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Hi everybody,
Last year a series of forum threads about Fractal Audio's AMP models was completed, which was transformed into a PDF guide.
A new year, new resolutions and new challenges! I'm launching a new series of forum threads, covering all DRIVE models. Expanding on the wiki. That wiki page is currently under construction and will be updated in tempo with the forum threads.
Overdrive pedals, boosts, fuzz boxes etc. continue to be popular. And so are Fractal Audio's DRIVE models. Especially because Fractal Audio has re-matched and improved many of them in recent firmware releases. A good moment to start this series.
It will not be a "one-thread-a-day" event. But it won't take months to complete either (there are far less pedal models than amp models).
Drive pedals and models are not that easy to cover! Appreciation of pedals varies a lot, depending on ears and skills, musical taste, guitars, amps, periods in time etc. So I expect a lot of responses and discussion!
Which is all the fun, because it attributed greatly to the value of the previous series.
Note that there's quite a lot of information about the DRIVE models that still needs to be uncovered / disclosed. Not everything can be answered. The series and wiki solely exist as an introduction.
I've started writing the first threads. And already learned a lot myself. I haven't got a clue if the new series will also make into a PDF Guide at some time, we'll just see how it turns out.
Update: the PDF Guide has been published. Download it here
I'm running the threads in alphabetical order.
Here's the link to a list of all published threads (thanks Ian).
Or go directly to a specific thread:
Last year a series of forum threads about Fractal Audio's AMP models was completed, which was transformed into a PDF guide.
A new year, new resolutions and new challenges! I'm launching a new series of forum threads, covering all DRIVE models. Expanding on the wiki. That wiki page is currently under construction and will be updated in tempo with the forum threads.
Overdrive pedals, boosts, fuzz boxes etc. continue to be popular. And so are Fractal Audio's DRIVE models. Especially because Fractal Audio has re-matched and improved many of them in recent firmware releases. A good moment to start this series.
It will not be a "one-thread-a-day" event. But it won't take months to complete either (there are far less pedal models than amp models).
Drive pedals and models are not that easy to cover! Appreciation of pedals varies a lot, depending on ears and skills, musical taste, guitars, amps, periods in time etc. So I expect a lot of responses and discussion!
Which is all the fun, because it attributed greatly to the value of the previous series.Note that there's quite a lot of information about the DRIVE models that still needs to be uncovered / disclosed. Not everything can be answered. The series and wiki solely exist as an introduction.
I've started writing the first threads. And already learned a lot myself. I haven't got a clue if the new series will also make into a PDF Guide at some time, we'll just see how it turns out.
Update: the PDF Guide has been published. Download it here
I'm running the threads in alphabetical order.
Here's the link to a list of all published threads (thanks Ian).
Or go directly to a specific thread:
- BB Pre (based on Xotic BB preamp)
- Bender Fuzz (based on Sola Sound/Vox Tone Bender)
- Bit Crusher
- Blackglass B7K (based on Darkglass B7K)
- Blues OD (based on Marshall Blues Breaker)
- Esoteric ACB (based on Xotic AC Booster)
- Esoteric RCB (based on Xotic RC Booster)
- Eternal Love (based on Lovepedal Eternity)
- Face Fuzz (based on Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face)
- FAS Boost
- FAS LED-Drive
- Rat Dist and Fat Rat (based on Pro Co Rat)
- FET Boost (and a bit of KLON)
- FET Preamp (based on BOSS FA-1 Fet Amplifier)
- Full OD (based on Fulltone Full-Drive 2)
- Hard Fuzz
- Master Fuzz (based on Gibson's Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1A)
- Micro Boost (based on MXR Micro Amp)
- Mid Boost
- M-Zone Dist (based on BOSS Metal Zone MT-2)
- Octave Dist (based on Tycobrahe Octavia)
- Pi Fuzz (based on Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi)
- Plus Dist (based on MXR Distortion +)
- Ruckus (based on Suhr Riot)
- SDD Preamp (based on preamp in Korg SDD-3000)
- Shred Dist (based on Marshall Shred Master)
- Super OD (based on BOSS SD-1 Super OverDrive)
- T808 OD and T808 Mod (based on Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9)
- Tape Dist
- Timothy (based on Paul Cochrane's Timothy)
- Treb Boost (based on Dallas Rangemaster)
- Tube Drv, 3-knob and 4-knob (based on Butler Tube Driver)
- Zen Master (based on Hermida/Lovepedal Zendrive)
- Using an AMP block as a DRIVE
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