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  1. Xrocker

    Looper Madness

    I’d like to walk into a bar and see this. I really dig the 3 bar phrases!
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    R.I.P. Chuck Negron (83 years old)

    I loved Three Dog Night. Still play One in my show. In Junior High i translated Joy to The World into German and played it at a festival with an Oompah band. Someone out there out geek that one! Not looking good for this summers Kool Oldies concert. One Dog Night with The Monkey and The Carpenter.
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    The main differences between practice and performing?

    Same as masturbation vs. sex.
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    The Guess Who on getting their name back: 'Finally it’s over'

    I get it man. I’ve never had stage fright or really been star struck. One day though when I was a senior at Berklee i was working on a symphony i was writing to be played all on synthesizers. This was 1983. So I’m in the synth lab getting composition tips from my professor Gary Burton. In walks...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 31.01 Beta 2

    I was having some intestinal problems so they had to go up and see what was going on. Im prepped and on the table and in walks the drummer of the band I had been working with. I said “ before we get started I’d like to apologize for every drummer joke that i have ever told”.
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    What else are you super knowledgeable about?

    Im super knowledgeable about random useless information.
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    R.I.P. Steve Cropper

    RIP Steve. You’ll never have to go back to the Armada Room at the Holiday Inn.
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    What would the new-gen even have that the current gen doesn’t?

    One more Gen.
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    Meteor Shower!

    And 2 comets! One to the west at sunset and one to the east at sunrise.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 30.00 Public Beta #2

    Guess it’s time to blow the dust off the old bass.
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    RIP Ozzy

    Driving down I-25 in Denver there was an Ozzy banner on an overpass. I think he will be remembered forever. Check out this unlikely performance.
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    RIP Ozzy

    What a great sendoff concert. For him and everyone else. He knew he had done everything he needed to do in this world. Ozzy definitely got his flowers before his funeral. We should all be so lucky.
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    Brian Wilson. RIP

    Another great is gone. One of the few true musical geniuses of our lifetime. Watch Love and Mercy. Really shows what genius does to a person.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.05 Public Beta

    Good , but it needs to be Supercalifractalicious!
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.04 Release

    The new Spinal Tap Marshalls go to infinity now! ♾
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    Anyone with Musician Children?

    My parents.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.03 Release

    But you will think it changed.
  18. Xrocker

    How I know I'm still ROCK N ROLL

    If you are still Rock and Roll you’ll boot and rally!
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    What is your "strangest" guitar?

    Hundreds just unblocked your account😂
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    What is your "strangest" guitar?

    The Venus de Milo of guitars.
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    What is your "strangest" guitar?

    If that can be topped I don’t want to see it.
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    Really cool playlist

    Cool. I’ll check it out. I really need something new to inspire me!
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.01 Release

    Is there a medical term for an audio placebo? If not you need to coin one!
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    Music related relationship endings

    Who out there has had music cause a breakup? I’ll start. Had a super hot groupie turned girlfriend in the 80’s. A bumpy road but tons of fun. I had just graduated from Berklee and was still in the practice every waking moment mode. She told me she was tired of always being second to my...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.00 Release

    You are obviously too young to have experienced the 70’s.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.00 Release

    And yet you have the technology to get her to leave early.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 28.00 Release

    I’m lucky. My neighbors listen to awesome music. They have no choice!
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.04 Public Beta

    Didn’t tangenital spiders just get kicked out of the arachnid Olympics?
  29. Xrocker

    NEW! 👽Fractal Audio Alien Technology POSTER

    I’m all in until the anal probe!
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    Amazing what ChatGPT can do these days!

    Splash on a little Sex Panther. That will give you two 50 percent chances. That makes 100 percent a sure thing!
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    15 Years a Fractalite

    There was a forum before this one. As far as I can recall it was a clean sheet except for user names. Long live the weasel blockade!
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    Neat Christmas cover: rock version of Mr. Grinch

    I knew who this was going to be about before I even opened the thread! This guy has amazing chops and is so incredibly expressive.
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    Happy Holidays 2024-2025

    I still say Merry Christmas and I’m an atheist. It’s always been about the season for me. If that offends any snowflakes, have a butthurt Christmas!
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    The mini rage thread

    That sucks. What do they do with the dog poop?
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    Yngwie Malmsteen launches range of multivitamin gummies

    Just like my girlfriend in the 80’s.
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    Gilmour on Beato

    You’ve seen my show? You should have come up and said hi.
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    Gilmour on Beato

    She turned me into a newt. It got better.
  38. Xrocker

    Did aliens build the pyramids?

    No.
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    Why doesn't cliff sign the Units, like with a silver marker or something.

    I had AxeFx II serial #11. Cliff signed inside the top cover. I think he said he did the first 25. I gave mine to a friends son when he graduated from Berklee. Kid kind of followed in my footsteps after watching my shows since he was little. Matt offered to have Cliff sign a III cover for me...
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    The real reason why forums and social media groups are engaged in a desperate plea for touch screens on Fractal Audio products

    Don’t we touchstrings every time we pick up our guitars?
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    New Fractal product coming!!

    New product will be AxeFx IV, only it will be cloud based from a server warehouse in New Hampshire. All you will need is a small transmitter on your guitar and a small receiver to your amplification system. Electrons coming from your guitar be quantum entangled with the Axe server farm where...
  42. Xrocker

    All Capacitors have a polarity?

    I support capacitor orientation rights!
  43. Xrocker

    Need the :BE ALL, END ALL: of velcro glue gunk residue on old pedalboard, removal.

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    Dumble Overdrive Special OD-100W Guitar Amp Head Owned by Carlos Santana #54883

    It’s a very nice.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.00 Release

    But not shorts.
  46. Xrocker

    Transition from standing back to sitting -- harder to play.

    Greg Lake told a sitting Robert Fripp that he looked like a mushroom. Fripp fired back that mushrooms are aphrodisiacs.
  47. Xrocker

    Release the Quakken! - Win a free T-shirt!

    I’m Brian and so is my wife.
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    Rick Beato interviews Tony Levin!

    I actually heard one of those tapes. I was hanging out with Chris Botti in Boston while I was going to Berklee in the early 80’s. Chris recorded Buddy Rich absolutely going apeshit after a show. He’s screaming at Chris that he’s the best musician in the world and all you do is play clams...
  49. Xrocker

    NOGD

    I played Kramers all through the 80’s. Sold all but 1.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.00 Public Beta #2

    So this is Fractal’s new product coming out! A physical clone containing the model of a clone of the real thing.
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    New Fractal product coming!!

    There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!"
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    Sad news, Randall Smith booted from MESA

    Couldn’t agree more! Randal Smith was Cliff before Cliff was cool😄. I bought my first Boogie in ‘79 and played them exclusively until my first AxeFx in 2008. We are so spoiled by Fractal Audio. I bought my MKII hardwood and wicker with 100/60 switch and an anvil case in 79 for $2500, paid in...
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    Sad news, Randall Smith booted from MESA

    Quietly leaving the building with a boatload of money.
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    Sad news, Randall Smith booted from MESA

    He already sold his company to Gibson. Probably not a big shock.
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    Lost another true rocker

    https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/great-white-jack-russell-dead-1235754482/ RIP. Truly a great Rock singer.
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    New Fractal product coming!!

    A-ha! That’s what’s keeping his software engineers busy. I couldn’t figure that part out.
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    New Fractal product coming!!

    A guitar pick.
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    New Fractal product coming!!

  59. Xrocker

    What do Steve Stevens, Billy Idol and King Kong have in common?

    Besides being monsters?
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    Guess who played trumpet on My Boyfriend's Back

    Thank God you are talking about the song! At first I thought it was some sex thing that I didn’t know about.
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    Steve Morse was heading for being an airline pilot...

    He was so disheartened by the music industry due to the Dixie Dregs being nearly ignored for decades he cut his hair and got a job flying for United Airlines. Recently he quit Deep Purple to be with his wife during her final stages with cancer. I did the same thing, but no one noticed. I’m...
  62. Xrocker

    EQ the main PA, or leave the mains alone and only EQ each individual channel?

    Always eq the PA for the environment. Say pa is is not eq’ed during sound check. Each channel gets weird eq to sound good. Showtime and room goes from empty to (hopefully) full of people and sound of room completely changes. Now you have to re eq every channel during the first song? Good luck...
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    Interesting post by Cliff on TGF

    Maybe because nearly everyone on Fractal Forums is already a customer but most on TGF haven’t bought their first Fractal Audio product.
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    The Talent Knob is Here!

    Your wife told me the same thing.
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    “Biscuits and sausage gravy” or “shit on a shingle”?

    My Dads only stories of his serving in WWII that he ever told me made it clear that the most hated enemy he fought was the dreaded chipped beef on toast.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 25.00 Release

    I’m assuming that those responsible for consecrating shit balls have already performed the ceremony,!
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 25.00 Public Beta #2 (Cygnus X-3 Release Candidate)

    That was never five minutes!
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    The Fripps win the internet. 🐇🐇

    Robert has the right idea here. My new girlfriend's only fans account is paying the mortgage, car payment, and all of our other bills. I only hope she doesn’t get too mad when she finds out she has an only fans account!
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    Way off topic: Orson Welles

    Just don’t try to get him to say stupid shit.
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    Easy way to smoke fish or meat etc.

    Last time I smoked fish I totally clogged my screen.
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    Dune: Part Two

    I was really struck by the Geidi Prime stadium scene. The IR filming was so stark and creepy. And the crowd going crazy watching their hero killing in a rigged contest was a bit too close to home.
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    My JCM800 Just Blew Up

    I had a Marshall Super Lead back in the late 70’s. It only sounded good cranked and hot. Too damn loud for the clubs we were playing so I turned it to the wall, stuck a mic back there and buried it in Bekins moving blankets. It blew and caught fire and ignited the blankets. Saved the cabs but...
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    Playing in hot weather?

    Steve Gadd would often perform in a cloud of white powder too.
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    This is Sad. RIP to Steve Morse’s wife Janine

    He did mention when he quit Deep Puple that he was doing so to care for and spend time with his wife. He will never regret doing that.
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    Drastic measures to convert another Fractal user

    https://flip.it/rkvOEr
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    Something that Bothers Me at Gigs

    It bothers me when people tell me to put on pants.
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    When's the last time you broke a string during a gig?

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    The mini joys thread

    Waking up and being thankful for the random one small part of my body that doesn't hurt.
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    Lions Got Robbed

    I’m not a conspiracy guy but I’m wondering if all the money changing hands with all the online betting is beginning to find its way to the officials. Football needs to take a serious history lesson from professional boxing. When Don King destroyed its integrity, people lost all interest in the...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 24.02 Beta #1

    I’m doing my part for peace on earth and all that by giving myself one more ignored user account for Christmas.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 24.01 Release

    Cliff, You’ve never met my expectations, you’ve always far exceeded them. You’ve always given, free of charge, so many improvements in the AxeFx that I didn’t even know existed until you implemented them. You’ve managed to keep this old, jaded guitarist constantly looking forward to new...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 24.01 Release

    Doctor it hurts when I do this.
  83. Xrocker

    The Morning Glory Thickener

    I thought morning glory thickener was a viagra thing.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 24.00 Public Beta #2

    My Dad always said that when you buy the best you only cry once.
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    Interesting study on Virtuoso guitarist influence

    I made the fatal mistake of assuming I was the only guitar nerd around here😂
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    Interesting study on Virtuoso guitarist influence

    "Rock Guitar Virtuosos: Advances in Electric Guitar Playing, Technology, and Culture" will be free to download as a PDF until December 19. You can find it here. A long read, but no opinions. Just analysis of actual data such as mentions in media, journals, handbooks, lessons etc. Some very...
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    Gift of tone over wrote existing patches

    Somehow when I downloaded the 2 gift of tone patches they overwrote 2 existing patches on my rig. It’s on my Axe Edit and on my AxeFx3 although I never imported them or hit save. Latest firmware. Any way to revert to my 2 previous patches?
  88. Xrocker

    Any Apple Airtag Users?

    This too shall pass.
  89. Xrocker

    Does anyone else find it funny

    No good system was complete without the big reel to reel tape deck!
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    Thankful for NFL on CBS

    During the Howard Cosell days of Monday Night Football my dad used to turn off the sound in the TV and tune into the game on the radio.
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.00 Release Candidate (Beta #6)

    Good question. I’m having a blast with the reverbs on my electric tones but I’m struggling to find one I’m happy with for my acoustic.
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    Great Larry Mitchell content!

    https://www.guitarworld.com/features/larry-mitchell
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    Movies That Deserve More Attention

    Watched this three times before I realized what the name meant.The letters GATC stand for the nucleotide bases guanine, adenine, thymine and cytosine. Active gene sequences.
  94. Xrocker

    Vegas Sphere

    My head would probably implode if I saw that out of my window after a 3day Vegas bender!
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    Metallica talks AxeFx

    https://www.guitarworld.com/news/kirk-hammett-tech-justin-crew-on-why-metallica-use-fractal-axe-fx
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    Stage fan recommendations

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    Eric Johnson’s Dumble. What a bargain.

    Yeah it’s $400,000 but maybe they would include free shipping! https://www.musicradar.com/news/eric-johnson-dumble-manzamp-odyssey-power-amp-video-demo
  98. Xrocker

    What are you listening to right now?

    The Babys. Stellar singer, instrumentalists, songwriting, production. When did we loose the ability to do this?
  99. Xrocker

    Here’s some Gibson history

    https://www.guitarworld.com/news/gibson-lost-guitar-amp-effects-pedal-archive-found-ebay
  100. Xrocker

    Van Halen live 1984

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