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    FM3 Firmware Version 8.00 beta 1

    When I did change PP#4 to Layout 7, View 2, which is what I use, it was fine. But again, I’ve never even noticed that Layout Link option because I never needed to touch it. It always went to the Layout and View I wanted, 7 and 2. I hope I’m explaining it correctly.
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    FM3 Firmware Version 8.00 beta 1

    The Layout Link for FM3 was Layout Blank and view 1. I never even noticed that before. It was the same on both of my Per Preset settings, PP#3 and PP#4, PP#3 was fine - it never switched the view and it acted as it should. PP#4 was the same but switched the Layout and View to 1 and 1. I never...
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    FM3 Firmware Version 8.00 beta 1

    Just ran into an issue with stand in switches that I only saw after this beta update. One of my external Boss pedals worked fine with both the tap and the hold switches behaving as expected. But the second pedal was changing views on me when I would tap it. That’s when I saw on the unit itself...
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    Step on switch for solo

    Yup. Hit me like a lightning bolt. Much easier.
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    Step on switch for solo

    I finally used the Last Scene function on my lead switch at a gig last night and have no idea why I haven’t used it all these years. I am a dumdumhead.
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    From Brad Paisley to EVH - This Fm3 Can make my Tele do anything!!!

    Yup, my Tele goes from clean to mean to scream at the stomp of a footswitch. Fractal gear has changed everything for me. So much lighter, easier and tastes great!!
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    Tips for filling out tones in a rock trio?

    Big thing Ive found for bringing down a thin sound live is simply turning down the hi cut in the cab block. Go as low as you need to get the tone where you want it. Disregard the value and just use your ears. For my tele I go down to about 3500. It’s an easy and uncomplicated fix.
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    Amp and drive combinations…

    Yes, one drive block which accomodates the 2 Klons and the 1 Jam Ray. I tried using different amps or channels of amps for the clean/dirt changes and couldn't tolerate the tone gap. And when I tried scene controllers to control different parameters it froze my unit. I got the 2 comps idea from...
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    Amp and drive combinations…

    Tele player here. I use the Bassman on clean, the Klon on low gain for edge of breakup and then another dirtier channel of it for dirt, then the Jam Ray for full lead. Use a JFET comp prior to all pedals and the Optical Comp post cabinet to really make the tone shine.
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    FM3 and QSC 12.2

    I use the K10 and no issues. Are you going straight from the FM3 to the K12 or are you being fed a signal from the mixer? And is your FOH tone ok?
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    Bug? FM3 Freezes When adjusting amp boost settings on unit itself

    Just an update. It seems that it has something to do on my unit with the 1987x amp and control switches on the amp settings. I have plenty of CS settings on other presets and no issues at all.
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    Bug? FM3 Freezes When adjusting amp boost settings on unit itself

    This truly is a mystery. Keep having the same issue. But then I decided to clear an empty preset and create the same one from scratch, to see if the preset is corrupted. As I'm creating it, I'm playing a while before I edit the next block. Everything was foine, no issues, until I added the...
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    Bug? FM3 Freezes When adjusting amp boost settings on unit itself

    Well, this is quite curious. I am updating the presets on the unit itself and it is now stuck on the last few presets - 505/512. Unit is frozen. I don't if I should power off and try again. Wow, I've never had a problem with the FM3.
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    Bug? FM3 Freezes When adjusting amp boost settings on unit itself

    Preset attached. It’s only running around 72%. If you could try switching the amp boost types to see if it freezes your unit that would be appreciated. I switch from neutral, to ts808, then to ts808 mod and that’s when it happens.
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    Bug? FM3 Freezes When adjusting amp boost settings on unit itself

    Here you go. Thanks for your help.
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    Bug? FM3 Freezes When adjusting amp boost settings on unit itself

    I’m coming across a strange situation I‘ve never had before. I’m on firmware 6.02, and in one of my presets with the 1987x amp, my unit freezes intermittently when I switch the boost settings in the amp block. I’ve reset the whole unit, have reinstalled the firmware, etc. When it occurs the...
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    Recommendations for an Amp Model that works for clean, crunch and lead

    I use various scenes with the 1987x model, based on Austin Buddy’s settings. It’s clean sound is very close to a Tweed Bassman, nice and warm. I actually use that set at barely edge of breakup. I then use the scene controllers and the TS 9 pedal to get a nice lead sound. For crunch it’s the...
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    Is there an automatic gap when setting a CS to a scene, because that's what I'm finding.

    I was not changing amp channels (or Cab channels ) on any of the scenes, was just using a Control Switch on about 10 different parameters to try and go gapless, but that overloaded the unit somehow. So my plan B is working great instead.
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    Is there an automatic gap when setting a CS to a scene, because that's what I'm finding.

    Actually it didn't work. It seemed the unit was overloaded by all the CS modifiers I set up. What was happening was the unit would freeze and the tone sounded like it was coming from the midpoint of a wah pedal. This happened multiple times. I would turn the unit off, back on, it would work for...
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    Is there an automatic gap when setting a CS to a scene, because that's what I'm finding.

    I’m actually making progress with this, as I keep learning more and more about the switch functionality even after owning this for about 3 years. Not to bore anyone but here’s what I’ve come up with, in case it helps anyone. 2 comps, 2 drives, delay and reverb in parallel, chorus and trem. About...
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    Is there an automatic gap when setting a CS to a scene, because that's what I'm finding.

    And I need to change more than the gain to get the tone I want, thus adding around 8 parameters to the CS. Scene Controllers wouldn’d be able to handle this (I think)
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    Is there an automatic gap when setting a CS to a scene, because that's what I'm finding.

    I am using this method to get rid of the audio gap when switching channels. But when using the CS per Scene functionality, the gap is the same as if I am switching channels. And it doesn’t matter if I have anything in the hold button of the FS button as I tried that also. If CS3 is on its own...
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    Is there an automatic gap when setting a CS to a scene, because that's what I'm finding.

    I have set up CS3 on my unit to vary between clean and dirty on the same amp and amp channel on my FM3, per some of the instructions on the forum. When the CS3 is assigned to one of my footswitches and I press it, the amp change is instantaneous, so it works as it should. However, if I don't...
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    Why does the sound of a modeler have to be "the sound of a miced amp" instead of "the sound of an amp"

    The one thing that has always boggled my mind with this, and maybe it’s from me running sound with my band that has all classic rock instruments (guitar, drums, sax, piano/keys, bass), and me being the guitarist, is that mic’d cabs or the modeler simulation of such, are needed to cut through the...
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    IEM EQ technique

    What type of mics do you use? I tried a SM58 but that didn’t work very well.
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    IEM EQ technique

    Thank you, that thread is great. Yes, that fizzy sound was a bit overbearing, but you actually need those frequencies to cut through a live mix at FOH. So again, solution of having one eq from the FM3 signal for the IEM's and one without that EQ for FOH does the trick for me. One other detail -...
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    IEM EQ technique

    I do like the IEM’s because I can hear things so clearly. It was just that the guitar tone was so thin but this really helped. For me, the main tone I’m concerned with is FOH, so this seems like a good compromise.
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    IEM EQ technique

    It wasn’t low end. The mids were severely lacking, and the spl response graph really showed that. I boosted the mids and the tone was much better. And it’s strange that the other instruments and vocals sounded fine.
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    IEM EQ technique

    I just started using IEM’s and absolutely hated my tone coming through them. It was way too thin and sounded nothing like my FOH tone. I send my FM3 Left out to a QSC Touchmix and then send an aux mix to the IEM’s. So I thought to look up the frequency response curve of the IEM’s and try and use...
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    Live sound

    And make sure your tone can cut through the mix. Too fat/warm a sound on its own usually fails in a full band mix. One of the main reasons I’ve always been a Tele guy.
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    Drive blocks for dirt? Amp block? Both?

    Bassman (or currently using the Mesa USA Pre Clean) as my clean tone, same cab, then 3 shades of dirt - Super OD with very slight drive, and then 2 other tones which are the Rat drive boosted by the VS9. One Rat is a little dirtier than the other for my lead tone. Sustain for days, even with my...
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    Glitchy sound when switching scenes and presets

    I have found that while playing alone it does seem very prominent, I haven’t found that to be the case in a live setting.
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    What is you FM3 “backup” for live shows

    Tech 21 Blonde pedal and a few other pedals. Easy and simple.
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    Sticking with the FM3? Upgrading to FM9? Why?

    FM3 is perfect for my needs so will be sticking with it. A simple Boss external switch gives me all the switching I need.
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    Biggest struggle-dialing patches

    To me out front is most important, especially to ensure the guitar cuts through the mix. I use a QSC K10 as a monitor, for both my guitar and vocals. Can you send the signal to the board and an Aux back to the Xitone and use the Aux EQ from the board for it?
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    Outdoor gigs and led screen

    I did a gig this past Saturday in direct sun, no problems whatsoever.
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    FM3 Firmware Version 4.00 beta 2

    Had a roughly 3 hour gig last night with Beta 2, no issues whatsoever (other than a faulty XLR cable that scared the bejeezus out of me as I thought the unit was blowing up!) Had the strange scribble strip issue with the last Ares Beta and then 4.0 Beta 1, but they’re fine now. Sounded great.
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    Wrapping my noggin around updates

    I just read that if you soft reset and set your "Tone Control Display" in the Global parameters to Ideal instead of Authentic, the BMT would not have defaulted to 5.0. This is maddening. Live and learn.
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    Wrapping my noggin around updates

    So I’ve had the AX8 and now the FM3 and have done the updates as they‘ve been released. I get that they fix known issues and add features but I don’t get the whole amp reset thing. If you do not reset the amp, did the modeling simply not get updated in each of the releases? After reading the...
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    Is this possible?

    For that tone it seems so. I’ll just switch Presets then. Thanks.
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    Is this possible?

    I have an acoustic preset from Moke that is great but the cab block is actually in front of the amp block. During a song I’d like to switch to a dirty sound but cannot figure out how to get the cab behind the amp block via scene switching. i know I can simply switch presets but would prefer...
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    Austin Buddys Live Gold - Pack - Opinions, please ;-)

    I just ordered this 2 days ago, immediately went to the Plexi 6CA7 preset as this is what I've been using for my dirt and lead sounds. This setting totally blew me away. So much better than what I had in my own preset. Gigged last night with it using the '59 Bassman model for clean and this for...
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    Ahhh. That might be so. I did not import the block for the other preset that worked out fine, I simply copied and pasted from one that was working correctly. Thanks for the assistance.
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    https://share.icloud.com/photos/0m7iR79GaRnpQkE-Lrs-2GMQw#Wantagh_Woods Trying to post the video of the issue again. I wonder if exporting/saving the blocks corrupted the preset?
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    Well, this seems to only happen when I save a preset to preset number 387, strange as that sounds. I copied the exact preset from the original one to preset 389, made the exact same changes and they are saving the changes fine.
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    An ICloud link. How do I post a video from my IPhone?
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    Video of problem
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    Let me double check. It might very well be user error. Will get back with info shortly.
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    Not a Bug New FM3 User - blocks not staying at what has been saved

    I received the unit about a month ago and it came equipped with fw 1.05. When I save an amp or cab block in the different channels/scenes within the preset, if I then save it and leave the preset and go back to it, the amps/cabs are different. I thought this might be fx 1.05 so I just upgraded...
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    Cover Band Preset and Layout

    Just got the FM3 a few weeks back and like many here was wondering how I could use only 3 switches compared to my AX8. Well thanks to the OMG thread I downloaded the FM3 Only layouts and adapted it to my needs. Took me a while to wrap my head around how I'd use it but finally settled on...
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    Post here if you've received an invite for the Headphone Jack model!

    7/31/19 confirmation Invite received 8/13/20
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    The Cure - 'Just Like Heaven'

    You can use any Fender clean amp, the Boss chorus pedal sim and a delay to match your tempo. I put a boost on for the descending/ascending solo part.
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    Is there a negative to using Cab block Level for solo boost? How do you create your boost for solos?

    I have my gain increase variable from 4 db to 7 db on a filter block controlled by a pedal controller.
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    First Time Fractal User - Blues SRV Patch

    Not sure. Maybe one of the Fender 2x12's?
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    5e6a Bassman?

    Some major differences between the 5e6a and the 5f6a Bassman are the dual 5U4 rectifiers in the 5e6 vs the GZ34 in the 5f6a and the phase inverter in the 5f6a was long tailed. Any recommendations on what to change in the current Fractal Bassman model to get the circuit closer to the 5e6a?
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    How Many Of You.....

    Being the lead singer and guitarist I use a QSC K10 for both vocal monitor and guitar monitor. Works perfectly for my needs and is crystal clear.
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    Just Like Heaven (Cure) Tone

    I use the CE-2 chorus (I think that's the name) into my clean tone - Bassman amp and cab - and a little reverb. For the solo part I kick in some delay and a boost of 4 db's.
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    What are the best amp and cab for clean sounds?

    Bassguy and M160 4x10. Input trim set to .5 and BMT to taste. Keep the bass low.
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    Taylor Acoustic IR's

    Well - I read about these and used them for the first time with my Martin acoustic, which has a typical undersaddle pickup. Playing thru a PA it sounded good on its own but when you run the acoustic through the AX8 with these IR's it made it sound even better. It actually sounds mic'd up now. I...
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    Taylor Acoustic IR's

    I had heard about these but had to go through a few not fun steps to get these so figured I'd just post them here if anyone wanted them. They do sound pretty good.
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    Be gentle with me!!!! Only kidding. Keep in mind this is all through a tele. The versatility is perfect for what I currently do. No more amp, no more separate pedal board.
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    Slightly broken up Bassman with slapback U2
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    Some Clips: Simple Auto Wah tone Sustainy Tone Marshall Tone Hiwatt Tone Blues Tone
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    I'd suggest keeping the volume high but the gain low on the first drive pedal to push the second drive pedal into further saturation. Too much gain stacked together may make the tone too sloppy. But, experiment away!!
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    No worries, I'll see what I can put together. Now I have to remember how to mix stuff!!
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    One man's coffee is another man's tea. Let me see what I can put together. To be honest part of my trepidation is that I am simply an adequate guitarist, by no means am I anything to write home about. My gift is both vocals and guitar - the old sum of the parts is better than each part...
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    Solo boost db?

    I go anywhere from 4-7 db's, depending on the patch. I also set up my expression pedal so I can adjust the boost db's on the fly with it. I find dirty sounds to need less of a db boost, probably due to the compression of the dirt.
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    What expression pedal to buy?

    Another vote for the ep-3. For $40 it does what it's supposed to.
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    Backup Amp or not?

    Tech 21 Blonde and a couple of pedals.
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    And what I really love is I have set the Expression pedal up on one of my presets to bring the Bassman from clean to dirty at the sweep of the footswitch. I can adjust it to whatever amount of breakup I want. Then I kick in the TS808 to give it a bit more. When I then kick in the Rat I bring the...
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    I have been chasing, believe it or not - the Springsteen tone from the 1978 Darkness tour. His tele was on fire that tour, his tone was fat and when he kicked in the distortion he had seemingly endless sustain. From the Houston video of that tour he had 2 Tweed Bassmans on stage and word is he...
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    Just listened to clips from last night's gig

    SRV tone - check Clean Bassman tone - check Slightly broken up Bassman tone - check Marshall tone - check U2 tone - check Who Hiwatt tones - check Endless sustain tone from the TS808 boosting a Rat into a clean Bassman - check Anyone doubting using this live - do not.
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    First gig with the AX8 tonight

    I really don't care too much what the tone is coming at me onstage - other than the brightness I had the first night - as I use the K10 monitor for both my vocals and the guitar. My main concern is FOH. That's why I'm sticking with the K10. As long as I hear the right notes I'm good to go.
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    First gig with the AX8 tonight

    Excellent advice. Played at the exact same venue last night too and dropped the 2k-3k frequencies a few db's on the monitor mix and it was perfect. And also checked FOH and it did not need any adjustment. This unit does not disappoint.
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    First gig with the AX8 tonight

    I do need to tame some of the brightness but that's to be expected as I used the AX8 at gig volumes for the first time. This unit is unbelievable. Some guy comes up to me asking where my amps were as he said you have Marshalls and Fenders in there are are nailing the tones. When I told him it...
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    First gig with the AX8 tonight

    Thanks all.
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    First gig with the AX8 tonight

    Will post my feedback tomorrow. Can't wait to see her in action.
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    Looking to upgrade to an AX-8 (or Helix) and build a rig around it. Where to start?

    I bought the Line 6 Firehawk, which I know is way different than the Helix but it appears to me that the footswitch placement is similar. I kept hitting the bottom row of switches when I meant to tap the top row. The top row isn't elevated like on the AX8. I sent the Firehawk back and splurged...
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    Anyone upgraded to 3.02 yet?

    I converted and the only thing I ran into was I had to run the AX8 Edit twice. It wouldn't wok the first time.
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    Live performance presets

    That's also why I'm using similar speakers - the QSC K10's (I use the KW12's for my mains) - for my monitors. For once I want to know exactly what the audience is hearing when I'm onstage.
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    Any suggestions?

    Ahhh - I'll try that out. Thanks!!!!
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    Any suggestions?

    What I'm trying to do seems simple but I can't get a handle on it. I want to setup my expression pedal to handle an amp block that will let it remain clean in the heel position but increase the gain in the toe position - fairly straightforward and that part I can do. But I am also trying to...
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    AX8 Rig… Should I do it?

    Being the lead singer, the only guitarist and running sound from stage here's how I look at things: 1) As I get older the lighter the equipment the better. My rig will now be the AX8 and a QSC K10, which will act as a vocal monitor and my guitar monitor. That eliminates my amp, my pedals...
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    Live performance presets

    I'm finding for live presets you must build them at performance level. Otherwise I find that they are too boomy and bright when built at room level (if that makes sense). So turn it up and give a listen. You may be surprised at what you find in those presets - with the correct IR's of course.
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    First Time Fractal User - Blues SRV Patch

    I went to Tyler Grund's website - I can't add links yet because I have less than 10 posts - and used his patch entitled UltraRes JBL E130. I donated per his request for the IR also. It actually sounded great when I first used it then sounded a bit bright the next day. I didn't know if my ears...
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    First Time Fractal User - Blues SRV Patch

    Created this patch with major guidance from Tyler Grund's youtube SRV video.
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