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    Why I already love FM3 in 30 short minutes

    I've had my FM3 for .5 hour. I wasn't supposed to try it out or write this post because I don't have time today, but damn. I've been on FAS train since Ultra, including III. I plugged in the first guitar I could find (semi-hollow LP with P90s) into preset 1, figured out how to adjust gain...
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    Tedeschi Trucks

    Just saw 2 shows in Mpls. There’s no Fractal in sight there, but for my listening pleasure they’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever heard and I’m a live music fanatic. Derek Trucks is the most expressive blues rock player alive to my ears (love his pal Jack Pearson for a jazzier take...
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    New Pedal Day ... Pawn Shop score

    I just happened by a pawn shop I occasionally check out. I went to their pedal area and saw a weird old pedal I'd never seen with a price of $19.99. I was immediately intrigued, but had no idea what I was looking at. It's a Shaftesbury DuoFuzz. I'd never heard of it. A quick web search...
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    Potential Very Cool Bluetooth Midi device

    There's an Indiegogo campaign to get this device produced. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mi-1-wireless-midi-interface-connecting-digital-piano-and-ios-device It's a bluetooth midi device. They're marketing it as something you hook up to an existing digital piano to allow it to...
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    Trainwreck Encounter - Bonamassa content

    So I get to practice last night with a band that mostly takes the winter off because the lead singer winters elsewhere. Nice life. Anyhow, when I get there I spy across the room what looks like a Trainwreck. "Hey John, is that really a Trainwreck?" "Yep, there's a great story behind it." So...
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    Weird Axe Edit Behavior I think with cabs

    A couple of days ago I updated to FW14, updated Axe Edit and starting exploring. I was having some weirdness between Axe Edit and the Axe. Even though the Axe was recognized, changing patches didn't. I did some editing on my Twin patch, thought I'd saved it. When I started the Axe...
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    Rory Hoffman...mindblowing guitarist (pianist, sax player, mandolinist etc)

    This is just one of many videos of this dude. He apparently plays piano, sax, banjo, mandolin and about 10 other instruments exceedingly well, too. Beyond the fact that he plays with totally unusual technique he's just completely musical to the core. On this tune he is just swinging and...
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    Holy Blues rock shred...absolutely not using Axe Fx

    I was checking something by Doug Rappoport because of another thread and stumbled into this on YouTube. This guy is a soulful mad tapping blues rock MF playing on the streets of Paris I think through God knows what amplification, but he absolutely kills it. I don't often hear someone with much...
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    For those with Lemur and Ableton... Happy Day

    http://liine.net/en/products/lemur/premium/livecontrol-2/ Check the link for amazing looking new free Lemur template to control Ableton Live. Looks awesome...haven't run it yet, but they've got years of experience to build on in developing it.
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    Link to post about discovery of Axe FX II as bass rig

    http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-discussion/68214-bonus-me-axe-ii-bass-rig.html Sorry if I posted in the wrong place first time. I haven't been over to this bass area before.
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    Bonus to me...Axe II as bass rig

    I mostly play guitar, but I'm a functional bass player, too, and once in a great while get a chance to play bass. One band I play in is an R & B bar band and the bass player couldn't make it the other day, so we made do with 1 guitarist and I played bass. I spent about 10 minutes and came up...
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    RME Ipad users check this

    I may be preaching to the choir, but I just found out that RME made a class compliant mode for the UFX giving 22 channel IO for Ipad. Yea!!! Also, there's an RME template to run TotalMix with metering and way more than Mackie Control with TouchOSC wirelessly. Just downloaded and haven't...
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    Couple of cool Ipad things. Synth and Interface

    I just got Wavemapper by Wolfgang Palm, [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Palm, one of the founders of digital synthesis. $20 and it's absolutely ridiculous. The combination of user interface, insanely easy, drag and drop, movement of oscillators and other elements (filters...
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    A cool and unexpected guitar find

    A couple of weeks ago while wandering through a GC looking for interesting used gear I heard this young guy playing in the acoustic room and it sounded great. I looked over and the guy was playing a round neck wood body resonator guitar that said Gretsch on the headstock. He was fingerpicking...
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    Deluxe Tweed Ideas

    I've just had a little more time with the Deluxe model and something I did that made me want to post because it helped me so much so easily, and, not post because it made it sound so much better to me that all I want to do is play it, amp, cab, no reverb even through an RCF NX10. Sounds...
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    Someone who will not be needing an Axe

    Albert Lee. I heard him last night live for the first time ever. I'd heard him with Clapton and Emmylou Harris, but really didn't know him much. Apparently this is the first time he's ever had a band together after decades of playing in other people's killer bands. He was great. Mostly...
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    Radley - Coincidence or ?

    So the other day I was in a thrift store with my sweetie who likes to clothes shop there (bless her). I've occasionally taken to looking at Neil Diamond records that I see in thrift stores and checking the credits for Hadley H, forumite and Axe user, just for amusement, since knowing of him...
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    Bill Frisell does Lennon

    This has nothing to do with the Axe Fx since I don't imagine Bill Frisell ever using an Axe unless someone plugs it in for him in a studio setting. I heard his quartet with Greg Leisz on pedal and lap steel guitars, plus Tony Scherr (bs) and Kenny Wollesen (dr) do tunes off their "All We Are...
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    Backup rig for Axe Fx

    I think I may have found my new backup rig for the Axe. The winner. Fender Mustang I used at GC for $60 (actually $80 with tax and pro coverage which I never buy except for something this cheap). I'd paid no attention to these until a couple of weeks ago. I just went on a long trip, first to...
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    AES/EBU cable love

    I finally got some AES/EBU cables to connect the Axe II to my RME UFX which has AES i/o. In my little studio, my interface is towards the back of the room and I keep my Axe closer to the door (there's a lot of guitars and other gear in the room) so it's easier to get in and out for gigs. I'd...
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    AudioMidi One Day Sale 20% off

    I just got an email from them about this sale. A bunch of the major manufacturers are excluded, but there's lots of great stuff that's not. RME interfaces for example or Lynx converters.
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    Guitar Center Monitor craziness

    So I got to thinking about replacing my original issue Mackie 824 monitors. They're not bad, but I know they hype the low end and the mixes don't translate as well as I'd like. I was thinking about Focal, Adam, Dynaudio and Event Opals. I wasn't ready to pull the trigger on anything, but...
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    Brief gig experience, mini review

    So, this isn't a full blown review, but a little story of a gig I did a couple of days ago. I was playing in a very small room with PA for vocals only. The gig was a combo pack gig partly celebrating the birthdays of the leader of the band I'm in and the leader of another band whose members...
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    External modifier "pickup" parameter

    I was hoping for something like this with the Ultra, but couldn't convince Cliff. The idea is this - you have an external modifier hooked up to a midi controller, say amp volume. You can set PC Reset so that the parameter takes on the value of the new preset when you change presets. That's great...
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    Further x/y CC strangeness

    I post earlier some unexpected behavior when sending the x/y CC number for an effect turned the effect on as well as changing the state. This was with an Ipad sending CC info. Tonight I had the MFC hooked up to my Axe II and it was in Axe Fx mode. I set SW1-5 to various x/y controls, a...
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    Ipad MFC success

    I'm at the very early stages of configuring all this, but I just hooked up my Ipad II running "Midi Touch" with a template I made to control x/y states, the looper and some other things in the future. I just used the camera connection usb plug and a $7 usb midi interface cable from Amazon. I...
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    Ipad Success with Axe II

    I've been wondering if the Axe II would work with an Ipad after hearing about the boot loader for the software. Here's a brief and very incomplete report from 1/2 hour of experimenting. If you plug the Ipad (with USB adaptor from camera connection kit) into the Axe, it doesn't work...
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    Fractomics get some Dweezil press love

    I looked at my local paper today on page 2 of section A (I think it was Mpls Star Tribune). In one large photo, next to an article about a bust of Frank Zappa being placed in Baltimore, was an image of Dweezil playing with what look like 2 Fractomics behind him. I'm not putting a link here...
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    Another inadvertent review vintage-Power Wedge 60 content

    So I've successfully fended off any GAS regarding amps/effects for the time I've owned the Axe (since last Feb). Today I succumbed to a Gibson Falcon 60s tube amp with 2 6bq5 power tubes, tube reverb and trem in great shape for $250. I really liked the sound in the store and thought, "oh...
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    External Startup Value

    I love the idea of this parameter as I use external modifiers and like to be able to do it without a controller always attached. The problem is that I can't see any values other than 0 or 100. I have an Ultra on 8.09 and when I try to modify these parameters, my screen gets a little shaky and...
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    IR Process...what am I doing wrong

    So I got all excited about loading in IR's when reading about the Red Wire impulses. I bought Celestion Blue and Tweed versions. I also downloaded Cliff's pack and a few others. I got Albert's utility and batch converted the 24 bit 48k version of the R121 mic of the Celestion. I then...
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    Just a brief one

    I've had my Axe for about 3 months now. I love it. I've been waiting for a functional editor to get into some of the deeper effected sides of things. I've now gigged with it a few times in both a jazz trio plus singer setting and a blues/rock/soul/jam band. My last gig illustrated to me...
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