Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[Blix]

A portable fx only Axe-someting would be a winner for me.

 

[Joshual-L]

His delay and chorus settings (and he's got different boxes for compression and dirt) sure implies FX only,
but then he ends the brief disclosure with:

"All I can tell you is there it is, and I'm an amp guy."

Which sounds like FX + load box - like you're thinking.

IF!!! the loadbox is cool then I could ditch the RedSeven, but the FX only part?

I've been pretty vocal on forums about wanting that from FAS for a very long time!

A loadbox impulse loader loaded with fractal effects could be a really great product.

Not for me at all but still a great product.

 

[Piing]

 

[[Nathan]]

Loadbox + FX seems like a weird pairing, subsection of subsection of people it would serve perfectly. Seems way more likely to be an fx box only.

There are so many preamp pedal, capture boxes out there that it kind of makes sense to have a modern/small ax8.

Not for me. I’d just take an FM3 but I’m sure it would sell ridiculously well

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Scorpio Sky!!!!!!!

 

[BenIfin]

Loadbox + FX seems like a weird pairing, subsection of subsection of people it would serve perfectly. Seems way more likely to be an fx box only.

There are so many preamp pedal, capture boxes out there that it kind of makes sense to have a modern/small ax8.

Not for me. I’d just take an FM3 but I’m sure it would sell ridiculously well

Whilst I obviously have no access to sales data ....... i.m.h.o ....... a Loadbox + FX + Dynacabs ... i.m.h.o ... would sell worse than the current Fractal Load box ... that is to say, probably sink without a trace.

I'd be stunned if this was the new product.

Just my opinion 2c.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I've been pretty vocal on forums about wanting that from FAS for a very long time!

Couple that with your massive admiration for Cliff, and this should be a no-brainer for you!

 

[Aleksi]

YESSSS, H90 killer CONFIRMED. It'll be 12 times the size with 1 footswitch because of heat management and has VCR controls for the true FAS eXperience.

 

[paisleywookiee]

YESSSS, H90 killer CONFIRMED. It'll be 12 times the size with 1 footswitch because of heat management and has VCR controls for the true FAS eXperience.

If we’re lucky it’ll have no screen and require a T-Mobile Sidekick to edit it.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

YESSSS, H90 killer CONFIRMED. It'll be 12 times the size with 1 footswitch because of heat management and has VCR controls for the true FAS eXperience.

I don’t think I would need one, but now that you put it this way!!!!

 

[[Nathan]]

Whilst I obviously have no access to sales data ....... i.m.h.o ....... a Loadbox + FX + Dynacabs ... i.m.h.o ... would sell worse than the current Fractal Load box ... that is to say, probably sink without a trace.

I'd be stunned if this was the new product.

Just my opinion 2c.

Thats my thinking too. If you only want FX then you're paying for Loadbox tech, and vice versa if you just want a high quality Loadbox then you're paying for FX and probably being priced out against a Suhr or other ones. The unit would be great but the price you'd need to make it all fair means it wouldn't be worth it for too many people.

Back in the AxeFX2 days I wished they had a poweramp built in because it would be so easy to just run things to a cab... I eventually came around to seeing the merit in NOT doing that (the option would be nice but TLDR just leave it out unless there's some cool FAS tech behind the poweramp offering). Would add a much higher cost to the unit and then if one portion of it breaks you need to live with it or get it repaired which means 2 things out of action. At this level of gear it would make sense to just break it out into 2 dedicated units.

 

[GTR37]

From Andy’s video I would 100% say it a new FX 8
I don’t think it’s an amp box

 

[BenIfin]

From Andy’s video I would 100% say it a new FX 8
I don’t think it’s an amp box

Yep. I agree. Fractals "version" of the Line 6 HXFX but without the FSW and [obviously] with a full-Midi spec - the fact that he adds something along the lines that he's always been an Amp guy.

Lock it in - Multi-efx unit for the win :)

 

[Aleksi]

If it has two stereo ins and outs for processing two separate signal paths with flexible routing, AND IT'S NOT GIGANTIC, I'll be tempted to add it to my synth setup. Unless it's 1500€.

 

[Mongillo19]

If it has two stereo ins and outs for processing two separate signal paths with flexible routing, AND IT'S NOT GIGANTIC, I'll be tempted to add it to my synth setup. Unless it's 1500€.

I have to imagine it will be cheaper than the FM3. Ideally no more than $400/$500. But I guess it all depends on if it just runs one effect at a time, or an entire pedalboard, etc etc

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Yep. I agree. Fractals "version" of the Line 6 HXFX but without the FSW and [obviously] with a full-Midi spec - the fact that he adds something along the lines that he's always been an Amp guy.

Lock it in - Multi-efx unit for the win :)

You remember what Line6 released at the same time as the HXFX, right?!? Y’all people and your small minds. Think bigger people!!!

 

[Aleksi]

If it's comparable to an H90 I could see it being priced at around 800-900 usd, or 12000000€ on G66.

 

[TubeStack]

Pretty sure Cliff has said the FX8 didn’t sell well and they don’t have much interest in trying to make a successor, as much as I would love one.

 

[Mongillo19]

Pretty sure Cliff has said the FX8 didn’t sell well and they don’t have much interest in trying to make a successor, as much as I would love one.

Idk, I really don't know what else this could be. Unless he was just using the device as effects only and it still offers amp modeling

 

[BenIfin]

Pretty sure Cliff has said the FX8 didn’t sell well and they don’t have much interest in trying to make a successor, as much as I would love one.

FX8 was a big bulky large FSW controlled floor unit

If I'm right, this new product will be a [relativley] very small pedal-board friendly mutli-efx unit.