QuarterMaster QMX - 6

Another great product from a great company!

I first had a G2, which is a fantastic product, but the board was large and I didn't end up liking having a layer of hidden pedals underneath an upper deck I couldn't see or easily tweak, so I decided to go to a smaller board with a Quartermaster QMX-6. The QMX-6 fits perfectly on a West Coast Pedalboards 18x12" pedalboard, and looks great. I can fit 2 rows of pedals above. It's a close, but economic fit that forces me to make decisions. The size constraint is good.

Summary: I love the QMX-6 workflow! Some things I learned from switching:

I use the hot switching on the QMX-6 to go directly between clean/drive/fuzz sounds, but I leave a treble booster (pre-drives), post-drive boost, flanger, and delay in toggle mode.

For delay, I used the Analogman ADRX20, which lets you setup 2 analog delay settings. I can hit the settings switcher on the ARDX20 to switch between short/long delays, but I use the QMX-6 footswitch to bring delay in or out.

I discovered that the workflow with dual overdrive pedals is better than I anticipated. I can "prepare" a dual overdrive pedal before switching to it. I.e. on King of Tone, I can go from clean -> boost OR clean -> overdrive, depending on what I do to the KoT before switching to it with the QMX-6.

I put tuner, Strymon Flint and a Ditto looper completely after the QMX-6, so not "everything" will fit in the QMX-6, but all the potentially noisy analog pedals do, and the workflow is nice for switching between overdrives and kicking on boosts.

I have an extra slot in the QMX-6 as my "floater" spot. After overdrives and before flanger. It's unused, but if I want to use a different pedal with my setup, I can just drop it on the board, plug it in with short patch cables to QMX-6 slot 5, and off to the races. It's easy to make it a hot switching spot (i.e. additional overdrive) or a toggle (i.e. phaser).

To me, this is a really great setup that covers the bases day-in/day-out, but still lets me be flexible by trying a new pedal, not having to rewire everything, and not prompting me to build the "ultimate" board. It's made me focus on having a smaller set of REALLY good pedals (i.e. KoT) vs. collecting a ton of pedals and trying to figure out where they go on a massive board. It's prompted me use my volume control more.

My guitar has never sounded better! This is one of the best pieces of guitar gear that I have ever bought. I would HIGHLY recommend this to anyone! Totally worth it!!

I knew this was going to be a great product but it exceeded my expectations. Not only does my guitar tone sound better (as if I was plugging direct into my amp) it also is super high quality. It messed up all my setting and pedal choices in the best way. Would highly recommend.

Love the Quarter Master! It makes life so much easier when making quick changes in sound,, say from a Leslie emulator to a distortion pedal. Really love it!

The Quartermaster arrived yesterday and I spent the next couple of hours wiring it up- holy schnikes kids, you have a winner winner chicken dinner here. The time based effects immediately became more defined when compared to my last passive loop system. The switching is seamless and effortless thanks to the high quality switches, and there no pops when switching between high gain stages...my favourite pedals even seemed a little rounder, the upper mids more pleasing (and I'm picky about that). Overall, a great product for what I consider a fair price!

I have had great success in making my small pedal boards convenient to operate and noise-free with the Quartermasters. Great product!

High quality product. Makes switching pedals a breeze.