As a former Mark V owner, I think Fractal pretty much nailed the voicing of the Red Channel Extreme Mode! The Green Channel is also pretty damn close to the real deal! I hope that these ones will be ported to the FM3, so I can use these sounds again! Great vid Leon!!
Yeah! Whenever I wanted a "Recto-ish" tone I would kick this mode... As you said, it's not a 100% Recto sound, but it's the closest you can get within a Mark circuit! Worked really well with a OD boosting also!
I have to thank you Mr. Todd, for getting my ears into a state that can appreciate a brighter, chunkier distortion sound (along with my playing amp models having more high frequency gain settings in the Axe-Fx III too of course). I like warmer tones having the high end rolled off only allowing a limited set of upper harmonics through and typically still do for my material but I am gravitating a bit toward 'the fun crunch'. Anyway, thanks again sire and Happy Holiday's!
Wait, didn't we JUST get 23??? These guys at Fractal just never rest, do they? Anyway, awesome stuff, what a glorious time to be a musician! As always, thank you so much for your insights and guided tours.
Always struggled a bit with the JS JVM model, and I’m certain this channel volume/master volume update will resolve it. Lone Star sounds so great, that amp just seems to nail every sound I’d ever want besides high gain.
I was shocked at how easy it was for me to dial in the new Mark V models. Marks usually fight on but these were really easy and sounded great. Also the Extreme modes are really cool.
you're right.. that was a little confusing.. but I got it.. LOL! you are so good at showing all the tweaks that bring out the best.. especially with Mesa Boogies.. I wonder if Cliff & Co would ever do an oldie but goodie like my Mark-II B as another USA model? thanks LT!
@@LeonTodd that's a good idea.. I think one of the biggest changes Boogie introduced for Mark II-C was the introduction of SimulClass.. so I imagine I'd have to disable that.. I'm wondering if Yek on the FAS Forum would have some insight on this subject
The day I finally got my MKIV sounding good on 2 channels, I wanted to glue the knobs in place so I wouldn’t lose the tone. What a pain in the ass to dial one of those in!
some interesting reverb artifacting going on with the sound at 3 min 55 sec or so that made me think i was hearing distant gunfire,! had to pause and check its not uncommon round here sadly
I know in the real work you prefer the IV over the V, and I agree. They sound goo in the afe too, but even on the axe fx I prefer the IV. And the JP2C red shred is freakin' good.
A little off subject Leon, wanted to know your opinion of the Yamaha UD Stomp. Where would you rank it amount modern delays (Free the tone, Timeline, DM-101, etc…). It’s cool finding some pedal you’ve never heard of that surprises you
I always wondered why the JP2C presence shift wasn’t modeled on the fm3. Good to know it’s in the pipeline though. Would be nice to have the pull gain there too, though it’s easy enough to recreate by bumping the gain in the ideal tab.
hi Leon The new firmware is not yet available on the website?, but I'm looking forward to it, nice presentation of the new things. If anyone thinks this sound is bad, they should have their ears checked ;-)
I saw u responded to some other comments mentioning it but I wanted to ask myself I’m a little new to the axe fx stuff, just got my fm3 a month or so ago, and I have two questions Do they usually do incremental updates for the axe 3 and then do a big update for the fm3 later on? They haven’t updated it for a while and I can see that the next update will be a big one, so do they usually do it like that? And if not, if they do have smaller updates that they release on the axe fx 3 and then soon after the fm9 and fm3, how long does that usually take to port over? Sorry if these don’t make too much sense, I’m just really excited for whenever that next update will be
There's no hard and fast rule. Generally smaller stuff like new amps or effect types get ported over to the FM units fairly quickly, for substantial feayure updates like dynacabs and gapless switching it's taken a little longer. The way i look at it, the FM units gets updated fairly regularly with substantial additions while the Axe-Fx gets updates at a pretty ridiculous pace!
@@LeonTodd thanks! That helps a lot, hopefully they’ll be doing an update soon, though God knows I don’t need more amps to choose from only having this unit a month Also one last question, does the fm9 and fm3 get updated at the same time? Or does the fm9 get the ported update first and then fm3 after that Like I said I’m new to all of this so sorry for all the questions, I’m just glad I found you and can ask these questions
Separate firmware so again it depends. They have stated that there's a private beta release for the FM9 at the moment so I imagine that will get a public release first. @@ceobe7458
