The Hx 3.9 fw thread

[Tito83]

Fractal sells a lot less units to beginners, older people, first time modeler users, instructors, and probably just the general guitar playing humans than Line 6, Boss, and probably even some of the Amazon specials. Fractal stuff is the balls, but they make serious tools that you can’t just walk into GC and plug into a bunch of shit. But also don’t see why L6 couldn’t just add another level to the amp modeling like they did the FX with the Legacy section. Call them Advanced models or something and put them in a different spot so you don’t wreck presets, but still have “fixed” models if somebody wants them.

Thinking like this was ok a few years back, today maybe in rare cases - if at all.

From my younger students, when they get their first modeler they've already seen so much videos on them that they become very familiar with it very quickly. Every player at their 60's I know are more than ok with everything digital.

Also updates are not mandatory. If it was the case an update was to change the tone of every amp, just add a big disclaimer before the update button. Make three screens with big ass letters "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?", make a joke and change the location of the confirm button in every screen, make a screen "you need to wait 30 seconds before confirming so you really think if that's what you want"... That would solve it, no?

Honestly, in the end I just don't really understand what the big deal is.