Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[Sascha Franck]

How much more gigs am I supposed to play without this thing existing? I'm not gonna buy it anyway, but I'd like to have some of whatever "that gig certainly would've went better with an FX4!" rubbed in!

 

[mbenigni]

FFS this thread has hyped me so badly on buying a fractal I'm now looking at FM3s. I'd get all the effects and the amp modelling to check out. I've already checked the dimensions and I can fit it on my board

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I'm in N Ireland and don't have the funds yet or I'd have sent you a message already.

I bought a macbook and a budda Wah this month so my gas funds are wiped out.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

You can visit me in Germany for a heat pump service. We got one installed this spring and now I‘m getting a nasty 6 KHz whistling noise when I play guitar and the heat pump is active. Pretty annoying.

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Where in Germany are you?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I will say this: simply selling to those clowns at GC for pennies on the dollar is looking better and better.

I got $6-something (sub 50, but more than 625 if I remember right) a couple months ago at GC.

 

[JiveTurkey]

A GC sale is....and I can't believe I am saying this STILL; not a terrible option.

 

[TubeStack]

How is it selling on facebook marketplace where you are? I don't have an account and have to use my wifes. You get some time waster emails and low balls but I've found it a lot easier and stress free than ebay. Plus once it's sold it's sold, there's no coming back after a few months with buyers remorse and using ebay distance selling regs to force you to refund.

I’ve never tried it. But it’s obviously time this old dog learns some new tricks.

It’s funny, I don’t sell broken shit, but I do prefer the anonymity of Kijiji, etc. I don’t love everyone I know knowing what/when I’m selling and I don’t love the buyer having access to my Facebook profile even if it’s just the main pic or whatever.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

It’s funny, I don’t sell broken shit, but I do prefer the anonymity of Kijiji, etc. I don’t love everyone I know knowing what/when I’m selling and I don’t love the buyer having access to my Facebook profile even if it’s just the main pic or whatever.

yeah, just because the sale is cash and I'm out doesn't mean I'm not gonna get harassed by some buyer-regret-lunatic down the road...

 

[Mongillo19]

A GC sale is....and I can't believe I am saying this STILL; not a terrible option.

1) why are all my GIF options blocked out

2) ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT

 

[Los-D]

A GC sale is....and I can't believe I am saying this STILL; not a terrible option.

 

[Mongillo19]

A GC sale is....and I can't believe I am saying this STILL; not a terrible option.

In all seriousness, GC isn't bad for selling mid range to cheap gear. As it gets more expensive that gap widens for your return.

If you have a bunch of pedals and just want to wholesale them, GC isn't bad

Expensive guitar or amp, feel like it has to be reverb

 

[JiveTurkey]

Yeah I think it depends on how much motivation you have to sell? Agreed completely on the expensive guitar or amp warranting a little more legwork/salesmanship. But that in between spot of tire kicking and yapping with randos with no intention of ever actually buying makes for a fairly compelling 'just take it to GC' argument.

 

[Mongillo19]

Yeah I think it depends on how much motivation you have to sell? Agreed completely on the expensive guitar or amp warranting a little more legwork/salesmanship. But that in between spot of tire kicking and yapping with randos with no intention of ever actually buying makes for a fairly compelling 'just take it to GC' argument.

Also if you plan on buying something they normally take 10 percent off if you trade in and when I last did it, for some reason they bypassed sales tax lol

Walked in with a Kemper Stage, walked out spending $200 and had a new 5153 50w stealth

 

[the swede]

You can visit me in Germany for a heat pump service. We got one installed this spring and now I‘m getting a nasty 6 KHz whistling noise when I play guitar and the heat pump is active. Pretty annoying.

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Weird, they shouldn’t really bother guitar pickups, but there may be something going on electrically. I have a geothermal heatpump at home and nothing is audible when playing guitar. The fucking robomower though… that shit send radio signals through anything.

What type/brand of heatpump is it? Is there a built in WiFi? Do you hear the sound when the compressor is active only?

 

[JiveTurkey]

My guitarist is waiting on the release of this

 

[mbenigni]

Yeah I think it depends on how much motivation you have to sell? Agreed completely on the expensive guitar or amp warranting a little more legwork/salesmanship. But that in between spot of tire kicking and yapping with randos with no intention of ever actually buying makes for a fairly compelling 'just take it to GC' argument.

The main appeal of GC is that once it's gone, and you walk out with cash/ check in hand, you KNOW it's gone. You can bank and/or spend that money in good faith.

Every other option is shades of grey as far as this goes.

 

[mbenigni]

Also if you plan on buying something they normally take 10 percent off if you trade in and when I last did it, for some reason they bypassed sales tax lol

Walked in with a Kemper Stage, walked out spending $200 and had a new 5153 50w stealth

I got a very good offer on the FM3 a few months ago at a local boutique shop, but it was contingent on my taking payment in store credit. The trouble is, I really don't want any more gear. (Or at the time, nothing they would have carried.) I'm trying to downsize a little bit.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

yeah, just because the sale is cash and I'm out doesn't mean I'm not gonna get harassed by some buyer-regret-lunatic down the road...

I've never really thought about that because it's never happened to me. I guess you could always arrange a meet up somewhere else other than your house. I've bought a lot of music gear at motorway service stations and coffee shops because they were roughly in the middle between where the buyer/seller and I lived.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Weird, they shouldn’t really bother guitar pickups, but there may be something going on electrically. I have a geothermal heatpump at home and nothing is audible when playing guitar. The fucking robomower though… that shit send radio signals through anything.

What type/brand of heatpump is it? Is there a built in WiFi? Do you hear the sound when the compressor is active only?

Yep, it‘s only there when the compressor is active and goes away as soon as it goes into standby. It took me a while to figure out that it‘s caused by the heat pump. I sent an e-mail to the technician today to see if he has any ideas. Perhaps a mains filter would help?

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I got very good offer on the FM3 a few months ago, but it was contingent on my taking payment in store credit. The trouble is, I really don't want any more gear. (Or at the time, nothing they would have carried.) I'm trying to downsize a little bit.

Weird. I always get the hard push of "10% of anything new! I see you eyeing that PRS SE -- did you see the Core version? 10% off on that is a lot of savings! ComeOnDownToBob'sDiscountSavingsTODAY!!!!!" but I've done the "yes, definitely buying something" and pulled out after the offer and . . . the offer is still the same. I guess each store is going to make that decision based on their specific needs at the time, though.