Fractal VP4!

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FullReverse said:
if you don’t play music with any subtlety or dynamics and don’t care that the delay and reverb all have a cluttered muddy quality to them, then sure. Otherwise you will notice immediately what that turd does to your signal. You lose the bloom and sag and get a cheap flattened representation of your signal instead.
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Sorry, probably putting a target on my back here, but this is a load of bollocks.
 
I have HXStomp, and though I think Fractal Fx sound better and are more tweak-able, it's not a night and day sound difference to my ear - there is a bit of a "smear" character to some extent in some HX Fx models which is not necessarily bad (covers up my sloppy playing better lol!) - Fractal amp modelling is in another league, but the Stomp's physical I/O is unmatched in that size box, and the routing is fantastic (split L/R IO blocks for In/Out and Fx loop).
 
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Perhaps Fractal is thinking about developing and marketing a digital only solution (some kind of plugin or cloud SaaS solution) so they don't have to invest in the hardware design, procurement, tooling, warehousing, shipping, support etc. etc. business?

I guess we all like our foot switches eh?
 
Immanuel said:
Yes, I should have written 899. That keeps the ratio of VP4:FM3 at 0.6
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Btw, I just noticed that one of the Thai shops that Piing linked also has the Hx Stomp for sale and it's priced at roughly 990$!
https://iguitarmusic.co.th/shop/effects/เอฟเฟคกีตาร์-guitar-effect/line-6/line-6-hx-stomp/
If we take that as a reference VP4 should be around 530$ in US.
So I guess we can't determine with certainty how much it'll be before the official announcement

PS: for some reason in Thailand, Fractal products seem to be quite a bit cheaper than Line6 compared to US and especially EU... a Helix is the same price as a FM9 MKII Turbo in those shops! I need to go live in Thailand at this point :sweatsmile:
 
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leagueofkruger said:
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Chewie5150 said:
This might be the gateway drug for me to buy a tube amp. Full circle. To become the very thing I swore to destroy:laughing:
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Patzag said:
All this VP-4 talk has me seriously considering taking my Deluxe Reverb out of its case and back in action!
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Way ahead of you guy's.
Picked this up about three weeks ago used.
While picking up strings and things, heard another costumer playing it really liked what I heard. Long story short it's mine.

Been onboard with Fractal since the standard but, I still like a tube amp around the house. Plug /Play minimal tweaking and functional art. And sounds glorious! Plus I am a bit of a sucker for the tweed covering.

Although my workflow is like 95+ % Fractal. I cant help myself. The timing of me purchasing the Deluxe, (An amp I was not looking for to begin with) and the VP4 being introduced. ahh - ! I do believe the two are meant to go together, so I see a VP4 in the future.

HELL --- two days after I got the amp I was looking at used FX8's
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Don't all of those Strymon Dirty Cloud Deluxe pedals that make U2 noises cost like $700? Seems to me like the VP4 is a relative bargain if it's $800 and can run four instances of the same caliber of effects. Then again it doesn't have a knob with concentrically-arranged LEDs or a brightly-colored housing that looks cool on Instagram and Youtube thumbnails so I guess it has no shot at competing in the market.

**EDIT: I'd like to add that I have nothing against Strymon effects - they certainly sound incredible. I just find the hand-wringing about price and functionality in this thread silly.
 
Thank you. In the past, they didn't sneak the device around; they typically just announced it on their website, saying, Hey, we've got a new product. Tada! Is this what AI is going to be producing go forward, thats a bummer.
 
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