Capture of Fractal Axe FX 3 preset experience

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New QC user here. Am a longtime Fractal Axe FX 3 user but have been looking for a unit to use out that is portable.
The QC sounds very good out of the box and some of the Factory and Cloud presets are excellent.

After some trial and error I did a Capture of one of my favorite Fractal presets (FAS Supertweed Pulled). Edit “Supertweed Pushed”.

It sounds great! Almost identical once you tweak the B/M/T a little (hardly at all) and add a Reverb block to it.
(I think i read somewhere that the QC does not capture delays and reverb).

Overall impression of the QC so far is very good and I am only just scratching the surface I assume.

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Cool! Do you know what tweed the “Supertweed Pulled” is based on?

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It is a custom model by Fractal supposedly based on a Fender Deluxe Tweed. It has been called a Tweed on steroids. It has a growly thicker vintage sound.

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/fractal-audio-amp-models-supertweed-custom-model.115143/

Edit- Correction. I think I captured the Supertweed Pushed preset. Slightly more gain. I will upload the preset. It uses a 1x12 Deluxe Tweed Cab.

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Welcome to the family!

Please do upload - would love to test it.

Many thanks in advance.

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It sounds great. I can see why you wanted to cary it over to your QC. Did it captured the same “feel” you had of the Supertweed in the FM3?

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Really close. Hard to tell any difference at all on this preset. I think on some low gain presets I have tried there is a difference but really not sure. Might just be guitar dependent, or getting a preset dialed in.
This is only my second day with the QC, but it holds up well to the Axe FX 3 in terms of feel and tones overall. Both great.
The Axe Fx 3 is an incredibly mature unit going on 18 years with the first Axe Fx model and the developer does firmware updates constantly.

What I can say is I am glad I have a QC and am really impressed.

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I had a generation before your Fractal, an AX8. Great unit and it served me well. I always wanted to try an FM3 or FM9 but when it came time, the compactness and vastly supervisor UI of the QC won me over. Who would guess that it would sound fantastic too?

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I’d also be immensely grateful for a cloud upload :heart_eyes:

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https://cloud.neuraldsp.com/cloud/p/0288fb63-196f-4171-b837-e6bfe7baff36

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Many thanks :pray:

Can’t wait to try it!!

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AX8 X user (and still owner) here too. Don’t you really miss A LOT of AX8 stuff on your QC?

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I thought I would but I don’t. I still have my AX8, as well. I planned on using it as a backup but, so far, the QC has been bulletproof. I guess I miss the faster loading presets and I did miss the full MIDI capabilities until I learned the hack (thank you forum members!).

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Imagine if some absolute cheeky bugger followed this up by giving you homework by politely requesting a cabless direct version of this capture.

Wouldn’t that make them such an asshole? Such an asshole…

:blush:

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LOL. :smiley: I don’t have a proper mic.

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Oh you don’t need a mic, just turn off the cab on the AxeFX, I guess?

I play through a real cab, so I can’t really use captures that include one…(I mean I can, it’s just super muddy).

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Oh. I misunderstood you. Sure I can easily do that. Will get that in a few minutes.

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this is now the Fractal conversion request thread.

What else is good on the AXE that the QC doesn’t have a version of?
(any bass content, esp?)

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[https://cloud.neuraldsp.com/cloud/p/3aa26efc-79b0-44a9-93ff-a6539ac51011](https://cloud.neuraldsp.com/cloud/p/3aa26efc-79b0-44a9-93ff-a6539ac51011)

Here you go. No CAB.

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:smiley:Well, the Fractal units have over 290 amp types and counting so a lot, but they both have all of the most popular amps.

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Champion, thank you! Instantly lost half an hour to jamming :laughing:

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