It’s also one of a couple criticisms that another forum lets ring throughout the echo chamber, often times without any firsthand experience of their own.
Interesting. That most definitely came out wrong in a rushed "this videos getting long so hurry up" matter. I do remember not being crazy about them at first. And still do prefer the hx drives for the most part. I never want to come across as "trashing" anything. Definitely a poor choice of words and not my intent in the video. I apologize if I sparked this whole thing as it was NOT my intent lol. I am getting on with the FM9 just fine currently and getting better on it every time I use it.
Also interesting to me here. I wonder if how we use the gain on the models just sit certain ways and dont agree across modelers. I am gonna try running my edge of break up with even less gain to see if that gets me where I want. Its totally an objective thing, but i feel the pedals are hitting the amp too hard and i wind up with too much low end when the pedals engaged even at the lowest settings. I am gonna start thinking from scratch and pretend i know nothing outside of fractal when building things on the FM9.
I typically opt for the input boost over the drive block. Its a great feature!
I do the same, typically something transparent-ish, then use a drive block to boost even more, typically the 808 thing to bump the mids as well.