Ugly Bunny
Power User
New (second time) FM3 owner. It was delivered yesterday and I started to port over some of my Axe Fx III presets. Taking my clean tone as an example, using the USA JPIIc+ Green, I noticed that the sound is significantly different, even for identical settings. My Axe Fx III tone is fat, a little hairy, and just cuts through. It sounds and feels great. My FM3 tone was a bit flat, quieter, not as bold, no hair; I needed to up the boost, turn on the saturation and crank it a little to get close to my Axe III's tone.
I also noticed there are some missing parameters in the FM3's amp block (deep parameters like bias excursion, bias trem, etc.); not a ton missing, but maybe 4 or 5 (could be more or fewer, I didn't take notes).
My Axe Fx III is on 16.01 and my FM3 is on 3.03b1
So I'm wondering if the dramatic change in tone is because of Ares vs Cygnus or because the FM3 lacks the settings, or a combination of both. For the record, I never touched the FM3's "missing" parameters on the Axe III; so they were basically default. I've always thought the FM3 was more or less a less powerful Axe III with some additional block limitations or omissions, but as different as the presets sound between the two systems, I'm not so sure. I didn't think I noticed a huge difference between Ares and Cygnus for my presets in my Axe, as I didn't need to adjust anything after the update, but this has me scratching my head.
(NOTE: all other blocks in the preset are the same; same IR in my cab block, etc.)
I also noticed there are some missing parameters in the FM3's amp block (deep parameters like bias excursion, bias trem, etc.); not a ton missing, but maybe 4 or 5 (could be more or fewer, I didn't take notes).
My Axe Fx III is on 16.01 and my FM3 is on 3.03b1
So I'm wondering if the dramatic change in tone is because of Ares vs Cygnus or because the FM3 lacks the settings, or a combination of both. For the record, I never touched the FM3's "missing" parameters on the Axe III; so they were basically default. I've always thought the FM3 was more or less a less powerful Axe III with some additional block limitations or omissions, but as different as the presets sound between the two systems, I'm not so sure. I didn't think I noticed a huge difference between Ares and Cygnus for my presets in my Axe, as I didn't need to adjust anything after the update, but this has me scratching my head.
(NOTE: all other blocks in the preset are the same; same IR in my cab block, etc.)