The Thing Upstairs
Well-Known Member
There are a couple of used FM3s being sold used in the UK at the moment. For the asking prices I would buy new - G66 has stock and for what it is, the FM3 is still a decent price.
FM9 is Q422 in EU I think. Fractal want to polish it before it comes further afield. NDSP take note.
I ordered a QC - I've only a few hours in it so far just using everything stock through monitors. I've not used any of their captures or captured my own kit. I'm keeping it pristine as I'm viewing this as a try before I buy.
As a platform, it still has work to do, basics like editor missing, fewer effects than fractal and not quite at the same level as fractal. There are bugs, the occasional screen lag etc but not too bad at all.
I love a parallel London plate with a delay in the fractal going into my stock studio reverb (mix 10%, size .6). Not quite there with the QC but soo close. As much as I've just criticised their effects, please take this in the context of cork sniffing. They are very good.
I am genuinely blown away with the amp modelling. The sound is spot on but the feel - that has surprised me. Comparing their models to my real amps and it is more than close enough.
The cab section for me knocks it out of the park. I have an aversion to IRs, they're very much like marmite for me. I just chuck in the Zilla 412 they have and it sounds and feels close to my 212.
Being a fractal fanboi, I have a bias toward fractal and toward real amps. The QC has really challenged my bias.
Hurry the F up with the editor NDSP. What is the point of a floor unit that has to be on the desk for editing - we're not all 18 and bendy FFS!
FM9 is Q422 in EU I think. Fractal want to polish it before it comes further afield. NDSP take note.
I ordered a QC - I've only a few hours in it so far just using everything stock through monitors. I've not used any of their captures or captured my own kit. I'm keeping it pristine as I'm viewing this as a try before I buy.
As a platform, it still has work to do, basics like editor missing, fewer effects than fractal and not quite at the same level as fractal. There are bugs, the occasional screen lag etc but not too bad at all.
I love a parallel London plate with a delay in the fractal going into my stock studio reverb (mix 10%, size .6). Not quite there with the QC but soo close. As much as I've just criticised their effects, please take this in the context of cork sniffing. They are very good.
I am genuinely blown away with the amp modelling. The sound is spot on but the feel - that has surprised me. Comparing their models to my real amps and it is more than close enough.
The cab section for me knocks it out of the park. I have an aversion to IRs, they're very much like marmite for me. I just chuck in the Zilla 412 they have and it sounds and feels close to my 212.
Being a fractal fanboi, I have a bias toward fractal and toward real amps. The QC has really challenged my bias.
Hurry the F up with the editor NDSP. What is the point of a floor unit that has to be on the desk for editing - we're not all 18 and bendy FFS!