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@Danny...
Ha! I was lazily trying to remember the name of the fancy unit you've been using but was drawing a blank (and I don't know much about them aside from what you and the other guys have said in previous threads). Great info... even if it does sound a bit like a sales pitch. ;-)
Thing is though I KNOW you wouldn't pitch something like that unless you were truly happy with it and I know how high your standards are (they'd have to be at the level you're working at).
Thanks for the extra deets on the Fractal stuff. Of course way out of my price range at the mo but definitely the type of unit I could use. I'm all over the place musically and prefer a pantheon of tone options over the best of the best of a specific sound (and paying through the nose for one single specific sound). However I obviously want those sounds to be as high quality and responsive as they can be.
That's why I've been fascinated by the Kemper stuff since I first heard of it (a couple of the CH guys own them IIRC). I've seen your Fractal posts too but I'll start paying more attention to their stuff.
Now I'm also curious about these Fuchs amps but just because I've never heard of them nor played through one.
Again not that anything can be done about any of this due to lack of fundage but I'm hoping some stuff I've been patiently waiting on will come through in about a year or so that will free up some of my meager income. At that point I will definitely want to look into some SERIOUS guitar units for my recording adventures.
For now slogging through things with the sims/gear I have on hand and forcing it all to bend to my will has started really working out well and I think most importantly taught me a buttload about mangling guit sounds to bark out what I want to hear. It's a pain fershure but once I finally get my hands on some REAL gear it should give me a nice leg up.
Anyhoo... nice to hear from ya and thanks for the post.
Cheers.
They all have similar functions and operations, Beeps. The difference with the hardware gear as opposed to VST plugs is we usually have some "secret sauce" on the input, as we say at Fractal. Remember me talking about using compressors, overdrives, tube screamers etc before you go into a VST? That's sort of what you get when you use the Kemper, the Axe Fx or even a Line 6. This is where VST's really fail in my opinion because without some sort of buffered signal on the input, you get stuck with loads of gain, but very little sustain. We even have impedance control on the Fractal which makes a pretty big difference with certain pups.
To be honest, the gear you have is good enough. The Fractal/Kemper/Line 6 stuff just gives you a hardware option which uses 0 cpu and modeling that in my opinion, seems to be a bit more accurate and "realistic" compared to an actual amp.
Yeah, I know I do sound like a salesman. I don't know how else to talk about this thing. LOL! It's changed my life, that's for sure. Yeah, you know me...even if they were putting money in my pocket, I'd never mention something unless it did something good for me. I do wish it was more affordable, then again, the AX8 at $1399 is pretty darned sweet for all that it does.
Ya know, tone has been something I've been interested in for many years. Though you may question why I don't have a great tone after so much trial and error and great gear, it's the ride that has been the most important to me. :) I may never have that great tone that I hear in my head. But I sure do have a good time trying to get it, and with the Fractal stuff, I'm closer than I have ever been with all my real amps and pre-amps combined.
If you do get the funds, check out the Ax8. It's an amazing piece of kit built into a pedal board. Personally, I think you would probably like the rack, XL+ due to the tone matching stuff. That is so fun, man. I finally got a super close EVH tone out of the thing and managed to create a preset that spans from Van Halen I all the way to the Balance album. It's pretty scary as far as authenticity goes. I'll have to share some stuff sometime for those that may be into that sort of thing.
Last night after posting, I checked out that Fuchs we have in the Fractal...and man, it sounds darned close to that one in the video. If only I could play what that guy was playing, it may sound a little more realistic. The biggest thing after messing with the amp, is choosing the right cab. I don't know if Fuchs has their own speakers or use Celestions or something...but I got like 800+ different cabs to choose from. LOL!
You know what else is cool about the Fractal, Beeps? It has a built in direct box, so you can send out clean signals and your dirty effected signals if you want to, at the same time. I never thought I'd use anything like that, but man, now that I have found a use for SPDIF (after 20 years of having it lol) I can record one time and get everything right, and then feed back into the Fractal and change stuff in real time the same way you can with VST's. I really never thought about that before. But in the world of non-destructive audio, it's stupid to not take advantage of this technology.
Anyway, sorry to you and JGP for taking a really funny and humorous thread, and turning it into a guitar based, fractal exploitation.
-Danny