Fractal Audio Firmware Update Thread

TubeStack said:
Hey, maybe someone here can help me with a weird issue I'm having with the Delay block on my FM9? I posted it at the Fractal forum but haven't gotten much help beyond someone telling me to post the preset and unix being a smartass. :)

When I switch channels in the Delay block from the DM-Two to most other delays on another channel, I get a huge level/gain increase for about 1 second and then it returns to normal. It is visible on the level meters. It seems to only happen when switching from the DM-Two to most, but not all, of the other delays. For example, it happens switching from DM-Two to Analog Mono, as well as most of the first 10 delay types, but it doesn’t happen when switching to Mono Tape or Reverse Delay.

It’s a roughly 10 dB increase that lasts about 1 second.

I'm running the FM9 in 4cm with a Mesa Electra Dyne and have Output 1 set to stereo. According to the manual, this is an acceptable method for mono setups, as long as you don't use any effects with L/R panning, etc.

Any ideas, @DrewJD82 @JiveTurkey @Fireproof @Bruce ?

If you have a minute can you please try a similar channel switch from the DM-Two and see if yours does it?

This seems to have started with the last firmware update, but I'm not sure.

Thanks for any help you can offer. :beer
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Post your preset up at FAS and they'll dissect it. Lots of room for presets to go sideways between fw updates.
 
DrewJD82 said:
I had some fun with them today; found a backing track of "Sweet Emotion", the actual song, without the guitars and played along using Brad's preset. Hahahah that's a f*ck of a lot more rocked out and distorted than the album! I figure if I have a Les Paul in my hands, good timing.

Tim's preset sounds great with both my Strats and just as good with the Les Paul, exactly what I hoped it'd be and pretty much sounds like some of my couch noodling presets.

I've got Vai's delays in some of my own presets, just tweaked a bit. I haven't tried the Lifeson blocks yet, but I just loaded them last night. I can't remember if I was going to keep anything else. Oh, Austin's Purple Haze preset sounds pretty good with the LP, I'm sure it'd be even better with a Strat.
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Brads preset is pretty damn good , and one of the guys on the forum broke it down as there are a few advanced parameter tweaks, as his techs did the preset . Its interesting what it does , I hear it opening up the power amp a bit , and making the sound bigger more immediate , its some cool tweaks I have been doing it to the Freidman HBE, Atomica and other Marshall based amps. and it does something Cool . definitely no blanket on the speaker try it out

Preamp Tab:
Preamp Sag: Off Default: On
Preamp Bias Excursion: 5.0% Default: 100.0%

Power Amp Tab:
PI Bias Excursion: 126.0% Default: 100.0%

Power Tubes + CF Tab:
Power Tubes -> Bias Excursion: 104.0% Default: 100.0%

Speaker Tab:
Speaker Drive: 0% Default: 2.00

I'm not sure if the following parameters have any effect as the Speaker Drive is set to 0% and I've not played around with this yet to confirm:

Speaker Compress.: 2.03 Default: 1.00
Speaker Time Constant: 500.00ms Default: 2000.0 ms
Speaker Thump: 0.00 Default: 2.50
 
GTR37 said:
Brads preset is pretty damn good , and one of the guys on the forum broke it down as there are a few advanced parameter tweaks, as his techs did the preset . Its interesting what it does , I hear it opening up the power amp a bit , and making the sound bigger more immediate , its some cool tweaks I have been doing it to the Freidman HBE, Atomica and other Marshall based amps. and it does something Cool . definitely no blanket on the speaker try it out

Preamp Tab:
Preamp Sag: Off Default: On
Preamp Bias Excursion: 5.0% Default: 100.0%

Power Amp Tab:
PI Bias Excursion: 126.0% Default: 100.0%

Power Tubes + CF Tab:
Power Tubes -> Bias Excursion: 104.0% Default: 100.0%

Speaker Tab:
Speaker Drive: 0% Default: 2.00

I'm not sure if the following parameters have any effect as the Speaker Drive is set to 0% and I've not played around with this yet to confirm:

Speaker Compress.: 2.03 Default: 1.00
Speaker Time Constant: 500.00ms Default: 2000.0 ms
Speaker Thump: 0.00 Default: 2.50
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I haven't played it up loud but I read that and felt like it was some placebo action after playing it. I need to crank it up.
 
Stone said:
Well well well isnt that something i never knew

:sofa
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I was a huge Aerosmith fan back during the time of their 1st 5 albums, and I didn't learn that til probably a couple decades later myself. Apparently the guys could write really cool, raw ragged riffs when they started, but weren't that accomplished as players yet.
 
JiveTurkey said:
I haven't played it up loud but I read that and felt like it was some placebo action after playing it. I need to crank it up.
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it the bias settings that are noticeable , basically they are biasing the amp hot , which is likely what they did with the old Marshalls but it just gives it something . I don't now if it works on all amps but Marshall yes , although I did some other stuff as well . like changing tonestack to Plexi in the HBE
 
Whitford tweaks a Friedman model in the Fractal to sound more like a cooking Marshall.

Los Angeles Lakers What GIF by NBA


Dave wonders, "Why not just use a Marshall instead??"


I'll never understand people. :idk
 
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