GuyJames
Inspired
So I haven’t had my FM3 for around 2 months since I left the country Dec 27 for a military band deployment. I took my HX stomp with me as a backup in the event the FM3 didn’t arrive in a timely manner on the military pallet transportation system we use for moving gear on deployments.
Well…. The pallet didn’t come until two days ago so I was using the HX stomp with great success in the meantime. I have to say the Line 6 stuff has really caught up imo. Reason I say this is because I was happy to have the FM3 back but after my gig tonight I don’t know what else to say except I thought my FM3 sounded like garbage.
I’ve been a victim of option paralysis and have tweaked the fractal products into the wee hours of mornings and it’s like I’m never really satisfied. With the HX stomp the Mesa Mark V clean model was like 100% exactly the clean pedal platform tone I like and I was able to get a really great sound from it.
I just feel like I’ve gotta start over with the fm3 and ditch some of the fluff I’ve adopted like multiband comp after the amp to tame lows and another compressor after that as a “post amp studio sweetener”. Stuff like that isn’t used in analog guitar chains anyway. Sure we can bring the studio to the stage but… I’m going to try and simplify things a bit and see if I get more satisfaction.
Well…. The pallet didn’t come until two days ago so I was using the HX stomp with great success in the meantime. I have to say the Line 6 stuff has really caught up imo. Reason I say this is because I was happy to have the FM3 back but after my gig tonight I don’t know what else to say except I thought my FM3 sounded like garbage.
I’ve been a victim of option paralysis and have tweaked the fractal products into the wee hours of mornings and it’s like I’m never really satisfied. With the HX stomp the Mesa Mark V clean model was like 100% exactly the clean pedal platform tone I like and I was able to get a really great sound from it.
I just feel like I’ve gotta start over with the fm3 and ditch some of the fluff I’ve adopted like multiband comp after the amp to tame lows and another compressor after that as a “post amp studio sweetener”. Stuff like that isn’t used in analog guitar chains anyway. Sure we can bring the studio to the stage but… I’m going to try and simplify things a bit and see if I get more satisfaction.