I do not need a new AxeFx personally.
But I wanna say good move from FAS well done, I think those are the right improvements.
1) Despite the different outputs on the II there was a bit of juggling when trying to do different things there.
2) Choosing IN and OUT points was desperately missing, brought some frustration here in the past.
3) MFC : I don't like you that much, you are a pain to transport especially for smaller gigs or flights, your switches are very close to each other, not that easy to know where you are when you're busy playing, lack of scene names,.... all this is addressed. Hoping for a good looper integration - although I'm using external looper now until FAS decides to care about actual loopers
I have to say the new in and outs though will benefit solo acts as they will be able to integrate more things managed by 1 box.
The new FC could even be the biggest reason to get a III, as far as I'm concerned.
One thing I was surprised about : I expected to be able to go up to 3 or 4 amp blocks. If there are 4 amps loaded in the 4 channels, it seems like it might be possible to implement? Is there a potential for 2 different amp modes ? --> mode 1 is 4 amps channels, mode 2 is 4 amp blocks 1 channel each? How could this be done... 2 different amp block types?!
To be honest, I have been so happy with my sound I haven't even upgraded for a while. Also I am not really the consumer guy who will upgrade to a III unless I really need it, but I am curious to see how they will use the potential of this new beast!
Congrats and thanks for coming up with these beauties xxx
EDIT : Also very well done for keeping the price tag in the same ball park, I think that's really important.