Fractal Audio Systems VP4 - Virtual Pedalboard

When you're trying to sell a VP4 on ebay for £872.70 and haven't bothered to check if they're in stock now for £769. :facepalm

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Compact Multi-FX ProcessorThe VP4 VIRTUAL PEDALBOARD is a compact floor-based multi-effects processor. It provides four simultaneous effects with a user-friendly experience inspired by traditional guitar pedals. The effects are based on the award-winning…
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It's OK though because the one on ebay is new and has never been "malested" :facepalm:rofl

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SillyOctpuss said:
When you're trying to sell a VP4 on ebay for £872.70 and haven't bothered to check if they're in stock now for £769. :facepalm

Pardon our interruption...

www.ebay.co.uk

uk-shop.g66.eu

VP4 Virtual Pedalboard | 1194

Compact Multi-FX ProcessorThe VP4 VIRTUAL PEDALBOARD is a compact floor-based multi-effects processor. It provides four simultaneous effects with a user-friendly experience inspired by traditional guitar pedals. The effects are based on the award-winning…
uk-shop.g66.eu uk-shop.g66.eu

It's OK though because the one on ebay is new and has never been "malested" :facepalm:rofl

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Clearly that seller has had his brain malested by a giant badger with various diseases.
 
I wanna apologize to @iaresee

I WAS WRONG. Not you lol.

After days with the VP4 and going back and forth with stock presets and twisting knobs and what not, they don't suck as I originally thought especially now that I am running it in stereo, makes things much better!
 
I had a similar experience with the presets in my AxeFX when I first got it; while it’s not unusual to not dig factory presets, I REALLY wasn’t digging them and for a couple years couldn’t understand how could they vary so much from how I dial things in. Then I got a Strat w/ single coils and gave them a shot again, whole world of difference. My point of reference was the Evolutions in my JEM and those are a bit over the top and don’t lend themselves to versatility much.
 
DrewJD82 said:
I had a similar experience with the presets in my AxeFX when I first got it; while it’s not unusual to not dig factory presets, I REALLY wasn’t digging them and for a couple years couldn’t understand how could they vary so much from how I dial things in. Then I got a Strat w/ single coils and gave them a shot again, whole world of difference. My point of reference was the Evolutions in my JEM and those are a bit over the top and don’t lend themselves to versatility much.
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I also think how loud you are playing plays a huge part too. People on the FAS forums would often state the presets are made for live use and if you aren't cranking them, they may sound not great. Not sure how true that is about them being made for live use since I think they have some specifically for live?
 
Mongillo19 said:
I also think how loud you are playing plays a huge part too. People on the FAS forums would often state the presets are made for live use and if you aren't cranking them, they may sound not great. Not sure how true that is about them being made for live use since I think they have some specifically for live?
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Pretty much same thing on helix. Things that you tweak at home at low levels need to be re-tweaked at louder live levels etc.
 
This was the test recording I did last night that I forgot to post. Using plex delay and now forgotten which reverb I used argh lol. Getting old sucks :P

Kiesel Zeus guitar with gk-5 hex pickup into boss vg-800 with a guitar p90 version and a PB bass mixed 50% lower in the mix but together for a thicker baritone/jazz like sound into the fractal vp4 and recorded stereo.

Geez it sounds so beautiful to me

Listen here - FRACTAL VP4 TEST
 
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BROCKSTAR said:
This was the test recording I did last night that I forgot to post. Using plex delay and now forgotten which reverb I used argh lol. Getting old sucks :P

Kiesel Zeus guitar with gk-5 hex pickup into boss vg-800 with a guitar p90 version and a PB bass mixed 50% lower in the mix but together for a thicker baritone/jazz like sound into the fractal vp4 and recorded stereo.

Geez it sounds so beautiful to me

Listen here - FRACTAL VP4 TEST
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That's gorgeous
 
BROCKSTAR said:
I wanna apologize to @iaresee

I WAS WRONG. Not you lol.

After days with the VP4 and going back and forth with stock presets and twisting knobs and what not, they don't suck as I originally thought especially now that I am running it in stereo, makes things much better!
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I was surprised when you said they suck. None of them are really my exact tastes, but there’s a lot of good stuff in there I think especially with regard to what it is capable of and sparking some ideas.

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dk_ace said:
I was surprised when you said they suck. None of them are really my exact tastes, but there’s a lot of good stuff in there I think especially with regard to what it is capable of and sparking some ideas.

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Well more or less was meaning the same thing as you as in "good stuff but not really my exact tastes" type thing. A few I liked a bit that show cased the more ambient stuff, but once I went back through them again and especially after setting my vp4 for stereo, it was a better outcome :D
 
Here's another one for you all and sharing my preset! It's called Spationaut (brockstar). Nothing fancy, no channels or scenes yet anyway.

Volume swell in 1st block, 2nd block has a MTD quad tap delay, 3rd block has a pitch block using crystal echoes which needs a expression pedal in pedal 1 to use. Expression pedal in the up position is a deep and wobbly echo type thing and Expression pedal in the down position results in some brighter and bouncy echoes, and 4th block is reverb using cloud, cirrocumulus.

DOWNLOAD PRESET - DOWNLOAD PRESET HERE or DOWNLOAD IT HERE TOO

Kiesel Zeus guitar with gk-5 hex pickup into boss vg-800 with a guitar p90 version and a PB bass mixed 50% lower in the mix but together for a thicker baritone/jazz like sound into the fractal vp4 and recorded stereo.

LISTEN HERE - Spationaut (brockstar)
 
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Is anyone using the VP4 with an amp that needs channel switching? It doesn't do amp switching without additional hardware right?

Was just thinking about how useful that could be, to have Fractal effects plus amp switching and do that with scenes. But would need another piece of hardware there...
 
Jarick said:
Is anyone using the VP4 with an amp that needs channel switching? It doesn't do amp switching without additional hardware right?

Was just thinking about how useful that could be, to have Fractal effects plus amp switching and do that with scenes. But would need another piece of hardware there...
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No room for the required ports.
 
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