fsharpminor
Inspired
I will add my support. I still don’t understand fractal’s thinking when they cut down the switches. Maybe they thought is a clever solution, but it absolutely isn’t for anyone professional playing live. I suspect that the ax8 cut into the sales of the big brother units so much that they had to make their ‘budget’ unit less user friendly. With the amount of cabling and flight casing involved in going out with a fm3 and an fc6 or 12, you may as well go out with an axe fx iii and an fc. What is crazy is I would pay Axe fx iii prices for an fm3 in ax8 physical format. I suppose they aimed the fm3 for the really small fly rigs only. The great thing about the ax8 is it sounded pretty much as good as the bigger unit but had more live functionality (and less studio use). It really was an axe fx ‘live’. I am going to have to get an fc12 with it, and I was thinking about keeping the fm back with the Backline, but realised I can’t do this as I need to see setlists during the gigs I do. At least two of my artists change song orders regularly during the gigs. I hope I am proved wrong but this seems like a rare backward step from a great company. I won’t be selling my ax8 either. An elegant solution just got much more clunky. It’s made me wish that the fm3 didn’t sound better...but I am confident they won’t have got that wrong!