Dudes - the new power amp feel and sound is simply GREAT!
I recorded two tracks with my 2 dual amp setups (5153 Red/FAS Modern & Recto Red MOD/VH4 ch. 3), and while I could "make it work" with 8.01 after some processing, I found the high gain patches a bit like they were yelling at me - there was always a mids presence that would start to annoy me after a while. I A/B'ed it with my recordings, and 9.00 says "GRRRRRRRRRR" instead of "HEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!" if that makes any sense. There's a lot more body and punch in the lows and highs and the mids sit a lot more pleasantly. I can see where this is going, and I like it.
I had a sense tonight, of "log onto the Fractal website". Hadn't been there in awhile, and it was a pretty compelling little inner voice, so I obeyed. I got there, and wow! A whole new Firmware, teazingly named a public beta. Seriously Cliff, I'm very grateful for all your incredibly hard work and dedication to musician's sonic bliss and musical successes - we can't thank you enough. Firmware 8 was smoking....but funny, I just realized, days before you released this beta 9.0, that i do want my guitar to say Grrrrrrrrrr instead of Heeeeeeeey, particularly when my ears are already fatigued or the strings are getting old, or both. I mean, its a little frightening sometimes, for the neighbors, to hear that forceful singing tone. But Grrrrrrrrr is more up front and I like that. As for the scenes, brilliant addition, so useful! Hope I can figure out how to use them with my FB1010.
This impossibly quick effort of programming the Axe Fx I & II might now be historically referred to as superhuman. Its close. I'm not accepting the rumors. I'm not sure one way or the other, but you truly are a rebel with a cause. Next you will actually model instantly refreshable guitar strings, or refreshable groupies, or lets see, which is more important....?