Sun.

[@zacharysmithingell5460]

"look how small it is" What he doesn't say is he's rockin size 15 (U.S.) hoofs

[@darioxrl8]

What song do you use in the background

[@darioxrl8]

Arrival

[@vincentvandervaart8019]

So you got your stuff back I hope?

[@jasonbenjaminmusic9939]

What IR are you using??

[@john_sandilau]

Where can I get your IRs from?

[@TheGaryHughes]

Are you on in ears as well?

[@RabeaMassaad]

We are!

[@russellcharlton7814]

New song name easter egg drop.

[@blackmetalbreadstick]

ranch dressing sponge bath

[@ChakraOver9k]

The QC is like the best amp modeler out there. The fender tone master pro seems very interesting too

[@aaronsepulveda2874]

If lightweight is the way, why’d you skip out on barefaced audio cabs?

[@gdayski]

let me save up for a few months to afford this and then ill watch this vid lol

[@nekkon1989]

Bea: It is a super simple rig. Me: sees QC and gets baffled 😂

[@AnthonyBencomo]

Be nice to see tonex, lord knows more people own that than QC

[@RabeaMassaad]

Maybe so, but I’ve no interest in it. QC works much better in a live setting for me. Plus form what I can see most high level touring artists are using QC too, which suggests it’s better in that application too. But for me the workflow and overall vibe is just better for me.

[@AnthonyBencomo]

@@RabeaMassaad that’s fair! I just meant, just to see how it sounds vs a cortex. Not necessarily using it live. It’s interesting seeing very talented musicians use gear that I can afford! To see what can be made out of a more budget option. You know?

[@bimmerman5978]

QC muffled the sound.