Fractal Talk

[iaresee]

I'm trying to understand input impedance defaults for the drive block. The real TS808 and SD-1, from what I've read, list an input impedance of 500K, but their models default to 1M and 230K. The Mesa Flux Drive lists 1M (minimum of 500K), but the model defaults to 230K. The Flux' minimum of 500K confuses me, because I thought pedals have a fix input impedance. Does anyone know if the input impedance changes depending on settings for certain pedals?

Do pedals typically measure pretty far off from the listed input impedance? If 500K is a common value for some popular overdrives, why would that be missing not only from Fractal's modelers, but also in modelers from other companies?

I'm not asking because I think this is a bug, but because I genuinely want to understand the logic here.

Whatever version of the pedal @FractalAudio used to model the drive block version against likely had that input impedence.

 

[David Lo Pan]

Enough. This is a Fractal thread.

 

[dean701]

fyi - in case you were going to install 32. there's a new one coming :)

 

[DrewJD82]

Yanked my VP4 off my pedalboard today to just use it in 4CM with the Plexi50, I wanted to spend some time with the drives. Every time I dig into them I'm more and more impressed with how far they've come. And the compressors, I can get lost noodling with those compressors just as much as I can the drives.

I made a 'grab and go' preset, something I'd use if I were to use the VP4 into a clean amp, it's 2 drives, delay and a reverb. I wanted a cleanish boost for the first one and have the usuals I always go to, the BB Timmons and Klone in particular, but the FAS Boost was took the lead today. I'm using the Suhr Riot GE for the high gain, then both of them for the lead scene. I still need to actually try probably 50% of them, which is what I was trying to do today, but ....noodles....

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Yanked my VP4 off my pedalboard today to just use it in 4CM with the Plexi50, I wanted to spend some time with the drives. Every time I dig into them I'm more and more impressed with how far they've come. And the compressors, I can get lost noodling with those compressors just as much as I can the drives.

I made a 'grab and go' preset, something I'd use if I were to use the VP4 into a clean amp, it's 2 drives, delay and a reverb. I wanted a cleanish boost for the first one and have the usuals I always go to, the BB Timmons and Klone in particular, but the FAS Boost was took the lead today. I'm using the Suhr Riot GE for the high gain, then both of them for the lead scene. I still need to actually try probably 50% of them, which is what I was trying to do today, but ....noodles....

Any reason why you would not want to put this in the DSC as a #jam?

 

[Whizzinby]

Yanked my VP4 off my pedalboard today to just use it in 4CM with the Plexi50, I wanted to spend some time with the drives. Every time I dig into them I'm more and more impressed with how far they've come. And the compressors, I can get lost noodling with those compressors just as much as I can the drives.

I made a 'grab and go' preset, something I'd use if I were to use the VP4 into a clean amp, it's 2 drives, delay and a reverb. I wanted a cleanish boost for the first one and have the usuals I always go to, the BB Timmons and Klone in particular, but the FAS Boost was took the lead today. I'm using the Suhr Riot GE for the high gain, then both of them for the lead scene. I still need to actually try probably 50% of them, which is what I was trying to do today, but ....noodles....

Sounds great dude.

 

[KFF]

Sounds great dude.

Potentially best pick-toss yet?

Gotta be up there.

 

[DrewJD82]

Potentially best pick-toss yet?

Gotta be up there.

The last few have gotten pretty accurate, think it’s time to replace my throwing stars with pile of Petrucci picks.

 

[DrewJD82]

Any reason why you would not want to put this in the DSC as a #jam?

Two reasons (I’ve actually put thought into this before)-

I never think to and because I noodle like this every day and nothing really comes of it, it’s almost like it doesn’t count for me. Like say if I didn’t make the VP4 presets yesterday but noodled, if someone asked me if I played yesterday I’d likely say “No, not really” There’s probably some underlying self-sabotage/not good enough mentality at play there.

But I’ll toss it in there, I can use the points!!