Fractal Audio Firmware Update Thread

There's always too many variables of it to behave the same.
  • Playing style vs the person who made the preset.
  • The guitar(s) used.
  • Output system.
  • Output volume.
  • The room you play in.
I see other people's presets as ideas and starting points you need to tweak to work with your gear and playing style.

Truth!
 
I think the coolest thing about the current state of modeling is how reactive they can all be to individual player’s touch sensitivity, which really presents itself when using other people’s presets. There are only a couple guys whose presets I can use and I have to assume we have a similar pick attack, ie- I downloaded Leon’s Days of Gifts or whatever it’s called presets, I could have recorded with those without touching a thing. Or Austin Buddy’s presets I use, I’ll tweak the B/M/T to suit the guitar I’m using but that’s really it. Rarely am I touching drive and I never venture into the deeper parameters.

But I’ll have my buddy over my place, he’s a chronic bitchpicker and he’s been asking me this for 20 years without really making the dots connect, “Why does it sound like you have so much more distortion playing than when I do?” Because he hits the strings like he’s scared of them. The way I set my distortion, you really need the right hand to make it work for you.

And others, like some Floyd presets I downloaded from a guy from YouTube who does an amazing job at nailing Gilmour tones, we’re using the same guitars/pickups and I have to drop the distortion WAY down on them all. Eventually I just used all the effects he programmed and got my own amp/pedal tones because there was that much of a difference. His YouTube demos of them sound great, but the way we attack the strings is so different it didn’t translate from him to me.

Bitchpicker 3.0 .


Am I being timid enough??? :LOL:
 
Bitchpicker 3.0 .


Am I being timid enough??? :LOL:

What’s funny about this is Nacho met us at a bar one night to hang outside of practice wearing this very, very yellow shirt that was about as non-metal as one could get, we start busting his balls for it and he tells us “It’s timid lemon”, so much like his name, timid lemon is another thing that stuck that I still bust his balls about 20 years later. :rofl
 
What did they add this time ?
A Continuum Transfunctioner ? :rofl
Back To The Future Film GIF
 
I roll my own. But again, think it is super cool that they are given away for free as a gift from Fractal
and their artists.
Take any factory preset, and someone thought it sounded good. But there's plenty of them that don't work for me, and even a handful that sound like ass to me. So I figure there's enough variables that I don't wanna spend money and take a chance I'd get the same results, and not like 90% of them. Heck, the only thing that pushed me over the edge to buy the Petrucci plugin was that I could try it first.
 
What did they add this time ?
A Continuum Transfunctioner ? :rofl

They are Beta releases, so the updated Beta is one that usually involves fixing a bug that popped
up in use somewhere by a user who brought it to the attention of the developers. That and
Continuum Transfunctioners. ;)
 
Take any factory preset, and someone thought it sounded good. But there's plenty of them that don't work for me, and even a handful that sound like ass to me. So I figure there's enough variables that I don't wanna spend money and take a chance I'd get the same results, and not like 90% of them. Heck, the only thing that pushed me over the edge to buy the Petrucci plugin was that I could try it first.

Same. I find an Amp and Cab I like and go from there. Not much for me to screw up with that.

Get that sounding ok enough, and then I can add in the morsels of chocolate and spice to throw
it over the top. :banana
 
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