I had the exact opposite experience of this. I learned about FAS from playing at and going to shows, and I kept seeing this same rackmount unit with a green rectangle screen in many acts that also sounded good, both professional and amateur. I talked to many of the artists and found out what it was they were using, and how they were using it, found a used Standard, and haven't looked back since.
I think it's equally telling what units I didn't see during that same time frame, and it's not because I wasn't looking. I didn't need the internet to tell me what people were using, or what sounded good, because the performing industry spoke for itself.
I've heard good sounds from just about every modeler out there. I've played through Helixes and Kempers and enjoyed the experience. I went the way I did because of what I saw working in many genres, and it works for me too, so I don't particularly care about anything else. Last thing I feel like doing is starting from scratch in another ecosystem.
Just saying, there's a world out there beyond TGP and the internet that you can also learn from without having to parse through bullshit
I 100% agree with Jason on this one!
presuming to speak for others of my kind, I'll say that the basement hackers amoung us, also tend to travel the righteous path of cyber BS parsement.
Well that sure is a beautiful CU24 in your avatar! One piece top? PS or WL (I guess that because of that burst paint job I don't recall seeing on a stock CU24)?
just a regular old USA PRS Custom 24
Can confirm.
not to those outside tgp
Life gives you onions; make onion-ade.
I tend to have a hard time taking this stuff very seriously - in a lot of ways, these forums are like kids in a schoolyard with smartalecs, bullies, nerds, ... and yard monitors sending badies to detention based on a tattletale's complaint - kinda funny really (hence my frequent silly comments above) - if Fractal is expecting some kind of meaningful feedback from this thread mine would be for them to forget about trying to engage with the public through channels like tgp since you have this forum for that kind of engagement, and with more control. If you want to engage more broadly, try other avenues - perhaps youtube either with your own channel or appearing on a reputable supportive existing guitar gear related channel. Whatever - there's better options than slogging it out with who knows who on tgp or elsewhere. As far as moles and paid informants and dirty tricks ... forget about it since you can't control it elsewhere anyway (sounds like its tough enough to control here) + if u continue to do what u do, to the level u do it at, I can't imagine it has material effect and will likely backfire on the dirty trixters at some point.
But three rights make a left....
