Between the two, I’ve found several mixes that sound really great, much better than I was getting on my own.Įdit: I’m flaming myself. So I grabbed the OwnHammer Green Vintage set, which features a bunch of mixes, and then noticed that the Fractal Cab bundle was marked down to $10 and grabbed that too. (That seems to be a whole art of its own that I need to learn). There were so many, but I don't really like single mic IRs and I wasn’t having a lot of luck mixing them. I think most people have forgotten how good the Ultra was, and I have mine tweaked to the nth degree.Įdit: I was having a bit of trouble with the stock IRs.
I hope I don’t get flamed for this, but the jump from the Ultra was not as quite big as I was expecting. I love the new reverbs, they’re so clear it seems like I can use a lot more reverb than the Ultra without burying the tone.Īnyway, back to the music room, I have about 300 amps to audition. I’m happy, especially since I can tell there’s a lot more that I can get.Īll the effects are really seem to be a big step up. The lead sound is much brighter and up front than I could ever get with the Ultra, but it’s not harsh at all. No extra eq at all and no deep parameter dives. They’ll do me until I find some new combinations.Īfter I put in the cabs I liked I played around a bit with the cab mic, did a couple of tweaks to the amp, a JTM45 I think, messed around with a drive, added a bit of reverb, and bang got a great EJ lead tone. Anyway, after putzing around for a while I found what I needed in the legacy cab bank, my tried and true cabs from the Ultra were there. I wish it could filter on mics as well as cab type. Holy smokes, you read about 2000 cabs, but it’s quite another thing to audition them. The editing concepts and functions are close enough to the Ultra that I was able to quickly find my way around. So I dove into the editor, via the front panel. I’m not a fan of the completely dry, mid focused V30 + SM57 in your face sort of tone, which is how most of the crunch and lead presets seem to be done. However, whoever did the presets has a different idea of lead sound than me. The mid gains are particularly inspiring. I’ve gone through most of the presets and found that the cleans and mid gains are perfect. Zero fan noise, zero hum or hiss, even with my guitar plugged in, even after I disabled the noise gate. The Ultra sounds like a jet warming up (I never got around to replacing the fan), but the III is completely silent. When I fired it up, I was surprised at the silence. Thanks to Fractal for making that go smoothly. I lurked here and at The Gripe Page just to keep track of what was going on.Īnyway, I ordered the III on Sunday and got it Thursday.
#ULTRA FRACTAL REVIEWS UPGRADE#
I came close to buying a II on many occasions but I never felt a burning need to upgrade because the Ultra always did what I needed it to do. After owning an Ultra for about ten years, I finally dug out my wallet and bought a III.
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