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I knew a manager like that. Micro management to the extreme, and make sure you don't share your public opinions too much. Thinks people are robots and they shouldn't have any humanity at all.
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I know a few of those... and usually they're the kind of managers that don't even know how to do the most basic things in your work
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Yeah I agree but idk, while not practical, the extra 1-5 percent does matter to me. If I want the best all in one solution that will do everything I want, it's digital, no doubt.
And while listeners don't care, I do, and I thoroughly enjoy the simplicity of getting awesome tones from tubes. The Axe Fx has gotten leagues better at being easy to dial in a tone but it's still not as simple as an amp (which is fine!).
I still also feel like fractal has a strange mid congestion that I can't unhear....it just doesn't sound as open or have the same clarity as the physical gear. Again, very minor, but it takes some enjoyment away for me.
Do I understand how impractical it is to have 4 tube amps stacked against my wall? Very much so. Does each one bring a smile to my face every time I play them? Also very much so
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Yeah I agree but idk, while not practical, the extra 1-5 percent does matter to me. If I want the best all in one solution that will do everything I want, it's digital, no doubt.
And while listeners don't care, I do, and I thoroughly enjoy the simplicity of getting awesome tones from tubes. The Axe Fx has gotten leagues better at being easy to dial in a tone but it's still not as simple as an amp (which is fine!).
I still also feel like fractal has a strange mid congestion that I can't unhear....it just doesn't sound as open or have the same clarity as the physical gear. Again, very minor, but it takes some enjoyment away for me.
Do I understand how impractical it is to have 4 tube amps stacked against my wall? Very much so. Does each one bring a smile to my face every time I play them? Also very much so
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real amps fuck harder than digital amps. Ask my wife and my girlfriend.Yeah I agree but idk, while not practical, the extra 1-5 percent does matter to me. If I want the best all in one solution that will do everything I want, it's digital, no doubt.
And while listeners don't care, I do, and I thoroughly enjoy the simplicity of getting awesome tones from tubes. The Axe Fx has gotten leagues better at being easy to dial in a tone but it's still not as simple as an amp (which is fine!).
I still also feel like fractal has a strange mid congestion that I can't unhear....it just doesn't sound as open or have the same clarity as the physical gear. Again, very minor, but it takes some enjoyment away for me.
Do I understand how impractical it is to have 4 tube amps stacked against my wall? Very much so. Does each one bring a smile to my face every time I play them? Also very much so
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I've felt for a bit like there's too fine a line between suggesting an improvement and being seen as offensive, because I honestly can't tell where the line is. There are a few comments by users I've seen as obviously entitled and rude, but then there are times where I can't tell at all what could been offensive. There problem is that it then feels like anything you say could be"offensive."
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That swimming pool meme, accuracy to real life aside for all the folks spending 1/3 the flagship dollars and expecting 1:1 movement; is funny af.
I would not want to follow Cliff on that development pace. Oy!
I would not want to follow Cliff on that development pace. Oy!
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A good solution would be to release firmware for all three units in unison, similar to what Line6 does for their Helix platform. Not only would that eliminate the entitlement and butt-hurt virtue-signalers, but it would also make for a more dramatic release.
Yes, these incremental releases are great, but just imagine if all those models, features, and improvements were sandbagged for say, quarterly releases?
Speaking of digital...
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I spent some time playing my ES-335 through my Rivera Suprema Jazz Recording yesterday. Clean with a little bit of reverb....I thoroughly enjoy the simplicity of getting awesome tones from tubes. The Axe Fx has gotten leagues better at being easy to dial in a tone but it's still not as simple as an amp (which is fine!).
Do I understand how impractical it is to have 4 tube amps stacked against my wall? Very much so. Does each one bring a smile to my face every time I play them? Also very much so
It was absolutely wonderful. No tweaking, just used the settings I had the last time I fired it up. No gain, no effects. And it was extremely satisfying.
I love my FM9 and really enjoy hitting up the multiple presets I have with different amps at different levels of gain and adding tremolo, rotary, chorus and more.
But there's also a unique joy in keeping it simple with a guitar plugged straight into a tube amp's clean channel and just playing the music.
I can see the pros but I would personally not prefer that...
- the forum has become boring enough as is. When Cliff shares something new, at least there is some excitement, although most of the "big name" beta testers seem to only share their feedback BTS -- unless Cliff possibly skips the beta team on some occasions
- it's also been one of his joys to share new cool stuff, I think (or in a distant past LOL). Of course, he can have some of that joy BTS with the beta team
- I feel the flagship deserves to have advantages, and III releases serve as a good incentive to buy it
- many of the complainers may well be former Kemper/Helix owners who spent much of their time sh*tting on FAS in the past, so "who cares"...
But yes, it would save F5 keys
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That wouldn't be a good solution at all.
It would mean that Axe FX III owners, the players who had invested the most in purchasing Fractal gear, would needlessly have to wait for the FM9 and then the FM3 firmware versions to be developed.
All to assuage the FOMO that some players have beyond all rationality.
I personally don't understand people who can't wait. There's plenty of music to be played until the next firmware release comes out. Isn't playing music, not updating your modeler, what it's really all about?
If someone is upset because the III has features that haven't trickled down to the 9 or 3 yet they may be better served spending less time hanging out in forums and more time with their guitars in their hands.
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It works for Line6. I haven’t seen any Helix or Helix Rack owners complaining about firmware being held up due to focus on say, the HX Stomp.
As long as Cliff didn’t announce or hint at anything that was in development, customers would be none the wiser.
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I think Fractal users are conditioned to the firmware updates by this point. Even as an Axe-Fx 3 owner I was starting to wonder "hmm, there hasn't been a fw update in a month, what's up?!"
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It's possible that Helix firmware development doesn't require significant time between models.
The Axe FX owners knowing they were waiting isn't the issue. The issue would be them needlessly having a delay in getting improvements to their gear because some people who bought less expensive models get firmware envy whenever III owners get an improvement they don't have yet but will have shortly.
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