Dutch
Fractal Fanatic
Re: WHY would I need the ULTRA?
Congrats on your Ultra! Still, my two cents:
Roughly (very) there are two kind of users. Pedalboard users and Preset users. (and in between...) If you're a "virtual pedalboard" user you have only a couple of presets set up with a truckload of effects which are usually standby, like stompbox in a pedalboard, only to be called when you want it. Those presets take up lots of processor load because all the effects are loaded and present and take up processor load, even if they're on standby. Now if you're a preset user, most have very lean presets and just switch to a different preset when they want another tone.
Also, amps and cabs are the bigger processor hogs, so if you like to use two amps to build a tone, I'd also go for the Ultra. but I find I don't need nearly as much dual amp presets as I used to on my Vetta. Single amps just sound much better.
Plus, tendency is that firmware upgrades come a couple of days earlier for the Ultra than the Standard. :lol:
It's been the other way, Standard first, for a whole two times IIRC. Admittedly Cliff said there wasn't much to improve on amp sims anymore. But I'll believe that when there hasn't been an update in a year.
Well, of course what you use and don't use is very personal.Silverburst said:Thanks for the links Iridium. Hmmm... these fx I will never use.
That's for sure.Silverburst said:What I'm mainly trying to grasp here is what these more extreme fx can sound like. I really wouldn't know how a 10-tap delay sounds, thus if I would ever need it.
Sure I can just order one and use the 14day return policy in case, but even for such a unit with so much possibilities, even 14 days is limited.
Congrats on your Ultra! Still, my two cents:
Roughly (very) there are two kind of users. Pedalboard users and Preset users. (and in between...) If you're a "virtual pedalboard" user you have only a couple of presets set up with a truckload of effects which are usually standby, like stompbox in a pedalboard, only to be called when you want it. Those presets take up lots of processor load because all the effects are loaded and present and take up processor load, even if they're on standby. Now if you're a preset user, most have very lean presets and just switch to a different preset when they want another tone.
Also, amps and cabs are the bigger processor hogs, so if you like to use two amps to build a tone, I'd also go for the Ultra. but I find I don't need nearly as much dual amp presets as I used to on my Vetta. Single amps just sound much better.
Plus, tendency is that firmware upgrades come a couple of days earlier for the Ultra than the Standard. :lol:
It's been the other way, Standard first, for a whole two times IIRC. Admittedly Cliff said there wasn't much to improve on amp sims anymore. But I'll believe that when there hasn't been an update in a year.