Fractal Talk

[Aleksi]

It helps "emulate" the actual impedance of a guitar.

It "emulates" the input impedance of the first device in the chain (in the virtual Fractal signal chain), the guitar has it's own output impedance...

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I dunno......after seven years with the Axe-Fx III and the FC-12, I think I would really miss not having 12 switches available....even at home. View attachment 42884

i dont like having such a big device on the floor. I have a Helix already.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Some of these factory presets are cray-cray! I'm having trouble putting my guitar down.

 

[unix-guy]

It "emulates" the input impedance of the first device in the chain (in the virtual Fractal signal chain), the guitar has it's own output impedance...

Yes, you are correct... I was thinking backwards.

To be clear, it is the input impedance of the first active block after the Input 1 block and on the same grid row (or any row below) as the Input 1 block.

And not all blocks are evaluated, such as the Multiplexer.

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

Some of these factory presets are cray-cray! I'm having trouble putting my guitar down.

That sounds like preset 184 scene 3 mystic arps

The stock presets are really good!

Don't forget you can save any block in any preset as well to your block library so you can have that sound for any other preset!

 

[Blix]

I did a Mystic Arps the other day, amazing preset!

 

[DrewJD82]

I barely do any switching in my studio so the FC6 works, but after I initially got the FM9 and understood the layout links and everything I was certainly wishing I had an FC12 instead, I just haven't had a legit need to upgrade.

 

[Stone]

That sounds like preset 184 scene 3 mystic arps

The stock presets are really good!

Don't forget you can save any block in any preset as well to your block library so you can have that sound for any other preset!

Blocks Huh

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

Blocks Huh

 

[Stone]

FM9-Edit 1.03.10 is now available via auto-update or from our website:
Includes many many more blocks

 

[mavrick102000]

Blocks Huh

 

[paisleywookiee]

Weirdly enough, I'm for some reason liking the JCM Studio more than the other JCM's, atm. Sounds really good. Then again, I like the real amp too.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

i dont like having such a big device on the floor. I have a Helix already.

I will say that the FC12 is noticeably smaller than Helix (though still clunky to move around on the floor at home).

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

But then what’s the point of the variable input impedance?

Setting the input impedance to a static 10k makes fuzzes behave like fuzzes. The Fuzz Face may not “clean up just like the pedal” but it cleans up, and has the right amount of high end roll off to sound like a fuzz pedal.

To the extend a real fuzz pedal’s input impedance is non-linear, it is still in the general ballpark of 10k.

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

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[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

I am trying to get a jazz box type semi-hollow sound out of this jazz preset I am making with my kiesel zeus in middle pickup with tone rolled off a little and doing hybrid picking (fingers and picks)... Do you think it's close?

 

[OrganicZed]

To my ear that is in the ballpark, but is still too articulate and bright to be a convincing facsimile.

 

[laxu]

To my ear that is in the ballpark, but is still too articulate and bright to be a convincing facsimile.

Agreed. Roll off the tone knob a helluva lot more.

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

Agreed. Roll off the tone knob a helluva lot more.

It's halfway down right now. I don't like it so dark and muddy though. I was going more for a semi-hollow sound with a woody vibe, but I like some brightness to shine through with pick attacks...

 

[- ★ - BROCKSTAR - ★ -]

I'm just using 2x12 jazz chorus. I wonder if I used a acoustic cab IR, it would make it more woodier.