Robboman
Fractal Fanatic
I'm about to dive in to this mess. Aaaarghh! Call it cork-sniffing or whatever, but it's fun now and then to do these A/B comparisons of various things for my own ears, to update my own impressions and see if anything has evolved (the tech, or my own personal tastes).
New FM9 just arrived! It will clearly displace the FM3, but I hung onto my AX8 since I could never quite get comfortable using FM3 in the live band context on only 3 switches. Pretty sure I'll be letting go of AX8 and FM3 soon, but it's fun to line up all three Fractals for now.
As always, I benchmark against the ole tube amps n pedals. Gotta A/B and reference back to my vintage Fender baseline to make sure I'm still keeping it real. For the live band and to this day it's still really REALLY hard to beat those old tube beasts. Recording is another story, Fractal won out many years ago. I don't have the treated room, mics, preamp channels or the volume permission to record those amps in all their glory.