A tool I built for getting QC tones from a song
I'm a hobbyist, intermediate level. I just love picking up the guitar and playing covers. I kept running into the same thing: I'd hear a tone in a song, sit down with the QC, and lose an hour cycling through amp/cab/EQ combos trying to get close. I'm not great at dialing tones, so most of that was just guessing.
So I made something to cut that out. You give it a song (and the section, like intro/verse/solo), your guitar, and your actual pickups, and it gives you a full signal chain: effects, amp, cab, with the actual parameter values for each block. It's built around your pickups, not some generic database preset.
The part I cared about most: it picks gear from the QC's actual device list instead of making stuff up the way a chatbot would, so the amps, cabs and pedals it gives you are real units that are actually on the QC.
It doesn't export a preset file or sync to the QC, just so that's clear. It gives you the build and you dial it in yourself.
I've been using it for my own covers for over a year. Figured I'd clean it up and put it out there in case anyone else finds it useful. The screenshots are a preset it built for Iron Maiden's Stranger in a Strange Land on my Fender Strat (American Performer). That's the whole chain it came up with.
Curious what you think, especially whether the stuff it picks for your pickups lines up with your experience. Happy to throw up a sound clip if anyone wants to hear how it came out.
If anyone wants to mess with it, it's called RigCraft.