QC vs Laptop vs Neither for Live Sound
Hoping some of you that use the QC for live stuff can help me out here. I’ve been thinking of getting one to have a unified hub to run bass guitar, vocals, and synth through for shows. I’d mostly need reverb, delay, then maybe light modulation or distortion on vocals. I know the QC isn’t really made for vocals, but it would be nice to have an all in one solution that I could also use for bass and synth effects.
My question is, would I just be better off bringing a laptop and interface and running things through that since the effects would be less guitar centric? I’m just hesitant to bring my laptop to shows because I’m afraid of something happening to it and losing all my recordings.
Third option is just using my cabsim pedal for bass (Darkglass element) buying individual pedals for synth as needed, and letting the sound guy deal with vocal sound. I’ve read the latter might actually be better than doing my own effects since they know the room better, but it also just feels like a dice roll. There are also dedicated vocal effects too like the boss ve 500. Dealing with a bunch of separate gear could be unwieldy, though.
Hoping you can weigh in. Am I just misusing the QC and/or wasting money to irritate the sound guy, or is this a good idea to have the QC as a compact central hub for all instruments and vocals for easy switching between tones?