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Axe-Fx: Dante Fazio's Post Production Secret Weapon
Interview by Cooper Carter

“In a post-production setting the Axe-FX II is an extremely powerful tool for processing and manipulating sounds. Utilizing the tone matching feature as well as importing your own impulse responses, and being able to record everything directly with a super clean signal makes this an acutely versatile and powerful secret weapon for sound design.”

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Ethan Pakchar, Guitarist for The Book of Mormon Touring Company Production
Interview by Michael French



Ethan Pakchar covers a lot of ground: both geographically through his current job as the touring guitarist with The Book of Mormon musical, and musically where he uses his Fractal Axe-Fx II to cover a wide range of sounds and styles during the shows. Ethan is fairly new to the Broadway music scene but at age 22 he has already established ...

CARL RYDLUND (Part 2)
by Michael French

Part one of our interview with Carl Rydlund can be found here.

Movie Work
Fractal: When you record your projects, do you record a DI track for later re-amping?

Carl: Not so much for the movie work - I tend to give them a finished track. But for record work I do so that there's the flexibility to make changes as needed - with the Axe-Fx, reamping is easy and it works great.

Fractal: Are you usually ...

CARL RYDLUND
Interview by Michael French

It's all about the mix for guitarist/composer/orchestrator/conductor Carl Rydlund, and his work is currently being mixed by the world's top engineers. Carl has come to rely on the Fractal Axe-Fx II as a performance and creative tool to place guitar tracks into the mix of today's hit songs and Hollywood blockbusters.

Carl was born and raised in Denver and started playing guitar at the age of 4. His father was a musician who ...