Does the Fractal Deluxe Reverb sound broken to anyone else?

[metropolis_4]

Or is it just me?

With the latest update the Vibrato channel has zero headroom. Using a Strat with a low output DiMarzio HS-4 in the neck I had to turn the gain down to 0.6 before it stopped clipping

And there is a weird gritty texture to it that I don’t like and seems impossible to get rid of. I don’t hear this on the Normal channel, only Vibrato.

I love Deluxe Reverb overdrive as much as anyone, but every DR I’ve ever used I can at least get up to around 3 on the volume before it starts to clip.

Maybe it’s the DR that was modeled?

 

[Blix]

Or is it just me?

With the latest update the Vibrato channel has zero headroom. Using a Strat with a low output DiMarzio HS-4 in the neck I had to turn the gain down to 0.6 before it stopped clipping

And there is a weird gritty texture to it that I don’t like and seems impossible to get rid of. I don’t hear this on the Normal channel, only Vibrato.

I love Deluxe Reverb overdrive as much as anyone, but every DR I’ve ever used I can at least get up to around 3 on the volume before it starts to clip.

Maybe it’s the DR that was modeled?

Yeah I agree, seems something in up with that model now.

 

[la szum]

And there is a weird gritty texture to it that I don’t like and seems impossible to get rid of.

Sounds like a DR to me.



Maybe it is just happening a little too soon. I have honestly felt for a while now
that the headroom behavior on some Fractal amp models is a little premature---and
I have to run the MV lower (or Volume on NMV amps) on the Fractal models than I do
the actual amps they are modeled on.

Could be the amp. But that weird gritty texture is how I think DRs sound when they
break up. They are not exactly the smoothest of amps when it comes to distortion.
A little goes a long ways. For me.

Maybe Cliff while "chime" in. See what I did there?

 

[GTR37]

Or is it just me?

With the latest update the Vibrato channel has zero headroom. Using a Strat with a low output DiMarzio HS-4 in the neck I had to turn the gain down to 0.6 before it stopped clipping

And there is a weird gritty texture to it that I don’t like and seems impossible to get rid of. I don’t hear this on the Normal channel, only Vibrato.

I love Deluxe Reverb overdrive as much as anyone, but every DR I’ve ever used I can at least get up to around 3 on the volume before it starts to clip.

Maybe it’s the DR that was modeled?

Yep I think Karl Houseconnect was asking about that one for the same reason low headroom

 

[FractalAudio]

Yes, there's a mistake in the phase inverter. This has been corrected for the next release.

 

[yeky83]

@metropolis_4 Good ears!

 

[0XI0]

we gonna talk about the Mark/Triaxis models wrong gain pot value?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Sounds like a DR to me.



Maybe it is just happening a little too soon. I have honestly felt for a while now
that the headroom behavior on some Fractal amp models is a little premature---and
I have to run the MV lower (or Volume on NMV amps) on the Fractal models than I do
the actual amps they are modeled on.

Could be the amp. But that weird gritty texture is how I think DRs sound when they
break up. They are not exactly the smoothest of amps when it comes to distortion.
A little goes a long ways. For me.

Maybe Cliff while "chime" in. See what I did there?

Have you done the beta firmware update? I thought you didn't do Beta.

 

[metropolis_4]

Yes, there's a mistake in the phase inverter. This has been corrected for the next release.

Awesome, you guys are the best!

 

[FractalAudio]

we gonna talk about the Mark/Triaxis models wrong gain pot value?

The Mark series amps use a 1M gain pot and that's what is in the models.

If you feel there is something incorrect be more specific and refrain from the passive aggressive bullsh*t.

 

[0XI0]

If you feel there is something incorrect be more specific

lmao, I'm deadass not going to further explain "the gain pot value is wrong", but thank you for the invitation to honest discourse

 

[eggpl@nt]

 

[Frodebro]

lmao, I'm deadass not going to further explain "the gain pot value is wrong", but thank you for the invitation to honest discourse

There’s nothing to “further discuss” here. It’s either what he said it is (and there is no reason he would lie about that), or it’s not. If you think it’s something different, tell us what you think it is. Then about five of us will get curious and pull the chassis out of our amps to see for ourselves what it is.

 

[norminal]

Then about five of us will get curious and pull the chassis out of our amps to see for ourselves what it is.

Man, fuck that. Have you ever opened up a Mark amp?

 

[Frodebro]

Man, fuck that. Have you ever opened up a Mark amp?

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Changing the preamp tubes are a royal PITA, I do know that. But pulling the chassis isn’t all that bad.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

There’s nothing to “further discuss” here. It’s either what he said it is (and there is no reason he would lie about that), or it’s not. If you think it’s something different, tell us what you think it is. Then about five of us will get curious and pull the chassis out of our amps to see for ourselves what it is.

Real Pots Go To Zero

 

[Frodebro]

Real Pots Go To Zero

My real Mark V has real pots in it, and in the fifteen years I have owned it I have not once set the gain pots at zero.

 

[Aleksi]

Man, fuck that. Have you ever opened up a Mark amp?

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I'm done with guitar gear (thanks fractal) and getting into the totally reasonable world of synthesizers. My house now literally looks like this.

 

[Aleksi]

Btw the toan is in the divide by zero error

 

[unix-guy]

Yes, there's a mistake in the phase inverter. This has been corrected for the next release.

Vibrato model only or also Normal?

I've been enjoying the Normal model a lot!