Fractal Audio Systems mystery product speculation

[SillyOctpuss]

You get dick-wagons in most fandom. The trick is to not join them!

Yup. That's why I quietly backed out of the room when I first looked into fractal. It's stupid but it put me off them for quite a while.

I'm quite happy to admit I was completely wrong.

 

[Orvillain]

Yup. That's why I quietly backed out of the room when I first looked into fractal. It's stupid but it put me off them for quite a while.

As much of a weapon as I can be, I've never really done the fanboi/ultra defensive thing. Ultimately when it comes to it, the listener of your music doesn't know or give a shit about what gear you've used. They just care about the final product.

I think there is probably a correllation between the people who get defensive about their gear choices, and the people whose music has very little to say.

 

[Orvillain]

Back to the VP4. The manual says the power requirement is 9V DC 1.3A. I'm wondering if two outputs on a Zuma would be enough to power it, or if it is wall wart time?!

 

[Piing]

The VP4 has already landed here in Bangkok. They only have one unit, but hopefully they will let me sniff it tomorrow morning. I bought my Fender FR-12 and other gear from them.

The price is 26,900 THB (around 808USD. Right now the Thai Baht is very high)



More fresh pictures at their site.

Fractal Audio VP4 มัลติเอฟเฟค | Music Arms ศูนย์รวมเครื่องดนตรี ตั้งแต่เริ่มต้น ถึงมืออาชีพ | Music Arms

Fractal Audio VP4 มัลติเอฟเฟค ส่งด่วน ราคาดีที่สุด ร้าน 8 สาขา บริการก่อนและหลังการขาย โปรโมชั่น-ของแถมจุใจ

www.musicarms.net

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Back to the VP4. The manual says the power requirement is 9V DC 1.3A. I'm wondering if two outputs on a Zuma would be enough to power it, or if it is wall wart time?!

I was wondering the same thing last night. The stomp is listed as using a lot more power than it does so I'm hoping two 500ma outputs will cover it.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

The VP4 has already landed in Bangkok. They only have one unit, but hopefully they will let me sniff it tomorrow morning.

The price here is 26,900 THB (around 808USD. Right now the Thai Baht is very high)

Fractal VP4!

forum.fractalaudio.com

That's approx £618 and $808

 

[the swede]

Back to the VP4. The manual says the power requirement is 9V DC 1.3A. I'm wondering if two outputs on a Zuma would be enough to power it, or if it is wall wart time?!

And this

I like that it’s “inverted” or how to say it… you place it where the outlet. What I don’t like about it is that when i cut the hedge… i managed to cut the cable a few times. A few times was enough to convert to battery hedge cutter….


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[SillyOctpuss]

And this
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I like that it’s “inverted” or how to say it… you place it where the outlet. What I don’t like about it is that when i cut the hedge… i managed to cut the cable a few times. A few times was enough to convert to battery hedge cutter….

My wife did that with our hedge trimmer twice and lawn mower once. I kept coming home from work and she'd say "it was a nice day, I thought it'd be a nice surprise. I had an accident though but yay I'm not dead"

 

[hippietim]

Surprising that the Reverb is mono in, stereo out.

This is the signal flow of all Fractal reverbs (except their plugin).

 

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, defenitely nothing for me. Lacks some features to suit as the backend of my (DI, FR) pedalboard, such as a dedicated balanced out with an assignable global EQ, 4 FX blocks are not enough at all (even if there's channels for each) and as there seems to be no gobal blocks functionality, patch switching also can't compensate for it.
Possibly a great device for folks needing high end modulation and spatial FX on their boards, though (personally, I don't need that, either, I'm fine with, say, HX or Boss quality for all things delay/reverb). For 4CM operation, I find this to be pretty limited (add to this there's no amp switching outs, which IMO may have added quite some value).

Completely irrelevant, but I'm actually a bit surprised about the look. At least the case looks pretty Boss-ish.

 

[DLC86]

The price here is 26,900 THB (around 808USD. Right now the Thai Baht is very high)

Just for reference, how much is an FM3 there in Thailand?

 

[Piing]

Just for reference, how much is an FM3 there in Thailand?

FM3 MK II Turbo 45,000 THB (~1,350 USD)

Fractal Audio FM3 MK II Turbo สต็อกแน่น พร้อมส่ง - CT Music

Fractal Audio FM3 MK II Turbo สต็อกแน่น พร้อมจัดส่งทันที เร็วสุดในวันเดียวกัน มีหน้าร้านให้พร้อมเข้ามาทดลอง และปรึกษากับผู้เชี่ยวชาญ ผ่อนบัตรได้ มีโปร 0%

ctmusicshop.com

 

[DLC86]

FM3 MK II Turbo 45,000 THB (~1,350 USD)

Fractal Audio FM3 MK II Turbo สต็อกแน่น พร้อมส่ง - CT Music

Fractal Audio FM3 MK II Turbo สต็อกแน่น พร้อมจัดส่งทันที เร็วสุดในวันเดียวกัน มีหน้าร้านให้พร้อมเข้ามาทดลอง และปรึกษากับผู้เชี่ยวชาญ ผ่อนบัตรได้ มีโปร 0%

ctmusicshop.com

Ok, so doing a simple proportion with US prices it should be around 650$ there

 

[Orvillain]

Which means UK will probably be about £850 once G66 whack their chunk on top???

 

[Blix]

The answer is right here:

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As I said, not a word about sending CC commands... :)

 

[DLC86]

Which means UK will probably be about £850 once G66 whack their chunk on top???

Yeah, maybe a tad less... FM3 is currently 1435€ with Italian 22% VAT, so should be around 850€/800£

 

[yek]

I went through the 70+ Axe-Fx presets that I created for specific songs. Conclusion: 4 effects pretty much suffice, for most of them.

Exceptions fall in the ‘special’ category where multiple effects are being used, eg. to construct an organ simulation, for custom synth sounds, extensive parallel chains, special effects etc.

If the posted effects list is correct, the Multiplexer is not included. This means having to use other tricks to switch an expression pedal between multiple uses within a single preset.

 

[Orvillain]

Yeah, maybe a tad less... FM3 is currently 1435€ with Italian 22% VAT, so should be around 850€/800£

FM3 is £1169 here, inclusive of VAT.

 

[BenIfin]

Ok, so doing a simple proportion with US prices it should be around 650$ there

Which means UK will probably be about £850 once G66 whack their chunk on top???

Yeah, maybe a tad less... FM3 is currently 1435€ with Italian 22% VAT, so should be around 850€/800£

FM3 here is AUS $ 2350 ..... that gives me a local Aussie guess-timate selling price of AUS ~$1499

 

[Blix]

That's is actually a good bit less than I had thought, I feared it would compare to the H90 in price!