New Fractal product coming!!

[unscarred]

Comp? Nah.

K. Good to know u don’t use compressors.

 

[OrganicZed]

It’s definitely a half arsed product, neither fish nor fowl, I really can’t see what they were thinking tbh and this is coming from a long time Fractal owner/user

It is a matter of perspective. I think this will be seen as a competitor to the Eventide H9 / H90, Line6 HX effects / H One. It will have FAS quality effects, be able to run multiple algorithms at once, offer gapless switching, feature top quality A/D D/A converters, and is in a package still suitable for a pedal board. As long as the price is reasonable, this could become a very popular choice for tube amp devotees.

 

[unscarred]

It is a matter of perspective. I think this will be seen as a competitor to the Eventide H9 / H90, Line6 HX effects / H One. It will have FAS quality effects, be able to run multiple algorithms at once, offer gapless switching, feature top quality A/D D/A converters, and is in a package still suitable for a pedal board. As long as the price is reasonable, this could become a very popular choice for tube amp devotees.

@Piing asked his local music store and said $800 converted to US dollars. Could be less though.

 

[FullReverse]

I wish this forum had the equivalent of Reddit “RemindMe bot”. Would love to comeback after they have sold a ton of these and folks are loving them just to post a Nelson “haha” gif for all the people (rudely) sh*tting on this product they didn’t make, don’t own, and “weren’t interested in buying anyway”

 

[Niksounds]

For what ?

for adding hardware personal stompbox (fx loop) + 4cm connection used for real amp

 

[Ian Minogue-Corps]

It’s not really a competitor to the Helix HxEffect as that is far more flexible and nearly half the price, let’s see how long the VP8 takes

 

[yek]

K. Good to know u don’t use compressors.

Just saying that in my experience, unlike the other mentioned fx, a compressor is not a required fx for a lot of guitar players. If it's for you, perfectly fine.

 

[FullReverse]

It’s not really a competitor to the Helix HxEffect as that is far more flexible and nearly half the price, let’s see how long the VP8 takes

Having tried the tone destroying Hx effects, I’m looking forward to a well thought out analog I/o from fractal. Why buy an expensive amp and then throw a tone suck machine between it?

 

[DLC86]

Comp-drive-mod-delay-rev

You can do that by using the reverb block to do both delay and reverb. See how the echo plate and echo room types work

 

[unscarred]

Just saying that in my experience, unlike the other mentioned fx, a compressor is not a required fx for a lot of guitar players. If it's for you, perfectly fine.

A lot of players use comp to boost their clean or dirt sound, e.g. Andy Timmons and Andy Wood. Although i’m nowhere close to those players, i like to do the same.

 

[sprint]

the VP4 (FX4) is practically an FM3

don't think so - but great for what it is.

 

[Heinzi]

I'd really love to go with the VP4 instead of the HX FX for FX quality reason but i really
hope they find a solution, if you want the Wah/Volume with one pedal, that you don't have to sacrifice two blocks.
If you want that configuration with a lead tone (1 or 2 stacked drives, delay and reverb) the 4 blocks soon come to a limit.

 

[OrganicZed]

Having tried the tone destroying Hx effects, I’m looking forward to a well thought out analog I/o from fractal. Why buy an expensive amp and then throw a tone suck machine between it?

The well documented tone suck is exactly what prevented me from buying an HX Effects years ago and what ultimately lead me to buy the Fractal FX8 instead.

 

[unscarred]

You can do that by using the reverb block to do both delay and reverb. See how the echo plate and echo room types work

I get that there’s workarounds to SOME of the sounds. But it’d be nice if we weren’t limited to 4 effects. I’ll wait for the VP8 or whatever it is.

 

[yek]

A lot of players use comp to boost their clean or dirt sound, e.g. Andy Timmons and Andy Wood. Although i’m nowhere close to those players, i like to do the same.

I understand. I'm not in any way dissing the use of compression.

 

[yek]

I'd really love to go with the VP4 instead of the HX FX for FX quality reason but i really
hope they find a solution, if you want the Wah/Volume with one pedal, that you don't have to sacrifice two blocks.
If you want that configuration with a lead tone (1 or 2 stacked drives, delay and reverb) the 4 blocks soon come to a limit.

Just create two identical presets next to each other, one with Wah, one with Whammy.

 

[Keybi]

for adding hardware personal stompbox (fx loop) + 4cm connection used for real amp

The VP4 can be use in 4 cm. And then you can add external pedals in front of the VP4 and post fx pedals in the return path.

 

[jclemensfl]

Suggestion: get rid of the text "CPU" in the top bar. Displaying the percentage suffices. Makes it less crowded.


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Good call! That would be an improvement

What i like about this unit is that you can actually read the screen from a few feet away.

Unlike the $2500 unit I have currently sitting in my rack.

 

[Snouttrout]

I'm not being critical here, but can't you use the FM3, FM9, and AF3 like the VP4 by disabling the amp modeling?

 

[Jener]

No doubt it is a killer product. But 4 effects at a time is kinda limiting. Even the very basic signal chain you’d need at least 5 effects.

Comp-drive-mod-delay-rev

But I believe that since there are 4 footswitches, there will be 4 blocks per Footswitch (totaling 16 blocks). If so, that's more than enough, and each block can receive up to 4 channels.