jeffgoobs
Member
Hello all, relatively new to the Fractal world here; figured I'd share my story.
So after over thirty years of being as religiously analog as one can get with my live rig, I've finally conceded and actually physically put my amp and pedals away into storage, which for me was a tall order.
A month or so ago, I had to do some guitar recording, and realized that my Eleven Rack was finally so long in the tooth, that it wasn't useful to me anymore. So it was time to get a new modeler for recording. I'd been out of the modeler market for probably twelve years, so I had to re-familiarize myself with the brands/products. People who like to tweak their sound like I do seemed to be very loyal to Fractal Audio's tech and UI, so I started my research with an FM3. I also ended my research with the FM3. The Axe-Fx modeling technology is just totally mind-boggling to me. Game over. The presets, with nary a single adjustment, smoke the sound of my whole rig. It's UNREAL how good these models are now. Not even my own company's products, as much of a fanboy as I am of them, have ever blown my mind like this product did.
The best part for me is that I can do things with this that are not physically possible in real life, but I have full confidence now that if they were, they would sound exactly like I'm hearing out of this unit. I've been marveling at how you can adjust every single iota of your rig, down to what tubes you're using, what speakers, what mic, where it's placed, and what diodes your pedals use. Remarkable. Sans any hyperbole, my quickly-assembled scenes I threw together sonically just blow my whole analog rig out of the water. That's it. That's all I needed. If I can have my feel-based analog rig without having to schlep the rig and take up the space? Later, amps and pedals!
I absolutely LOVE this thing, and now want the full on Axe-Fx III for my studio.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for making such a killer product, Fractal! You've made my life easier.
Cheers,
Jeff
So after over thirty years of being as religiously analog as one can get with my live rig, I've finally conceded and actually physically put my amp and pedals away into storage, which for me was a tall order.
A month or so ago, I had to do some guitar recording, and realized that my Eleven Rack was finally so long in the tooth, that it wasn't useful to me anymore. So it was time to get a new modeler for recording. I'd been out of the modeler market for probably twelve years, so I had to re-familiarize myself with the brands/products. People who like to tweak their sound like I do seemed to be very loyal to Fractal Audio's tech and UI, so I started my research with an FM3. I also ended my research with the FM3. The Axe-Fx modeling technology is just totally mind-boggling to me. Game over. The presets, with nary a single adjustment, smoke the sound of my whole rig. It's UNREAL how good these models are now. Not even my own company's products, as much of a fanboy as I am of them, have ever blown my mind like this product did.
The best part for me is that I can do things with this that are not physically possible in real life, but I have full confidence now that if they were, they would sound exactly like I'm hearing out of this unit. I've been marveling at how you can adjust every single iota of your rig, down to what tubes you're using, what speakers, what mic, where it's placed, and what diodes your pedals use. Remarkable. Sans any hyperbole, my quickly-assembled scenes I threw together sonically just blow my whole analog rig out of the water. That's it. That's all I needed. If I can have my feel-based analog rig without having to schlep the rig and take up the space? Later, amps and pedals!
I absolutely LOVE this thing, and now want the full on Axe-Fx III for my studio.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for making such a killer product, Fractal! You've made my life easier.
Cheers,
Jeff
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