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    Wish Please add the new Friedman • Arredondo - JOSE 100w Amplifier to the next major Firmware. Thanks

    can we stop using the copouts "indistinguishable in a mix" or "the audience can't tell" This is a very, very low bar indeed.
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    FM3 Firmware Version 12.0 public beta #2

    There are 3rd party drivers for Fractal products? Like aftermarket drivers?
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    Wish Please add the new Friedman • Arredondo - JOSE 100w Amplifier to the next major Firmware. Thanks

    If you listen to Dave Friedman over the years on tone talk (and before this amp existed) he claims to have seen as many Jose modded amps as anyone. He says many or most of them did not have the saturation mod and that Jose had a toolbox of mods that he could do. Put another way, there is no...
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    FM3 noise with real amp

    so.... Some extra hiss was "horrible noise" ?!
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    Shouldn't there be a Pitch block?

    hahaha.... :)
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    THIS WEEK I almost bought...

    A Friedman IRX tube preamp pedal. Capable of running the preamp out into the FX return of my amp, while also running a tube power amp and cab sim out at the same time. I can't exactly replicate this on the FM3 due to the single amp block but I can use a cab block that has a "power amp...
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    THIS WEEK I almost bought...

    We called that the "Single Ended Lead" amp later on with the bigger power supply and power amp. I built quite a few.
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    Hotone Verbera: Long IR's plus modulation and algorhythmic reverb

    Looks like Hotont (Ho-tone? Hot-one? Hot-tone?) has a new convolution reverb pedal out. The Verbera allows long IRs up to 20 seconds mono or 10 seconds stereo. It has some neat controls to adjust attack, decay, modulation and an add-on built in reverb. I see a lot of promise for this as an...
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    THIS WEEK I almost bought...

    Recently, I was looking at the Killer Kali Synergy Module for my modded dual channel Randall RM20 head. I have a Friedman modded BE-style module that is kind of my go-to for years and I don't usually keep Synergy-branded modules for long, even though they are cool. The Killer Kali certainly...
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    THIS WEEK I almost bought...

    On one of the photography forums I'm on, there is a long running thread about camera gear that people "almost bought" that week. They list the lens or ancient film camera that caught their eye but that didn't make it through to an order. It's pretty neat! I regularly spot a Michael Nielsen...
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    🔥Introducing the new AM4 Amp Modeler

    Neat! I hope this sells many boatloads. Between this and the VP4, you guys have pushed a lot of Fractal Audio technology down to where a lot more users can enjoy it.
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    FM3 Firmware Version 12.0 public beta

    Reducing the number of user cabs is a fantastic exchange for more Dynacab slots.
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    Sell FM9?

    Like many things in life... it is just a question of time and priorities.
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    I’ve rarely seen capacitors across diodes in a bridge rectifier. Thoughts?

    I remember this being done on some of our AX84 designs back in the day. I can't recall if the use of Fast Recovery Diodes like the UF4007 eliminated the need for the caps or not but it was a minimal expense for small scale production. For Marshall scale, somebody certainly would have nailed...
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    Axe-Fx III Firmware 31.00 Public Beta #2

    This seems like a big deal for being more like real world, unless I'm missing something.
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    [implemented] Axe-Edit Fast start possible

    You're right. It isn't "doing math" but it is using word prediction and an API to allow it to feed words into a tool that can do math and then return the result back. This is a distinction but not one that matters to the consumer of the output. The fact that it can use word prediction to...
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    [implemented] Axe-Edit Fast start possible

    Your point that I was addressing was that they can't do math and I was showing a way that they can and do. Your point that they can't solve unsolved math or CS problems- that may certainly be true today. We'll see where it goes. This is also an unnecessarily high bar. While they may...
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    [implemented] Axe-Edit Fast start possible

    I saw this yesterday when I was asking questions of Grok and was reminded of this thread and the comment that "they can't do math." While it is true that they can't generally "do math" (or make a titanium exhaust plate... or launch a missile) the whole point of "agentic AI" seems to be...
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    Hoping to get amp/cab captures in Fractal gear in the future, does that appeal to anyone?

    I think what you describe is sort of the basis of Kemper's "liquid profiling" process. At the time, I read that they might infringe on one of Fractal's patents despite them saying they had a patent on it. I'm not sure how or if that shook out. I really expected that to work well (based on...
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    Hoping to get amp/cab captures in Fractal gear in the future, does that appeal to anyone?

    oh man... the double trump card- "spend more time practicing" AND "peace" heh. What else can be said? :) People don't want options because they quickly forget that there are other people that are not them who need to buy a product in order for the company to be successful. Most people...
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    Hoping to get amp/cab captures in Fractal gear in the future, does that appeal to anyone?

    Well, this isn't a bicycle or a moped. :) And I understand there is no such thing as a perfect illustration, so I won't fault you for it. This is sort of like arguing "I don't need accounting software and I don't want a computer that can run accounting software". OK, that's a bad...
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    Hoping to get amp/cab captures in Fractal gear in the future, does that appeal to anyone?

    I'm with you but I also have to remember that there are other people who are not me who are needed to buy a product in order for it to also be available for me. I have a ToneX pedal (and a "One") for times when I forget about how much I appreciate having a model that behaves like the real amp...
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    FM3 Firmware Version 11.0

    I really credit Fractal Audio for the current state where there is some amount of free updates in most digital guitar products products. I think before Fractal Audio, firmware updates were generally uncommon and manufacturers provided only minor fixes once or twice in the life of a product...
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    Is the FM9 hard to use?

    A funny thing about that- having used the grid interface since the Ultra, I can't think of a better way to do it. The pages and all just make sense to me and everything else seems cumbersome. I think there is some of "this isn't what I'm used to and I already want to hate this" going on...
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    It's a TONE MONSTER! Halloween Sale

    man... FM3 Mark II Turbo at the $999 price. What a deal, what a deal.
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    [implemented] Axe-Edit Fast start possible

    I won't argue the DSP point because I have no experience there. I will point out that DSP programming isn't what the OP was talking about- he was talking about general application programming. I certainly do have experience there and have had LLM answer questions about "How can I do X faster...
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    [implemented] Axe-Edit Fast start possible

    Some people seem to be confusing the crown jewels (that is DSP/audio processing) with supporting application software. FAS has very nice supporting application software. I would say theirs is among the best, but I would also say that other vendors have quite nice software as well. The big...
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    [implemented] Axe-Edit Fast start possible

    is Axe Edit "bare metal/low level" DSP programming? I don't think he said anything about DSP programming. It is highly likely that a lot of PITA programming tasks for Axe Edit could benefit from LLM assistance. I don't advocate for the wholesale turnover of coding duties to an LLM but it is...
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    Shunts vs. CPU %

    and like a week later... a rabbit. :)
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    Shunts vs. CPU %

    But... but... you regularly pull rabbits out of your hat, including (sometimes) CPU optimization or (at least) mitigation techniques. :)
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    FM3: still awesome in 2025

    Let me start a list... In addition to the complete package thing that it is, what all can the FM3 do as a pinch hitter? Multichannel preamp for your tube amp with fx return: Use it like a Synergy SYN-2, etc... Box full of stomp boxes: use it with your amp or whatever 4-channel EQ unit...
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    FM3: still awesome in 2025

    It is a lot harder for me to be happy with the Helix in terms of amp tone. Lots of other people have no trouble so the problem is me I guess. I haven't had one (HX Stomp) for a few years and the Friedman model was relatively new at the time but it didn't behave like the real amp does. It...
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    FM3: still awesome in 2025

    I gotta sing the praises of the FM3 again. I've got an Axe-FX III as the cornerstone of my main rig which incorporates tube amps, an x-load, a power amp, etc... It does everything under the sun but I don't want to tear it down to move it. I've got an FM3 for situations where I want to grab...
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    Wish More for bass

    I guess "for everything else... there's tonex pedal" or something like that. Put it in the Fractal loop... Control it via MIDI. velcro it to the board or rack. It's pretty cheap, all things considered. I have never actually followed through with doing that but then I mainly use the Friedman...
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    Wish More for bass

    Isn't it pretty much the same thing as requests for new amp or effect models that existing models can already cover with a couple of tweaks (if that)? It is the "gotta collect 'em all" phenomenon. I wonder where this all started in terms of guitar processors. Was it the inclusion of named...
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    Thoughts on running modeler into fx return of a real amp?

    This poweramp is interesting because it is less "colored" than the poweramp in many amp heads. This seems to be part of the Fryette recipe. You have a couple of sources of the power amp "thing" that you're dealing with. The first is filtering and "color" of the poweramp itself along with...
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    Blue Mix-fi headphones on Amazon?

    Unless the battery pukes its guts out and corrodes something... That was my concern.
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    Blue Mix-fi headphones on Amazon?

    I bought a set of those Blue mix-fi headphones from Amazon recently. Sure enough, the pleather flakes off on them. I almost returned them but I find that I enjoy playing guitar through these as much as I have for any headphones ever. Amazon lists these as the "DJ" naming but the box and...
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    Does anyone know...

    The Ultra is still awesome for effects. It is a little harder to do some things on the Ultra than the new units but it is worlds easier than some older rackmount units. I still think the Ultra is pretty solid as a preamp into FX return of an amp too.
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    Does anyone know...

    Oh well. it was worth the ask.
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    Does anyone know...

    Worth checking with Fractal to see if they have the display in stock. I bought one at some point from them and it wasn't expensive.
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    Axe FX Standard / Ultra in 2025 - against FM3?

    I recently had an Ultra along with an Axe-FX III. As a modeler, I think it is much harder to dial in the Ultra. There are great tones in there but it doesn't dial up easily just like a real amp in my experience. As a preamp into an FX return of a tube amp, I found some of the models with...
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    What are you listening to right now?

    Something about it seems sorta familiar
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    Power amp for Axe-Fx 3 / FM3 / FM9

    Any thoughts on the Captor Reload II? It is a load box / re-louderer but the power amp seems to have some interesting features. 2U alas.
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    List of Amps "Already" in the Fractal Units

    Except that nothing I said had anything to do with changing or separating circuit blocks. What I describe are things you can do today (and back to the Axe FX II probably) to "get there" in terms of many amp models that aren't explicitly in the Fractal inventory.
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    List of Amps "Already" in the Fractal Units

    You are right that there are some things you can't precisely do. There are a lot of things you can quite closely do. It is a question of goals, I guess. It doesn't scratch the collector's itch.
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    List of Amps "Already" in the Fractal Units

    I remember thinking about this years ago and hope it gets some traction. There are a lot of amp model "templates" in the Fractal products that can be bent into almost any result. I think it would be helpful if an "amp recipe" includes a high level statement of approach rather than simply a...
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    Modeling Friedman Twin Sister's features with Dirty Shirley Model

    Input trim is not really the same as the structure switch on any Friedman I've seen that has a structure switch. The structure switch usually changes stage 2 of a BE or stage 3 of an HBE from 2.7k/0.68uf cathode to 10k unbypassed or some other inbetween. In a way, the 10k mode is sort of...
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    Wish "Idealised" FAS HBE-C45

    The Friedmans have been a favorite of mine for years. I found Friedman amps (and Friedman modules) via Fractal. I have spent enough time trying to figure out why I love Dave Friedman's amps that I can see much of the schematic in my head. I noticed at some point that the Friedman MTS preamp...
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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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    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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