I do not have clips; been too busy rehearsing/gigging/studio work (Saturday is an all day recording session) and I can probably share something after that point (well, Sunday evening I'll be in the clear till Wednesday).
This new firmware and the G2 Pentode modeling is useful, practical and powerful. With one parameter (as it is in the version I have at this juncture) you can dial up the 'tightness' or the 'give' of the power amp in addition to the G2 Triode preamp modeling. This allows you to essentially 'tune' in your tubes for not only the preamp, but now for the power amp.
This makes FRFR a different ballgame again (Cliff has a way of changing the game consistently), and IMHO makes everything pop and cut better without any apparent sizzle/fizz/hash on the top end... just more dynamic and (gulp, cliche) organic. There now is more 'meat' on everything. It holds better as you play dynamically, has more girth and slam while also being *user adjustable* so you can - with one parameter setting - really dial in your preferred feel and response. I'd just call the Pentode/Triode parameters the 'feel' parameters. Adjust these to taste, and you've essentially tube-swapped, biased and tweaked out your amp to fit YOU, not some snapshot profile that someone else likes. Just this feature -alone- makes the evolution of what Fractal is doing skip ahead even further than before. FRFR is getting more and more attractive and I am digging it.
The IR capture also can be thought of not only 'make your own cab IR' but will let the 'match EQ' thing out of the cage. This will turn out, if I am right, to be the next 'big' thing folks grab onto and share. This is the Axe-FX II's "add your own User IR's" big 'holy sh**!' addition that spins everything differently. Yes, you can do things like shoot IR's of anything that passes sound and essentially hands you 'profiling' with 60+ amp profile 'bases' (instead of just 2 from own well discussed yet to be released box). Again, the game and possibilities are changed - even when you thought, 'what the hell is left to even do with this? Where else can it go?"
The TxStar is really my favorite Mesa type of tone that I've ever heard/used; and the Cameron's now have more 'meat' to go with their 'sizzle'.
There is still work to be done on the USB side - but the possibilities for monitoring will be worth the wait.
As this goes, this is indeed a very very desirable firmware update. If I had to give it a name (ala the Android paradigm of naming their major firmware updates) I'd call this the 'Holy Sh**' firmware.
This is worth waiting for guys. Let them have the time to get all the ducks in a row, dot the 'i's and cross the 't's.
This one is a big deal.
