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To be the ‘other stuff’ is almost as important as the sound, and IMO the helix sounds great anyway
The comment made about the FM3 not being very flexible is wrong IMO - plenty of flexibility if you understand the way the Fractal routing works - it can do 80% of what the Helix can do routing wise, you just have to be a bit more clever..
I have bastardised one of the free Burgs presets which has become a bit of a "one fits all" preset - I have a Wah, Comp, Phaser, Rotary, Amp (Bogner XTC Blue, Bogner XTC Red, Deluxe Reverb and CAE++), Delays, MultiDelay and an IR to FOH feed and a further out to my SD170/Cabs without an IR. Remember that I can also assign 4 different flavours to each block too and still get under the CPU 83ish % limits for stable operation - don't tell me that's inflexible!!!
As with all the Fractal stuff - Reverb is the killer and TBH, there's plenty of stuff in the Plex or MultiDelays for lees CPU hungry reverb type things if you really HAVE to have that ambient reverb (which is a complete waste live anyway IMO)
I would have gone for the HXFX or stomp in your position, the space echo is worth the asking price, but I suppose the Boss will have one as well
And I do need ambient reverbs, they are very critical to our sound.
If you need that type of stuff then its the bigger AFX3 that'll handle that.
Ambient Reverbs are an easy do-able provided you don't load up the preset with other shite on the FM3.
I don't think Fractal have ever bigged up the CPU on the FM3 - its always been touted as the little brother to the AFX3.
I need a word with myself, I'm turning into a Cliff fanboy here......
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