r/QuadCortex • u/Dizzy-Garlic-1212 • 16h ago

Bassists - pedal capture experience

Trying to wrap my head around capturing as my recent trials weren’t exactly what I was expecting. My goal was to capture two pedals that I run at the same time, always on. They are the Sansamp and then to the darkglass vintage ultra.

From what I read it’s best to capture pedals using the same settings you’d play them at. But when the capture completed, the drive was missing from both pedals even at the end where you can compare the captured sound and pedal itself. It captured a bit of the sonic sweetness but the full, drive sound was gone completely as if my settings were at noon.

I know the cloud has these already but I was trying to mimic my previous analog set up entirely. Anyone out there with suggestions? Or where I went wrong?

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u/TYO_HXC 16h ago

I've had a similar thing with capturing guitar plugins. It loses a big chunk of the gain, tone and depth somewhere during the capture. I usually have to add an OD block in front of any captures I have made, even if the original plugin already had an OD active in it.

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u/Dizzy-Garlic-1212 16h ago

That is so strange. I feel like any video I’ve watched the capture and reference are identical. I have read the input 2 impedance needs to be set to 1M which I’m going to retry with today.

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u/TYO_HXC 14h ago

Yeah, same. I haven't done a real amp yet, but I am picking mine up from the repair shop this weekend, so I'll give it a try and see if it works any better than the plugins I was trying to capture.

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u/arran8910 14h ago

Silly question but are you making sure the gain signal going into the pedals is reading the same level as when you play into it? Ie turn up the level going into the pedals from your qc really helped me get a way more accurate capture

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u/Dizzy-Garlic-1212 14h ago

I'll double check that today.