Fractal Audio Firmware Update Thread
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jellodog
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paisleywookiee
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No 1x4 Pignose, no care.
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- Three mic choices are available: Condenser, Dynamic and Ribbon.
They can't actually mean only 3 different mics were used, right?
jellodog
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There might be more to come, and this is only a beta; but my impression is that they've chosen what they believe are the best available mics out of the types that are available (?)
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Well we best not start posting as to how this will be amazing and its putting Fractal to the next level
lest we all be accused of being cultists and zealots
GTR37
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That correct the Dyn is the SM57There might be more to come, and this is only a beta; but my impression is that they've chosen what they believe are the best available mics out of the types that are available (?)
jellodog
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Yup.
Link to the post where Cliff confirms it:
Axe-Fx III Firmware 22.00 Public Beta (Beta 6)
And thank you for that. I like that you've consolidated/simplified the three mic types by their type/architecture and a single variant of each. We actually used six mics during the captures, two of each type. I picked one from each type that I thought sounded best. The dynamic is an SM57...
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It seems weird to do 25 cabs poorly rather than fewer cabs with a reasonable number of mics. Just speaking from experience with the Helix cab block that this is copying, you get a lot of mileage out of different mics.There might be more to come, and this is only a beta; but my impression is that they've chosen what they believe are the best available mics out of the types that are available (?)
jellodog
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Are you saying that you think they've been done poorly because there is usually an expectation that to do it well you need a lot of mics?
Cliff said, "We actually used six mics during the captures, two of each type".
What if they've discovered empirically that this is not true? I wasn't there, so I don't know... but it's seems reasonable that they would want this to be the best that it can be and that they've made sensible decisions concerning the mic choices. Maybe give it a try first?
My understanding is that you can mix and match the cab captures with no phasing issues, so if you want a ribbon and a dynamic mic on a cab, you can have that. Anyway, I haven't got the firmware (not available for FM9 yet), so I know no more than what's currently written on the FAS forum.
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FractalAudio
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It seems weird to do a lot of mics poorly than fewer mics well.
If we were to use shorter IRs and a lower spatial sampling frequency like the product we're supposedly copying we could have many more mics.
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At risk of sounding like a homer and honeymoon phase.....this is one of my favorite additions in quite some time. Wonderful job! Imo this made the tone better than Cyngus X2. I know we say how important the IR is so maybe that's why. It sounds great
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Red Solo Cup
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Just curious, do you own a Fractal? Seems you are a Helix guy who wandered into a Fractal thread and ... I dunno.
Mongillo19
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I've probably being over the top lol I do love that they added a little display of the cab to give you a visual sense of it's placementNooo! Don't do this to me!
I have to waaaaaiiiiittt!
jellodog
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Worry not @Mongillo19. I just love being all caught up in the drama
