FM3 Mk2 Turbo - Here we go!

ColWilkie

Following my previous thread here, deciding if I wanted to jump into digital - I well and truly have!

I've just taken delivery of the FM3 from G66.  First of all, I must state how awesome their service was.  Sukh was fantastic, great communication and really friendly and personal experience.  If only all purchases were like this!

Secondly, I've ordered some new monitors - Neumann KH120ii.  I will be working on the acoustics in my room, as I'm repurposing it now so I should be getting the most out of them.

On to my first experience with the FM3.  Blown away!  Most impressive are the clean amps and edge of breakup.  I knew high gain was going to be fine, but the other areas are always tricky.  The FX also appears to be excellent.  It's probably the honeymoon period, but I'm so happy with it that I'm offloading my other kit.  And this is all with my current iLoud micro speakers....

In terms of complexity and user interface - the interface is not as bad as some make it out to be.  It's fairly quick to navigate, and with the editor is not really an issue.  The tweakability is endless, but you don't need to dive into every single setting to get some great tones.

CHRISB50

Welcome to the club. 

I’ve had mine a month or so now and love it. 

It sounds fantastic.  

And I’d echo your comments about the learning curve. I’ve found everything quite intuitive until now. It’s really as complicated as you want to make it. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to get a decent tone out of it. 

exocet

I recommend forcing yourself to learn how to create / edit patches on the unit itself, It's not difficult once you learn the basics. 
This really helps if you are going to be playing live - certainly in the early days, you'll find that your patches require tweaking - much easier to be able to do this during the gig, playing at gig sound levels (time permitting), than trying to remember what was "wrong" after the event.

CHRISB50

exocet said:

I recommend forcing yourself to learn how to create / edit patches on the unit itself, It's not difficult once you learn the basics. 
This really helps if you are going to be playing live - certainly in the early days, you'll find that your patches require tweaking - much easier to be able to do this during the gig, playing at gig sound levels (time permitting), than trying to remember what was "wrong" after the event.

I still haven’t actually connected mine to a PC yet. So this is all I’ve been doing. 

Navigation is a bit painful. But other than that it’s fine. 

ColWilkie

Thanks guys, and good tip on practicing it on the unit.  I don't want to be tethered to the desktop all the time, so will be worth doing both!

Nerine

Once you make the leap into Fractal land, the competitors seem a bit toy-like in comparison IMO. 

ColWilkie

Nerine said:

Once you make the leap into Fractal land, the competitors seem a bit toy-like in comparison IMO. 

I was really close to going down the QC route, but I've wanted to try a Fractal product for years.