Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[James Freeman]

unix-guy - beta testing since 1876

 

[Achilles]

Based on what? Many things have presets that have none of those things...

Also, the post from Andy doesn't say "Fractal"... It's speculation on speculation

Well, he either uses amps or the AxeIII so..........

ASSUMING a Fractal preset, what's the bare minimum a device would need?

 

[Orvillain]

unix-guy - beta testing since 1876

 

[laxu]

Also, the post from Andy doesn't say "Fractal"... It's speculation on speculation

 

[JiveTurkey]

 

[the swede]

I’m on my man-cold round 2 (was well for a few days then it started over) so I now sound exactly like Corgan when i talk. Can’t stand myself

 

[JiveTurkey]

I’m on my man-cold round 2 (was well for a few days then it started over) so I now sound exactly like Corgan when i talk. Can’t stand myself

Get better so you don't have to endure that hell!

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

[…] I now sound exactly like Corgan when i talk. […]

Corgan or Kurgan?

 

[bigmenace]

Dang didn't realize th FM3 was that big

Me looking in the mirror.

 

[GTR37]

Andy said October
So my guess is next week possibly
I think they are close

 

[ucnick]

Corgan or Kurgan?

Seriously, those guys were huge. Way bigger than Clancy Brown, who ain't no shrimp.

Back in 1995, I visited St Petersburg Russia and toured the Hermitage. In the basement (it's one heck a huge basement!) there is a museum and in one room they have an exhumed Kurgan and a bunch of artifacts and info on them, all in Russian but my Russian (then) fiancee translated for me.
That guy was at least 8 feet tall and very large around, he was apparently a warrior and was alive 15 or 20000 years old and the embalming had been done so well that he was still pretty much intact.

I would not have ever wanted to run into one of them in a dark alley as was portrayed in Highlander.

 

[nightlight]

Andy said October
So my guess is next week possibly
I think they are close

"Soon", huh?

 

[spawnofthesith]

Will fractal buck the “lunchbox modeler” trend? or toe the line… more at 7

 

[Blix]

No matter what Cliff has up his sleeve, the competition set the bar low lately..

 

[Achilles]

.....more at 7

New FAS affiliate?

 

[spawnofthesith]

New FAS affiliate?

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Modelers are dumb



“Posted from my HX Stomp”

 

[la szum]

I’m on my man-cold round 2 (was well for a few days then it started over) so I now sound exactly like Corgan when i talk. Can’t stand myself

 

[0XI0]

Agreed. No idea why it has to be 3 pedals with their own little screens. I’d rather have 5-8 pedals without screens than 3 with.

Here are some FM3 internal shots lifted from https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/fm3-gut-shots.2232087/

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The 3 pedal board is its own PCB. It could be whatever design they want to go with.

what are these cylinders for?

 

[Achilles]

what are these cylinders for?

The C in the designator on the PCB means capacitor. Different can sizes are for different voltages basically.
There's a ton of smaller ones that are surface mounted on top of the PCB but those are rectangular.

 

[Southpaw-DD]

what are these cylinders for?

those are polarized capacitors. Given the size/values, they are likely for power filtering or possibly audio path decoupling.