Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[GTR37]

3 Fractal footswitches are pretty supercapable. Insanely versatile, and easily programmable. That being said, I still opted to move up to the FM9, but that was also because of the greatly increased horsepower.

I 100% agree with channels and gapless it probably the most powerful unit in it class
I mean you could have a Vox
JCM800 , SLO plus a boost on the hold function or a delay
The functionality is crazy

 

[nicolasrivera]

I will say this much: it's not a replacement for any of our current products.

Mmm could it be a Capture software that will export the captures to the current Axe Fx III and FM9s adding a new "capture player" block in firmware 28?

 

[djd100]

Whatever it is, I hope they activate the FM3's USB-A port to use it (so I can power stuff)!

 

[Dirty145]

I think I’m learning a little bit about the demographic on this forum. Must be 55 or older, unable to carry anything over 10 pounds and play Timmy’s Tavern once a month. How did they let me in??

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I mean, if I'mma carry around a huge pedal board rig. I might as well carry around...a huge pedal board. rig.

 

[ian_dissonance]

I think I’m learning a little bit about the demographic on this forum. Must be 55 or older, unable to carry anything over 10 pounds and play Timmy’s Tavern once a month. How did they let me in??

Don’t forget the large percentage that don’t gig but might someday or did some time ago, and need something that doesn’t require bending over to edit on the device at home. So it has to be equally at home on a desktop as the floor.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

"THANK GOD THEY FINALLY MADE THE FM-36. SO MUCH MORE CONVENIENT THAN HAVING TO DEAL WITH A RACK."

 

[JCW308]

Whatever it is, I hope they activate the FM3's USB-A port to use it (so I can power stuff)!

And let us do backups and restores via that same USB-A port.

 

[Blix]

I think I’m learning a little bit about the demographic on this forum. Must be 55 or older, unable to carry anything over 10 pounds and play Timmy’s Tavern once a month. How did they let me in??

The problem is the stamp-sized excuse of a stage at Timmy's, even Pedaltrain Nano is pushing it!

 

[DrewJD82]

Yeah, then add a couple expression pedals and it gets rather large..

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Do you change Scenes/Presets then jog to the expression pedals to use them??

 

[timbuck3]

Yeah, then add a couple expression pedals and it gets rather large..

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Yikes

 

[Frodebro]

I just don't get it how people get along with 3 footswitches for a show. My Helix (as a pedalboard replacement) is set up with 4 snapshots, tap, tuner/mute, boost, tremolo, reverb switch (spring vs. plate), delay switch (slapback vs. timed 8th), feedbacker, sustain and I still wish for more switches to switch overdrives, effects or snapshots. It's still more compact and especially lighter than my previous pedalboard. But fewer switches would mean more presets or snapshots to organize everything needed, more programming, more thinking, less playing. I'd wish for more flexibility programming the switches though, then I might get along with 10, but less? But I have to admit, I'm a kitchen sink guy.

Back in the nineties I spent about five years in a cover band that was doing around 150 nights a year. My rig was a Rockmaster preamp, a Digitech GSP21 Legend, and a MosValve power amp. On the floor was a two button foot switch for the Peavey, a Morley Wah/fuzz, and a Morley volume pedal that was run in between the preamp and the processor.

The Digitech served as a gate and delay only, and I never messed with it at all.

The band covered a huge variety of styles and genres, and all I ever did was select clean, crunch, or dirty and got on with it.

 

[DrewJD82]

I could definitely make 3 switches work for me, I’d just re-organize presets to match the setlist and program the switches for Scene Up, Scene Down and a Tuner/Tap Tempo. If I were smart, this is how I’d handle everything, but I am not smart.

 

[JiveTurkey]

3 switches works just fine. We play everything from The Trooper to Love Shack to Feel Like A Woman. Get your shit together FFS.

 

[Frodebro]

I think I’m learning a little bit about the demographic on this forum. Must be 55 or older, unable to carry anything over 10 pounds and play Timmy’s Tavern once a month. How did they let me in??

I think you’re off by about ten years, lots of dudes seem to be in their forties here.

 

[Achilles]

The band covered a huge variety of styles and genres, and all I ever did was select clean, crunch, or dirty and got on with it.

It's amazing the variety of tones and timbres you can wring out of your hands when all you have is a few basic tones.....

Christ, go back and watch many of our heroes getting it done with jack shit on stage.

 

[Frodebro]

It's amazing the variety of tones and timbres you can wring out of your hands when all you have is a few basic tones.....

Christ, go back and watch many of our heroes getting it done with, relatively speaking, jack shit on stage.

Jimmy Page got by just fine live with a Les Paul straight into a Marshall. Pete Townshend ran a dirt box and a trio of Hiwatt stacks. Effects can add to things for sure, but they’re not absolutely necessary.

In my current band (which also covers a crazy amount of stuff from the sixties on), I could easily get by with a minimalist rig if I chose to. In fact, for one rehearsal all I brought was my Mark V and a tuner.

 

[GTR37]

I think you’re off by about ten years, lots of dudes seem to be in their forties here.

I am a little older than most 76 here ,and I don't want to carry anything but a Spark Mini and a /wah

 

[Achilles]

Jimmy Page got by just fine live with a Les Paul straight into a Marshall.

Cool synchronicity going on right now. Was loading this up when I read your post!

Wah + Phase + Echoplex.