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    Fractal Audio's library/museum of great amplifiers

    Guitar amps are pretty easy to repair. If all the tube plants shut down / get bombed then we may be in more trouble in terms of preservation. I do think you're onto something in terms of people wanting to collect notable amplifiers, or amplifiers that were modded or dialed in by a certain...
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    Implemented Marshall JMP 100w

    I didn't realize that they were the same amp until recent times or that the "JCM800" branding included more circuits than the cascaded preamp designs that I associated with JCM800. In listening to some of the various amp-related podcasts, I have heard it said that while the circuit of the...
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLIFF!

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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLIFF!

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    Are any of the Cameron models of Mark Cameron built amps?

    The point may seem silly but it is roughly like "is it a genuine dumble or not" type of thing. Cameron gooped it all up?
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    Are any of the Cameron models of Mark Cameron built amps?

    Can't remember seeing this and I haven't been able to find the answer when searching... Are any of the Cameron models in the Fractal based on amps that Mark Cameron built, as opposed to the Brad King production series? As the story goes, Mark was associated with the production amps but the...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 23.03 Beta #1

    Thanks for the NFB compensation option. As someone that goes back and forth between real amps and the axe-fx, I think I will appreciate the authentic behavior.
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    Axe-Fx3 resale value in 10 years

    Take a look at Ultra pricing for a guide... 600 USD tops. That would be my bet... 600 in today's dollars. Tons of enjoyment during that time, hopefully. Gear isn't usually an investment, except in certain bizarre situations. It is an expense.
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    Don't Work on Amp Models When You're Overworked and Tired

    Need to complain to your boss about being overworked... Maybe use some PTO :)
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    Question about the Mark series graphic EQ modeling

    Big time.
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    Recreating the amp experience

    I think it is as simple as they don't want to bother dealing with potential support issues with people trying to use the deep MIDI capability.
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    Recreating the amp experience

    The RAC12 really did not scratch the itch for me. I will readily acknowledge the achievement of the guys that made it- getting encoder velocity and behavior to work correctly is tricky. Most of the time, it is aggravating. turn turn turn turn turn... The AX8 encoders were good. The Kemper...
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    Recreating the amp experience

    Not that I have found, though I started building one multiple times for the same reason you're asking about it... It is a missing piece of the experience
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    Cab lab 4 and fractal ultra

    Can cab lab 4 be used to export files for use in an ultra or non-fractal product?
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    AFIII Archer Select (Klon clone) to 1987x

    Super cool tune- what a joy to listen to. I can't play this way but you make me want to
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 22.00 Public Beta (Beta 6)

    Too close to teh townspeople.
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    Whats Cliff doing now?

    opinions vary... Lost of people do great on this way of eating.
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    Fractal vs Capture

    ToneX has not cracked the code on removing cabinets that are baked into captures. DI captures without cab show some promise. It is cheap enough that it is a good extra thing to have around- amp-in-a-box, distortion pedal, EQ pedal, IR pedal, DSP Expander, etc... I will never be able to trade...
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    SD Powerstage vs Fryette PS-100?

    Well you don't HAVE to do anything. You might find that you like the results better one way than the other. There isn't a consensus about it but I think its better to roll back the resonances a bit but you may love it as-is. try it.
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    A good alternative To Matrix Amps?

    You guys can laugh if you want. I use a Rolls RA235 stereo class A/B poweramp in my fractal rigs. It is only 2x35 but it gets pretty loud with guitar cabinets. Live, I always had a FOH feed or mic anyway so it was for my own listening. I drill two holes in the back and solder in 1/4" output...
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    A good alternative To Matrix Amps?

    The amplifier class of operation isn't the same as the power supply design. The Matrix has a switchmode power supply so it avoids the heavy power transformer but is still a Class AB amplifier design.
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    yes: just reduce the high and low resonance amounts to taste.
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    People are "getting there" different ways... Post #120 in this thread is just letting it rip but putting some parametric at the end of the chain. For me personally, I just pulled back the speaker impedance curve resonances in the fractal a little bit- I never thought to try a parametric...
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    If I could, I would have voted "I can match them where I can't tell a difference switching back and forth quickly, but after playing one for a while, I can tell a difference when I switch"
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    Several workable options have been presented, depending on your circumstances and what is important to you. If I had one again, I would run into the line-in with power amp sims on, reactive load selected and dial the resonances back to taste, per model. This sounds like a real amp rig and I...
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    There was a whole long thread on TGP about this. I thought I remembered them saying the opposite at the time. I remember leaving the thread feeling somewhat unsatisfied with a difference in behavior between: A tube amp plugged into the reactive load of the PS, which is connected to its tube...
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    If you don't you tend to end up with too much of the speaker reactivity since you're getting it twice. Instead of using the resistive load type, you can also dial down the resonances if you prefer a little bit of the effect. It also probably depends on which tube poweramp. There may be some...
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    Axe-FX III with Real cab vs. the Real thing

    I haven't used the QC but I've used the others and I repeatedly rank the Fractal as the best of the bunch. Kemper would be my second choice even though it never sounded closer than "sorta close" any of the six or so times I had one. It isn't bad at all- it is noticeably different. The...
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    Wish Saturation Switch Capacitor Size Adjustment

    A typical saturation switch that we see on a lot of amps has a moderate sized capacitor coming off the cathode of the cathode follower for the tone stack, followed by a resistor (or these may be reversed) and finally the clipping elements- diodes, transistors wired as diodes, etc... connected...
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    Axe-Fx III with Synergy preamp modules and MIDI

    The FM9 manual probably has a section on 4cm wiring. That is what this is.
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    Mind blowing stuff from OpenAI

    It obviously has some "thumbs on the scale" stuff baked into it when you ask it questions about "controversial" subjects. It will be used as a propaganda tool just like the social media sites
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    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History (Tom Cruise)

    People get addicted to this kind of stuff and they have to find crazier and crazier stuff to do
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    What Prompted You To Buy A Fractal?

    That "this thing is a monster" thread had to move the sales needle. It had to.
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    What Prompted You To Buy A Fractal?

    It was 100% Mark Day for me. His preset had too much gain (haha) but helped me solve the problems of getting the thing to sound like a real amp. I think he had a graphic EQ after the amp block which compensated for a missing or less sophisticated simulation of speaker impedance curve effects...
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    Fractal Audio Price Increases

    People generally have no idea at all about running a business and how a business works. They've never had to make a payroll or deal with upstream vendors or anything. They just click "buy" and put in their credit card information. A lot of things in business are a LOT more than 8% more...
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    Axe-Fx Firmware Version 21.00 Public Beta #4 (Beta 4)

    Fun fact: the German amp companies bought heavy-amp technology from Peavey before they wrapped up all their USA production capabilities
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    What's the point of a 4x12 in 2022? - Genuine question

    Personal enjoyment. its a thing. Also, 412s can and usually do sound great at any volume. I wouldn't personally haul one to gigs due to the hassle but I enjoy them in semi-fixed installations.
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    Axe-Fx II "Ares" Rev 2.00 Firmware Release

    I went back to the last Quantum version since there is a bug in the Smallbox model in Ares2- I was playing Ares2, flashed back and resumed playing. No tears.
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    Waitlist Email

    The AX8 was and is a great piece of gear though... Sounds awesome just like it always did.
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    Best amp model for power amp only

    This is a bit of a quest... The poweramp blocks linked above might help. I shot an IR of my favorite modular amp from FX return to line out and found that was useful at times with preamp modules. Its not exactly the same as the poweramp but it captured the speaker impedance curve effects...
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    Sold a guitar. Shipped it via UPS. Receiver claims he did not receive it...

    UPS taught me a lesson recently- someone wanted a Peavey decade and I had one sitting in the corner. I didn't even bother to see what they were worth because I knew it was a piece of crap. Turns out that was mistake #1. I sold it for $100 shipped. Weeks later, it is discovered that UPS...
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    Table: amp settings, depending on power amp and speaker

    Wouldn't the neutral tube poweramp still have reactive effects to the playback speaker cabinet while the solid state Amp would not?
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    Another Axefx vs Amps thread

    now you've done it... haha
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    Another Axefx vs Amps thread

    Anybody that wants to see how much of a difference the impedance curve can make- just play with the impedance curve page in the amp model block. It makes a big difference. Maybe just rolling back the HF resonance in the impedance curve will get him closer to what he is looking for
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    Banned from TGP

    At this point, it seems increasingly clear that everything is corrupt everywhere
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    Why don't they just make some amps?

    Tons of great tones can be had with a single cab. This notion that "without frfr you might as well not even bother" just needs to die because it's not true and it's never been true. Do you need 300? Maybe not but you don't need 300 with frfr either. The reason to have 300 is that my 5 might...
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    New guy - on the fence about an FM3

    I know we always have to say this about running into a tube poweramp and cabinet, but as a counterpoint, I will add that your fenders and voxes will still sound AMAZING. There are ten universes of tone in that rig! I'd encourage people who love a real tube amp and are trying to incorporate a...
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    New guy - on the fence about an FM3

    It can work fine- you get a little bit of hiss in front of a gained up tube amp. You can manipulate the boost/pad setting on output 2 to reduce the hiss in exchange for output headroom- be careful not to clip the output. This hiss isn't awful and you might not even notice it if you're used...
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    Wish IR Player

    This is a good technique for multiplexing the hardware i/o too. I've done this going back to the ultra to get more ins and outs. It can get complicated but it works.
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    A lightweight, Class AB, Low wattage 1U poweramp for guitar cabs

    I picked up a third one this week for around 100. What a steal these amps are used and a great value at new prices. My first one has been flawless for over 10 years now.
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    Using an Ultra/Standard in 2022

    I was recently struggling a bit to get the Ultra to "do it" for me as an amp modeler with a solid state amp. Pushing and pulling various settings in the amp block- remembered the global EQ and myriad of other EQ resources- quickly and easily solved the tone adjustment I was trying to do just...
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    Axe3 is a swiss army knife for tube amps, made even better with Xload!

    Wasn't sure where to put this- I know that most people here primarily use the Axe3 instead of a tube amp, but at least a few people like me also enjoy using a tube amp at least some of the time. There is a tactile experience with the real knobs and switches that I enjoy when its feasible...
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    Mini review from former endorser...

    If you like it with the Dv mark power, try it with a tube power Amp and roll back the Amp block speaker impedance curve resonances.
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    Who is still playing Quantum firmware?

    I went back to the last Quantum version since there is a bug in the Smallbox model in Ares2- I was playing Ares2, flashed back and resumed playing. No tears.
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    Who is still playing Quantum firmware?

    Did anybody just stick with Quantum or go back to quantum after Ares was released for the axe2?
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    Axe-Fx II "Ares" Rev 2.00 Firmware Release

    In case anybody is beating there head against a wall- there seems to be a problem with the smallbox model in ares 2. I had a buddy confirm on his unit- the bright cap appears to be wrong. it is 10pf but acts like a large gain boost. A 10pf bright cap wouldn't be noticable at all. I...
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    Firmware release dates & axe edit version

    Did you figure out out?
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    from Friedman BE100 Deluxe to Axe FX III?

    I'd have to look at the schematic to see which stage the structure switch is on but its not strictly gain- it also flattens things up because it reduces high frequency emphasis of the cathode bypass cap and the local negative feedback of that cap. You get a fatter bouncier stage in addition to...
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    Dokken - Standing In The Shadows SOLO cover

    I've been working on this solo for however many years its been since BFTA came out. Somehow I missed your video until now- awesome!
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    FS Fractal X-Load For Sale

    I went the other direction - xload is a great load!
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    How to fall in love with your Axe III again (4CM)

    Sometimes full down, sometimes not that far
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    How to fall in love with your Axe III again (4CM)

    You can sometimes use the poweramp sims on if you roll back the impedance curve resonances. For models that rely heavily on power Amp sims, this is a way to not lose all of the character if using a tube poweramp for amplification.
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    Using an Ultra/Standard in 2022

    Does the ultra version of axe edit not do that?
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    Axe edit for Ultra - in 2022

    I think fractal may sell value pots and an electronic repair guy could probably do that
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    Banned from TGP

    Years ago when I had a forum and even wrote the forum software, my buddy had this idea that you should have a "shadow ban" where people could continue to read and post but nobody would see their posts. It would just seem like people were ignoring them. Mostly, our forum had fantastic people...
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    Banned from TGP

    some amount of de-duplication could likely occur
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    Banned from TGP

    I was referring to the format mainly. It encourages really short "look at my dog" type conversations.
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    Banned from TGP

    bad in different ways... FB groups have no meaningful memory. Its perfect for zero-attention-span.
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    Banned from TGP

    I remember Jay Mitchell changing the contents of images in his post to communicate while he was unable to post for a while. I thought it was quite amusing. Forums are quite frustrating anymore, to the point that it is almost not worth the bother. People seem to have a vested interest in...
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    Real Mesa TC100 vs AF3 into guitar cab - looking for advice

    The matrix has a "meekness" to it that I never could fully escape. You could dial it up against a tube poweramp on a switcher so that they sounded the same when you went back and forth, but when I would play one for a while and then switch to the other, I would have that "oh, there it is"...
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    Real Mesa TC100 vs AF3 into guitar cab - looking for advice

    PA modelling has to be on to adjust that, but when you reduce them, the effect of "stacking power amps" is somewhat diminished, especially if you're not running your playback amp wide open
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    Real Mesa TC100 vs AF3 into guitar cab - looking for advice

    You might want to turn the simulated speaker impedance curve resonances in the fractal down a bit or all the way- since you are getting the simulated effects on top of what the tube poweramp naturally does... but if it sounds good to you as-is, stick with it.
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    PSA: Be More Than Just a Couch Potato

    And since people can have different outcomes from the same foods, it is very much an individual's journey. The journey is made harder when the food supply is largely adulterated with industrial processed "garbage". Thats probably a generous description because garbage implies that its just...
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    Impedance Curves are my new Go-To for Tone Shaping

    I was thinking about that today- whether or not they are the same thing. Presence and Depth are reducing the amount of negative feedback that reduces gain and distortion from the power amp. That's definitely in the ballpark of the same thing as the impedance curve. They are not aligned in...
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    PSA: Be More Than Just a Couch Potato

    What you eat is such a huge factor. It is apparent to me that what we've been told to eat for decades is completely wrong. I'd like to think it wasn't intentional, but I'm not sure that it wasn't. There are a lot of interested parties that gain a LOT by having a population that doesn't eat...
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    Impedance Curves are my new Go-To for Tone Shaping

    In a way, its better than EQ- I've found reducing the high frequency resonance cuts harshness that I have a hard time matching with EQ...
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    Ultra effects only help needed

    Turn the input gain knob up until you get barely any red. Turn the output up-all the way if necessary. If that isn't enough, put a filter block in the patch and add gain with that.
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    FullRes: enjoying impulses from classic hardware effects

    I finally got around to loading some impulses from m7, pcm90 and h3000 devices into the FullRes spots on my axe3. Pretty neat! Gives a little taste of those classic units. Anybody found any jewels in reverb IR land?
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    Oh man! I better buy a bunch of tubes before it's too late!

    I still enjoy a real tube amp through a real cab. A year or so ago, I realized that I'd heard nothing about the Shuguang plant coming back online after the fire and imagined that they decided it wasn't cost effective to bother. That leaves JJ and EH for guitar tubes, as far as I knew (I think...
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    Using a lowpass filter instead of an IR solves most of the 'amp in the room' quandry.

    I agree with you. That thread on TGP has some IR's that the OP "painted" in a parametric. If you like this general idea, check out that thread and some of the samples that were posted. For people that love IR's, I would say "don't bother" but for people who haven't really loved the IR/FRFR...
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    Using a lowpass filter instead of an IR solves most of the 'amp in the room' quandry.

    I think the point of this is to escape the sound of mic'd cabs when playing through Frfr and get something that simulates (to a degree) what you would hear if you were playing guitar through a regular guitar cabinet-a sound that some if not many guitar players find highly inspirational. Fractal...
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    Using an Ultra/Standard in 2022

    Now that is how you do it. You have to test all the different configurations of this to maximize the i/o :)
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    Can I still add two amps?

    "Its a trap!" haha
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    Best amp model for power amp only

    There was a thread where someone shared their blocks after crafting a variety of poweramps. I saved them somewhere but the thread is probably still here.
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    Marshall JMP-1 connection

    I don't know of a way to disable all amps in each preset. I think you'd have to do it manually. I've used the Ultra just for effects with preamps/amps that I love and it can work great that way. You can also use it as a "spare" or "secondary" preamp as a backup to your normal or for other...
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    They All Sound the Same Part Deux

    I can at least hear that one has a lot less gain this time. I wonder if these are played with the axefx3 as the looper feeding each of the contestants.
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    They All Sound the Same, It's About Workflow

    My public apologies for my earlier comments.
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    They All Sound the Same, It's About Workflow

    They sound very very close to me on pedestrian headphones-sennheiser hd200 pro-i learned long ago that anything with "pro" in the name probably isn't. Haha. I know it's not the point of the post, but even if they sounded the same, the difficulty it took to get to that point is a major factor...
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    They All Sound the Same, It's About Workflow

    You may have crossed the point of diminishing returns in that area. The accuracy has been amazing for years. This is why I'm excited to see improvements in other areas. Stuff like the double tap buttons- that's a big usability improvement. FullRes is a big deal. New effects types...
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    FM3 Internal/Passthrough Latency Measurements - Surprising Results?

    Interesting. Are we slaughtering a sacred cow here?
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    Is anyone using their AxeIII just for effects?? And is it overkill?!

    I used the Axe-FX III primarily for effects with tube amps for a good while. I have a thread here (https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/ignoring-the-amp-models-this-thing-is-a-monster.164841/) that is along the lines of "This thing is a monster even just for effects" (with a nod to @Scott...
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    Moving backward?

    Oh I have- That's why I specifically said "I've been encouraged by the extra attention to effects in recent times" I think its awesome! I added some emphasis to my post to be clear that I'm encouraged by the extra attention you have made- not just random extra attention by others. Sorry for...
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    Moving backward?

    This has been going on for years- way back to the Axe-FX II. One version will be "more open" and another version will be "tighter" and its almost like an oscillation at this point where things go back and forth from one version to the next. I have no doubt that the accuracy is improving...
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    8.9 MB ...

    We do have significantly more complicated and interconnected systems than we did in the 90's. We also have significantly more systems to manage. People who can get down to that level are significantly harder to come by and the systems can't go completely unmanaged. Your point isn't lost on...
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    8.9 MB ...

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    Using an Ultra/Standard in 2022

    I find myself wishing I could grab another Ultra maybe as a partial trade for something.
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    Friedman BE/HBE Thump Values?

    I'm pretty sure that resonance patent expired back in 2011. I see multiple amps with a variable depth control now- BE100/50 seem to, although maybe that is a rotary switch. I can't find any current peavey patents that seem to apply to this but I could be missing them. Many companies use...
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    Will the FM3 ever get the Tone Match block?

    The nice thing about doing it in the DAW is that its not trapped as a fractal-only impulse... Silver lining.
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    In Praise of the Virtual Capo ***FW 5.02b1***

    Anybody feel like they have participated in a science experiment here? haha.
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    Using an Ultra/Standard in 2022

    I don't think any are selling for 1600- I see them sitting for sale for many months around 600USD. I think the ones listed at 1600 are hoping someone will make a mistake and think its an Axe-FX III or something.
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