I never used a II, but I know where I started on the III with dialing stuff in and I was still adding either an EQ or multi band comp to get the end results back then (5 years ago or so), the point it's at now is pretty ridiculous and this is a great example of it-
I went to go make my own Jose modded 6CA7 one day, so I load a basic preset up with my usual signal chain-
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Note the amp settings are all at noon, everything is bone stock settings.
Then I picked the cab, one of the new DynaCabs. This is also where the mic loaded up when I loaded the cab-
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I started playing so I could start tweaking everything and ended up just playing for probably 30 minutes before I realized I hadn't touched a single knob yet.
While it's not a "OMFG THAT'S SUCH AN AMAZING TONE!", that's a
really fucking good starting place for what I was going to do with it.
I've also got the III and FM9, there's no sonic difference between the two. I saw that discussion and without understanding how Fractal incorporates all the amps/effects across the cores, it's a pointless discussion. The architecture isn't the same between the III/FM9/FM3 so it can keep the tones the same through each device, it just limits you on CPU as you drop down in feature size. You might have to sacrifice super high quality delays for slightly less than super high quality delays, but your amp tones will be exactly the same. Or you can't use two pitch blocks on anything but the III.
And FWIW, this is where I ended up with the Jose 6CA7 after maybe 20-30 minutes of dicking around with the deeper parameters. The Saturation switch is an auto-Jose mod, then you can fine tune the Sag, Variac, Negative Feedback, etc. This little pet project definitely showed both sides of a Fractal in the "You really don't have to dig deep anymore" and "It's fucking fun when you WANT to dig deep"