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06-27-2009, 02:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Highland, CA (Inland Empire) | | | old Q-TRON..love it or well....
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Hello all fellow bassists out there! I've had my old Q-Tron for a little over 2 years now and really dig the funky wetness i can get with it. Anyone here either like it, not like it,or somewhere in betwen? Also while i'm here any cool settings reccomended? Lastly is the XO Q-TRON worth looking into getting or is my big beast of a pedal the better of the two. I would not get rid of this pedal as it was my first effect pedal but just wondering.....  |
06-27-2009, 06:54 AM
| | | | My favorite Q-trons are the older Mini and the big classic chassis models. They seem to have a wetter sound with more response. I have the XO Q-Tron + and will probably be selling it as I don't use it much. My settings vary depending one which bass I am using.
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06-27-2009, 07:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: The Berkshires, Ma | | | I love my old Q-tron! It's so responsive, so funky. I really like the down sweep. I keep the drive on with the gain knob at 5:00, Low range, LP, peak at 9:00. This works pretty well in up or down mode, with either my Stingray 5 copy or my fretless SX 5 string P. The bypass sounds fine to my ears. |
06-27-2009, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | I still wuv mine, but I don't use filters live anymore, something always happens, and I go back to using a wah. |
06-27-2009, 04:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: York, UK | | | I love the old big-box Q-Tron, really love it. I think most users' complaints stem from a volume jump switching it on (when it's in "Boost" mode) but it was never a problem for me.
I swapped it out because I was using filters a lot, I needed something more versatile for live use and the Q-Tron was taking up too much space, but if I was recording and just needed a funk envelope filter part my first choice would be a Q-Tron. |
06-27-2009, 04:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Crown Point, IN | | Just picked up an old Q-Tron...I absolutely love it! It all sounds good! 
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06-27-2009, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | Dude, the moment I turn my Mini-Q (NOT Micro-Q) on, my Stingray 5 drips with chicken-greased funk. 2 things to bear in mind: The output is a bit louder when turned on, and the Drive and Q knobs are VERY sensitive! Otherwise, there is NO loss of low end, and it's actually a fantastic pedal for bass solos, if you get a setting.
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06-27-2009, 06:37 PM
| | | | The Mini really is a gem tonewise. I was an idiot to sell mine.
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06-27-2009, 06:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: York, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Crabby  I was an idiot to sell mine. | Welcome to the forum for idiots who sell perfectly good stuff.  |
06-27-2009, 06:51 PM
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06-27-2009, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Highland, CA (Inland Empire) | | | thanks everyone for the informative posts thus far and even the not so informative ones...lol. I really enjoy my old Q-TRON, played it today with my fretless and it was just funky goodness esp with some phaser right after it. keep it coming fellow bassists! |
06-27-2009, 10:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kevteop Welcome to the forum for idiots who sell perfectly good stuff. | All except for me that is, I still have mine. |
06-29-2009, 12:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: terre haute, indiana | | | and i still have and love my old one... if only it wasn't so big i could put it on my pt. jr. and if only my bandmate/roomie hadn't bought it for me for xmas a couple of years ago i could trade it towards a smaller one.
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06-29-2009, 01:06 AM
|  | Fretless mmbr#658,Stingray mmbr#280,SPECTORŽ#269 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ballaarat, Australia | | | i have a mini q-tron and a q-tron plus....love 'em both!
esp with upright! |
06-29-2009, 03:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Highland, CA (Inland Empire) | | | any clips of the good ol Q through an upright? im intrigued... |
06-29-2009, 05:19 AM
| | Fretless mmbr#658,Stingray mmbr#280,SPECTORŽ#269 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ballaarat, Australia | | | i'll get onto it! |
06-29-2009, 05:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: San Diego | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaldo i'll get onto it! | Looking forward to it! |
07-02-2009, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Highland, CA (Inland Empire) | | | no one else wants to show either the love or hate for this pedal? |
07-02-2009, 11:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Burnsville, MN | | I like my old style qtron. It is really hard to find the sweet spot. I guess that is what I don't like about it.
That and I play classic rock.  |
07-04-2009, 01:59 AM
| | Fretless mmbr#658,Stingray mmbr#280,SPECTORŽ#269 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ballaarat, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by sillyfabe any clips of the good ol Q through an upright? im intrigued... | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6VetSgMUH0
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