Axe-Fx III Firmware 32.00 Release

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Possum said:
I am not sure what changed, but this FW seems to work way better with some of my most hated pickups. Have a very dark sounding EC 1000 here with Fishman Open Core Classic humbuckers that sounded super muddy without cutting the bass pre distortion on almost any amp. Thought about selling it. Now with this firmware I loaded the 100w Plexi 1970, turned output dynamics in gain enhancer mode to 2 on the dynamics page and it sounds super percussive and juicy (sweet, popping, tubetastic, responsive, fractalicious, FAStastic...). Also the 5150 family sounds way better and less flubby in the bass without adding a boost before the amp. Did it really change that much or am I just high on pain killers?
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That sounds like you might have a defective pickup system or guitar, tbh. Fluence Classics are anything but muddy.
 
Joce said:
For what it's worth, this 'Drive going all Bit Crusher' happened to me as well.

I was using one of Fremen's Amp Pack preset (TDR 5153 5 (100w R)), on the Lead 1 scene.

Loaded it after updating to FW32.00 and it sounded normal.

Then I did a soft reset on the amp Chanel, and that's when it started sounding all scratchy and bit crusher-like..

Did not save the preset, went to another preset and back, and it sounded normal again.

I was able to reproduce it by doing the Soft Reset routine..

Cheers,
Joce
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
 
yek said:
@FractalAudio

This note from the previous public beta versions didn't make it into the final release notes:

"Changed behavior of PI Bias Excursion control in Amp block. In addition to varying the amount of phase inverter bias excursion, the control now also inversely controls the amount of distortion generated by the phase inverter. This can be used to reduce (or increase) the amount of distortion generated by the phase inverter. Note that many classic amps (e.g. the Deluxe Reverb) generate significant phase inverter distortion. This distortion is typically fuzzy and quite asymmetric leading to significant amounts of intermodulation distortion."

Just an omission or was this reversed?
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Curious, as well!
 
Saarang Narayan said:
Just gave the firmware a quick whirl and the usual suspects sound GREAT. I am loving the CCV more than ever. Whatever changes have been done to the modelling in general are fantastic sounding.

Spent a quick few minuted with the 5150 after doing a soft reset. It sounds pretty darn good but I was wondering if the master volume taper has changed as well? The headroom meter jumps really quickly from around -3.0 to 0.0 between 1.0 and 1.3 on the MV. I don’t remember if it was this drastic earlier.
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Wait...the CCV?? I already have a tone matched "garage inc" tone preset I made that sounds almost spot on🤔 Time for another go! Thanks as usual Saarang🙏👍
 
FM9 user here. Can someone record a simple example of the "dry diffusion" from the Delay block on this firmware? What does the dry signal being diffused sound like? For example set the delay mix or input gain to 0, record something into a looper before it, and toggle the block on/off so I can hear the effect on the dry signal without the delay? Do other classic delay pedals do this? Seems like any delay pedal with analog dry through wouldn't be able to do this, right?
 
strabes said:
FM9 user here. Can someone record a simple example of the "dry diffusion" from the Delay block on this firmware? What does the dry signal being diffused sound like? For example set the delay mix or input gain to 0, record something into a looper before it, and toggle the block on/off so I can hear the effect on the dry signal without the delay? Do other classic delay pedals do this? Seems like any delay pedal with analog dry through wouldn't be able to do this, right?
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It diffuses the dry the same as the delay signal. So if you select Digital Mono type with feedback = 0 and time = 1 ms then turn up diffusion, just like that.
 
Loving the amp tones on this one, notably 5153 Stealth Red and Triaxis LD2 Yellow and Red with my trusted DynaCab Recto Large blend.

I’m noticing more musical/pleasing pick attack transients and string noise from the fretting hand.
 
Wow, this update is incredible! My favorite amps now have a rawness and headroom they didn't have on FW31.xx. In addition to that, they don't seem as sensitive to IR's - just about every IR I've tried sounds good! Nice job, and thank you, @FractalAudio and team!
 
Thenewexhibit said:
Is it reoccurring with you?
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TEST ONE - The only thing that I would consider 'bit-crushy' is the Angry Charlie square-wave clipping the signal, like it does. When diming the level parameter of the T808 or any other typical boost-pedal choice it was behaving as expected w/o the hard-clipping artifacts. I deleted the Drive block within the preset @nikk© shared, saved the preset, moved to different preset, cycled the unit.

TEST TWO - Waited ~10s, turned on the unit, went back to the preset @nikk© shared, added a Drive block (T808, Bitcrusher, Angry Charlie, FET Pre), enjoyed the BE and 2203 tones for a hot minute - no issues here.
 
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