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  1. RevDrucifer

    Wish Talk box

    Or…..just buy a talkbox for $200 and call it a day. :tearsofjoy:
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    Need a monitor upgrade from KRK Rokit 6s

    Most Guitar Centers have a monitor area where you can plug your phone in and check your own mixes with various sets of monitors. That was quite the eye opening experience for me when I wanted to upgrade from my HS5’s. I’d suggest doing that, even just to get an idea of what different monitor...
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    Young lust lead sound

    This thread is 8 years old, hopefully the OP found what they were looking for. FWIW, Gilmour prefers the Hiwatts because he can crank the shit out of them without them breaking up. The basis of all his rigs since the 70’s has been a clean tone with a ton of headroom so they can slam all the...
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    High gain squeal as microphonic feedback

    Lemme get this for ya-
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    Great deal on this pedalboard/road case perfect for the FM9/2 exp’s!

    I’ve become a pro at saying “No” to others. :D
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    Pitch Block Harmonizer for Avenged Sevenfold

    They’re great for putting on in the background when getting other stuff done!
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    Great deal on this pedalboard/road case perfect for the FM9/2 exp’s!

    I still haven’t ordered it yet because I keep buying amps. :D Honestly, I’d be a bit concerned if it weren’t heavy. Road cases aren’t known for being light!
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    Pitch Block Harmonizer for Avenged Sevenfold

    Definitely anxious for some kind of “This is how I’ve been using the AxeFX” from Syn. They have this podcast where they’ll do a 90-120 minute episode on just one song, going into an insane amount of detail about how the songs came to be and the recording process. With the new album songs Syn’s...
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    Your best tips quad tracking

    These questions are all dependent on the individual songs. You can think of all the furntire you want to put in a house, but it's a moot point until the house is designed and you know how much floor space you have. A quad track on one song can sound amazing in one song and bloated in the next...
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    "Real amps" vs Modelers

    Dig around Cliff's posts over the last 15 years, a lot of that randomness can be accounted for and is precisely why so many go to Fractal. I've heard people gripe about modelers sounding too perfect and I never understood until recently. It's hard NOT to dial them into a 'perfect' state...
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    FM9 Firmware Version 6.00 public beta (1)

    I doubt FM9 owners were the only ones keeping an eye out for this, no doubt several competitors just said “Shit. Shit shit shit shit shit, damnit!”
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    Dilemma: What to Do?

    FTFY ;)
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    Dilemma: What to Do?

    I pissed off my maintenance man last year when he displayed his lack of knowledge of an issue in my apartment, not knowing I run a maintenance department for a campus you can fit 10 of my complexes inside of. Since then, I’ve been highly suspicious of any activity in my apartment when I’m gone...
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    How many of you prefer to talk at your gigs (eg In between songs)? How many of you play straight through?

    Personally, I’ve always welcomed someone with good stage banter at the shows I go to, but what I call ‘good’ isn’t everyone’s idea of good, I mean Mike Patton and Devin Townsend. :D I fronted bands for about 15 years and adapted a lot of what I learned in the restaurant business, serving...
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    Spalted Maple mini Explorer

    Let me go sell some stuff and you're going to have another request!!!
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    Apple Imusic menu system BLOWS!

    Is this one of those UI things I just don’t get? I’ve been using Apple Music for around a decade, occasionally they’ll move the search button or something and my muscle memory needs re-training, but outside of that I never have a problem finding what I’m looking for. The only real gripe I...
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    Favorite plugins for post production and how do you use them ?

    I recently cancelled both my Slate and Plug-in Alliance subscriptions. Forgot I even had a subscription to Slate and I didn’t use them for over a year, at all. I learned on Waves stuff and have most of them, after 6-7 years of learning, I use FAR less plug-ins these days and essentially treat...
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    All amp models have have a high frequency rasp

    I didn’t read much of the meat of the thread, but I’ve also got Fishman’s and was working with 5” monitors for a long time, recently upgraded to HS8’s from the HS5’s. Lots of revelations when I switched; the first one being that due to only having a narrow frequency area to work in, some...
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    5153 50w Blue Presence

    I'm not trying to be a wiseass, but it's a knob, turn it until it sounds good. I haven't played with the model since I got the actual head, but the knob on my head is generally around 3-4 o-clock. @Reet, it's been almost a decade since I've plugged into a Peavey variant but here's the EVH...
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    New Amps Week! Bogner/5153

    But it’ll be fun as hell to play with!!
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    New Amps Week! Bogner/5153

    Oh, I’m definitely going to do it up at some point, I’ve got three 2x12’s, 3 heads, 2 power amps….hell, if I had one more cab I can make a surround sound rig with my FM9 and AxeFX :tearsofjoy: I just know I’m never going to use it (w/d/w) in a live situation and my experimentation has been...
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    New Amps Week! Bogner/5153

    They are indeed metal af and I look forward to owning a JCM800, or really any Marshall that was released JCM800 and backwards, in the future! Just not the kind of metal I want to do with this band!
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    New Amps Week! Bogner/5153

    No, my AxeFX and FM9 aren’t going anywhere and they’ll still both get more use than either of these, but MORE IS MORE!!!! This all started because I wanted a head for the band I’m putting together. I can settle with the Class D stuff for a cover band doing classic rock/pop/top 40, but I’m...
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    Favorite amps for Strats?

    I’ve never actually checked that model out, but I bought an actual Shiva last weekend and HOLY SHIT! Definitely going to be making some presets with that clean model!
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    Genre snobbery? rant warning lol

    Hahahahaha dude, I have ZERO doubt that when you let it rip, every guitarist in earshot gets a bit of a complex! :tearsofjoy: The most of it I experienced was in my late teens and I got some shows under my belt filling in for adults when they couldn’t make a gig; I’d show up with an Ibanez...
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    FM9 Latency - Around 5ms?

    ATM!!!!
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    GIFT OF TONE 2023 #3 - Wes Hauch!

    What timing! I finally dug into some Alluvial this past weekend and have been blaring it to and from work every single day this week! I’ve mostly known Wes via his ridiculously awesome Iceman 7’s that I’m PRAYING Ibanez makes an sig of, then the Devin Townsend connection. I cannot wait to...
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    Best poweramp for Axe III (Goal: LOUDDDDD)

    Some really nasty comments and replies here. If you didn't grasp what the OP is aiming for in their first couple posts, no need to insult the guy- In some genres/locales the 'blow the audience away by stage volume' is part of the aesthetic. It doesn't matter that you find it meritless (and...
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    GIFT OF TONE 2023 #2 - Greg Wells

    I’m stoked as hell to see a producer pop up in these! Greg’s got some great one-knob plug-ins with Waves that point to a no-fuss mentality when it comes to getting things done!
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    The Van Halen Master thread collection!

    I’m pretty much exactly the same! The first music video I remember, period, was “Jump” and then I was big into MTV when Balance came out, I remember Road Rules had an episode where they setup one of the VH gigs and they had one of the chicks tuning Ed’s guitars where he showed her an A chord, I...
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    FM9 Need advise on new song.

    Brother, at some point you need to decide when your stuff is good enough for YOU. Watch this Devin Townsend vid and REALLY listen to what he says, especially in regards to the gap that exists between good and great. Start it at 4:45 and keep watching- He gets into some REALLY great insight...
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    AFIII Chugga Chugga IIC++/Recto stuff

    Here's a metal tune I just finished up, if you're not a fan of aggressive, screaming vocals, this most likely won't be your thing. I also curse in it a bunch, so NSFW. Non-compressed to hell and back-...
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    Are most of you gigging with your FM9's?

    I’m mostly a recreational user but I do have my medical card. Edit- revised my answer after seeing odd interpretation of posts by OP NO PROBLEMS GIGGING MY FM9.
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    The Van Halen Master thread collection!

    We all know the Balance era tone was peak EVH!
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    Ian Thornley (Big Wreck) Axe-Fx III

    He can be fairly responsive on IG some days.
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    5150 Presence Knob

    Authentic. There’s an Ideal page for this stuff. I also have it in my head that I heard James Brown or Howard Kaplan bring up a story about a single pot being different from the rest in a pre-production amp they sent Ed, but Ed preferred it so it stayed. I just skimmed both the ToneTalks with...
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    Insane FM9 Buzzing all of a sudden

    If you want to find out what area of the house is causing the issue the quickest way (if it’s in the house); turn on your FM9 and plug your guitar in so it’s buzzing away, go to your breaker panel and start switching the breakers off one by one, leaving your FM9 associated breaker alone...
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLIFF!

    Happy Birthday, good sir!
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    AFIII Starting to work on my Gilmour/PULSE tones

    Hahahaha it's a pretty big preset. I completey remade some of them and removed a lot of clutter. They're still a work in progress that I haven't put much time into lately, but when I eventually get them refined I'll post them up. If I remember right, the preset in the OP might have been using 2...
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    Turning your FM9 on and off mutiple times a day or leaving it on all day?

    Didn’t read the rest of the thread but sometimes mine gets turned on Friday evening around 6pm and doesn’t get turned off until Sunday around the same time as I wind down the weekend. Never had any issues as a result. Same with my AxeFX, which is sometimes on for weeks at a time.
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    New Update sounds all different? Dyna Cab update?

    Start looking for patterns; it's not every other day for me, I'll have 3-4 regular days and then 1 day it's off, or weeks of normal days and 2-3 days it's off. I know if I load up a session and when listening back for the first time my immediate reaction is to start making big EQ adjustments, I...
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    New Update sounds all different? Dyna Cab update?

    FWIW, my ears hear differently day to day and it took me a long time to realize it. Some days I hear treble a hell of a lot more than others. I really wonder how many years I started tweaking amp settings thinking it was due to the gear and not me. I didn’t figure it out until I started mixing...
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    How to approximate this distortion tone?

    Hm, that sounds more like a DI with something Klon-like on it more than it does a traditional amp tone. I have better luck getting edge of breakup tones from cleaner amps pushed hard than high gain amps turned down, but that's more of a matter of taste. It might be easier to get the particular...
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    Pete Loeffler Chevelle tone?

    I often forget about Pete when talking about my favorite Mark IV tones, dude’s had some good ones over the years. Him and Clint Lowery from Sevendust are my favorite low-tuned MKIV guys.
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    Tonex Pedal will change the market

    I have a standing invitation with Fowleri- he is welcome to come check out my Fractal gear and Ibanez JEM as long as he can stay away from talking doodoo on the internet. I’ve even offered to give him a walkthrough of how to set up a Floyd as he was having a lot of issues with his previously...
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    AFIII Dimebag Darrell Psycho Holiday solo but horrible version

    Too modest, indeed! Think of it this way, man; if this were in Pantera’s set right now, Zakk Wylde would NOT be playing it better than you!
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    Chewbacca Mask Lady

    If we all had a moment like this in each day, the world might not seem to harsh at times.
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    How much should the singers be paid?

    There is no standard, really. Every situation is different. Does everyone else get paid equally?
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    Fender Tone Master Pro....

    Don't spend much time on this one. That's our Tim™
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    Fender Tone Master Pro....

    Pretty sure this has already been shot down as a “Nope”
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    How long does a guitar that stays in tune actually stay in tune?

    That question can be a bit open ended, too. I look at tuning differently live than I do in the studio- live all my guitars are can get through a gig without any serious issues, but in the studio I’m checking tuning between every take because if you stack up enough guitars that are all 1-2 cents...
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    School me on this artists Mesa tones

    Ever year Ibanez does not release that Iceman as an sig model, metal angels die.
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    "You need to be an engineer..."

    That gets into strawmen territory, "good for a live tone" was never part of the equation.
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    "You need to be an engineer..."

    Depends how far into Camp Survivorship they are.
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    "You need to be an engineer..."

    This is where I ended up about 4 minutes later. Added the Ideal Saturation Switch, played with the Tone menu and moved the mic back a bit. Done. These are vintage-voiced singles coils, FWIW. Also, I noted you over at TGF as influencing me to roll my own Jose! (random wanking noodles)
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    "You need to be an engineer..."

    "....to get a good tone out of a Fractal" Let me relay my experience as an AxeFX user a few moments ago; I wanted to try adding a Jose mod to the 6CA7, so I placed an amp, cab, delay and reverb blocks on the grid and went about tweaking the reverb because it's better when it's wetter. I noodled...
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    Modeling Questions

    James is gettin' sweaty at this point.
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    The Power of One Block

    When Cliff out-Cliff’s Cliff. Eagerly awaiting the Drive and Motivation update where Cliff figures out how to model his ambition for us all.
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    Helix HX one

    It’s been funny seeing the modeling world react to this with “It’s useless”…..yeah, if you’re using a fully packed modeler that can do all this already, duh. This isn’t made for that market and I’m scratching my head a bit at the people who seem to think it was. In my pre-Fractal days, I got an...
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    Andre Flood on why some people think PRS guitars have no mojo

    Are you for real? You’ve trashed this thread by shitting all over PRS and anyone who digs the guitars completely based off your own subjective preferences. The way you keep saying “This is fun” as if you’re overlooking a bunch of mindless peons who discovered fire for the first time is nothing...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #2

    It dripped onto the floor, I gotta put it back.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #2

    Hahaha just the mix level on the reverb. That might have been the fastest preset I've ever made, it couldn't have been longer than 90 seconds from start to finish.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #2

    Yep, I've heard it a couple times. ;)
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #2

    Those melodies over those changes are perfection. So much dynamics in that tune. I didn't even realize until I learned it that the single note signature guitar line is the chorus vocal line, despite hearing it plain as day since the 90's. :D
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #2

    I'm normally doing chugga chugga stuff, but this is the exact reason I wanted a vintage-voiced Strat- Tube Studio- Vibroverb AA- Bassman Dynacab. I can get lost in that all day.
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    Was the Fender TMP the impetus for Cliff producing gap-less switching?

    Possibly. The world may never know. Seems it’d be good business to keep a few big ideas in the works and under the radar for situations such as this. If Fractal didn’t shower us with regular updates and kept them locked behind “We’re waiting for someone else to make a move so we can trump it”...
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    Cab-Lab 4 Release 🔈🧪

    I notice some different mic names in the pics….? Are these just different titles?
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    Metallica Tones at POWERTRIP Festival

    Haven’t seen them since the end of ‘01 but I’ve got tix for Aug ‘24 in Foxboro I’m very anxious for. A couple things really jumped out at me at the Daytona shows I was at (they played Fri/Sun) was Kirk nailing everything. Like, legit nailing every solo and part better than I’d ever heard him...
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    Recommend 2 Button Stand In Switch For Changing Presets

    I made my own specifically for that purpose, it’s a quick, fun job if you like to DIY stuff. https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/diy-dual-momentary-switch-tutortial.158802/
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    Ibanez JEM7VP vs JEMJR

    Huge difference between these. The JR’s are decent for what they are, a $400 guitar aimed at preventing people from buying Chibanez stuff. You can put a Gotoh 1996t Floyd on them instead of that junk it comes with. My biggest gripe about them is the jatoba fingerboards which feel and look like...
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    All Amps sound the same

    How much experience do you have with the real world versions? Outside of using the same IR across multiple amps, something I’ve noticed with people who haven’t spent a lot of time with the real world counterparts are dialing in their idea of what those amps sound like, opposed to what they...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #1

    Even with analog gear there can be a ‘hiccup’, or the discrepancy between two different tones is jarring enough it helps create the feeling of a gap. This is precisely why guys used to tour with giant racks with one effects unit dedicated to it’s own thing, Petrucci is a great example. Or if you...
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    How do you acquaint yourself with a new guitar?

    New strings, setup, if it's used and not totally clean I'll get it nice and clean, there's a lot to pick up on just doing that. After that it's just playing it!
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    [implemented] Gapless switching

    I’d let the people who gotta do the programming worry about that stuff. If it’s possible, it’ll happen. That’s the great thing about this company, this kind of stuff is autopilot for Fractal, if they can, they will. Without understanding the architecture from their POV, I doubt the majority of...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Public Beta #1

    Actual footage of Cliff this morning-
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    Dyna-cab, general consensus is that they're "better" than legacy?

    I want to say that “Coming Back To Life” clip I did was using Dynacabs but I’ll have to check the preset, I think I ditched the original presets and started fresh. I’ll take a peak tonight and letcha know, mang!
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    Dyna-cab, general consensus is that they're "better" than legacy?

    I wasn’t really excited for them when I found out they were happening, to be honest. I’ve got so many IR’s and already figured out how to dial in tones as fast as I possibly could, it s just seemed a bit unnecessary to me, until I actually tried them. I have not loaded a single IR since. Any...
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    opinions and advice: gilmour patch

    Not every single time and 95% of the time it’s a minor tweak, or you’re actually removing stuff you no longer need and freeing up space. It entirely depends what the update pertains to and its context in your presets. The last few updates to the modeling algorithm only had me doing very minor...
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    opinions and advice: gilmour patch

    I wouldn’t adise buying those presets, outside of the morality things already brought up, those presets were made several FW’s back and don’t really work with the current FW iteration. He updated them once after Cliff updated the compressors but has not done so since, or if he has he’s not...
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    Locking tuners and string slack

    I only lock my locking tuners about 3/4’s the way because I don’t like a lot of compression in my tone.
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    Avenged Sevenfold Bass Player Joins Fractal Land

    I saw them last night, outstanding show and like I said in another post after they started touring, I was surprised at how much is actually Syn playing and not a synth. Can’t wait to see the rundown of their rigs and how they’re doing it all up. Only a couple EV-1’s onstage. If someone told me...
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    Steve Vai uses FAS amp modeling with (parts of) his Hydra

    I’ve got the push/pull capacitor, never use it and actually don’t enjoy it much. I can see how it works for him but in my use the tone gets very brittle and and lacks any warmth when it’s engaged. The odd thing is that I’m 95% sure the JEMs have had a capacitor hard wired to the pot for this...
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    Is it possible to copy/paste only part of a preset to other preset?

    I’d just load an empty preset, build that signal chain and save it as a Template.
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    Vai 2023 Setup

    I really don’t think he’s motivated in that way. He’s had every gear company trying to get him to endorse their stuff since the 80’s and there’s nothing with his name on it he hasn’t played a part in designing, the closest that got was when he endorsed Horizon cables in the 90’s….or Boss pedals...
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    Steve Vai uses FAS amp modeling with (parts of) his Hydra

    I don’t have a problem with Bolinger. Read that dude’s Wiki page sometime, it’s got some surprises. The best Bolinger RR was the one with Devin Townsend and Devin was in full Devin mode, Bolinger didn’t know if he should laugh, cry or both at any given moment. This Vai RR was awesome as a...
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    Real vintage sounding les paul through FM3

    I love Emerald City‘s channel, I can listen to Aaron play Strats all day long and never get sick of it. This vid is actually the first time I’ve ever heard him play a Paul- You can definitely get these tones, but an aspect to consider is that these are generally guys who are used to playing...
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    FM3 My debut album "Magic Number Eight" for 80% recorded with FM3.

    Great work all around, man!! You’re one of those real guitar players!
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    Real vintage sounding les paul through FM3

    I had no clue Joe Biden was Joe Bonamossa’s uncle. You’d think I’d have made the Joe B. connection before.
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    Doug Doppler interviews Justin Crew (Hammett’s tech)

    Feel free to delete this guys!
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    Doug Doppler interviews Justin Crew (Hammett’s tech)

    Right out of the gate it’s Fractal talk! I just started it but figured I’d drop it here. Tight work, @Doug Doppler And @Admin M@ is getting some love as well! Edit- I’m a bit deeper into it, Doug really covers a lot of questions that have been asked since they made the switch to Fractal...
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    250$ for Metallica Black Album Preset

    Hook me up with one of those IIC+’s and I’ll have your preset ready in about an hour, I just need to get out of work first.
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    FM9 tuner for intonation

    Indeed. If I remember right, Cliff said it’s as accurate as any Peterson (or more?) can’t quite recall. But yeah, the last 5 guitars I bought were intonated using my FM9.
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    Alternate picking/prog style playing

    As for the picking stuff, just do whatever is comfortable and allows you to play it. For some reason, when I started playing I automatically started picking everything with an upstroke. My uncle told me for the first few years it would negatively effect me later in life. I was 11 then and I’m...
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    Starting to play guitar again, Ibanez RG still good?

    RG’s are still the shit and what’s cool is about half the people selling them used haven’t gone full lunatic yet, so you can find them at reasonable prices still. Hell, if anything, people put more stock in 90’s Ibanez stuff than anything they’ve put out since the 00’s. I’d just find a used...
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    Flight case for FM9 and two expression pedals.

    $250 for a flight case and pedalboard, 32” Harmony Cases HCPEDAL32 Custom Hard ATA Flight 32" Guitar Pedal Compatible with Case https://a.co/d/eNk75Q6 FWIW, I just made a new board for my FM9/Sp-1/EV-1, 32” fits everything with putting the exp pedals at a slight angle.
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    Kirk Hammett On Rick Beato (Fractal content)

    Oh…I punished Steve Vai when I was a teenager. For those unaware, a “punisher” is what many touring musicians call overzealous fans. The type that think they’re some kind of mythical god and act as such. I definitely did that to him, he was with his nephews, too. Not only did I bombard the guy...
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