The new Si diode clipping in 5.01 is really excellent. Some drive models I've struggled to get right with are now trivially easy to pull wonderful sounds out from. The Pi Fuzz has never done it for me. Not since my Standard days. I've kept my personal Pi clone that I've lovingly tuned over the years around and used that in to the front of my Fractal boxes when I've needed Muff-style fuzz.
I'm ready to retire the outboard box now.
The dynamics when you roll through your volume are wonderful. At each stop along the volume knob the clipping gets more square wave-ish and extreme and changes the nature of what you're hearing in significant ways. I start out on ~2 on my volume knob in this clip and just roll through on up to 10:
Mmmmmmmmmm.
And what come-of-age-in-the-90s kind of person would I be if I didn't take a swing at some Smashing Pumpkins with this fuzz? A terrible person, that's what I'd be. So I swung. I'll preface this with: even the Pumpkins struggle to reproduce the 10,000-tracks-of-guitar sound that made up the tones on Siamese Dream. They try pretty hard with JPM pres in to crazy hi-fi power amps live to do it and it's never as huge as all that Butch Vig f!@#$ery that makes that wall-of-fuzz sound on that album.
But I'm pretty happy with these results:
Preset: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=4917
I'm ready to retire the outboard box now.
The dynamics when you roll through your volume are wonderful. At each stop along the volume knob the clipping gets more square wave-ish and extreme and changes the nature of what you're hearing in significant ways. I start out on ~2 on my volume knob in this clip and just roll through on up to 10:
Mmmmmmmmmm.
And what come-of-age-in-the-90s kind of person would I be if I didn't take a swing at some Smashing Pumpkins with this fuzz? A terrible person, that's what I'd be. So I swung. I'll preface this with: even the Pumpkins struggle to reproduce the 10,000-tracks-of-guitar sound that made up the tones on Siamese Dream. They try pretty hard with JPM pres in to crazy hi-fi power amps live to do it and it's never as huge as all that Butch Vig f!@#$ery that makes that wall-of-fuzz sound on that album.
But I'm pretty happy with these results:
Preset: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=4917
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