Fractal Audio Systems AM4 - Amp Modeler

[PhilA]

Fuckballs, H90's are expensive, even used.

They are tbh I sold my H9 Max when I got the VP4 I honestly think it is as good as the Eventide and despite people having go at Fractal about UI usability. I find the VP4 much easier to work with. Of choose if you need the IO options the H90 has them there aren’t other options.

 

[paisleywookiee]

They are tbh I sold my H9 Max when I got the VP4 I honestly think it is as good as the Eventide and despite people having go at Fractal about UI usability. I find the VP4 much easier to work with. Of choose if you need the IO options the H90 has them there aren’t other options.

Nah, I don’t need the IO. I just wanted a different flavor of effects.

 

[fr8_trane]

Sounds great to me, I love it. I think the cab/IR is the most important factor followed by the amp model. I like the Ventoux or the Super Reverb with the 112 open cast cab or a single mic York Twin IR. I haven’t tried it with a Marshall/celestion combo because it’s just not my thing, it’s probably just me but I think 412 celestion IRs make everything sound weird.

I agree. I dont like ANY of the multi-speaker IR's on the Helix (or from York or from Ownhammer). They all sound weird and comb filtered to me. I use the same 1x12 for every amp/ preset.

You can get the HX fuzz face to sound very close to the real thing by using the correct low impedance input setting and turning the gain down from max. However that only gets you the full fuzz tone. Even with the correct impedance it still doesnt clean up like the real thing. Also I find with any FF, real or virtual you need to slap a low gain OD after it to tame the fizz and bump the mids... otherwise it disappears in the mix.

 

[sashimi]

I agree. I dont like ANY of the multi-speaker IR's on the Helix (or from York or from Ownhammer). They all sound weird and comb filtered to me. I use the same 1x12 for every amp/ preset.

You can get the HX fuzz face to sound very close to the real thing by using the correct low impedance input setting and turning the gain down from max. However that only gets you the full fuzz tone. Even with the correct impedance it still doesnt clean up like the real thing. Also I find with any FF, real or virtual you need to slap a low gain OD after it to tame the fizz and bump the mids... otherwise it disappears in the mix.

Yeah I realized that I just don’t like multi speaker IRs, or most multi mic IRs. Thin phasey comb filtered mids. It gets even worse when it’s a celestion speaker that already has weird mids. That is enough to make a fuzz pedal sound like garbage. I use 1 IR on all of my presets too, for any amp model. A single mic 112 IR just sounds closest to what I would expect to hear from an amp in the room. I don’t like York’s mixes either for the same reason, but the single mic IRs can be good.