I was hoping he'd flesh that out a bit.
Sorry brudda, it’s been a busy week!
I haven’t begun programming the board yet, which is where I’ll end up digging into the VP4 more than the surface level skimming I’ve done. I can definitely say the biggest thing I’m hyped on with it right now is how well it’s works with everything else. Getting to experience that “joy” of pedal interactions and how some shit’s noisy or a buffer screws with the signal or you need a buffer or whatever the case, it’s REALLY fucking great to just stick this where you want it, whether it’s in a loop or between some other pedals or at the end of a chain and it just
works fucking great.
I haven’t even made internal adjustments outside of setting it to 4CM, whatever I/O levels it’s at are factory settings and everything else has been handled in the effects blocks. While I’ve got experience with Fractal stuff already, I’d have to think this is pretty natural for most guitarist who have dialed in effects before? Having the menu go right to the basic/actual-pedal knobs definitely helps in that regard and I haven’t dived into Expert Mode yet, that I’ll do when I start dialing in delays I’m sure.
One thing I really, really love is being able to recreate my end-of-chain setup that I developed after getting the AxeFX; I put either a ping-pong or 2290 delay (1/4t) in parallel, feeding a large plate reverb, then stick a reverse delay at the very end of the chain, set to 1/2t. While I might not have the Mix cranked above 25%, I crank the Feedback to 33%-35% and you just get this really awesome push/pull thing going with the delays that can sound like it’s own little orchestration depending on what you’re playing. Having that come out of an amp and not just studio monitors is SICK.
That was about 90% of the reasoning I went with it, as recreating that with individual pedals was getting costly, especially when you add in additional loops for the loop switcher and that doesn’t even cover chorus/phase/flange.
I’m very anxious to get to the Drives as I really haven’t spent a lot of time trying them in front of real amps and I don’t think I have at all since the last Drive update hit. Hopefully it’ll prevent me from buying more dirt pedals like it will mod/delays! And the compressors, man, I know my first night with that thing I immediately dug the Dynacomps more than my Keeley, so the VP4 will be handling all the front-of-amp comps and the Keeley is after the VP4 and not in a loop for now, I’m going to try using it post-distortion ala Gilmour and see how it fairs for me.
I have to solder the exp. pedal cable up and then I think I’m done? Once I’m finished I’ll make a video going over the pedalboard tones and likely spend a little extra time on the VP4 since it’ll be serving multiple purposes.
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