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  1. hippietim

    Anyone use Boss GM-800 with FM9 or Axe-FX III?

    Counting Blue Cars Dishwalla Just Like Heaven The Cure Soulshine Gov't Mule Tempted Squeeze Under Pressure Queen Voices Carry Til Tuesday Every Breath You Take Police You Get What You Give New Radicals You're All I've Got Tonight The Cars In The Dark Billy Squier Head Over...
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    Anyone use Boss GM-800 with FM9 or Axe-FX III?

    Also, Redco will make custom AES/EBU cables that are very reasonably priced. https://www.redco.com/Custom-Cable.html
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    Anyone use Boss GM-800 with FM9 or Axe-FX III?

    Correct. I run my guitar wireless and plug the GM cable when I need too. BTW, you can use non-Boss cables. They just need to be AES cables. I got some on Amazon in a few lengths. Here’s a short one: https://a.co/d/7lm6M07
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    Anyone use Boss GM-800 with FM9 or Axe-FX III?

    My setup is simple. I have 4 patches I use for gigs. The GM-800 is plugged into In3 of the FM9. In all 4 presets I have a Multiplexer right before Out1 - one channel is my existing signal path from In1 and the other is In3. I have a footswitch assigned to toggle between the two. At the moment, I...
  5. hippietim

    Anyone use Boss GM-800 with FM9 or Axe-FX III?

    Gigging with an FM9 and GM-800 in a few minutes.
  6. hippietim

    Development with the next firmware

    You should appreciate the Fractal approach. The alternative is to release new firmware for all platforms at the same time. I’ve been involved in numerous multi platform projects and have done both approaches. Things get done when they get done. Some things are ported easily, other things take...
  7. hippietim

    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Someone else pointed that out. I’m going to have to redo it.
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    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Less than a new PRS Custom 24 non-10 top.
  9. hippietim

    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Yes I own a number of CycFi products. The demo I just posted was using their new Thor guitar. I’ve had a NU/Nexus equipped guitar for a number of years. I got the Thor guitar a couple weeks ago. It’s pretty sweet. If you can do without the infinite sustain you can get everything you need...
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    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    The GK stuff works great with the CycFi gear. I’ve used it with both 13-pin gear and the new Boss GM-800 with the converter box.
  11. hippietim

    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    Check the first page for a quick demo...
  12. hippietim

    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

  13. hippietim

    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    I suspect the crosstalk would still be very low. However, string bending is going to be a problem. The further you move the pickup from the bridge, you're going to run the risk of bleeding or worse - hitting a dead spot.
  14. hippietim

    Triple Axe-Fx III rack (now with demo)

    I need to find my other RC5 to finish this..,
  15. hippietim

    Movie - Everything Everywhere All at Once

    I fell asleep to it a couple times.
  16. hippietim

    Wish Acoustic simulator

    The problem with a 12-string is the high B and E strings. There’s no way to separate those notes out and not apply the upper octave.
  17. hippietim

    The Edge/U2 and UAFX pedals

    You’re right that this rig could be simplified - we all see that. I think you’re missing the simple point that was being made - his rig evolved into what it is now. I suspect that simplifying it is actually a considerable amount of work. And to what end? To save 6 rack spaces and a pedal tray...
  18. hippietim

    Did a comparison between my FM3 and a Quad Cortex

    I'm not sure how y'all are listening to your QC out of the box. I checked one out at length at a buddies house through a cranked CLR. The QC was thoroughly unimpressive. It sounded like a cartoon exaggeration of a guitar amp. It was like listening to a guitar amp with those hyped Beats...
  19. hippietim

    Beta Tester Positions NOW FILLED

    Does that actually make it better? 😂
  20. hippietim

    Beta Tester Positions NOW FILLED

    That's what I meant to say :)
  21. hippietim

    Beta Tester Positions NOW FILLED

    Beta testing is fun, rewarding, challenging, and occasionally frustrating. If you're into really exploring a product and it's potential and want to help it succeed, beta testing is pretty cool. It's also a way to get early feedback to the product team whether it's a feature idea or some sort of...
  22. hippietim

    Looking for an envelope follower gadget

    I'm looking for some sort of gadget that will take incoming audio signal and turn it into MIDI CC values like an envelope follower. I don't want a plugin. Ideally, it would support 6 audio inputs and generate 6 different corresponding CC messages. Think of it as something that works just like...
  23. hippietim

    Is There A Polyphonic Synth for AxeFx III?

    Guitar synth is the holy grail for me at this point. I’m completely satisfied with my traditional guitar tones from my Fractal boxes. Any form of synth guitar that is doing pitch to MIDI sucks in some way. MIDI Guitar 2 has no ability to do per string things at all. The tracking is very good...
  24. hippietim

    What would you do?

    Take the high road, the view is better. Let her have the tracks since your art is protected. It is her performance after all.
  25. hippietim

    Axe-Edit checks in with server while I use it

    This would make sense if the directory you're using for editor data is in a locally mapped Dropbox folder
  26. hippietim

    Axe-Edit checks in with server while I use it

    The response to the request could be helpful as well.
  27. hippietim

    Axe-Edit checks in with server while I use it

    What's the contents of the post upgrade check on port 80? Url? Headers? Anything?
  28. hippietim

    Microsoft Authenticator App

    As a former Microsoft employee, I used authenticator a lot starting way before it was available to the public. I had to use it to access all sorts of disparate services across a multitude of platforms and devices. Honestly, the app always worked very well - I only used the iOS version as I’ve...
  29. hippietim

    Most Axe Fx III's run in series, for one guitarist? Blow my mind....

    The overall rig is whatever you want it to be. All three units are connected to Rane analog line mixer so they can be treated completely independently. They're also daisy chained via S/PDIF into one Axe-Fx III. Technically, I don't really need the mixer but it would be a royal PITA to have...
  30. hippietim

    Came across an old video-Brought back memories Dave Mason

    Before he built that city…
  31. hippietim

    Came across an old video-Brought back memories Dave Mason

    Hell yeah! Great performance. Cool short outro guitar solo too.
  32. hippietim

    Mark V preset #

    This!!!
  33. hippietim

    Axe-Fx III Firmware 24.03 Release

    I love his guitar playing across the board. The guitar solo in La Villa Strangiato is a masterpiece. He’s definitely mixed in my top 10 guitar heroes.
  34. hippietim

    Capture or Profile Block Capability? Similar to Tone Match/EQ?

    My cousin has this Peavey used by a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band that I want to profile.
  35. hippietim

    Fender Tone Master FR10

    I haven’t really tried it at low volume because that’s really not the point of it for me. When I play at lower volume I plug into my studio monitors. I think expecting anything designed to be like a loud guitar amp to sound amazing at low volumes is just not realistic. I think they still sound...
  36. hippietim

    Fender Tone Master FR10

    What level were you sending the FR10? How loud are your presets? I generally shoot for around 0db like the factory presets. I had the FM9 out1 about noon and the FR10 around 1 o’clock. That was way louder than I play on stage for any sort of normal gig.
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    Fender Tone Master FR10

    I don’t have access to one but there are some comparisons that can be made anyhow. Size and weight are in the same ballpark Red sound has more low end specd Fender has some EQ which can be used to adjust a bit for the room. To me, the cut is the handiest thing to tweak. Fender has the tilt...
  38. hippietim

    Fender Tone Master FR10

    You will really appreciate the tilt back legs. It means you’re not blasting your ankles and fill the room at more reasonable volumes.
  39. hippietim

    Fender Tone Master FR10

    Comparing a FR rig to a traditional rig is very situationally dependent. Are you carrying the room? Just how many speakers/cabs and how loud is the other guitarist? How big is the room? How big is the stage area and how are you monitoring the rest of the band? A CLR, RCF, FR10, etc will carry a...
  40. hippietim

    Implemented Marshall JMP 100w

    The best sounding 800 I ever played through was a Canadian model.
  41. hippietim

    Fender Tone Master FR10

    @mikeyg is over right now playing through it with the FM9. He suffers from the same irrational guitar player aversion to anything but 12" speakers. I'm pretty sure he's going to order the FR12 and enjoy the extra weight and size for no reason. 😜
  42. hippietim

    Fender Tone Master FR10

    So far this thing really just kicks ass. It sounds great, plenty of thump, looks great, tilt-back legs are very nice to have, and it's lightweight. Comparing it to my RCF speakers, the FR10 holds it's own for guitar stuff no problem. I haven't tried any keyboards, prerecorded music, acoustic...
  43. hippietim

    The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (again)

    People say this all the time. I have no idea what you/they are talking about. Seriously, when was it any good?
  44. hippietim

    Wish Wish List: New Amps

    Sure. But the reason I ask is if there’s a sound you think you’ll get that you can’t get without that amp sim. My experience has been that changing the cab will make a far more profound difference than switching between Marshalls.
  45. hippietim

    Wish Wish List: New Amps

    Gotta ask - how is it different than the thousands of hot rodded Marshalls out there?
  46. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    I think they just haven’t hit the stores yet.
  47. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    I have a GK5 on order. I’m sure it must perform differently than the GK3 because GK5 was the default setting on the GM800 and the sensitivity was over the top until I switched to the GK3 setting.
  48. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    I got my GM800 over the weekend. The sounds are fantastic. No GK5 yet so I used the A/D converter. Once you get the GK settings configured it works pretty good. To me it tracks pretty close to the TriplePlay without the crappy TriplePlay software. As always, you still have to play clean, your...
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    Epic 70’s songs and bands

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    Epic 70’s songs and bands

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    Epic 70’s songs and bands

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    Epic 70’s songs and bands

  53. hippietim

    Audio purists - favorite recordings to give your stereo a workout?

  54. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    I do
  55. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    There’s hardly any in the wild yet. I don’t know of anyone that’s received one that they purchased.
  56. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    It is never going to sound like an acoustic piano.
  57. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    MIDI Guitar 2 is excellent. For most stuff it’s better than the Fishman. It does have a lot of limitations in what you can do but if you just want a straight forward solution it’s hard to beat.
  58. hippietim

    New Guitar Synthesizer

    It’s a niche largely because it just isn’t good enough for most guitarists that just want to pound away. Even the Fishman is not good enough. The popularity of the EHX 9 and Boss SY stomp boxes show that players want this stuff. I have the Fishman system and don’t really use it much because...
  59. hippietim

    Best Keyboard for a cover band?

    Roland Juno DS 61 - sounds great, simple to use, ridiculously light weight. https://www.roland.com/us/products/juno-ds61/
  60. hippietim

    Steel guitar simulator for electric guitar with FM3?

    The tricky part about doing a ukulele is getting the right filter/eq to give you the sound of nylon strings. Other than that, the pitch block in virtual capo mode will get you something close - although just using a real capo and playing up higher will actually sound better. Maybe stick a piece...
  61. hippietim

    Steel guitar simulator for electric guitar with FM3?

    This is going to be long winded. Sorry. A steel guitar is an electric guitar played with a slide bar - typically made of steel (hence the name). There's nothing particularly special about that - just play your guitar with a heavy steel slide. So I'm assuming what you're really after is the...
  62. hippietim

    I've filled the last empty preset slot on my Axe III

    It's like you're peering into my very soul. I am stealing this line.
  63. hippietim

    I've filled the last empty preset slot on my Axe III

    Right on. I can't tell you how many gigs I've done without switching a preset all night. I just need is a good crunchy Marshall tone with a drive, delay, wah, maybe a vibe, and a splash of reverb. Between the drive and guitar volume control, all the required tones are there for a whole lot of...
  64. hippietim

    Epic 70’s songs and bands

    Very few things are as epic as this.
  65. hippietim

    Epic 70’s songs and bands

    This song perfectly demonstrates why Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock band of all time.
  66. hippietim

    Easiest way to send bpm to drummer from axe fx

    You could use something like one of these and have them be the master clock for everything. https://jmkmusicpedals.com/products/clockstep https://www.disasterareadesigns.com/shop/p/smart-clock-gen-3 https://www.selaheffects.com/product/quartz-v3/
  67. hippietim

    Easiest way to send bpm to drummer from axe fx

    @Keith White So is the goal to generate a click for everyone else in the band?
  68. hippietim

    Caption this Cartoon

    Wagon Wheel again!?!?!
  69. hippietim

    FS Matrix FR12 powered FRFR cabinet

    bump
  70. hippietim

    FS Atomic CLR NEO MkII

    https://reverb.com/item/67417840-atomic-clr-neo-mk-ii-with-studio-slips-cover No trades please.
  71. hippietim

    Fleetwood Mac "Dreams"

    We still play this song - I need to give it a try. For the swells, I use my volume control but an expression pedal would be easier - live it looks like Lindsey used a volume pedal.
  72. hippietim

    Boss Gigcaster

    Looks interesting. There's several existing products like that: https://rode.com/en/interfaces-and-mixers/rodecaster-series https://tascam.com/us/product/mixcast_4/top https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/podcasters/
  73. hippietim

    FS Matrix FR12 powered FRFR cabinet

    https://reverb.com/item/67417923-matrix-fr12-powered-frfr-cabinet No trades please.
  74. hippietim

    Warmoth's new website BLOWS!!!

    Sure, it's not completely trivial. But there is nothing about it particularly complex. The amount of data required to render the site is trivial - we're talking about tables with thousands of rows, not 10s of millions. The site used to perform quite reasonably so there was nothing wrong with...
  75. hippietim

    Warmoth's new website BLOWS!!!

    Translation: "Our dev team blows and the person that signed off on the new site going live is freakin' moron." The site performance is a joke and there is no legitimate reason for it to begin with and allowing it to be this crappy for a year is pathetic. They have definitely lost business...
  76. hippietim

    Suhr Modern vs Modern Plus

    Umm....
  77. hippietim

    AI a threat to Fender?

  78. hippietim

    The Cure’s plan to keep tickets affordable: No dynamic pricing, face-value resale, no transfers

    So no examples then. Got it.
  79. hippietim

    The Cure’s plan to keep tickets affordable: No dynamic pricing, face-value resale, no transfers

    For example?
  80. hippietim

    The Cure’s plan to keep tickets affordable: No dynamic pricing, face-value resale, no transfers

    Anti-trust laws only protect corporations, not us (at least in the US). The natural outcome of laissez faire capitalism is monopolies.
  81. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    I remember people telling me I didn't know what I was talking about when I called BS on them for their rhetoric.
  82. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

  83. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    It's not magic. Something still has to take the data from a capture file and apply it in real-time to an incoming audio stream to produce the simulated output. You may not call it an amp modeler but it is an audio processing engine. And your results can only be as good as the how well the engine...
  84. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    Sorry but I've been developing software professionally for over 35 years and this is just a bunch of jibber-jabber. Admittedly, I'm no ML expert. However, I do know how computers work. There's no magic thing that takes ML statistics as input and generates audio. So I repeat, something has to...
  85. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    Something needs to generate audio. The ToneX capture files are fairly small. There's no way it contains anything other than parameters for some sort of audio engine. So the results can only be as good as how well that engine can interpret the parameters generated by the capture data.
  86. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    It's a bit more than training - the underlying amp simulation engine has to be capable of doing what the trainer says. And you're still faced with the fact that the controls don't work as expected.
  87. hippietim

    The Cure’s plan to keep tickets affordable: No dynamic pricing, face-value resale, no transfers

    Everyone thinks Capitalism is awesome until it happens to them :)
  88. hippietim

    The Cure’s plan to keep tickets affordable: No dynamic pricing, face-value resale, no transfers

    Sure, Ticketmaster is awful but there’s lots of factors for high ticket prices: These days it’s the only way for bands to make money. Nobody will pay for music anymore. Touring has gotten disproportionately more expensive than ever Quite simply, people will pay. Maybe the self-described “real...
  89. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    Actually, the point made by the OP was not whether you get the same sound - it’s whether you get the same response and feel. Sounding right and responding/feeling right are not the same thing. To sound right, you’re correct - as long as you are reasonably close you can probably do enough pre...
  90. hippietim

    Fractal vs Capture

    This is exactly my problem with the approach that the Kemper and QC take - as soon as you play with a profile/capture in any way, it stops acting like the amp it's meant to be simulating. In theory, the profiling/capture process should work correctly when you roll back the guitar volume but they...
  91. hippietim

    Handy script for keeping Fractal-Bot backups organized

    Backups?
  92. hippietim

    Mesa boogie is teasing the mark VII

    What happened to the MK VI?
  93. hippietim

    Mesa boogie is teasing the mark VII

    Just listened to some demos. It really sounds so much different than anything else out there.
  94. hippietim

    F#ck Roland

    Oh no, that's for real. I bought an internal GK-3 KIT from Anderton's for 1/3 the price of the US. There's a lot of stuff that's much cheaper in Europe than in the US - look at new Marshall prices. A lot of the MI companies have put an end to this stuff - for instance, Andertons and Thomann...
  95. hippietim

    Is it the end of an era?

    It was strings
  96. hippietim

    Thinking of buying Axe FX III. Advice pls…

    That should work great!
  97. hippietim

    Is it the end of an era?

    from my most recent shipment
  98. hippietim

    Thinking of buying Axe FX III. Advice pls…

    Over the last several months I've done a number of shows where I get a call in the afternoon from a buddy of mine to do a gig that evening due to bands cancelling or whatever. My buddy puts together the players and we work out a set list over text messaging and e-mail. I've been taking an FM9...
  99. hippietim

    Is it the end of an era?

    I recently got a package from Sweetwater but there was no Bit-O-Honey or Tootsie Roll.
  100. hippietim

    Thinking of buying Axe FX III. Advice pls…

    I think every single aspect of the Ultra has been improved in the Axe-FX III - and a lot of those improvements are dramatic. Only you can answer if the upgrade is worth it to you.
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