Will Schut
Experienced
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FTLOG, Nobody say "Klon"...
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EH Electric Mistress, but that's just me being greedy!Like what?
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Just spent my whole weekend trying to update all of my Axe-Fx and AX8 presets for 7.02. (The changes to the Comp block did the most damage to my stuff)............. and Beta Q8 drops.... The AX8 never even got to see an official Q7.02....
The same thing happened with Q7.... and Q6....and Q5.....and Q4......and....
Can't wait to try it out. I hope it doesn't change things much......
Cliff......your an animal...........and your killing me!
Moogerfooger type pedals. Eventide pedals. Pigtronic pedals. Eventide pedals. Some more glitchy sounding pedals. Something totally unique.
The point is we want more! more more more! and we can never have enoughFractal Audio doesn't model brands, they model and simulate effects.
Some of the effects in those medals can be reproduced. Like the envelope filter, the murf etc.
I just did a direct comparison between Q8.00 Beta and Q7.02 release. I used the latest factory Plexi Normal preset for both boxes.
Q8 has clearly improved string-to-string definition on six-note chords. Not any brighter, but more crisp and more detailed. If you run presets with a pushed power amp, you're going to like this.
Houston, we have texture.
https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/bias-excursion.99698/8.00
Improved amp modeling. Improves clarity and sounds more “open” especially for non-MV amp models or when the MV is turned up.
The bias excursion values for most amp models have been updated based on new measurement techniques. Existing presets will automatically be updated to the new values.
Based on user feedback the Amp block Speaker Drive now defaults to zero.
Cab block Delay parameters now have 0.001 ms resolution.
Fixed “quantization” noise when Amp block Transformer Drive parameter is set to its minimum value and a lot of gain is applied after the block. This specifically addresses the “Tube Pre” model as the default Transformer Drive is at the minimum.
Fixed Amp block Preamp Hardness parameter not “sticking”.
Fixed incorrect Modifier mapping in Advanced page of Amp block.
It would be cool to have more effects. I mean there's a whole DSP dedicated to them too, and there's still so many pedals out there that do some pretty hard to reconstruct sounds that I'd love to be able to have at my fingertips. It can't be fair to say "yeah, well many pedals just throw together several effects into one circuit and you can recreate them with several blocks" as I've heard some say.
Sometimes it feels like Cliff's key to customer loyalty besides rapid update releases is just making amps a bit bassy on one update and
then making them a bit more trebly on the next, so people will keep on marveling at the changes from the previous
update, perhaps made manifest by whatever tweaks they have to make to their presets. "Oh this one brightens up the mud, oh, this one sounds so much fuller and not tinny". Or "Cliff made a parameter I never thought about more accurate, he's so on it, it's so much better". Heresy, you say? It might be.
Then again, this is still my favorite piece of kit, so, love the update.
I understand what you are saying from the end result, but the release notes are usually pretty good at explaining the "why" for a given update. You don't even really need to understand electronics or physics to get the overarching objective that drives most of these changes. It's not "I added some bass or treble to the system". That might be a symptom of the change, but what changed is almost always the manner in which the characteristics of a component is measured and then translated into code. The degree of accuracy to which this is done is what makes the AxeFX unique....Sometimes it feels like Cliff's key to customer loyalty besides rapid update releases is just making amps a bit bassy on one update and
then making them a bit more trebly on the next, so people will keep on marveling at the changes from the previous
update, perhaps made manifest by whatever tweaks they have to make to their presets. "Oh this one brightens up the mud, oh, this one sounds so much fuller and not tinny". Or "Cliff made a parameter I never thought about more accurate, he's so on it, it's so much better"....
I had a quick run through my "amp+cab" presets, and some amp models do not sound quite right in the 8.0 beta, to my ears. I dotted down the following (there may be more):
- TX STAR clean
- ODS-100 clean
- Nuclear Tone
- Boutique 1
- Brit Brown
I had a quick run through my "amp+cab" presets, and some amp models do not sound quite right in the 8.0 beta, to my ears. I dotted down the following (there may be more):
FWIW, the Trainwrecks seem to sound better than in 7.02.
- TX STAR clean
- ODS-100 clean
- Nuclear Tone
- Boutique 1
- Brit Brown
Try resetting the amp. I noticed the Speaker Drive interacts more with some amps so you may want to turn that down as well. FWIW, the Nuclear Tone, Boutique 1 and Brit Brown models are essentially unchanged from the previous firmware so it could just be your ears.
Amp models were reset, and Speaker Drive is at 0.00. I'm definitely noticing that something's "off" in some models.
P.S. I probably shouldn't have mentioned Brit Brown, because the changes in that model date back to 7.xx.