The Annual NAMM predictions rumours thread 2024

[TubeStack]

Why all the talk about tuners?

It's a neutral topic that Fractal zealots and QC defenders can converse pleasantly about.

 

[mbenigni]

The thing about a disallowed cortex that I don’t quite get is that, for me at least, the hardware is the main intriguing part of the Cortex. If we’ve learned one thing on forums, it’s that switches and I/O are where the cost savings are.

Nobody ever loved their Stomp because of how fun and easy it was to build/edit presets on.

Yeah, and that's probably the one thing I've failed to do here, is significantly reduce cost. Most of the switches are still there; the fancy screen is still there... You could theoretically save money with lesser DSP, eliminate Input 2, phantom power, and all that, maybe lose an FX loop? That's not nothing?

But unlike HX Stomp, I think what I'm proposing would be every bit as easy to build presets on - exactly the same, in fact. This also has the effect of letting NDSP leave much of the OS alone. (And let's be honest: they can't handle another codebase LOL.)

 

[JiveTurkey]

It's a neutral topic that Fractal zealots and QC defenders can converse pleasantly about.

I read that in Glover voice

 

[ragingplatypi]

I get it. It's an easy thing to get attached to.

This is funny. I have the same weird attachment to the Korg/Vox tuner. I don’t love it enough to buy a separate pedal, but I always notice how nice and easy they work for me.

 

[ragingplatypi]

Haha yes, another reason why I keep my Stomp on my mostly-analog board, no need for a separate tuner.

That’s an expensive tuner pedal.

 

[Digital Igloo]

I love the Stomp UI and find it super quick to do almost anything on. Also easy to remember, if I haven't used it in a while.

As do the vast majority of HX Stomp users, unless they're all lying in our surveys.

 

[DrewJD82]

Dude, me too! It would be a killer add-on to the QC and I keep flipping between getting one and not getting one. A QC + HX One and Dunlop 8 expression pedal on a Metro 20 board would be super slick and pretty much cover everything for me (other than not having amp models if the QC crashes, like the Stomp does).

It's just money I don't want to spend right now though, and add to that I already have a Stomp, seems kind of extravagent/unnecessary. (But when has that stopped anyone here... )

Yeah, I’m well stocked on multiFX stuff between the two Fractal units and TC G-Force, the redundancy is getting redundant.

I‘m just going to keep stocking the gear fund. There’s a lot of things under $400 that would definitely satisfy the “I wanna buy something” itch, but it’ll mostly end up being stuff that sits around waiting for a purpose.

 

[TubeStack]

That’s an expensive tuner pedal.

Yes, but also getting lots of other uses out of it (noise gate, delays, chorus, flanger, pitch, clean boost, amp-channel-swtiching via midi, and more), so well worth it.

 

[Deleted member 472]

Nobody ever loved their Stomp because of how fun and easy it was to build/edit presets on.

I can dial in a tone on my Stomp a hell of a lot quicker than my Axe-FX, editors excluded.

That said, I love my Stomp and at home, it gets used 90% over any of my modelers.

Edit: Replied out of context.

 

[AlbertA]

Let us toan. Soooo, anybody see that S O O N sign? The hell was that about?

Aren't they stealing this straight out of Fractal forum lore??

 

[Digital Igloo]

Aren't they stealing this straight out of Fractal forum lore??

Yeah, and we were using it a lot on forums too... until we learned Fractal did it first. Now it's just... icky.

 

[Deleted member 472]

Aren't they stealing this straight out of Fractal forum lore??

IMO, Cliff was using that as a meme waaayyy before Doug. But, what hasn’t Doug ripped off from other people?

 

[Aleksi]

Aren't they stealing this straight out of Fractal forum lore??

Well, yeah. The funny thing is, soon actually meant soon back then.

 

[holoholo]

Can we name them "Soon Doug" and the other "97% Doug"?

 

[Orvillain]

Aren't they stealing this straight out of Fractal forum lore??

Just like that QC user who swiped all of those compiled amp detailes from @yek !

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I can dial in a tone on my Stomp a hell of a lot quicker than my Axe-FX, editors excluded.

That said, I love my Stomp and at home, it gets used 90% over any of my modelers.

Read my post in context. I'm not shitting on the Stomp. But going from Helix floor, rack, or LT with 12 capacitive switches, and 6 knobs down to 3 switches and 3 knobs...is significant.

 

[DrewJD82]

IMO, Cliff was using that as a meme waaayyy before Doug. But, what hasn’t Doug ripped off from other people?

Product management skills and a functional staff.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I loved using it. Super easy, IMO.

Absolutely easy. But 3-knobs is 3-knobs, and using page buttons just to adjust gain on a drive block (and then adjust level commensurately) is a thing.

 

[Deleted member 472]

Read my post in context. I'm not shitting on the Stomp. But going from Helix floor, rack, or LT with 12 capacitive switches, and 6 knobs down to 3 switches and 3 knobs...is significant.

My bad. I shouldn’t be posting when I’m half-asleep.

 

[yeky83]

3-knobs is 3-knobs