Tritium3H
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I recently broke out my original Rockman X100 that I purchased back in 1987/88 period. It still works, and I have not yet done any re-cap or refurbishments.
Damn, that Clean sound is truly special. As I type this (late at night), I admittedly cannot remember if it was the Clean 1 or the Clean 2 setting that knocked my socks off, the other day, when I took the X100 out of storage and threw in some AA batteries.
In any event, one of these Clean settings was absolutely incredible, when played through my Fender YJM Strat, with X100 Low Level Output connected to a Behringer mixer, and then output into a poweramp and then an FRFR monitor.
I suspect it was the Clean 2 setting, which does not have a cab simulation active in the circuit. There is something special going on here, with some beautiful compression (perhaps multi-stage?). For clean electric guitar, the notes just jumped off the fretboard. A really chimey, singing clean tone...just beautiful.
So, I imagine the secret to nailing this tone is the compression, the EQ, and that special Tom Scholtz chorus.
Anyone heard anything in the Gen 3 Fractal ecosystem that gets close and that they would recommend?
EDIT -- Whoops, this perhaps should have been posted in the preset sub-forum. Sorry about that.
Damn, that Clean sound is truly special. As I type this (late at night), I admittedly cannot remember if it was the Clean 1 or the Clean 2 setting that knocked my socks off, the other day, when I took the X100 out of storage and threw in some AA batteries.
In any event, one of these Clean settings was absolutely incredible, when played through my Fender YJM Strat, with X100 Low Level Output connected to a Behringer mixer, and then output into a poweramp and then an FRFR monitor.
I suspect it was the Clean 2 setting, which does not have a cab simulation active in the circuit. There is something special going on here, with some beautiful compression (perhaps multi-stage?). For clean electric guitar, the notes just jumped off the fretboard. A really chimey, singing clean tone...just beautiful.
So, I imagine the secret to nailing this tone is the compression, the EQ, and that special Tom Scholtz chorus.
Anyone heard anything in the Gen 3 Fractal ecosystem that gets close and that they would recommend?
EDIT -- Whoops, this perhaps should have been posted in the preset sub-forum. Sorry about that.
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