Tremonti
Fractal Fanatic
Been using Fractal for 13 years. I have bought everything they have ever made and well versed in all things Fractal. Axe Fx III and FC12 has been my main rig for last couple years. Used the FM9 on Saturday night at The Gator Club in Sarasota for their downtown block party. My band, Johnny Diamond has played there pretty much exclusively, since 2016 and we do once a month, plus any special holiday events(Halloween, NYE, St Patty's). I'm Macho Man in pics.
Set up was easy but I need to build into the floorboard a connection access point. Also I want to have all cabling to run back, together, so it is plug and play. On to the actual FM9, it performed without hiccups. Running cpu at roughly 83% it never glitched. I did wire my Digitech Drop pedal backwards, so went to use and would not work. Lucky I swapped quick and all good.
I do want to change the FM9 layout for my scenes page to have quick access to my boost and multi delay. As of now I have layout 1(presets) being 8 patches per page with one button to bank up. Then layout 2(scenes) is 8 scenes and 1 button for effects/long hold to go back to Layout 1(presets), Layout 3(effects) with one button to go back to layout 2(scenes).
I wish the pedal jacks would allow 2 additional buttons to be added, instead of just 1. That was a bummer to find out about after the purchase, as I assumed it would be doable, like the Axe Fx III.
I like it. I think some added FW updates are coming and I do wish they would add some features that are not in there now. I will be getting something to protect the knobs. Will say i was nervous Saturday night with my feet an dthe buttons. Also drinks being spilt. But otherwise it is great.
But I still want an FM12 Turbo with fries.............................
Set up was easy but I need to build into the floorboard a connection access point. Also I want to have all cabling to run back, together, so it is plug and play. On to the actual FM9, it performed without hiccups. Running cpu at roughly 83% it never glitched. I did wire my Digitech Drop pedal backwards, so went to use and would not work. Lucky I swapped quick and all good.
I do want to change the FM9 layout for my scenes page to have quick access to my boost and multi delay. As of now I have layout 1(presets) being 8 patches per page with one button to bank up. Then layout 2(scenes) is 8 scenes and 1 button for effects/long hold to go back to Layout 1(presets), Layout 3(effects) with one button to go back to layout 2(scenes).
I wish the pedal jacks would allow 2 additional buttons to be added, instead of just 1. That was a bummer to find out about after the purchase, as I assumed it would be doable, like the Axe Fx III.
I like it. I think some added FW updates are coming and I do wish they would add some features that are not in there now. I will be getting something to protect the knobs. Will say i was nervous Saturday night with my feet an dthe buttons. Also drinks being spilt. But otherwise it is great.
But I still want an FM12 Turbo with fries.............................
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