Bigeclipse
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I am currently on the waitlist for the FM3 but have just found out what tone matching is and that the FM3 will not be capable of this. I am an at home jammer (to backing tracks and such) and currently use a Helix floor. I actually do like my floor unit for what it is (easy interface) and it mostly sounds good enough for me but I have decided I will be buying some sort of fractal unit in the near future. That being said, this idea of tone-matching really intrigues me. I am not good at understanding what is needed to mimic certain tones of songs I am jamming to and have heavily relied on downloading patches of said songs. I have tried countless times to make my own patches and while they sound good, they just never get all the way to what im trying to mimic, but several downloaded patches I have, do get me all the way there so I know it is not the helix but rather my lack of dialing in the patches. So here are my questions:
1: How well does tone matching actually work?
2: It appears it will only match the amp/cab tones but does not put in the needed effects, for example if a solo has delay and reverb, I will still need to mess with those blocks to figure out the type of delay and reverb I need and I will also have to adjust each of those block settings ....is this correct?
3: How does the tone matching work if a solo or part of a song im trying to match contains wah pedal or some other effect which drastically impacts tone?
4: Last question, how hard is it to get isolated guitar tracks or to make them myself? I honestly have no idea about this.
If tone matching really is not going to work for my needs I will stick with getting the FM3 but if tonematching really will save me time on trying to dial in my favorite songs then I just might save up for the axe fxIII.
1: How well does tone matching actually work?
2: It appears it will only match the amp/cab tones but does not put in the needed effects, for example if a solo has delay and reverb, I will still need to mess with those blocks to figure out the type of delay and reverb I need and I will also have to adjust each of those block settings ....is this correct?
3: How does the tone matching work if a solo or part of a song im trying to match contains wah pedal or some other effect which drastically impacts tone?
4: Last question, how hard is it to get isolated guitar tracks or to make them myself? I honestly have no idea about this.
If tone matching really is not going to work for my needs I will stick with getting the FM3 but if tonematching really will save me time on trying to dial in my favorite songs then I just might save up for the axe fxIII.