Axe-FX (A Love Story?) Rd.1

TSJMajesty said:
Get the regular Axe III and an FC-6. Since you said you don't gig, you'll be fine.
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For the most part I agree, I heavily underutilize my FC6 in regards to switching stuff in the studio, it more of serves as a hub for actively controlling stuff as I’ve got the expression pedals and momentary switch on the board. Now with gapless switching that might change and I’ll do more switching while recording, but having AxeEdit open all the time makes switching kinda moot.
 
So far there isn't any feature that really needs the Axe-Fx 3 Turbo so I see it as something for people with very complex presets or just folks who simply want "the best". "It's only $200 more" is not a selling point if 99% of the time you won't benefit from that extra processing power.

It might have been worth it if Fullres IRs for room mics had become more of a thing but that hasn't happened so far.
 
Whizzinby said:
I’ve CPU locked the the thing several times on a pretty basic series signal path, trying to work in the Plex Delay and certain Pitch blocks. If I’m capping the thing with the simple presets, I know I will ultimately find it limiting when I start trying to get more creative.

I would have went with one of the other units to begin with, but I wanted to dip my toes in the water first.
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Some of the Plex Delay options can be as demanding as Pitch and Reverb block, and the way the FM3 runs amp sim + delays on the same cores might mean you run into limitations.

The FM3 is that it can run typical pedals + amp + cab signal chains pretty well. You most likely have to reduce Reverb to the "economy" setting, which to be fair still sounds excellent.

Since you can't return the FM3, I'd at least wait to see if Fractal can add gapless switching to the FM3 as well. Maybe that will allow you to e.g build two presets where one is your usual fx and the other is specialty stuff with just the things that are tough to fit into one preset.

My experience is that all the oddball stuff is really fun to explore at first but ultimately at least I end up focusing more on the "meat and potatoes" where even my Axe-Fx 3 presets have gotten much simpler over time.
 
The only way I would not spend the extra on the Turbo, is if you think you might upgrade to the IV when it comes.
Otherwise, it's a no-brainer decision to get it.
 
In all Honesty I dont really See what a MK IV will do more than what the Axe III already does

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Rock Chalk said:
The only way I would not spend the extra on the Turbo, is if you think you might upgrade to the IV when it comes.
Otherwise, it's a no-brainer decision to get it.
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Considering the forum, I think many here would upgrade. Before that happens, there's a lot of places where you could better spend that $200 than more processing power on what is already the most powerful modeler on the market in its standard form.
 
Plus there's the fact that the OP is already regretting his decision to get the FM3......why repeat it?

Get the big dawg!
 
I Almost made the mistake of going with the FM3 but the wise folks here, especially @jellodog made me see the light of getting the FM9T
and well certainly no regrets here the FM 9 does everything i want, But of course its always a question of what one needs and wants, for some the FM3T is more than plenty for their needs

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