cragginshred
Fractal Fanatic
I have been around this forum and using Fractal on/off since 2011. Mostly playing a real Slo30 and Bogenr Helios these days
One of my difficulties is most rock amps need a lot of gain to sound full. I have tried and tried to back them down but they always began to sound thin and not really useable.
I know this will trigger a ration of scorn here, but maybe can we use this thread to share what amps and tricks to use to get close to this ultra hard rock tone?
For me the BE's sound super dark (more so than the real ones), the Slo's are super thin and full of presence but based on the Leon vid below it looks like I need to revisit them! The 5150 Blue is a tone of gain -real ones allow you to find some lower gain rock setting with clarity. What are some others that I should try? Copers Silver job was ok, in the past trying them resulted in ear fatigue from the amount of top end included
Lastly the FM3 was way too small of a footprint for me despite adding a 2 button switcher to allow for a tuner off the FM3 it just was not big enough to navigate live. The FM9 is nails it, like the Ax8. I can actually have enough buttons for the scenes or whatever they are called now.
Again this thread is for sharing how you have achieved killer mid gain pre sets and what amps and techniques you've applied to get there
Here is a the bench mark
And here's the helios
One of my difficulties is most rock amps need a lot of gain to sound full. I have tried and tried to back them down but they always began to sound thin and not really useable.
I know this will trigger a ration of scorn here, but maybe can we use this thread to share what amps and tricks to use to get close to this ultra hard rock tone?
For me the BE's sound super dark (more so than the real ones), the Slo's are super thin and full of presence but based on the Leon vid below it looks like I need to revisit them! The 5150 Blue is a tone of gain -real ones allow you to find some lower gain rock setting with clarity. What are some others that I should try? Copers Silver job was ok, in the past trying them resulted in ear fatigue from the amount of top end included
Lastly the FM3 was way too small of a footprint for me despite adding a 2 button switcher to allow for a tuner off the FM3 it just was not big enough to navigate live. The FM9 is nails it, like the Ax8. I can actually have enough buttons for the scenes or whatever they are called now.
Again this thread is for sharing how you have achieved killer mid gain pre sets and what amps and techniques you've applied to get there
Here is a the bench mark
And here's the helios
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