One thing I think I need to say explicitly:
Thank you so much for taking the comments about the Herbert so seriously that you actually bought a new version of the amp in order to have the most desired version of its tone. This again smacks of the level of dedication you just don’t see from companies. I despise sycophantic writing and ass kissing, and I hate writing praise all over the place on this forum like this company is a damn religion or something, but the thing is, all the good things you read about Fractal are freaking true, and praising this kind of thing is not like the emperor’s new clothes, blind loyalty, or elitism. This is recognition of you always striving to make the best better, like continual improvement is the goal for its own sake, something rare in any kind of human endeavor, in my experience. It’s extraordinary, and deserves to be recognized. There’s so much bullshit from companies whose primary purpose is to make money without reference to any sort of ideal or philosophical value at all, but here, with firmware updates, you even get improvements that you write are probably not audible; this is the kind of rigor one would expect from science, not from anything having to do with electric guitarists. Again, it’s so far off from the way gear companies act en masse that one can’t help but be taken aback.
You could’ve just tweaked the original model by ear to match YouTube videos or something like that, but I do believe you just got an actual heavy as hell third generation Herbert and modeled it, very quickly too. I mean, I can’t think of anything I’ve seen that matches that level of dedication to the quest for tone. Even if I didn’t own an Axe-FX III I would find the knowledge of the improvements here inspiring and something to respect.
Hats off to the chef.
