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Thank you for your reply. I may have missed something earlier, but this is the first time I've heard that AX8 will indeed not have the FX8's optimized circuity (that wasn't just foremite speculation.)
I didn't mean that the effect DSP of the AX8 would be more powerful, but that the 4x12 grid would enable programming effects that are not achievable with the the series parallel choices for routing the FX8 currently has. I hope that at some point that kind of grid structure with shunts may get added to the FX8 as well. This opens up a lot of creative possibilities.
I think I, and some others, fall into a category to where we are divided between wanting both amp modelling and optimized 4cm sound quality and trying to weigh the benefits of each on a value scale. I would love to put a Friedman or D.Z sim to take the place of my tube preamp for some tunes, and then switch back to my tube pre running just FX. I've even thought about how I would pay $4,000 for a rackmount plus pedal board unit that combined the Axe FX XL+ with the optimized 4cm technology of the FX8 and amp relays. That's only $300 more than my Friedman amp which makes one genre of great optimized quality tone. But I understand there might not be a market for that kind of expensive box so instead I try to weigh the benefits of each.
This is where it has gotten confusing. The question becomes "is the difference in 4cm sound quality (and having relays) worth losing some CPU, amp modelling, and grid routing?" There is a price benefit as well, but with Ax8 that becomes much much smaller. That's an unanswerable subjective question.
I guess without having units to compare it's hard to quantify the optimized sound quality, and easy to take it for granted, as if anything else made by Fractal, like the AX8 should sound as transparent.
Thanks again for your reply. That answers many questions.
Sorry for the rambling.
I probably will keep the FX8, I just hope to see it grow the same way the Axe-FX has grown through the years.
I didn't mean that the effect DSP of the AX8 would be more powerful, but that the 4x12 grid would enable programming effects that are not achievable with the the series parallel choices for routing the FX8 currently has. I hope that at some point that kind of grid structure with shunts may get added to the FX8 as well. This opens up a lot of creative possibilities.
I think I, and some others, fall into a category to where we are divided between wanting both amp modelling and optimized 4cm sound quality and trying to weigh the benefits of each on a value scale. I would love to put a Friedman or D.Z sim to take the place of my tube preamp for some tunes, and then switch back to my tube pre running just FX. I've even thought about how I would pay $4,000 for a rackmount plus pedal board unit that combined the Axe FX XL+ with the optimized 4cm technology of the FX8 and amp relays. That's only $300 more than my Friedman amp which makes one genre of great optimized quality tone. But I understand there might not be a market for that kind of expensive box so instead I try to weigh the benefits of each.
This is where it has gotten confusing. The question becomes "is the difference in 4cm sound quality (and having relays) worth losing some CPU, amp modelling, and grid routing?" There is a price benefit as well, but with Ax8 that becomes much much smaller. That's an unanswerable subjective question.
I guess without having units to compare it's hard to quantify the optimized sound quality, and easy to take it for granted, as if anything else made by Fractal, like the AX8 should sound as transparent.
Thanks again for your reply. That answers many questions.
Sorry for the rambling.
I probably will keep the FX8, I just hope to see it grow the same way the Axe-FX has grown through the years.