Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[norminal]

The fan boys will though just because it’s fractal and they have money to burn

That sounds like something one of my closest friends would say. And he’s the biggest cheap ass I’ve ever met.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

When in doubt, repost your joke 4x in the same thread

 

[James Freeman]

fak bass

 

[quadgear]

My $$ - if these pictures are accurate - is on a 4 Button *efx* only unit ..... that ties in perfecty with Andy Woods comments in the video with Andertons where he said he runs a clean amp and [therefore] gets all his drives and efx tones from pedals.

Wouldn't we see four cables coming out of the box if Andy was using it that way?

 

[bigmenace]

Anyway, if it's a FX only unit I'm not interested.
As I have sold all my modelling gear (and most of the crappy pedals I had) I'm looking for an all in one solution. If this whatever "electric sex pants, bread slicer, FM0 with only buttons" does not include amp+cab modelling the FM3 is one of the top contenders for sure.

 

[BenIfin]

Wouldn't we see four cables coming out of the box if Andy was using it that way?

Yep you would as he would be running some efx [ drives, eq's, comps etc... ] into the front of the amp and some [ delays, mods, rev's etc... ] into the loop of the amps ie: standard run of the mill way to run pre efx and post efx.

Ben

 

[DLC86]

Yep you would as he would be running some efx [ drives, eq's, comps etc... ] into the front of the amp and some [ delays, mods, rev's etc... ] into the loop of the amps ie: standard run of the mill way to run pre efx and post efx.

Ben

Except that it looks like it doesn't have an fx loop

 

[BenIfin]

Except that it looks like it doesn't have an fx loop

Is that a know actual true fact ? Or is it based on forum ideas ? From the really grainy pics, it impossible to even see what the specific jacks are, let alone their functions (?)

 

[DLC86]

Is that a know actual true fact ? Or is it based on forum ideas ? From the really grainy pics, it impossible to even see what the specific jacks are, let alone their functions (?)

It's impossible to read how they're labeled but by the number of jacks and the length of the label seems pretty clear to me.

From left to right:
Input (L/MONO and R)
Output (L/MONO and R)
Exp pedal (1 and 2)
SPDIF
USB
MIDI (In and Out)
DC in.

 

[BenIfin]

It's impossible to read how they're labeled but by the number of jacks and the length of the label seems pretty clear to me.

From left to right:
Input (L/MONO and R)
Output (L/MONO and R)
Exp pedal (1 and 2)
SPDIF
USB
MIDI (In and Out)
DC in.

Man ... if you got that from those pics ..... you have way-big-time better eyes than me and/or some very awesome photo clarifying software :)

 

[yek]

Yep you would as he would be running some efx [ drives, eq's, comps etc... ] into the front of the amp and some [ delays, mods, rev's etc... ] into the loop of the amps ie: standard run of the mill way to run pre efx and post efx.

Ben

4CM is not a requirement when you run into a clean amp.

 

[the swede]

Man ... if you got that from those pics ..... you have way-big-time better eyes than me and/or some very awesome photo clarifying software :)

From the look of the images, there’s isn’t enough information so we can’t uncover what’s not been captured.

 

[DLC86]

Man ... if you got that from those pics ..... you have way-big-time better eyes than me and/or some very awesome photo clarifying software :)

No software, just deduction from what we've all seen.
Look:

Here it's pretty clear that there are 3 pairs of jacks, and they're definitely grouped in pairs cuz there's a label centered between two jacks, a horizontal line below and then 2 labels, one above each jack (the labels on the left pair are partially covered by a cable in this pic). The labels below the line in the first two pairs are a longer one for the left jack and a single letter for the right jack, on the third pair both are a single letter/number.

Now, do you have some other possible hypothesis over what they could be labeled other than this?

INPUT​	OUTPUT​	PEDAL​
____________________________​	____________________________​	____________________________​
L/MONO . . . . . . . . . . . . R​	L/MONO . . . . . . . . . . . . R​	1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2​

From this other pic it's pretty clear that the third pair is for exp pedal cuz the cable from there goes straight to the expression pedal

 

[Orvillain]

FX loop could be on the right side, ala HX Stomp.

An effects only unit doesn't make total sense without 4-cable-method compatibility IMHO, and I would expect that would impact sales a fair bit.

 

[Orvillain]

But that is definitely 6 white 'Fractal-esque' labels on the right side of the screen, which to me implies 6 buttons. I think there are probably LED's below that with white labelling too.

 

[laxu]

FX loop could be on the right side, ala HX Stomp.

An effects only unit doesn't make total sense without 4-cable-method compatibility IMHO, and I would expect that would impact sales a fair bit.

Another option could be that you can use it as stereo in/out or as mono with fx loop, same way that UA pedals do.

 

[Orvillain]

Another option could be that you can use it as stereo in/out or as mono with fx loop, same way that UA pedals do.

Yeah could be. Or input 1 Left is a TRS connection, for stereo in if you want it, and input 1 Right is the FX Loop Return.... likewise with output. But that'd probably be a weird way to do it.

 

[Orvillain]

TBH, for me individually, the FX loop isn't necessary because I could just throw it into one of the loops on the QC, or in my larger board one of the loops on my GigRig G3.

 

[DLC86]

It has no FX loop guys, accept it

But there's a simple way to add it: buy two and put your other effects in between.

 

[Orvillain]

Plot twist - the encoder just cycles through effects. No signal path routing, no complicated stuff. Just one effect at a time. Only 4 presets. Just save which effect you want to each switch.

If we're gonna nerf the product, lets do it properly!!!