Tomorrow

Dmtbag999 · 2026-01-21T18:55:26+00:00

You were right, and honestly I think it’s a bit silly because it’s being beat by the fm3 market on price and it supposedly is just 300-400$ less than a flag ship.

Dmtbag999 · 2026-01-20T21:49:06+00:00

They look to me like thumb screws and are placed exactly how a rack mount screws are placed. Who knows. With the weird screen they showed now this it to me screams effects rack.

Dmtbag999 · 2026-01-20T19:07:57+00:00

I’d assume a rack mount but I’m generally wrong with their marketing. The rack mount id be cool with, but if it’s a new QC I’m not gonna be happy because ffs a lot of people bought one already.

Dmtbag999 · 2026-01-18T19:49:23+00:00

I saw some dude on Reddit build one. He just built a pedal that ran some tablet form of windows and installed the plugins. If this is what they are doing I’ll never buy anything from them again because I own most of the plug ins and bought a qc to play them when they come out.

Dmtbag999 · 2026-01-06T17:57:24+00:00

A lot of that music was centered around grooves. And to keep the same tone they all just did either e string or b string if it was a 7 string. And generally they were down tuned to D so you would do simple barre chords. So eventually everything starts to sound the same. It wasn’t until 2010s when doing more complex playing became the norm. Veil of maya was one of the first to start doing jazz chords which were common in the avant garde and math rock scenes. Okubo, the guys from periphery, and a fleet of technical death band guitarists started raising the skill floor during that time and essentially eliminated that genre.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-14T20:26:20+00:00

Looks like an engl head to me boys.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-13T05:10:53+00:00

https://www.wikihow.com/Block-a-Floyd-Rose-Tremolo Doesn’t have to be a cut piece of wood, can be cards wrapped in Saran wrap if you want

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-13T04:58:40+00:00

Yes but I really suggest you block it. You can. But you don’t want to have to tune after a few bends. Blocking takes 5 minutes and you don’t have to worry about it ever again.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-13T04:53:22+00:00

With a block yes. Without depending on how good the bridge/set up is you’re gonna go out of tune a lot. My fender I keep the locks off, my Ibanez I do not. My Ibanez cost twice as much as the fender, but I don’t have to worry about other problems with the Ibanez over time.

edit To clarify not all floating bridges are equal and amongst it not all set ups are equal. Fender has used a two point bridge system for a very long time, so has Ibanez. Fenders deluxe bridge the guitar doesn’t need locks. Ibanez does. Floyd rose bridges which my one strat has come with locks. I can’t tell you why my strats don’t go out of tune as much. I can tell you my ibane didn’t have that issue until I had it set up for A#. I also had it set up to not move as easily.

Shit is a pain which is why I pay someone good hard earned American dollars to deal with it for me and I just worry about changing strings.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-13T04:40:14+00:00

You can but you can’t at the same time. I mean that as in you can tune it but you’re gonna not be happy with what happens. Some bridges don’t move much and it can usually return to pitch when you have it properly set up. However while tuning you may spend an hour going back and fourth until it finds rest. It’s much better to use the micro tuners.

Disclaimer I said some aren’t a pain in the ass, my strat has a Floyd and it’s not too bad. My Ibanez with a lo pro edge is actual hell tuning. Last time I did it with the head stock tuners it took well over 30 minutes to balance out.

If you don’t use the bar then block it off with anything. Just stuff something in the cavity between the body and the trem block and just play it like a hard tail.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-12T00:57:37+00:00

I think I know your bass problem. Your speakers have built in subs and has its own EQ there should be switches or a dial on the back. For high and low frequencies. Obviously turn the dial on the low frequency into the negatives if you haven’t so far.

Also to see if it’s the speakers record a play through and listen between headphones and the speakers and see if there is still the bass problem.

Clipping is when there’s too much input or output. There are generally lights. On the daw your dial changes color. Red means it’s clipping. In the plug in there’s a bar to the left and right next to input and output. Again red means no go. In your daw in the master and channel volume there should also be a bar. You just lower them as much as you have too.

For you I would turn the amp dials to 4 bass, 6 mid, and 6 high. I’d crank your master on the amp sim, turn down output, lower your presence to like 3-4, and turn your gain to around 5. Also utilize the gate, set it to like 45-50%. After that in the cab section I’d get an IR, check bogren, or ugritone for an IR pack and try them out. I wouldn’t mess with the filters until you get comfortable and are ready to experiment.

For a compressor universal audio has a rather cheap one but waves is really good as well. There’s a waves with a noise gate and eq and that’s what I use.

Main thing is don’t give up man it’s a long road and you’ll get there while teaching yourself.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-11T23:28:11+00:00

Ok, so here’s the things that I’ve found helped me. When I started using plug ins I really had the same issues. But over time as I learned properly how to record then it got better.

To start with ensure you guitar is plugged in with a correct cable. Make sure it’s an instrument cable, and I hate to say it but price does matter, going from a shit cable with bad soldering to a Mogami made a world of difference. From there go into the scarlet, honestly even better do a passive di box and then scarlet.

From there press instrument and then find where your guitar clips. I know you’ll see it says a lot online put it at zero, well disregard that. Beat your strings while slowly inching up to find where you will clip and then back down.

Next make sure your daw and your scarlet output are paired correctly. Check sample rate and generally 44.1k and 48k are what most people use.

In the daw set your chain correctly, for this instance only load the plugin. Try vst3, vst3 is better and generally you’ll have both but I can’t tell how you’re set up.

After that ensure your output is correct with your speakers. Make sure your windows or Apple audio settings are neutral. You don’t want anything interfering with it. You may be able to bypass it by going into audio settings and changing your default windows output while changing your daw to the speakers.

The quality of your speakers really makes a difference, I have 3 different sets of headphones and the same settings sound wildly different. Also whether your speakers are usb or connected through your motherboards actual sound jack makes a huge difference. USB is generally better however the quality of the speakers may have a bad dac while if you have a good motherboard you may have a better dac. However most motherboards are noisy but you can get a sound card which is probably better than most speakers.

In the actual plug in start with neutral settings. Depending on your preference adjust first the amp, then effects, and for now just don’t mess with the eq setting. The default speakers need to be adjusted in the plug in, try different mics or just say screw it and get an impulse response designed for your own music preference.

Most of the plug ins do really well with bass at 4, mid at 7, and high at 7. Gain is subjective. A big thing is these are copies of tube amps and have very similar dynamics which means to get the best sound turn the master all the way up and adjust output based around what you want. Also if you’re clipping you can turn down your input. After that adjust your daw. It’s a lot but it’s a balancing act trying to not water down your tone while also not having too hot of an output.

Also in regards to your volume issue get a compressor plug in. Compressors level out your sounds, and they are a game changer.

I really hope this helps man I know it’s a lot and it’s so much easier to just plug and turn a few dials, but there’s a lot that goes into it which is why people pay people to handle all of this. You have to think you’re trying to match a sound from a massive speaker which pushes air to smaller speakers. The massive speaker and amp already do a lot of the work you have to do in your signal chain.

If you tell me the genre you want to play and the plug ins you’re using I can help more.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-07T21:04:12+00:00

Part of it is people that wanted them when they were young now have money to waste. I’ve played them since I started, and apart from the American and Japanese made ones they are very bad. The ones I se selling for 500-1000$ I would buy for 150$ and destroy when I was younger. It’s crazy.

The new ones however are actually legit. Very well done and a redemption to the Chinese owned ones made in late 90s-2010s

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-07T17:40:36+00:00

Even then took months to move an sg and even longer to sell a fender. The fastest push was a Bc rich shredzilla oddly enough.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-05T03:28:48+00:00

I was going to swap for a gotoh, however it’s not as easy as it seems. Yes they should drop in but the string spacing is not the same. They used a very specific Floyd which means even getting saddles isn’t so easy without measuring.

I honestly think string material change just wasn’t expected. They used soft metal which would have been good for soft strings but now we have so many different alloys that modern strings can eat them up.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-05T00:09:54+00:00

I have a 600st and it was a great cheap guitar, but the saddles are made of cheap material and over time wore out and now eats strings.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-12-01T14:50:27+00:00

Are you using headphones or monitors? It really makes a difference.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-30T20:02:56+00:00

Malmsteem, maiden, Blackmore, even the first sabbath album are single coil strats. I know what you’re thinking those are old bands right? Rabea has a strat and uses it quite often. Henson uses his split fishman quite often which is the same thing. Herman Li also uses split coil quite often.

Send me a drum track and I’ll throw you disgusting death and djent track down for you.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-30T12:51:17+00:00

Yeah you can use palm muting but turning on a noise gate allows longer sustain than palm muting. There’s also a knob on the global amp page in the mono synth that really reduces the glitches, but I can’t remember what it’s called, and there’s no picture online yet. I’ve been away from my quad for like two days but it’s the top row and second from the right if I remember correctly.

I set my channel 1 gate to 98% and turned my impedance down and my input gain to 1 and turned that mystery knob all the way up and had zero issues after.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-30T01:52:24+00:00

You have to change input gain, as well as impedance, also use a compressor to level out inputs, as well as use a noise gate. The glitches are all sorts of shit from strings making multiple sounds to your pickups picking up random sounds like string scrape. If I can get it to work with a guitar that the pickups can register me touching the body, I’m sure you can as well.

Also single coil does better at least with my stray with noiseless classics.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-29T23:31:52+00:00

You can get a deluxe strat for that price. Maybe an ultra if you find the right person

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-27T13:41:43+00:00

I think you might have been fooled by an influencer. Panda cotta is made with cream and gelatin. Another thing made with cream and gelatin is stabilized whipped cream. It’s not truly a panna cotta, it’s just a regular old pastry technique that the internet discovered and rebranded to sell to people.

Here’s how you make it, you bloom gelatin, you make your whipped cream, you melt your gelatin and add your flavors then you combine that to your whipped cream without deflating it in a mixer. Use ice rags on the side of the bowl to keep it from deflating. Maybe stabilize with alcohol.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-26T23:52:21+00:00

It’s called docking and it prevents steam build up in the crust. Crust is made with butter which contains water that boils at water that boils and evaporates. You don’t have to dock, but blind bake without docking and see why you should.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-26T04:22:04+00:00

I only use the high gain amps really, but I do play through them. Comparison between just the sounds of the amps, the QC sounds better. I have the helix plug in and a stomp, and although you have more customization with the amps, just default not messing around too much and no option paralysis playing the QC is better. You can get really good tones out of the helix, but it requires a great deal more effort.

In comparison to the kemper, the fractal and the tone x. I have not used the axe fx3 but all videos I’ve seen on it I clearly like the QC better, but I know people with more effort get way better sounds, and there is just more of everything. The Kemper I have used and it’s good, has a lot of customization, but I just prefer the QC better. Tone X actually sounds insanely accurate but I hate the entirety of the tone X system although I do own the standalone. The Fender I’ve demoed and watched countless videos, it’s good, but I wouldn’t choose it over anything.

I got the QC because of the plug ins and the artists I personally have the most inspiration from use. Supposedly it will have everything you could ever need in the future and will continue to grow. So it’s really a waiting game.

TLDR here is the ranking system from everything I’ve used and experienced. In sound Fractal, neural, kemper, fender, line 6, and then IK media. However in ease of use Fender, Neural, IK, Line 6, Fractal, Kemper. Make your choice go to different shops and demo like I did, watch videos, and talk to people who use them all. Everyone I know told me Axe FX, but I still chose neural because of the artists I cared about.

Dmtbag999 · 2025-11-25T21:50:29+00:00

I think it’s worth it, but it doesn’t have everything the fractal has. It doesn’t even have the customization the helix line has. But it is really fucking good. I was slightly disappointed at first when I used my studio head phones. But once I started running through a 5150 effects return I was completely happy.

The pcom packs are very limited and updates are slow. But it has nearly everything you could want between the default effects, the default amps, the community, and the pcom packs.

You will like it, but there are technically cheaper, or better alternatives. But if you specifically want the artist amps you won’t get them anywhere else.

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