This sounded great. I must try it. I’m also not an AC30 guy. However, I did purchase the Amalgam matchless HD30 captures and may try to recreate the Brian May tone with those.
Awesome. I have a Red Special. I’m gonna try this out in the next few days. Evidently Brian uses his treble and middle pickups combined over 75% of the time ~on the back catalog. One Vision is the perfect example of that sound. A standard Strat set up (single coils) using the bridge and middle gets in the ballpark (I own a Strat as well and I can switch guitars and not notice a drastic difference with that particular pickup combination. I think you nailed it! To my ears I wouldn’t be able to tell if you were using a Red Special or not (it’s that close!!!)-I will confirm by the weekend! PS--I’m wondering what it would sound like to have 3 different amps--an AC30 down the middle--Matchless DC30 and a Matchless Chieftain on the stereo splits. This May (pun intended🤣) give a lot of Sonic tweak ability to an already awesome sounding preset. Thanks again. I was somewhat confused about setting the QC up for Wet Dry Wet until I seen your videos!🙏🏼
Hmm, both presets are there, I uploaded them yesterday and each had already been downloaded 20 or so times. They should show up as my most recent presets.
Great preset! I like the Matchless one a little better. It seems to have more life, and more predictable when you turn off the boost. Also not an AC30 guy.
Hey man ! i've read today on the topic of simulating the "sag" with the post amp compression, can you give some settings./comp reccomandation within the qc for that ?
Just wondering, why do you use different amp blocks for the wet paths? Isnt the more common W/D/W method would be to run a split after the amp preamp, into three different PA? And in the QC, because we usually dont separate pre and power amp, just from the amp into three different cabs.
A few things: (1) In the real world, a WDW setup (like Brian May does) is three separate amps. Even if they are the same model, the slight variations will give more width to the stereo sound. I try to replicate that on the QC by slightly changing the amp settings to make sure they are not perfectly the same. (2) For the most part, the QC doesn't allow for separating pre amp from power amp (you can do it with captures but not amp models). (3) You can attack this is a number of different ways. I find using 3 separate amps and cabs, giving them slight variations mimics a real-world WDW setup the best. Rather than just a stereo signal. The difference is slight but I think noticable. Just my opinion.
@davlavmusic7070 very interesting, thanks! I guess that our different points of view are probably about knowing different WDW setups in the real world. I don't know how Brian May run his own rig, but most of the WDW I saw were 3 amps, but just one preamp. After the send of the amp, the signal splitted to 3 going into the returns of the amps. I'll try your approach, too! Having 3 amps is something hard to try on a real rig, so luckily, we can do it on the QC.
@EricSabag12 yeah, the QC let's us try things we could never afford in the real world. Everything I know about real world WDW I learned from the guys on That Pedal Show, but I'm pretty sure that when I watched the Brian May rig rundown he was using the distinct amps. But I know Andy Timmons does what you are describing and just runs one preamp and two power amps (though he is just stereo and not WDW).
If you did that you wouldn't get the treble boost on the wet amps. I guess you could put the same boost in front of the wet amps but it seems more efficient to split.
