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Any good tutorials for someone who wants to use this fairly simply. I don't want to spend hours tweaking knobs in the house and then get on a gig and hate the sound. is this possible with the fm9 or do you have to deep dive ?
Over the years I'd say Fractal gear has become progressively easier to get a good sound from with little more tweaking than you would with a physical amp and pedals.
Yes the deep dive options are there, but I don't think you need to go there to get great results. I only ever use the controls you'd find on the real world versions
My advice would be to start with the presets in the unit and either use one of those you like the sound of as the basis for your own preset, or download some of the ones that have been shared by the likes of Leon Todd, Brett Kingman, Cooper Carter, Jon Cordy and Marco Fanton. They're all gigging musicians (Cooper designs presets for the likes of Metallica, Def Leppard, Neill Schon etc) so many of the settings you need in a live setting will already be in there. They all also have tonnes of youtube tutorials to learn from.
What I will say though is that you will need to tweak to your taste. I've tried hundreds of presets over the years and only a handful have suited me from the off, many of them however have easily been tailored to my taste and have also been a good means of learning how to do different things on the unit.
To start with I'd recommend keeping the presets you build very simple, get them sounding really good at gig volume and then gradually add effects, alternative amp models etc. If you recreate The Edge's rig at home then chances are you'll have nothing but problems when you get to rehearsal!
IRs are a potential rabbit hole. I use one of Leon Todd's free ones (LT TV Mix 7) for pretty much everything and it works for me. I've dabbled with hundreds if not thousands of others in the past, and it can easily get frustrating and counter productive.
Finally as with all digital gear, trust your ears - if it sounds good, then it is good.
I use a very slightly tweaked (Hi Lo cuts and some of the delay mixes) of the factory preset MF Euro for gigs.
Very easy to make different presets based on your needs once you’ve got the core sound down.
I'd highly recommend the Cooper Carter Masterclass- it's well worth the price of admission in my book and really helps to give a thorough understanding of the unit and it's capabilities.
1. I don't have 2.2k to spend on this...
2. I spent a shed load last year on a badcat amp which I absolutely love , so getting something that models 100s of amps and probably won't sound as good as the bad cat doesn't really fly.
3. I'm fairly sure it would be option paralysis, and having been over @Nerine thread again about why he went back to amp it does reflect my experiences to date with modellers.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Its got to the point generally, where they all SOUND good and in many cases can sound identical to a real amp - but its about how they FEEL to play the the interaction between amp and guitar which you cant show in a video.
when it comes to comparing different modellers - again, you can here the feel, and most can get close to each other on a pure sonic level - often its down to how you tweek them rather than how they sound as such.
These vids are fine for a demonstration of functionality - and a tough idea how they can sound, but that about it I feel.
Having had both myself and currently using an FM9 I tend to agree with his overall observation