Rack FX for the Working Man? Digitech Studio Quad v2
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Gotta be honest dude, no matter what gear you've reviewed, I always felt you made it shine brightly. You never play something down but rather serve to give a best example of how a piece of gear can sound its best. Incredible guitarist as well of course, thanks man!
I appreciate that!
What's great is you can get rack gear so cheap now if you keep your eyes peeled. AND, it helps that we have Rack Masters like Leon here to give us tutorials on all this stuff..
Thank you Leon, Studio quad is fantastic multifx, I sold the old version you could not set the volume for single patches but the effects were fantastic, I think today we get lost behind many parameters while those 90's racks are simple and immediate,.
I still own one of those! Back in the day we used it as a FX unit for the mixer. It's a really versatile peice of kit, you can also use it in a 4CM on guitar with the right routing config.
4in-4out would make it very handy in that case
Man. I used to see these all the time, but never paid much attention to them, and I should have. It sounds pretty damn good. Especially the pitch and chori, if that's a word 🤣🤟
Great demo sir. Thanks for teaching me something valuable today!
You rock!
Really quite a great sounding and versatile unit for the money. Cheap as chips on Reverb when they pop up, about the price of a nice guitar pedal.
It's not a nightmare to use either, which is a very big win!
I was thinking this thing sounded way better with clean tones than dirty until that Strat piece near the end. Made me sit up and take notice.
Just picked one up for dirt cheap! Needed a power supply, but
luckily they have ones on Amazon that work.
Now, I just need to program those tones! Very cool!
BTW, I don’t see a Pluto verb on the unit 😂
Wow, that's a great sounding unit. I'm a big Digitech fan & have several units but never really looked into getting one of these as I thought they were stripped back basic units due to the way they look. How wrong was I. 🤣
Get in while they're cheap!
Leon! You legend bro! I’ve never even heard of this unit. It sounds mad decent 🎸🤙🙂
Goes alright hey! Perfect for late 80's vibes
@@LeonTodd perfect for the 80s vibes!
Oh Dag - the memories!
*I purchased that GP-100 and there were some SERIOUS inadequacies with that unit "not speaking about the condition". I do have a Se-70 and love it, fact I run two of them. That said as not to bash a unit cause its older but in contrast to the GP-100, how well does that Studio Quad V2 really work??!*
That rack unit looks fun and not to complicated to mess with.
Strat tone towards the end reminded me of Tooth and Nail!
I'll be honest, this sounds good. A bit cold and simple, but good. It looks cheap and apparently was affordable? But it gets the job done fine, no complaints.
These are great little cheap units, I use one with my samplers and synths and it’s brilliant.
Some of the Doppler effects and ping pong delays are awesome….
#LeonTodd
*Leon I stack stereo detuns from 2 se70s and while it sounds hellva, it still seems like it not WIDE... In your opinion. for someone wo wants that wide detune effect, do you think the DIGITECH STUDIO QUAD would be worth buying, regardless of the se70's? I guess I am asking how to the se70 and studio quad DETUNERS compare in your user opinion?*
Man these go back but they sure had some charm to them.
Nice demo . . would have been equal nice to know which amp it went into and
your pick-up of your nice X-spade. Best regards
Great video, Leon. I really like the Andy Summers-esque tone you called up. I have a weird nostalgia for rack units like this, even though I never owned one at the time. I would see them in ads/articles in magazines like Guitar World and dream of the day that I finally put together my dream rack setup. Obviously never happened on a high schooler's budget. 25 years later I have a rack-mounted Axe FX III, though, so I guess it came to pass in a sense.
i bet if you took every piece of gear advertised in a single edition of GW back then the AF3 would have more horsepower than the lot!
Very cool and solid sounding effects. Seems like it can do great lush and ambient sound with ease.
Could be a sweet unit to have in your rack when you can't afford an Eventide H3000 or pcm70
Yeah it definitely gets the job done, and they're cheap as chips now!
@@LeonTodd a decent tube preamp... Mesa studio etc and one of those and I think I'd be very happy for 90% of cleans and leads
How does it compare to the V1?
Cool review. I have one of the v1 quads sitting around since 2001(!) and I've been looking for cool uses for it. Amazing that the Zoom CDR can almost do as much these days
Right?!
@@LeonTodd I think I'm going to use the Quad as a reverb and delay for a cheap vintage analog/modular synth setup. I have a couple of those berhinger monosynths replicas (pro 1 and neutron), it's kind of perfect since those are very dry, and I can have both on separate channels.
I originally got the quad 2001 to use as a live DJ fx box. Now I use a Poly Beebo for the same purpose (which is also 4x4). Anyway, thanks for reminding me this unit isn't worthless!
That would be nice to go with a spx 90 since it only has one effect at a time 😎🤘
*I am super shocked, you did not try the NO MORE TEERS RIFF, with as good as those chorus and delays sound.*
Still have two in my home studio that I bought over 20 years ago!!!!
When I see rack gear and “LT Detune”, I know I’m in for a treat! 😊
Straight to the good stuff!
For what it is, I think it sounded fantastic! The detune sounded great to be honest. The rest of effects were okay/good and more than enough for the working man. Plus with the routing and parameters change abilities… it’s a no brainer. I don’t recall how much they went for back then but I’m sure it was a good investment for the rack gear basement player. Still have a digitech digital delay that I bought during those years and the Genesis was my first amp sim/multi-effects 🤘
What's the signal chain here. Running the quad as effects loop on the amp? How are you getting the stereo effect if you're using an amp?. Great vid and have subscribed to what looks like a really useful channel
Sounds great 👍
*This unit vs a Boss SE70 ???*
How can you set quarter and dotted notes when the unit doesn't know what tempo you're playing at nor if you're playing quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes?
The clean 8 voice reminded me of Killer of Giants from Ozzy
Iv'e watched a few of your post on the valve digetek i was a absulute fan of the valve fx digeteck, so my question for you is because you seem to be knoleable with the valve coul you recomend one that comes across the same as the valve fx, yea i want another or at least one that comes across as similar as the origanal. If ya find some time would apprecate some insight.
Great video dude! Is it possible to take a preset with 1 effect on it, and add the extra blocks and change the routing? I can't sus it at all! I'm wanting to create my own fx chain within any particular preset
So glad you're doing this unit. Now, should I buy one, or can you get the Axe Fx3 to mimic some of those presets? It sounds pretty lush.
You'll need 2 pitch blocks on Quad Detune mode to do the 8V detune, but otherwise everything should be easy to replicate. Pretty sure they're the same fx from the 2120
Forget about the effects unit... The Hamer is the star of this show!
Leon I'm using a synergy preamp into fryette power station and a tc nova system in front going out to a 212 and a 112. Would this be an upgrade for effects or not over the nova system
Hey Leon! What was that riff you were playing on the 8 voice detune? It sounds SO good and I absolutely have to learn it. *rushes off to dial in tone on helix* love your videos mate! And if you happen to have a tab please link me!
Cheers! It's pretty similar to a few different Ragdoll riffs (Letting Go, Shine, Rust)
For Guitar, does the parametric equalizer have good quality sound than an analog eq ? can assign a controller
to an frequency band of the parametric eq and turn into a wah effect ? can assign a controller
to pitch shifter interval and turn it into a whammy effect ?
Yes. It will do all of that and more. You just have to program it to do so.
Great stuff, Leon!
Off topic - I'm having a really tough time dealing with how close the guitars on the wall rack are to one another. It would be ding city if I tried to take one off or put one away
LOL! I have a similar storage setup at home. It definitely takes some practice to get them off the hangers without knocking them into each other. That said, all of my guitars are fairly well-used as I was a rather abusive live player back in the day, so the occasional bump doesn't bother me.
Hahaha yeah they're tight but there's juuuust enough space to avoid mayhem
Hey Leon, I know htis is off topic for this video but wanted to get your feedback. I'm going to invest in a Line6 Helix, I'm a home hobby guitarist. I wasn't sure if i should get studio monitors or an FRFR cab. Would you mind weighing in and giving me your thoughts when you have time if it's not too much of an inconvenience? :)
This comes down to 1 question: Are you going to record yourself? If you are going to produce - then go monitors - if all your going to do is just jam, then FRFR will be fine.
NOTE: If you are going to go studio monitors for recording, you will need to get yourself a good audio interface to go between your computer and your input. Universal Audio, Focusrite to name just two - just incase this knowledge is not known to you.
Hope this helps and have fun 😀
@@Wayne_Mather Thank you sir!!!
Hey Leon (or anyone else that knows), I am using this with my Peavey Rock Master preamp. What is the best way to connect them together? At the moment, I'm running the preamp out of the Rock Master (0dB) into Input 1 on the Studio Quad. Then I have outputs 1 and 2 going to my Peavey CS200X power amp. It seems to be working but something just seems off about the sound. I'm pretty much a noob with rack gear but I am enjoying the journey thus far. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!
The "off" thing might be the a/D converters. You could add a rack mixer to the setup to preserve your dry tone
@@LeonTodd Thanks Leon. Maybe I will give that a try. I think Behringer makes some cheapo mixers, will check the used market.
@@low_e_music Hey Bud, That's what I do,,, gives me much better control
@@marksobkowiak9959 Thanks! Have been keeping an eye out for some good deals.
The tone is amazing is this a modeler as well?
Nah, just FX.
Axe-Fx III for the "amp" tones, Digitech is just doing the fx
Ciao Leon the Strat is an American Performer with stock pickups?
It's a 1977 Strat with Suhr Landau pickups
Are you getting the over driven sounds from this rack ?
No, just the fx
I have one that I bought real cheap years ago.
wait until you put your hands on a Digitech STUDIO 5000 or a DHP-55.
Doesn’t the tsr 24 do all the same stuff ? The poor man’s eventide right ?
Pretty much. I did a vid with the TSR recently and I think I slightly prefer it to this.
@@LeonTodd Ok then well, There seemed to be very little on the market And what was available the last couple weeks was priced at new levels,even for the damaged stuff..So thanks for your input and nice videos.., I just got the tsr24 2.0 upgrade. so im good now. I screwed up and have been playing only pedals for years now, So I haven't been doing much..Regret selling my ADA MP-1 and Mesa classic 50/50. I'll stick to keeping a rack around for now on..Now that I'm old... Problem is now that I grew up with a gsp 21 legend. I don't remember all those nice presets.But at least I don't have to bend down all the time to figure it out..I'm back and feel much better now. Oh and I'll go ahead and sub. thanks again.
At 4:58 that sounded a lot like a Bryan Adams song am I wrong?
Run to you!
It's a shame the input level meters are so small cause let's face it a rack full of dancing LED bars is the real reason racks were popular with guitarists.
THIS
Price of this please
There's one for sale locally for about $125AUD
What's up with those goofy facial expressions
My floor is made of LEGO
@@LeonTodd I thought to make good guitar sounds, you needed good facial expressions? I mean, all the guitar gods do it and explains why I don't have it 🤣🤣🤣