Speaking of the drip; Axe III incoming.

[unix-guy]

Is it common practice to clear the unit from everything?
I've read that it boots faster without all factory presets.

It's not that long of a boot time anyway... But, yes, it will boot faster.

I removed all factory presets for most of my Fractal life (10+ years) but I currently do have them on my FM9. Sometimes it's fun to explore. Many people do remove them.

I only ever really use my own presets, though.

 

[Blix]

I've kept the factory ones too, quite a few clever presets I could never have thought of myself, fun to play around with once in a while.

 

[Stone]

I've noticed everyone's buying Fractal's the past month, what's going on here?

I dunno James its Fractals and Boogies galore here

 

[James Freeman]

I dunno James its Fractals and Boogies galore here

Fractal is literally the only hardware modeler available with an accurate IIC+.
Good versions of the real amp are getting super hard to find due to collectors, and outside the US forget about it.
Fractal it is.

 

[Stone]

Fractal is literally the only hardware modeler available with an accurate IIC+.
Good versions of the real amp are getting super hard to find due to collectors, and outside the US forget about it.
Fractal it is.

USA Lead Mid Gain for the Win

Then again the Marshals in the Fractal are super awesome, my favorite is the 6AC7 50 watts and I really love the JCM 800's
Then there are the Friedmans, the Camerons, the Soldanos, the Bogners.... NVM i love them all

 

[JiveTurkey]

Just realized I can now add a digital Badlander to the stable without that Tone-X turd.

 

[Mongillo19]

Just realized I can now add a digital Badlander to the stable without that Tone-X turd.

Do tell

 

[JiveTurkey]

Do tell

Tone Match To The "Rescue". Or something.

 

[Mongillo19]

Tone Match To The "Rescue". Or something.

I've never dabbled but I'm curious how it'll work for you

 

[JiveTurkey]

I've never dabbled but I'm curious how it'll work for you

I honestly don't need. Boogies in the box are so darn good there really isn't a point other than for fun. Difference being with this; you do a tone match then get bored and go back to the pile of 300 amps already included

 

[GTR37]

I honestly don't need. Boogies in the box are so darn good there really isn't a point other than for fun. Difference being with this; you do a tone match then get bored and go back to the pile of 300 amps already included

If you really wanted to approximate it I would saw Mesa Recto Red 1 or 2 and flipping the tone stacks to an 800 add some NFB in like 3.0 lower the sag
And hit the amp boost that most likely closest to the Crush
Orange channel similar setting maybe boost off will probably get you in the crunch territory

Blake posted a vid of it compared to a bunch of Marshall 800s and the BL was thicker but close

 

[fretworn]

 

[JiveTurkey]

If you really wanted to approximate it I would saw Mesa Recto Red 1 or 2 and flipping the tone stacks to an 800 add some NFB in like 3.0 lower the sag
And hit the amp boost that most likely closest to the Crush
Orange channel similar setting maybe boost off will probably get you in the crunch territory

Blake posted a vid of it compared to a bunch of Marshall 800s and the BL was thicker but close

My Recto preset is Recto Red 2 Vintage through Recto dynacab. Boosted with a just above barely gained up and on Rat. So I'm kinda already almost there as is

 

[DrewJD82]

Congratulations!
You should call the first preset "DO NOT FLIP !!!" just as a reminder when you turn on the unit.

This is exactly what I do with phone numbers of women I know better than to talk to. “____ DO NOT TEXT YOU IDIOT”

 

[GTR37]

My Recto preset is Recto Red 2 Vintage through Recto dynacab. Boosted with a just above barely gained up and on Rat. So I'm kinda already almost there as is

Yep I think that would be close to Crush ,try changing the stack to 800 and tone matching , I think Wookiee has a simulation of it in his axe if I am not mistaken

 

[metropolis_4]

Marshall and Mesa are Fractal’s bread and butter. Both are so much better in Fractal than I’ve heard in any other digital device

 

[DrewJD82]

Fractal is literally the only hardware modeler available with an accurate IIC+.
Good versions of the real amp are getting super hard to find due to collectors, and outside the US forget about it.
Fractal it is.

Good examples are hard to find because a few guys at RigTalk own the majority of them and intentionally jacked the prices up to $5K+.

 

[James Freeman]

Good examples are hard to find because a few guys at RigTalk own the majority of them and intentionally jacked the prices up to $5K+.

Yeah I've heard about it.
I hope Mesa reissues the IIC+ so their collection will depreciate.

 

[DrewJD82]

I dumped the factory presets but added all the Austin Buddy presets. I kept some of the stranger factory presets on the FM9 but overall found it far easier to keep a blank slate/organized group of amps/cabs rather than having a bunch of random presets that vary from “Never gonna use this” to “Cool, but never going to use this”

 

[DrewJD82]

Yeah I've heard about it.
I hope Mesa reissues the IIC+ so their collection will depreciate.

Hahahah I don’t think it’s worked that way for old Marshalls.