Sold my second QC today! Just couldn't dig it. It doesn't have the feel or sound of the FRACTAL WORLD!
I'm gonna be that guy: I like your old IR more
The new one sounds ... "boxier"? Your old one sounds (imho) ... "balanced"?
And, you're both not wrong. The old one has more "meat" while the new one sounded a little thin in the mix. Loved the clarity, but it needed a little more substance in the mid/low-mids so it punched more, and came off less "bright". Currently searching for that balance. The top end in the new DynaCabs is so good. The key will be can we mix in enough mids/low-mids by moving the mics around.
Nah, we love chasing the goalposts....
Tell me about. Happens too often in my line of work.
I made the jump from a POD X3 Live to an AFX Ultra back in the day, and even then the difference in quality and attention to sonic detail was CONSIDERABLY better with Fractal. And they haven't ONCE ceded their title as the Best In Class for amp modeling and effects.
Agreed completely. I love what the DynaCabs have added but I still can’t get enough mids and low-mids like I can with a normal IR.
It stopped when I retired.
I guess it'll keep happening at least 10 years after I kick the bucket, then....
I don't know how the Helix is doing right now but 3 years ago I've checked it out extensively and couldn't get a single decent tone out of it pretty much. Maybe because I was used to the Axe II but I felt like it simply wasn't good enough no matter what I did to it out of the box. What I remember is that the factory cabs were just abysmal and I didn't feel like going through loads and loads of 3rd party IRs to find some good sounds. I also wasn't too crazy about the UI/UX - it has some nice convenience features but I'll never feel comfortable tweaking a floor unit on the floor. Axe-Edit is so good I haven't touch anything on the front panel of the Axe for a very long time.
Well they have come a long way since about 3 years ago and they can be made to sound great it just takes more work, the HX edit with snapshots is by far better in the Helix than in the Fractalverse , and is super easy and intuitive
I keep hearing this. Why are snapshots better? You can do anything snapshots can do with scenes and channels. The converse is not true. For example you can't switch amp types with snapshots. Every snapshot must use the same amp model. With scenes and channels you can change not only parameters but effect and amp types.
I don't think it's better at all! I find the Fractal stuff to be a lot more intuitive and easier for me. I actually didn't get on with the Helix at all I found it lacking something to be honest.
Yes true you cant change amps and the Routing, on the Fractal it is much better but Lets say I want to add a different volume, gain and maybe a few other parameters for Scene1 and say 4 and yes I use the Scene controller
Unless you need more than 4 different settings for each block, that's what channels are for. So the only real limitation currently on Fractal devices is the number of channels vs scenes, it would be ideal if those two matched. But 99% of the times this isn't an issue in reality, I personally never need more than 2-3 different settings per block in a preset.
He probably says this because he can set any parameter to any value he wants in each snapshot directly, without having to use scene controllers - it's easier to use that way. But Helix doesn't have all the mapping parameters etc. that makes the Axe-Fx controllers much more powerful
This ^^
