Fractal Talk

[Mongillo19]

Well y’all convinced me and I knew you would anyway - lol once the 7 day return window ends for the QC I just sold I’ll be hunting for an Axe FX III

Also fyi still double check the "Mark I" listings as some people just generically post it under Mark I but in all actuality it's a mark ii

 

[deathbyguitar]

Also fyi still double check the "Mark I" listings as some people just generically post it under Mark I but in all actuality it's a mark ii

Yeah the startup screen will tell you right away if it's a mark 1 or 2. Mark one startup screen is mostly blue, Mark 2 is red blue and green

 

[Mongillo19]

Yeah the startup screen will tell you right away if it's a mark 1 or 2. Mark one startup screen is mostly blue, Mark 2 is red blue and green

It will also be on the physical unit below the AXE FX III branding. It will say Mark II.

 

[deathbyguitar]

It will also be on the physical unit below the AXE FX III branding. It will say Mark II.

You're right I forgot about that detail.

 

[KingsXJJ]

Can I get wonky for second? No. Ok? Too bad.

I really think it is all about contrast and differentiation. Pendulum swings one way
and then it swings back the other.

I've been doing some cool reading on evolutionary anthropology and the seeds of culture,
and how our ways of identification as "people" formed. The really odd/cool thing is it seems
that even long ago we wanted to be different, and not like the Yahoos and Neanderthals across
the Valley.

There's even a fancy word for it called "Schismogenesis."

Evolutionary Psychology is a good read as well. In some ways it meshes well with the above and throws a few curveballs of it’s own.

The world might be slightly different if it were required reading.

 

[Mikael Dez]

How is the Axe FX III as a dedicated audio interface? Playing along to music, etc, everything. This is another really important piece that I’m not sure on. I would want to play this in 4CM with my amp/loadbox and the ability to just use amp modeling when I’m feeling adventurous.

 

[Mongillo19]

How is the Axe FX III as a dedicated audio interface? Playing along to music, etc, everything. This is another really important piece that I’m not sure on. I would want to play this in 4CM with my amp/loadbox and the ability to just use amp modeling when I’m feeling adventurous.

Have you thought of just getting the VP4? Use Helix native for when you are feeling adventurous with amp models?

The III is okay as an interface. I always have a rule to still have a dedicated one regardless.

For playing along with music it should be more than fine

 

[Mikael Dez]

Have you thought of just getting the VP4? Use Helix native for when you are feeling adventurous with amp models?

The III is okay as an interface. I always have a rule to still have a dedicated one regardless.

For playing along with music it should be more than fine

Yeah I just don’t like that it’s only 4 blocks and so limited. My big thing is having a device that I can use when I don’t want to turn on my Mac at all, and I also would like it to have amp modeling - I love my Mark V 35 but it’s nice to just have everything in the box.

 

[Mongillo19]

Yeah I just don’t like that it’s only 4 blocks and so limited. My big thing is having a device that I can use when I don’t want to turn on my Mac at all, and I also would like it to have amp modeling - I love my Mark V 35 but it’s nice to just have everything in the box.

Yeah you absolutely can't go wrong with the III. And it has Mark V models in there so even if you felt lazy you could just use those

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

Yeah I just don’t like that it’s only 4 blocks and so limited. My big thing is having a device that I can use when I don’t want to turn on my Mac at all, and I also would like it to have amp modeling - I love my Mark V 35 but it’s nice to just have everything in the box.

FM3 then! Get it and save some space and money for something else and have FAS awesomeness!

And VP4 is technically 16 blocks 4 channels per block!

 

[JiveTurkey]

I wouldn't recommend the FM3 as an interface.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Well y’all convinced me and I knew you would anyway - lol once the 7 day return window ends for the QC I just sold I’ll be hunting for an Axe FX III

I thought you were doing the Stadium?

 

[Mikael Dez]

I thought you were doing the Stadium?

I thought I was too - I guess the jury is out til I check out lol but I’m thinking Axe FX today.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I thought I was too - I guess the jury is out til I check out lol but I’m thinking Axe FX today.

Well I don’t think you can go wrong either way, and obviously we’re at the very start of the Stadium cycle.

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

I wouldn't recommend the FM3 as an interface.

I actually don't think I had an issue with it when I tried it but I could be forgetting... but then again I only had it 5 days before switching to fm9 lol

 

[DrewJD82]

Yknow, I've never understood the urge to make guitar amps dark.

Man, back when I first started playing in '94 anytime I'd hear people talk about amps it'd almost always turned into a "But you gotta crank em up to get them sounding good and the treble will take your fucking head off" discussion. Dual Recs and 5150's weren't so common yet on the local level, it took a while for those to become ubiquitous as they came to be. We're here after the corrections, and in some cases, over-corrections, to those complaints.

 

[marshall2553]

Friend of mine that owns a music store locally asked me this morning how I am liking fractal and I told them my opinion that I love it and reminds me of the days of plugging into real amps etc.. They said "I think the Cortex is not as good as the Fractal." I said i hear that complaint a lot and people jumping from cortex over to fractal.

As a Fractal fan boy since the 1st gen Axe FX who currently has a III and FM9, I'd agree with that sentiment overall. But I recently got a QC and I've been surprised by how much I'm liking it. The quantity and quality of effects is definitely not in the same league as Fractal. They're mostly fine though. The amp models are surprisingly good and some of the captures are just flat out great. I've been stuck on some free BE100 DLX captures that Sweetwater made. I owned the real amp for a while and have never been quite happy with the Fractal Friedman models. These SW captures are dead on to how I remember the amp. The UI and form factor are nice too. Having 11 footswitches and fairly large display in something with about the same footprint as an FM3 is pretty compelling.

 

[DrewJD82]

How is the Axe FX III as a dedicated audio interface? Playing along to music, etc, everything. This is another really important piece that I’m not sure on. I would want to play this in 4CM with my amp/loadbox and the ability to just use amp modeling when I’m feeling adventurous.

It's been my main interface since I got it in 2018 or so. Whether it's watching stuff in my studio, recording or mixing, it's all I use for everything but plugging a mic into, only because it's just easier for me to plug an XLR into my Focusrite sitting right on my desk, where I've got phantom power and a Cloudlifter for my SM7B already ready to go.

 

[Mikael Dez]

It's been my main interface since I got it in 2018 or so. Whether it's watching stuff in my studio, recording or mixing, it's all I use for everything but plugging a mic into, only because it's just easier for me to plug an XLR into my Focusrite sitting right on my desk, where I've got phantom power and a Cloudlifter for my SM7B already ready to go.

Perfect!