Archon - NAM / Axe-Fx III comparison

[AlbertA]

I'm using the excellent PRS Archon captures by @2dor in the NAM plugin, loaded in Reaper.

The NAM capture I'm using here is the LEAD Noon #03 xSTD, which captured the amp with the knobs all at noon according to @2dor notes.
So I set the amp block in the Axe-FX III also all at noon. I turned off all the speaker drive stuff though.

I'm using a control switch on my FC-12 attached to the multiplexer block so I'm switching between NAM and the Axe-Fx III amp block as I played here:

 

[2dor]

Just a slight interjection: the profiles I pasted are of the newly released (2025) PRS Archon Classic 50W with 6CA7 tubes in the poweramp.

IIRC the Fractal's mode is one of the earlier releases.

 

[Mongillo19]

Maybe I have bum ears but I couldn't hear a difference or at least one that was like "oh that's NAM" or vice versa.

@2dor makes killer caps though

 

[AlbertA]

Just a slight interjection: the profiles I pasted are of the newly released (2025) PRS Archon Classic 50W with 6CA7 tubes in the poweramp.

IIRC the Fractal's mode is one of the earlier releases.

Right, I forgot to mention that. The Axe-Fx III model is of a PRS Archon 100W.

 

[2dor]

Right, I forgot to mention that. The Axe-Fx III model is of a PRS Archon 100W.

I honestly can't tell them apart eyes closed - testament to how good the Fractal stuff is nowadays.