Mongillo19
Inspired
It serves my needs well! I usually have very basic patches though mind you. Drive, amp, reverb, delay, cab. Never have run out of space!
It serves my needs well! I usually have very basic patches though mind you. Drive, amp, reverb, delay, cab. Never have run out of space!
I will find out soon enough. I ordered one today.
Coming from someone who has two big box strymon delays, two big box strymon reverbs, big box eventide reverb, source audio ventris, jackson audio overdrives, etc on my board, empress echosystem, .... the FM3 is VERY VERY good.
Generally your patches can easily accomodate" compressor, 2 drives, 2 delays, 1 plex reverb, 1 reverb, and a looper, easily in the FM3.
“Easy”? You haven’t spent a lot of time in manufacturing I’m guessing.
I have a feeling the FM 3 will do almost everything I need it to expect for the dual amps. I have never been an "I need a kitchen sink preset" sort of person. If I like the FM3 I will certainly get the FM9 but only because I want to experiment with guitar sound design, not because I am going to be missing anything for everyday playing and enjoying my guitars... I am downgrading from a dual amp, large pedal board setup to headphones direct into a daw setup due to moving to Brazil soon. Eventually I might be able to set up a home studio with studio monitors, but for now I just want to get back a little of what I had before. I have great headphones, so I can get the amp in a room effect easily. Fostex TH-X00 mahogany headphones move enough air that you can get past the fletcher-munson effect pretty quickly. They are like wearing large speakers on your head. N E Ways, the FM3 is on a truck for delivery as we speak. It will be a long day waiting patiently.
Yes I too have two amps, and a giant stereo strymon laden pedalboard.
Ive spent my whole life almost in it.
Then you would be an employee of the company and would have signed non-disclosure terms as part of your employment papers. They understand you have a vested interest in situations inside the company that affects the company’s well-being, so they tell you.
They already said that. Do they need to say it every time someone asks?
Fractal is a small company in a tiny market amid several competitors who are much bigger. Yamaha, who owns Line 6 is a very large corporation, and Kemper is large, and both are big by normal measures. And those companies are small compared to the ones that Fractal is competing against for their core chips.
As I said, they’ve already done that, in this thread.
And that gives us what right to know?
Man… I have been going through presets, my fingers hurt (have not played in over 6 months) and I have a smile from ear to ear. I have not even started trying to make my own patch yet. I can only imagine what this thing sounds like moving some air. I already know I will never need more but I still want dual amps. My set up was a Maz 8 with a v30 and a Knotty Pine Princeton RRI with a 12” 90W Celestine Creamback. Those two amps were like peanut butter and jelly. I have been sold on dual amps every since. It is not just the stereo.. it’s how they come together and create a unique sound you cannot get from a single amp. I used a Boss ES8 to control everything.. switch from one to another, both in stereo, wet/dry, dry/wet(swap which amp was wet) and never got tired of how I could use the two amps individual characteristics to create new tones. The FM9 sounds like a Goldilocks setup for someone like me for sure. I am completely sold on Fractal audio now. Seems that aside from cpu the only real limitation is your imagination and understanding of how to craft a sound.
The core DSP are domestic, but that doesn't mean much, demand for a product does. You're right, it's a complex and nuanced situation.
ONLY Fractal can say. It's status quo if they don't say anything different.
100%. IMHO, nothing i'm seeing on the market even comes close...
We're not going to post anything until it is definite. No one wants to see anyones hopes raised and then dashed.
Talk to Sales about it.
This kind of response is, IMNSHO, what drives people away from Fractal - or at least, its community: lots of attitude and expressions such as “the need to know”, as if we’re discussing state secrets or military tactics. Jeez, it’s an electronics company that manufactures musical instruments. Lighten up a bit.
