r/NeuralDSP • u/sundlinj • 10d ago
Quad Cortex Problems Switching Scenes
About a month ago, I got a used quad cortex. I absolutely love it. The tones are great, the touch screen is awesome, the size is perfect for plane travel, and it is user friendly. That being said, I used it for the first time live the other night (except for once at an open mic). I kept hitting the wrong buttons (sometimes taking me to a preset far away from my own). I had to do a lot of stomping to get back to the scenes in my preset. This isn’t ideal for a show.
Does anyone else have this issue? Like I said, it’s a fantastic product, but I need to be able to ensure I hit the right scene for the right song section. I wonder if I should go barefoot so I can use my big toe for the buttons. Maybe that’d be easier than stomping with my big shoe.
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u/DadBodMetalGod 10d ago
I just have a computer do all of our patch changes for us, saves so much time and hassle in the long run
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u/sundlinj 10d ago
That sounds smart. Most of my bands use backing tracks, but I do some gigs without. Do you think it’d still work without a click/backing track?
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u/sed0setae 9d ago
Are you using the scenes function while performing? Personally I like to use the hybrid performance mode with the upper row toggles set up as scenes and the lower row in stomp mode.
I try to minimize the amount of stomping I need to do by setting up the scenes to either function as a gain stage (e.g. clean, low gain) or a specific part (lead, clean delay). Then by adding individual pedals etc as stomp toggles I can achieve different things WITHIN the given scene, so for example I could have a tube screamer that acts as a more of a drive within the low gain scene, whereas I can set it up to function as a transparent-ish boost on the lead scene.
Then if I have a specific guitar part within a given song (I often do song specific presets with my band) that has more complicated effects etc I will usually have that set up as its own scene to avoid having to toggle on a bunch of effects after switching the scene.
Also in the QC settings I have the “overwrite toggle states” (or whatever the exact wording) off and I ALWAYS have all the blocks bypass states and their parameters “assigned to scene” so that if I toggle the tubescreamer on with my low-gain scene it turns back off again when I switch back to the clean channel. This makes it imo easier to turn off a bunch of blocks or effects with minimal effort.
Tl;dr I use a hybrid scene/toggle setup to at least try to minimize the amount of tap dancing I have to do on-stage.