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03-02-2008, 10:56 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | sweet! thanks for that.
i love my maxon, and i love my qtron +... but i have the big one. i think i'll get the small one. 
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03-02-2008, 11:10 PM
| | | | The Q tron sounds wetter and funkier to me in these clips!
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03-02-2008, 11:29 PM
|  | What a difference a little difference will make | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Crabby  The Q tron sounds wetter and funkier to me in these clips! | I agree 100% |
03-03-2008, 01:41 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector, Aguilar, EMG, Coffin Case, Maxon | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: las vegas/maui, nevada/hawaii | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Crabby The Q tron sounds wetter and funkier to me in these clips! | thats the first thing that came to my mind as well!
to the OP, thank you for this review! |
03-03-2008, 07:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Slovenija (Europe) | | | i love maxon more...
Q tron sounds like my EBS bassIQ in hiQ setting!!! witch is good for some stuff but not if you want too keep the bottom in a groove!!!
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03-03-2008, 07:30 AM
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Employee - 4Sound, Odense | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Odense, Denmark | | | To my ears, the Q-tron is nicer with a bit more wetness and top end.
But why do you wanna make them sound alike?
Try again making them sound their best individually and then we'll have a real comparison!
Also nice playing but whats up with that midifile-sounding thing in the background? |
03-03-2008, 07:59 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BassmanDk To my ears, the Q-tron is nicer with a bit more wetness and top end.
But why do you wanna make them sound alike?
Try again making them sound their best individually and then we'll have a real comparison!
Also nice playing but whats up with that midifile-sounding thing in the background? | I tried to make them sound the same because it will be almost impossible for me to give you all a broad range of samples of what each filter is capable of and what sounds good to me may not sound good to you.
The "midi" was my Stingray through a POG. I just threw it in there to fill space. 
Now that folks have commented, I'll make my comments too. I also thought that the Qtron was wetter by just so and it offered a bit more range of tweaking. The Maxon is great for onstage use because you can dial in a good sound fairly quick. Rest assured though, the Maxon is very adjustable too. Both retain bottom end well. The Qtron+ loses some in boost mode.
Slappers will probably find that the DOD and its clones have better response for stacatto notes.
The bottom line here (IMHO) is you really can't go wrong with either pedal. |
03-06-2008, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: The Berkshires, Ma | | | Siciprider, Those clips sound pretty different to me. I understand the Qtron is more prone to a brighter, wetter sound but how mellow can it get? And conversely, how crazy can the Maxon get? You said that you tried to get them to sound the same but what qualities separate them as the one gets tamer and the other wetter? Am I making any sense? |
03-06-2008, 07:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | Heya.
The Maxon retained the same amount of lows throughout the whole range of adjustments while I was finding the closest settings.
The Q Tron lost a little bottom when I got them close. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too |
03-06-2008, 07:30 PM
| | | | Overall, what do you think does the best of replicating the Mutron III? |
03-06-2008, 07:34 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | Like many have said before, the Maxon comes closest to the Mutron. The Qtron+ was probably designed to be the next gen Mutron. It's pretty close but it's a very wild cousin. |
03-06-2008, 11:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | Prefer the Qtron actually. |
03-07-2008, 01:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia | | | love my qtron!
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03-07-2008, 07:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Saratoga county,New York,U.S.A | | | a local store has an Ibanez branded af9(used)for little over $100.(130-ish range I think)..that is the same pedal as the Maxon,right??....BTW the Maxon (to me) sounded a little more transparent,the Qtron is wetter....they both sound great though..
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03-07-2008, 08:25 AM
| | | The Maxons are basically reissues of the Ibanez pedals, but the Maxons are true bypass and the ibanezes aren't, AFAIK.
I A/B'd my Maxon AF9 with a regular Q-tron and much preferred the AF9.
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03-07-2008, 08:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: London, England | | | The Ibanez AF-9 is the original. I would snap it up for that price!!
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03-07-2008, 08:31 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | I'll make some more clips of both pedals with my fave settings next. |
03-24-2008, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Slovenija (Europe) | | | i have just messed with the maxon AF9...
i never opened it before and yes it sounds a bit dryer that the Qtron... but today i opened a few of my 9 series pedals... most of them have trim pots inside... they control different parameters... but be careful the are very fragile!!! i set the filter to have the same wobble in the high register as the Qtron... before the peak control had very little difference when sliding it up and down... now its a world of difference!!! and the sensitivity slider is more delicate now... and i fine tuned the registers for my needs!!!
you should see what i have done with FL9... heheh now it can self oscillate!!!
hope this info helps!!!
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03-24-2008, 03:31 PM
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